http://www.core77.com/
Since 1995 Core77.com has served a devoted global audience of industrial designers ranging from students through seasoned professionals. Core77 publishes articles, discussion forums, an extensive event calendar, hosts portfolios, job listings, a database of design firms, schools, vendors and services. Core77 provides a gathering point for designers and enthusiasts alike by producing design competitions, lecture series, parties, and exhibits.
Core 77 is great networking website that i have use before on a numerous occations, I find the site to be very useful on all things product design.
Monday 31 January 2011
Product Designers Flash Websites
The two links below are two leading product design companies that use flash to present their websites.
Tokyo Flash
http://www.tokyoflash.com/blog/2011/01/cool-sliding-concept-wrist-watch-design/
This is a link to a product designers website uses flash. I like the way the designers has used a flash animation to show how the product works. I could possibility use this technique in the future.
This is a link to a product designers website uses flash. I like the way the designers has used a flash animation to show how the product works. I could possibility use this technique in the future.
Effective Filing
http://www.timethoughts.com/timemanagement/effective-filing.htm
This looks at how effectiveness simple filing is. even the use of a cheap ring binder file and dividers act as effective sources of organisation.
Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training - explored
http://www.lynda.com/tutorial/59964
This is a link to the Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training page. This page shows a table of contents of the chapters and what they cover. although the tutorial covers everything you need to know about flash I am not going to use all the videos as i feel they are not necessary with my professional development.
This is a link to the Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training page. This page shows a table of contents of the chapters and what they cover. although the tutorial covers everything you need to know about flash I am not going to use all the videos as i feel they are not necessary with my professional development.
Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training Introduction
Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training
This link is to a video from lynda.com on Flash Professional CS5. This video is just the introduction to what the series of videos will cover.
This link is to a video from lynda.com on Flash Professional CS5. This video is just the introduction to what the series of videos will cover.
Adobe TV
http://tv.adobe.com/
Adobe TV is Adobe's online TV network, offering free training, inspiration, and information about the latest Adobe products & services. i found this site to be extremely helpful as it gave me the opportunity to download some templates with I could later use to complete some tutorials on Lynda.com
Adobe TV is Adobe's online TV network, offering free training, inspiration, and information about the latest Adobe products & services. i found this site to be extremely helpful as it gave me the opportunity to download some templates with I could later use to complete some tutorials on Lynda.com
Gant Chart 1
This post shows the start of a gantt chart that i have made on Microsoft project to try improve my time management. As you can see I have add the creative interaction module to the gantt chart as it runs along with this module.
I decide to split the professional skill section up into different categories which each represent a important part of the module. these categories are; research, organisation, sketching / rendering, adobe flash, business plan and report. I will be updating these through the module on how far I think I have progressed.
Another section to the gantt chart is a two week break which covers the Christmas holiday.
Time Thoughts
http://timethoughts.com/
Time Thoughts are another Career resources website that share time management tips, techniques and strategies to get organized, increase your productivity, make better use of your time and achieve your goals.
Time Thoughts are another Career resources website that share time management tips, techniques and strategies to get organized, increase your productivity, make better use of your time and achieve your goals.
Mind Tools
http://www.mindtools.com/
MindTools are a web-based company that aim to help people improve there career skills. MindTools teaches you the leadership, team management, problem-solving, personal productivity and team-working skills.
MindTools are a web-based company that aim to help people improve there career skills. MindTools teaches you the leadership, team management, problem-solving, personal productivity and team-working skills.
Page Hierarchy
http://www.idsketching.com/toolbox/quick-tip-page-hierarchy/
This page looks at sketch page orginisation and how sketch pages normally tell visual stories. The best way to tell a story is by organizing sketches in groups so that they are ranked by size, color, contrast, or position according to their importance.
This page looks at sketch page orginisation and how sketch pages normally tell visual stories. The best way to tell a story is by organizing sketches in groups so that they are ranked by size, color, contrast, or position according to their importance.
Levels of sketching
http://www.idsketching.com/toolbox/toolbox-levels-of-sketching/
This link highlight the different levels of sketching that that there are 5 main levels of sketching:
This link highlight the different levels of sketching that that there are 5 main levels of sketching:
- Personal Communication Sketches aka The Doodle
- Thinking Sketch
- Technical Sketch
- Presentation Sketch
- Emotive
Friday 28 January 2011
Oxygen-Productions
http://www.oxygen-productions.com/projects
Oxygen Productions are a web-based company that combine centric design and technology to deliver award-winning web solutions. There solutions architects and interactive designers have been creating web presentations, Internet applications, marketing campaigns and web sites for clients. I found this site very inspiring as they give some examples of their work and how they use flash to created striking presentations and websites.
Oxygen Productions are a web-based company that combine centric design and technology to deliver award-winning web solutions. There solutions architects and interactive designers have been creating web presentations, Internet applications, marketing campaigns and web sites for clients. I found this site very inspiring as they give some examples of their work and how they use flash to created striking presentations and websites.
Friday 14 January 2011
Sketch Basics
http://www.idsketching.com/thesketchlab/sketch-basics/
Another link to the website idsketching, This page looks at the basics of sketching and how sketching is a visual language and that using different line thicknesses or weights brings important details to the "fore font".
Another link to the website idsketching, This page looks at the basics of sketching and how sketching is a visual language and that using different line thicknesses or weights brings important details to the "fore font".
Materials Guide
www.idsketching.com/thesketchlab/materials-guide
This link is to a material guide on idsketching. This page talks about the tools and materials that spence Nugent uses when sketching and rendering. Not only do i find this page informing but it also gives links to where he obtained his equipment which I find very useful as i have struggled in the past to find where to buy markers and pencils.
This link is to a material guide on idsketching. This page talks about the tools and materials that spence Nugent uses when sketching and rendering. Not only do i find this page informing but it also gives links to where he obtained his equipment which I find very useful as i have struggled in the past to find where to buy markers and pencils.
Sketching Websites
http://www.idsketching.com/ - idsketching is a free website created by Spencer Nugent, (designer for A*S*T*R*O) it is dedicated to sharing design sketching techniques and video tutorials from professional industrial designers. I will probably be using this website alot as I find the content to be extremely useful when trying to improve my skills.
http://www.sketch-a-day.com/ - was created by Spencer Nugent, unlike idsketching this site was originally to be a personal project for self improvement as he felt his skills were slipping. After a while through he decided to make the project public to try inspire anyone interested in drawing to "Sketch, draw, scribble, or doodle whatever it is you feel like" to improve there own personal skills.
http://www.lineweights.com/ - Lineweight’s is a collaborative space dedicated to learning, creating and sharing through visual representation. The space was created to serve as motivation, inspiration and exploration through the means of sketching. “Sketching” is usually known as a rapidly executed freehand drawing.
Lynda.com
Lynda.com is a online training library. They offer software and technique training courses for a number of disciplines: 3D, video, business, photography, web design, graphic design, and more. All the tutorials in which Lynda.com offer are produced by experienced tutors withing there respected fields.
"I decided to use Lynda.com to learn the essentials for Adobe Flash CS5 to help me reach my overall goal in creating a personal website.
Althought I recommend Lynda.com to anyone who wants to learn a new software or techniques it does have a drawback which is it does not fully available for free."
Learning Agreement
Area of Interest
Outline the skills and knowledge you wish to develop, and which will inform your project work during this module and the course of your MA.
· Sketching/Rendering
· Adobe Flash skills
· Gathering Appropriate and relevant research
· Time and Organisation management
Research Questions
Identify 2 or 3 key questions that will shape your approach to the acquisition of new skills and knowledge.
· What defines a good sketch page?
· Which features within Adobe Flash will be most beneficial?
· What processes are there to organise time?
· What types of research are available?
Method of Approach
How do you intend to explore processes and techniques that are of importance to you? Why have you decided on this particular approach? What skills are most relevant to develop? Consider the enterprise opportunities within your project work.
· Tutorials within sketching
o Books
§ Sketching, Drawing Techniques for Product Designers
§ Design Sketching
§ Innovative Product Design Practice
§ Beautiful Thing
§ Analog Dreams
o Internet
§ IDsketching.com
§ Dailysketches.com
§ Linewieghts.com
§ Michaelditullo.com
· Tutorials within Adobe Flash
o tv.adobe.com
o Lynda.com
o Youtube.com
· Tutorials and techniques on organisation and time management
o MindTools.com
o TimeThoughts.com
Outcome
What do you envisage to be the eventual outcome of your project? What form will your work take? Please itemise deliverables including research and development, report and project output.
· Competition Brief
o Life Jacket Brief - To encourage and solicit innovative ideas and new technology to design a life jacket that the majority of average boaters might wear.
· Sketch
o Competition development
o Random sketch work
· Website
o The use of adobe flash to a create a working animation and possibly website containing portfolio and contact destails
· Report
· Action/Business Plan
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