April 24th

Hello!

Today you will have the first half of the class (until 2:50) to finish your magazine covers. Your covers must be exported and uploaded to your blogs as jpegs or PNGS by the end of this time period.

PART 2:

For the second half of the class, we are going to move to the other side of the room to allow the video people an opportunity to use photoshop video. You are going to a Design Scavenger Hunt online! You are going to find the best and the worst of design on the web. To start, please watch the following the video:

Design Council: What is Design?

 This video was filled with a lot of great information. Please answer the following in your own words, not necessarily the words from the video.

1. What is your first impressions of the video? How did it make you rethink the world of design?


2. What area of design was the most interesting to you? Why is that?

3. What do you think is the important of brand identity? What does brand identity usually include?


 Scavenger Hunt:
1. Please find 1 example of a poorly designed website and include a link, why do you think the website is poorly designed? Aesthetics, user-ability, etc.

2. Please find 2 examples of well designed websites and include a link, why do you think the website is well designed?

3. Please find an example of a well designed restaurant menu and an example of a poorly designed website menu. What are the differences between the two?

4. Can you think of an object that has been redesigned by a company such as the dyson vaccuum? List 3 of these, and what they did that was revolutionary for the product.