In this course, we are endeavoring to learn how to build a branding suite, with ourselves as the clients. This is quite exciting to me, as I do love visual identity systems and am enamored with old corporate branding guidelines and manuals. So getting to develop one for myself is a fun new challenge. That’s … More GRA-420 Branding Suite – Logo Design
In building a responsive portfolio website, I’ve found there is much to do and learn. You need to develop a theme, style, design aesthetic and decide on what pages and what content. Then you need to learn web design and coding, how to work in HTML 5 and CSS 3, as well as how to … More GRA-410 Design Aspects
It’s been some time since last I posted. I had a few general education classes, mixed around some web design courses. The general education were really no design interest, but fascinating. The web design courses were interesting and fun, but lines of code typically do not make for a fun post. However, I want to … More Hello Again – Addressing Web Design
Ok, well this term kind of got away from me. So much for giving progress updates. Unfortunately, with the holidays, class, work projects and life in general, I was not as diligent as usual in updating my progress. Not sure what next class will look like either, being a history course, but I will try … More GRA-310 Final Project
Work continues with the home page. This week, I worked with CSS to begin to add some styling and design elements to the page. I even started working with an external style sheet for a more professional back end structure. The front end, well, again a work in progress, but not bad results for the … More GRA-310 Web Page Development
I know what you’re thinking. Ugh, no more boring code. Where’s the site?!? Agreed. Although, when working on the code and entering in lines and tags and then watching how it changes and transforms a web pages, its actually pretty exciting. But just reading it on a screen is not as thrilling. Never fear, this … More GRA-310 Wireframes
The main focus of this class is to learn how to code, writing HTML and CSS and using that language to design a website. It’s fun and interesting, although honestly I’m still in the early stages. This week, I thought I’d share my first code. This is the code to the web page I shared … More GRA-310 Coding
Back at it again. For this new class, we are learning the fundamentals of web design. Through the course to learn these basics, we will be designing a web page for a restaurant by coding HTML5, CSS3 and potentially some Javascript. So far, it’s quite interesting. In what seems another lifetime or two ago, I … More GRA-310 Web Design First Attempt
Designer Development 