Saturday, February 28, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Persona Three
Carin, 22 years old, who is a fashion designer. She is an attention grabber that tries to look at her best at all times. A person who love romance movies and writing poems, and she always holds her boyfriend's hand wherever she goes. Her horoscope is Pisces. Her ideal wedding is a beach wedding.
Persona Two
Lindsey, 59 years old, Urban Mom, who’s married an English teacher of a north side Chicago high school. Being a person who value family as her priority, she always drives under the speed limit, and does grocery shopping everyday to make sure her kids eat right. Her dream is to got to bed at 9pm and have completely uninterrupted sleep until 7am. She would like her kids to be married in a surrounding that will fit into the nature theme, a forrest wedding would fit into her profile.
Persona One
David, 26 years old, who is a graphic designer based in San Francisco. He is a Green Peace Volunteer. He considers himself as a healthy dialogue encourage, who has organized various campaigns for both social and political issues. A part time protester, who has traveled the world to express his concerns. He would like his wedding to be simple and more meaningful.
Historical Sites Wedding
Historical sites are amazing wedding venues that can bring "old world charm to any wedding. A historical site can offer atmosphere, tradition and elegance that will be talked about for years to come from those that were in attendance. Sites: Battery Mendell, Point Bonita Lighthouse, Battery Rathbone, Black Point Battery, Crissy Field, Great Meadow, and Presidio Parade Ground.
Beach Wedding
Start your ceremony with the sound of waves, wearing sandals or bare feet and the shore. Decorate your wedding theme with star fish and shells.
Beach sites: Muir Beach, Rodeo Beach, Stinson Beach, China Beach, Baker Beach, andOcean Beach.
week 4 research on outdoor wedding
Many couples dreaming of an out door wedding never go through with it because they are afraid of the unknowns of planning an out door wedding such as weather. One of the bonuses of an outdoor wedding is the natural beauty around you, lessening your need to decorate. Decorations you may want to consider include an arch or trellis to focus the ceremony and frame the bride and groom as they say their vows; strins of lights or lanterns in the trees; luminaries.
week 3 discussion
This week's class was pretty fun for us. First, we went over our research on the projects. then we went over two exercises about personas and experience map. The persona exercise our group choose was the "Burning Man", so we came up with three personas, the 20 year old Raver, and the Hippy Artist, and the Black Rock Rangers. The Black Rock Rangers, Christ and James, are law enforcement under disguise, they both have formal medical training. They try to make sure the premises is safe.
Monday, February 16, 2009
week 3 exercise
For this week we only had to do the Interaction design on Lynda.com, which I find quite interesting. Instead of jumping into Dreamweaver or Flash teaching coding and stuff, I actually learn about designing with interaction, and combining web design with different media and material. I also learned to sketch with codes, which means it is always good to experiment with things, even in the end it doesn't work out.
Throughout the exercise, I found 3 web sites quite useful:
I found the part how Brendan created snow flakes with flash movement quite draging, because without a diagram or visual process, it was hard for me to understand.
week 3 project research
After a brief research online I found out that actually there are several places an out door wedding can be held, such as:
-Muir woods
-Hawk hill
-Battery Mendell
-Point Bonita Light house
-Muir Beach Overlook
-Muir Beach
-Battery Rathbone/Mcindoe
-Fort Barry Parade Ground
-Rodeo Beach
-Stinson Beach
-Eagle's Point
-China Beach
-Black Point Battery
-West Fort Miley
-Sutro Heights Park
-Fort Mason Parade Gounds
-Baker Beach
-Ocean Beach
-Crissy Field
-Fort Mason/Great Meadow
There are actually a lot of selections, but there are restrictions to the sites. Many of the sites don't have much parking spaces, and noise or music are prohibited due to preserving a peaceful environment for other visitors. Artificial materials or balloons, doves or throwing rices is not allow in the park. In order to preserve the parks in their natural state, some of the special decorations require further review. Therefore, I think one of my concept could be a green wedding that promoting the idea of having a wedding with less materialistic things and more concern utilize the things around us and make the wedding graceful and fulfilling.
One of my concern was that there wasn't a lot of pictures that I can use from, and the lists of sites are too long, some of them might not be an ideal site for weddings. I wish the contact person would give me some informations about the statistic such as which sites are more popular than others and how many weddings are held each year.
week 2 dicussion
This week's class was kind of relaxing, we went over the briefs with George. He's a really nice person. I got my first pick which is outdoor wedding that I really look forward to do. I email my contact person but he hasn't emailed me back. I am looking forward to heard from him.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Expectations
I hope at the end of this semester, i will be familiar with the software, and will be able to create my own profolio website.
Inspirations
Tokyo Plastic
As a toy designing company, Tokyo Plastic is a legendary icon for utilizing flash with illustration and sound promoting their website. Browsing the web became more interactive than ever. Check out their website at www.tokyoplastic.com
Go Media
This is a website that is concentrating on the illustration aspect. Their work is very influential to me due to their high quality of work. www.gomedia.us
Philippe Apeloig
He is a French Graphic Designer who is well know for his posters with strong typo design. www.apeloig.com
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