Anyway, in my spare time I've done a fair bit of drawing. Mostly little comics and sketches and stuff, but I'll get to that in another post when I have time to upload it all.
I have been working on a re-design for my portfolio site, and so far I've had time to work on three solutions. Unfortunately I am at the labs and only have some process for one of them here, so I will show you that.
I am going for a bit more simply organized site this time around, having a main page, an about page, a contact page and a gallery page, rather than a page dedicated to each of the categories that my gallery will contain. This particular design works on an axial balance at the top of the page, and the colour scheme is fairly neutral, without being too bland.
The font I used for all of that header is Univers. The body font might be something in the Garamond family, or maybe minion, I haven't decided anything other than the fact that it will be a serif font, mainly because there won't be a whole lot of body text outside of the about page, so I wanted a decent amount of contrast.
I won't be putting any sort of news on the main/splash/home page, instead I might just put the last major work that I did, or failing that some recent work that I like, I'm not sure for this one yet. It's probably my favorite of the ones I have, it's also in early stages though.
There's another one that's a blue colour scheme with brighter more decorative heading text, and another that's closer to the one I have now, just optimized.
But yeah, I plan to host all of my school work on it, so that people can see what it is that I am wasting 8000.00 a year doing here. It's not going to be ready any time soon, I'm aiming to launch a re-designed site in 2009 (as in January 1st) so that gives me a little more of a feasible timeline to do this, seeing as I need to create a site that I can easily update.
Anyway, back to working on Visual Language ... sigh.
Ja Ne.
2 comments:
Interesting link. So is that what you're learning about? Ferdinand de Saussure? But how exactly do you incorporate a "signifier" into your work to communicate something graphically, if the "signified" is, for the most part, completely arbitrary? Honestly, it reminds me of the differences we're had on website design theory, and how we haven't, on some issues, been able to reach a purely logical consensus... it's because there isn't one.
Well, it's a neat topic for sure, so sometime you and Chris and I should sit down and talk about what you guys have been learning and how it could benefit Ownicon. It could get a little too... involved... to only discuss through blog comments.
That's what I'm learning about in Critical Issues, well, it's one of the things I'm learning about. It's hard to describe, but think about it like this, language is the link between sound and thought, it's the link between what we percieve (the signifier) and what it brings to mind (the signified), the signified is arbitrary because it varies from language to language, and it contextually specific. There's also a difference between signifieds and values, but that's a whole other thing.
And yes, we should. Like I said, it's hard to explain without ... diagrams.
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