Creating texures in photoshop

Textures that i made in photoshop using simple filters and a cloud.

Putting a simple animation on a logo

i was tyring to put a animation into my logo i simply set up a animation from my logo to switch between to states. this was by using frame by frame animation in photoshop this lesson was more a demo of doin frame by frame animation in photoshop however if i wanted to make this animation better i could very easily put the elements into Flash and work at animation in that program because its made more towards animating things anyway.

my pheonix would go from this state and then as the mouse hovers over it i would like it to change into.

Neville Brody

Brody is a very famous typographer, design and brand strategist his work can be very simple in design. He is very flexible in his use of colour as in some of his work he uses just black and white and in other it is full of colour showing he is confident in using many mediums and ways of working to create stunning design work. His work draws your eye in to make you wonder why he did things in each design the way he did this is one thing that I envy as a designer my self.  I like all the style’s that brody has show on his website such as the designs using only pictures and even his typography ones usually typography doesn’t impress me that much because I feel that as long as you know the language your writing in you can create good typography. Typography is just knowing how to use text in ways to portray more than just the word its self and I feel that brody’s work does this aspect of typography a great justice and his work will inspire many people of the future to work with typography if not as there main source but as a experimental exercise.

 just two examples of brody's work

Layout ideas

after i researched websites thats inspire me and that i wanted to take elements from to create of work my own but to a similar style. i have a few ideas but the one i would really like to try out would be to have my logo almost as a emblem in the center of my website home page with all the hyperlinks to diferent pages in a tribal patterned circle around the logo to create a more orignal layout to the type of website that i am making mine. i feel this would be a good idea because its different and not generic to the way websites are being designed lately. i feel that my website will have to use mostly Black Reds and greys due to the style of inventory to the site. although this is a limited choie of colours i know i can make many different variations of borders.

Tshirt designing

Tshirt design using typography and and Photography.

Website Layout research and begining to plan

I have been working towards planning a layout on my website however instead of trying to just create one I decided I would research and look at websites based around my style of site to get an informed view on the market and current fashion in the websites around my style.

I have that the websites that sell items of my style and are in my style are;

http://www.spiraldirect.com/  because of its influence from tribal designs and the range of makes it sells that are reflected perfectly into the design of the website. Although it has a very basic layout it deliverers in style and originality due to design. I would strive to create a website as well made as this website.

http://www.grindstore.com/ This site is different because of how easily you can navigate and it makes me think of how I need simplicity in navigation but complexity in design to keep the eye’s engaged but also knowing where they are while on the website.

http://www.bluebanana.com/ This site is a very well known site and packs the site full of information and things to buy so its stock of items is very impressive however that on the home page it is very over packed and so I would be happy to have the stock that blue banana have acquired.

After looking at these sites I have a few ideas flying around in my head. I feel that my site has to be original and so I might take aspects that each site use such as drawing on tribal patterns to enhance my designs such as borders. I will try and take the simplicity of travel on the grind store website and merge it with blue bananas mass of stock to create a user friendly website full of everything needed.

Website basics

Fps is the rate at which frames are shown in your animation. 12fps would mean that for 3 secs of play we would need 36 frames.

Higher the frame rate the faster your animation lower slower

we set up a very basic website design of four pages with button leading to and from each page this helped to give us a sense on how to actually create a working website and how to maybe link and structure our website the way we want too.

this was a usefull lesson because it means that i have refreshed how to make working buttons in flash and now can get on to designing my actually website.

Flash Movie experiments

We have been experimenting with Flash and making videos or sort animations. we learnt how to go into frame on and postion a seaguls wings so that we could turn it into a video of the seagul flying.
we then had it tweening across the screen in a SWF video

we then flipped it and brought it back across the screen