Just a small post to say that for the time being my website (mrdouglaswood.com) is currently down.
It does need a little bit of updating done to it, but overall I was and still are quite happy with it.
Watch this space for when it’ll be back.
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Another Website Plug
Another plug for my website, but if you view it on a mobile device, the good news is that it shows up perfectly. It looks good in portrait or landscape, and if you save a bookmark of it to the home screen, it takes care of that too!
This website is looking and performing much much better than my old one. And it is much easier to update too.
New Website Coming Soon
Over the past few weeks I have been investing a huge amount of my spare time into redoing my website. The time is almost here for you to get a closer look at it and go hands on, but in the mean time here is a little preview.
It is much much cleaner than the previous one and it does more what I want it to do than what my current one does. I also have much more control over all the details in it. On the whole I am extremely happy with it, and if I’m lucky, it will be online within a week!
#149 Website Update
If you hadn’t already noticed, I have been going over and updating my website (mrdouglaswood.com) and have been slowly improving it. Just now I have reached a point which I am going to say is the end of the first revision on it. I will be making some more changes to it, but if you find the time to take a look and provide me with feedback on it, either comment on it here, or using the contact form, I would be rather grateful.
mrdouglaswood.com
My website also does look quite good on my iPad, but that is neither here nor there.
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#136 HT30007 Random Working Outs
Due to most of the working out of the business proposal being done in verbally and in groups, there isn’t much evidence for the working out of how it works, but for other aspects of the project, such as prototyping the website or coming up with the logo, there is plenty of evidence collated. Here is a small collection of what we got over the course of the project. Included in the following set of images is the website designs, poster/flyer designs, some sketching and other various pieces of development work.
#64 Website
Small heads up about my website which I have finally gotten around to doing up properly. It is showcasing some of my work and is an ongoing thing, so there are still parts which need updated on it, and more work will be added in due course.
Any feedback on what I have done with it so far would be appreciated. It is using WordPress with the AutoFocus+ Pro theme, which is a lovely piece of web design. I was going to attempt to produce my own but coding isn’t one of my specialities, and I was not wanting to spend money using Basekit when I still had hosting and a domain name elsewhere for the time being.
#55 Visual Information
I cannot remember where I found this, but it is one of the best things which I have ever come across in my opinion. It takes the human desire to want to know everything, or have as much information as possible, and combines it with the ability to easily read, analyse, interpret, acknowledge all the shown information. Information aesthetics as it is described by Moritz Stefaner isn’t something new. We are all used to it in basic forms such as bar graphs or pie charts. This takes it to the next level.
Stefaner, a B.SC in Cognitive Science and a MA in Interface Design is interested in Information Aesthetics, Interactive Visualisation, and how the internet transforms our understanding of information. On his website, instead of just theoretical work, there are practical examples which you can interact with and explore, play and swoon at the delightfully designed interface. One of these is Revisit, a graphical representation of your Twitter feed.
The media is a crucial area of interest for information aesthetics, or visualisation as they often require many different methods of conveying vast amounts of information in as little time and space as possible to keep their readers, or viewers interested in what they are watching or reading.
After a little bit of research into this field, it turns out that apart from the very basic examples I gave earlier, the most dominant or one of the most dominant sources of information visualisation is the humble map. The sheer amount of detail contained in such a graphical manner is astonishing if you think about it, especially the Ordinance Survey maps. Contour lines, different kinds of roads, valleys, gulleys, factories, buildings, seas, oceans, rivers, lochs, lakes, forests, pylons, railways, points of interest, beaches, quarries, you name it, all feature on maps, in a VISUAL way. It just shows how dependant we are on this sort of information without even realising what it is and that there are some people out there who specialise in this sort of thing.
The BBC made a documentary called the Beauty of Maps which emphasises how prominent this sort of information is in the media.
I’ll leave you with this brief video, which in an extract from the Beauty of Maps and a link to Moritz Stefaner’s site. This is definetely an area in which I am going to be keeping close attention as a designer, as a person who likes to know as much information as possible about some things, and just because I am interested. If you are interested, I urge you to look further into Information Aesthetics, some of the things you find out, or see, are just astonishing.
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#47 Something to think about
Something for the design folk out there. I found this post over at designsojourn.com and it really does get you thinking. Is design thinking killing creativity?
It is something we are constantly tried to get to do at university (design thinking that is), and on the whole, it is only that which we are being asked to do instead of employing it as only one of a vast array of methods. If everyone is being forced or taught to think the same way, then of course it is going to kill creativity… well, in my opinion at least…
#31 What font are you?
Quick post this time. A few weeks ago, I came across a really website inside a website, pentagram.com which, once you’ve answered four questions, will tell you which font or type you are.
Where it asks for the password, write ‘character’
So, what font am I? Perpetua Titling Light, due to me apparently being Rational, Understated, Traditional and Disciplined. Not sure if that is a true representation of me, but I’ll let you decide. So, what font are you?
