Professor Devin Kerr - Class Site 

A good article on why you need a portfolio!

http://collegeinfogeek.com/personal-website/

The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), Upstate chapter is holding their annual review of portfolios on April 12th, 2012 from 6-10pm.

It is a good opportunity for those students with portfolios to get feedback and critique on presentation, the type of work and the depth of work you have to show to a potential employer. It’s also a good opportunity for you to network and to meet people in the region you’re looking to work in. There are three sessions being offered, Albany, Syracuse & Rochester.

COST:
AIGA Student members: $10
Student non-members: $15

More Info can be found here:
http://upstatenewyork.aiga.org/events/2012/04/76730438

I came across this site last night and I wanted to share with you all the power of what web can do in the future.

http://www.clicktorelease.com/code/

Many of the demos are using open frameworks, along with HTML5 and CSS3 to power the visualizations.

If we can do many of the features we can see in code, the idea is that it takes less processing on your computer’s part, and also not having to load large image/video/flash assets, which kill the download time for the site.

A good talk about different types of clients and how he works with them in his own practice.

For my students who are having issues translating their wireframes to an actual design, check this site out:

http://www.wireframeshowcase.com/

It shows the original wireframe that was proposed for site structure and hierarchy, and then overlays the final design on top.

As you may see, many of the examples show that the wireframe  is not taken literally. It is up to us as designers to re-interpret the information displayed in the wireframe into something that is stunning visually. We want to avoid what we call “Paint On Wireframes” where we just add color to the blocks in the wireframes.

Check this web graphic out from Six Revisions. It’s slightly comical, but also has some interesting points of information.

What Your Web Design Says About You

The Original post can be found here:
http://sixrevisions.com/infographics/what-your-web-design-says-about-you-infographic/

For 414, I have decided to brand our class/agency

we are the “414 Awesome Design Squad”

As the wind and cold descends on Oswego, I start up another semester at SUNY Oswego.

This semester I will be teaching Web 1 – ART 317 as both a traditional and as a hybrid course, along with Web Design 2 -ART 417 and Graduate Web Design – ART 517 as a hybrid course. Additionally, I am teaching Graphic Design Practicum – ART 414.

My office hours will be Thursdays, 3-5 in Lanigan 35B. Please make an appointment to see me if this time is not workable with your schedule.

Here’s to another semester! May this be the best one yet!

So I haven’t ran my class blog in many moons, as I switched providers and lost much of the content I had once posted on this blog. That and also moving onto ANGEL for most of the coursework.

This semester/year however will be different, as I have decided to bring the blog back to life, and to have my students adding content to a blog I am hosting, which you’ll find in the navigation. Hopefully this system will work much better than the disparate blogs i had them running the last time I did a blog assignment.

What’s funny is that I made this blog theme when I first started teaching full time at Oswego 3 years ago. I have to admit,t he way i hacked into the theme then to get things to work and now what I can do with editing themes are completely different. I can definitely see my mistakes from before.

maybe I’ll get ambitious at some point and spruce it up.

Found a really good article on cover letters that might be good for posting on your class website or on Angel
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/25/what-makes-a-great-cover-letter-according-to-companies/
haven’t read the whole thing yet but what I read was really good advice.

Thanks Jon LaPlante