small notes of a freelancer #1

June 16th, 2009 • Web-Design
Tags: freelance, notes on freelancing

this category will be devoted to my experiences as a freelance web-designer.

Never ever mark-up with unfinished content! let prince to become the king.

Keep calm.

Be objective. about deadlines and limitations

Keep sane

and more obviously

Don’t be taken granted.

An interactive drawing pad

June 11th, 2009 • Uncategorized, Web-Design
Tags: freelance, Uncategorized

For the web design project Imagine a Spectacle it’s been decided to enable users to draw n a given pad on the side of the informative web-page. This is a planned as way to enhance their involvement with the page and improve their online experience through an interaction which conceptionally fits the idea behind the Imagine a Spectacle Creative Festival. A very primitive version of the pad can be found here.

Innovation project

May 23rd, 2009 • Creative Economy, Web-Design
Tags: freelance

The other day I figured out that I don’t really like mondays and I decided to get rid of them. This is actually possible for me to achieve with the help of my Innovation project, which enables me to practice freelance webdesigning. finally I can have 7 fridays at a week.

wuhu!

d-300 practice

May 22nd, 2009 • Creative Digital Photography, Digital Media, MA - Studies, Uncategorized
Tags: composition, Ma

you can be ‘better’ after your 10.000th picture

Interaction Design Installation – morning paper

May 12th, 2009 • Digital Media, MA - Studies, Uncategorized, interaction design
Tags: board, design, interactivity, Ma

the sound which the user starts should be continuos, meaning it mustn’t be interrupted  when a they change a button.

The sounds the that represents city in the other paths  for the city to should be: people talking and then if the take a second step in to the grey the user should hear city scape.

(Type-thinking) so what happens when users go to green from blue?They should start with birds and bees, then get to more serious animals.

what about to blue from green a river that trespass, then (maybe) something that can generate bigger waves.

#E32636 (red)

#007FFF (blue) | #7FFF00 (green) | #D3D3D3 (grey)

#0247FE (blue)  | #177245 (green) | #A9A9A9 (grey)

#0047AB (blue) | #013220 (green) | #696969 (grey)

finale

and this to be experienced on Saturday the 22nd of May wuhuu! (yikes)

notes to self – Street off Limits

May 10th, 2009 • Creative Digital Photography, Digital Media, MA - Studies, Street-off Limits, Uncategorized
Tags: composition, Ma

_ stick to the black stripes

_contextualize the subjects (subjects might be shot in a studio.)

_an online gallery which plays with the idea of privacy

I am on a subject hunt at the moment and also brainstorming about the possible approaches to the finished portfolio website.

and this project is to be titled, “I am so private !”

Interaction Design Installation update

April 28th, 2009 • Digital Media, MA - Studies, Uncategorized, interaction design
Tags: board, design, interactivity, Ma

The theme
Being immersed in to the the externalities of the world in a very simplified, shirinked and reduced virtually real environment.
Instruments
A room / A projector / A flash based interactive website / 12 buttons attached to the As / for users to interact.
Approach suggestion #1:
Having colours (empowered with sound  efffects such as, city scaipe, animals, wave, heartbeat)as minimalistic representives huge space that is naturally or artificially builded around us (city, jungle, sea, body , desert). The sounds and the spaces will be represented by plain colours (grey, green, blue, red, cream).
As the user advance towards the room, by activating the buttons by their steps. Colours get darker and sounds get more intense (faster hard beat, a more crowded street in the city, more animals in the jungle and stronger waves).

Approach suggestion #2:
I also have fleeting ideas about having a game inteface for different set of profiles, but this is to be considered and structured with a better fashion.

Is to stripe

April 25th, 2009 • Creative Digital Photography, Digital Media, MA - Studies, Street-off Limits, Uncategorized
Tags: composition, Ma

Having watched the documentary on street photography called “streets off limits” and being re-briefed about how should the project should be approached. I’ve decided to play with the idea of the “security stripes” (as i would call them). My approach will be to take images with the subjects having their eyes covered by black* stripes with their hands, and the image portfolio will be presented / published via a (striped)website.

* I am also planning to have some reasons for having colourful stripes**

**being given the option of picking a color for their images, the subjects will be more expressed in the image (working idea!?)

A room to be

April 16th, 2009 • Digital Media, MA - Studies, Uncategorized, interaction design
Tags: board, design, interactivity, Ma

It is amazing that as a sub-team for Interaction Design-II that we are so interested in brainstorming, debating, chatting about whatever we would like to have as our room based installation, we might even forget that if we are sure to check we have valid access to use room with a projector for our installation.
For installation ideas it’s been discussed to simulate a fall, a birth, or a game/puzzle, but in the end it’s been decided that being all too immersed in our medium itself we become very subjective about what can be done with it, for my part I am going to take couple of days of from thinking or reading about Interaction Design installation.

Excitement via Viva

April 16th, 2009 • Creative Economy, Sesami

Viva: a team reflection on what has been experienced via the journey of setting of a company, running it.
But as like other beautiful homework this one lacks the good timing ( comes at a time there are thousands words to be submitted). Fortunately, Sesami is responsible, willing and hard working as a group .