HTML & CSS for Clients

MyARTS • Working

February 8th, 2012 • 11:34am

Since I’m building websites for clients, and they want to learn how to maintain their own content, I should teach them some basic HTML so they don’t have to come to me with every little update request. Problem is, I’ve never really taught HTML to anyone before. I don’t really know where to start. I’ve  Read More

Skinned Wireframes

Information Architecture • KCAI • Learning

February 8th, 2012 • 9:11am

All of these use color to indicate certain categories. This is to correspond with the KC Star’s current color-coding system. This first skin uses panels for section previews. The relation to printed media is very abstract.     This one uses tabbed folder-like sections and a paper texture to create a visual link with printed  Read More

Yogi: Verbal Analysis

KCAI • Learning • User Experience

February 7th, 2012 • 8:53pm

Eight Limbs Yama: universal morality Niyama: personal sensitivity Asanas: body postures Pranayama: breathing exercises Pratyahara: control of the senses Dharana: concentration and inner awareness Dhyana: meditation Samadhi: spiritual or transcendent   Spiritual Terms: Moksha: Hinduism freedom from the endless cycle of transmigration into a state of bliss Brahman: the one supreme universal spirit that is the  Read More

What is Typography? I Thought I Knew.

KCAI • Learning • Typography4

February 6th, 2012 • 1:26pm

This project will be different. Very different. In fact, it’s probably going to end up completely removed from traditional typography, and become more about invention and discovery of new ideas and ways to communicate. This class is challenging my ideas of what typography even is. Maybe it’s no longer about letterforms and visible legibility. Maybe  Read More

Digital Wireframes, Round 1 & 2

Information Architecture • KCAI • Learning

February 6th, 2012 • 9:23am

My idea for the KC Star website revolves around users being able to have control over what they see on the front page and where they see their favorite categories. In the header is a weather indicator, where users can get a basic weather report at a glance. The site would match the conditions outside,  Read More

Type Experiment Ideas

KCAI • Learning • Typography4

February 3rd, 2012 • 1:10am

I’m thinking about doing something completely unlike me. Analog, temporal, environmental, and out of my control.  (Ah! I know, right?) I want to produce a message made out of some kind of vulnerable material, and put it in a somewhat volatile environment that will greatly affect the message by influencing and changing the material in  Read More