1984 audience

I wanted to find out if 1984 would be an appropriate subject for my portfolio piece... I guess it will make most sense to people who have read the book, otherwise I may have to explain this, and orally describing things is not a strong point of mine.

Luckily as I had expected and hoped, 1984 is a popular book and in 2003 was voted as the 8th nations best loved novel.

Choosing briefs

I choose all my briefs from ISTD as I thought this would be easier to integrate the briefs together and they seemed to have more detail an be less corporate based.

My top 5 briefs were...

1. Environment Typography Environment
2. Flatland
3. Imbalance
4. Three Minutes
5. Type Factory

To get some work for my portfolio to be happy with and to demonstrate the direction I want to go in I need to create a brief of my own to achieve this. 

Subject

I want the content given to me. I enjoy researching, however I find it hard to make decision about what research to take forward and what to forget. I really like in the Flatlands brief that it was based on a book. I wish to adapt this to 1984 by George Orwell. 

Problem

Informing an audience an important to me and I would rather do this than promoting, advertising or entertaining. I like to deal with passing on information, especially based on facts. I think I would like to design for the Big Brother Corporation and telling people how they can get involved in Hate Week. This is obviously not something I would do in real life, but it would give me an opportunity to get my teeth into something and would show my interest into juxtaposition. By making Hate Week a good thing it would be very interesting to show how design can affect communication. 

Product

Layout of printed material is one of my main drives, however as I have learnt digital skills I do like to design across media. I am type based and in my portfolio would love to have a typeface I have designed and used across media. I do not want to create any imagery, but will use it alongside text if this is necessary.

Range

Editorial design is an area I am most interest in along with any other cross-platform designs which would be appropriate.

Media

I would love to try out different stocks and printing processes to communicate better with an audience and stand out as a quality piece. 

Web workshop 2

Totally new stuff but really interesting web stuff.

PSP.

Opening Dreamweaver and selecting HTML.

Initial view of webpage

Edited HTML.

what do these mean...

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root folder and a subfolder named images are needed to make a website. These need to be lowercase. 

root folder

Must navigate to the root folder.

These files will then appear in the files panel once saved.

Basic table code








Added colour to the background and table to make this visable on the web and add and split cells to make the layout.

By creating buttons in Photoshop or Illustrator they are not searchable but can use any font. Two instances are needed... one for initial and one for interaction. To keep transparency, save as PNG24.

Adding in the buttons into the website and checking that they work. Alternate text is for visually impaired users.