What is Class Demand?

As a digital arts student, I frequently find myself in classes that demand I have a blog to use for class assignments. In some cases the instructor is requesting responses to read material, or miniature essays, or that we simply experience blogging. Whatever their reasoning, I've decided they're all getting one blog from now on. I've already by far experienced the blogging phenomena and have no desire to dump the blah-dy-tude of some class assignments into my actual blog (which is more graphic-based and involved with my visual art process), nor do I want the clutter.

So here it is. Class demanded it, and so class receives Class Demand.

INSTRUCTORS: use the "classes" labels to the right to find posts intended for your particular class.



Tuesday, June 15, 2010

discard>COLLECT: Mockup 1


So here's a mockup for my "project 1", which I've been referring to as discard>COLLECT.

The idea is that I'm going to display the "trash" collection that I've been keeping for the last couple years in virtual type trays.

On hover, the up/down/left/right arrow buttons will slide the viewpane horizontally or vertically. I'm probably going to have to use jQuery to accomplish that, and I'm still researching options. I have a few, but none so far that are spot on to what I want.

I've already set up images of the type trays (which yes, I rendered myself in Photoshop), which can be added on as more are needed. I'm using a transparent div above the others with a transparent image to create drop shadows on top of the items, which will be added via individual divs positioned accordingly.

At the moment, I'm still on the fence about the button design. I don't think they look the way I want them to yet. I'm also not totally sold on the discard>COLLECT logo/title style yet, but we'll see.

I'll add a couple of near-invisible links in the upper right for "about | contact" info, most likely, just in case, but for the most part this isn't a "what is it for?" website so much as a "this is" art piece.

For muse's sake, here's a couple images from my physical, on-the-wall collection.


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