AK: Archive

Sep 27th

ACT 4 GWS - First designs

I have attached the first designs of the website. As you can see the website has progressed from the early stages to now. www.act4gws.com.au

Sep 27th

Graphic Design 4.2 - Music festival assignment

I have changed my domain to http://act4gws.com.au I will be doing my assignment on the ‘ACT 4 GWS’ AFL Canberra campaign.

Sep 23rd

Graphic Design 4.2 - Music festival assignment

My link to my festival website will be http://andrewkominek.com/musicfestival. I would like to discuss my options on doing my website on a different topic. I will organise this with Geoff.

Aug 29th

BLOG SUBMISSION

The three posts are: LED ART CAN CREATIVITY BE LEARNED TERRORISM AND DESIGN (instead of can creativity be learned) MASHUP

Jun 11th

RSS

Before starting this course I didn’t realise what exactly RSS feeds were. I saw the symbol everywhere and just thought it was a geeky application within websites. Since joining a few blogs I now understand why they are important and why so many people use them. I joined bloglines which updates me with blog entries that I haven’t read yet. It is just another thing that this technology...

Jun 9th

Mashup

I recently was watching some of the videos on THRUYOU and really thought these videos were very good and very interesting. I watched most of them and found myself not getting bored. When people watch these and when I watched these videos I am fascinated in how they make these videos. These videos are classified as mashups. I never really new what mashups were before doing this unit at uni but my...

Jun 8th

Jun 4th

Data Visualisation - Rationale

I chose to do a data visualisation because the ones I have seen previously have been very interesting and very creative. It really seems to be the new cool, creative thing. I tried to create something different and interesting but it was a lot harder than I imagined. I chose the statistics of Energy Use in Australian Homes, which I got from the ABS site. The information was not as good as I had...

Jun 4th

Terrorism and Design

‘Evil intent and design responsibility’ is a report by Kemper. He says that the only way us as designers can contribute to combat terrorism is through ‘engineering solutions’. I disagree. Kemper is right that through designing the right engineering solutions designers can help combat terrorism. This is not the only way to help with the issue of terrorism. Designing things...

May 23rd

OXFAM REPORT

I have just read ‘The Oxfam report Offside!’ and thought about what I can do as a designer. The horrible conditions that exploited workers have to live with is unacceptable, the problem with fixing this however is that organisations like Oxfam try and attack the exploiter who has no good reason to change what they are doing. Energies and attacks would be better directed to a third...

May 23rd

Can creativity be learned?

This is one of the great questions. Creativity is a word that is used often in today’s literature and seems to have become a really fashionable word in more recent times. It has to be one of the most vague and difficult words to define. The definition that I went with and supported is that creativity is, ‘The ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the...

May 18th

Watch

Bicycle Built for Two Thousand

May 13th

Data Visualisation

I have just been looking at the ‘Bicycle Biult for Two Thousand’ that was tagged on delicious under nmp7881+datavisualisation. When I first listened to it I really couldn’t believe that this was at all real or possible. There are options to listen to the different tracks seperately. Once I heard the tracks seperately I was really impressed with the piece as a whole. Collecting...

May 13th

May 11th

APIS

I am currently interested in the use of APIS and there compatability within websites. I am currently creating a website and I am going to use the Google Maps API. A lot of sites use this API usually on the contact page. This application is known by most people these days so it is a good application to take advantage of so people can find your business and easily use the Google Maps API. I...

May 11th

Apr 14th

LED ART AND ADS

This is leading on from the last post I put up about LED ART it was the SHEEP LED. I was reading some of the comments and discussions (on youtube) people had about the last video I put up. The main problem and question that everyone is asking and the same thing I addressed last time is, is this all real or done in house (CG)? I have looked at another video that presents the same questions and...

Apr 14th

Apr 7th

Peter Jaworowski

I have come across some of Peter’s work and he is a great designer and illustrator. In this particular site it shows his steps to creating a great piece. Visit http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Discovery-Channel-Deadliest-Catch/207479 and check out the steps. He has some great works for people such as samsung, red bull and fanta.

Apr 7th

Truth and Beauty in Design

Beauty in design can be explained and received in different ways. What someone believes to be beautiful may not be to others. “I can see beauty where others see ugliness. That either makes me an artist, or a person of very poor taste.” anonymous. I believe that designers do have a different response to art, buildings and various other products. How do designers portray beauty to an...

Apr 4th

Mar 23rd

APIS and other things

I was checking my blogs one day and I watched this video that really got my attention. When I was watching it I was thinking to myself is this really art or what is it? I also thought that maybe it was faked but watching it a second time I convinced myself it wasn’t faked. I can imagine someone using something like this for a marketing and advertising campaign. APIS sound really useful and...

Mar 19th

html and website design

When designing a website the most important thing to do is to design the front end of the site in photoshop, so you have an understanding of how to build the site. In the tutorial this week I don’t really think that got through to a lot of people. They were told and expecting that you make the HTML and that’s this basis of a website and then you make the css which will make the site...

Mar 13th

choosing tumblr

The reason I chose tumblr to be the host site for my blog was when looking at other sites such as blogger and wordpress they didn’t have the right visual appeal for someone like my who likes clean and simple design. The blogger site does have a simple design but it looks a little too immature and kid like. I have never really read many blogs before and starting my own blog seemed a little...

Mar 4th