Thursday, July 26, 2012
Project 2 Rough Proposal
For this project I will be creating a hand illustrated children's book focused on creating awareness of people with disabilities. It will be told through the perspective of a sibling of a child with a disability. This will be targeted towards parents who would use this book as a tool to answer a child's question after experiencing this type of situation, or to just get them aware of these disabilities. So, it will be educational as well as fun and enjoyable and be able to become part of the child's rotation of readings.
Reading Assignment 2
Saccades: when we read, our eyes jump forwards and backwards to groups of letters in words. During these saccades, we are not focusing but our eyes are catching what's ahead and rereading what we just read.
Fixations: Between the saccades, our eyes take quick rests and focus.
This chapter was very interesting because it brought up a few points that conflicted with my previous knowledge of what hindered and helped readability. The first point was that using all caps does not decrease readability. I have always heard that because all the letters are the same height in all caps, the readability was decreased. But the book made the point that we just aren't used to reading words in all caps, and if we practiced it, it would be just as easy to read. It was also very interesting how we can understand words even when they are scrambled as long as the first and last letters are correct. The point about using headings was also interesting. Just by using a heading, we are able to understand the following paragraphs easier because our brains can predict what is ahead.
I found the readability index calculator very interesting. I would be interested in comparing the readability of some of my design textbooks to some of my liberal arts class textbooks such as business law.
Fixations: Between the saccades, our eyes take quick rests and focus.
This chapter was very interesting because it brought up a few points that conflicted with my previous knowledge of what hindered and helped readability. The first point was that using all caps does not decrease readability. I have always heard that because all the letters are the same height in all caps, the readability was decreased. But the book made the point that we just aren't used to reading words in all caps, and if we practiced it, it would be just as easy to read. It was also very interesting how we can understand words even when they are scrambled as long as the first and last letters are correct. The point about using headings was also interesting. Just by using a heading, we are able to understand the following paragraphs easier because our brains can predict what is ahead.
I found the readability index calculator very interesting. I would be interested in comparing the readability of some of my design textbooks to some of my liberal arts class textbooks such as business law.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Reading Assignment 1
Geon: The basic shapes that you recognize while looking at an object, which are used to identify the object.
FFA: The FFA, or fusiform face area, allows faces to bypass the brain's usual interpretive channels and helps us identify them more quickly than objects.
Canonical Perspective: a view from a perspective that is slightly above or looking down at the object and also slightly to one side. This is how most people would draw an object when asked.
Affordance: The cues you get from an object which tell your brain how to handle or operate the object. If you wanted an object to have affordance, you should make it easy for the user to perceive and figure out what the object is and how to use it.
FFA: The FFA, or fusiform face area, allows faces to bypass the brain's usual interpretive channels and helps us identify them more quickly than objects.
Canonical Perspective: a view from a perspective that is slightly above or looking down at the object and also slightly to one side. This is how most people would draw an object when asked.
Affordance: The cues you get from an object which tell your brain how to handle or operate the object. If you wanted an object to have affordance, you should make it easy for the user to perceive and figure out what the object is and how to use it.
Projects
Project 1: Identity and collateral for a Hip Hop Band
- Identity
- Website
- Album Cover
- Poster
- Shirts
Project 2: Children's book about disabilities
- main story
- hand drawn illustrations
- bound format and ebook
Project 3: Music app for kids
- Identity
- Website
- Album Cover
- Poster
- Shirts
Project 2: Children's book about disabilities
- main story
- hand drawn illustrations
- bound format and ebook
Project 3: Music app for kids
Thesis Response 2
Thesis author: Doug Sheets
Thesis title: "Making Darwin Manifest"
This thesis was very interesting. Its main message seemed to be that modern Americans are very uneducated in the sciences. Because of this lack of education, more people are of the belief that evolution is a failed theory. One of the main points I found very interesting was the reason for this lack of knowledge. The thesis proposes that americans are turned off by the overly simplified and boring scientific illustrations used to demonstrate theories such as evolution. This is contrasted by the evidence that the organizations with opposing views to science use more untraditional and modern approaches to illustrating the information, such as with animations and motion graphics. This approach is much more attractive and invites the audience to be interested in intaking the information. Overall, I really enjoyed this thesis and the ideas it contained.
Thesis title: "Making Darwin Manifest"
This thesis was very interesting. Its main message seemed to be that modern Americans are very uneducated in the sciences. Because of this lack of education, more people are of the belief that evolution is a failed theory. One of the main points I found very interesting was the reason for this lack of knowledge. The thesis proposes that americans are turned off by the overly simplified and boring scientific illustrations used to demonstrate theories such as evolution. This is contrasted by the evidence that the organizations with opposing views to science use more untraditional and modern approaches to illustrating the information, such as with animations and motion graphics. This approach is much more attractive and invites the audience to be interested in intaking the information. Overall, I really enjoyed this thesis and the ideas it contained.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Thesis Response 1
Thesis author: Kim Morgan
Thesis title: "The Marketing of Balance and Harmony and its bearing on Environmental Design"
I found this thesis thorough and enjoyable. The thesis looks at how we as humans, are constantly seeking a feeling of balance in our world and within ourselves. This has been going on throughout the ages in art, design, architecture, and in nature. This need of balance has since been taken advantage of by creating a feeling of unbalance within the consumer, while simultaneously giving them a solution to their unease. Overall, the thesis was very easy to read, concise, and all the points were very well supported by credible sources and examples.
Thesis title: "The Marketing of Balance and Harmony and its bearing on Environmental Design"
I found this thesis thorough and enjoyable. The thesis looks at how we as humans, are constantly seeking a feeling of balance in our world and within ourselves. This has been going on throughout the ages in art, design, architecture, and in nature. This need of balance has since been taken advantage of by creating a feeling of unbalance within the consumer, while simultaneously giving them a solution to their unease. Overall, the thesis was very easy to read, concise, and all the points were very well supported by credible sources and examples.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
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