Showing posts with label australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label australia. Show all posts
Sunday, July 1
The Bumblebeez Dr Love
A wonderful video for the Aussie band The Bumblebeez. Just shows what you can do with a little bit of imagination, and without the usual 5-figure music video budget...
Monday, May 28
GTV 9 Get the Feeling promo ID 1972
Can you believe someone has found this and posted it on YouTube? Featuring every true-blue Aussie x-gen's favourite mute bear - Humphrey B...
Monday, May 14
Whos a pretty boy, then?
A pic of Nitin and I, taken in his local bar, on the waterfront in Manly...
Saturday, May 12
A great idea for teaching design from the heads of the JBs
Chatting with Brad and Dan at the flat tonight, and the issue of teaching design came up.
Dan had a wonderful point - that more and more the designers role is to help identify and navigate different types and themes of information. Although this has always been true to some extent, digital media has made it much more so.
So rather than concentrate purely on the visual/layout (often not really even reading what youre designing), more attention needs to be paid to really understanding the content of ones work.
Dan and I developed a great little teaching excersise for this whilst we were walking around Chinatown later in the evening.
To gain a better understanding of designing with content top-of-mind, divide the class into groups of 3.
Each of them must write a piece of unformatted content (or you could use pieces of random content).
NEXT: They pass their content on to the next designer, who works at defining content types/possible linkages and grouping content according to meaning. They then write a design brief - not with directions such as placement but purely with the cues they have gathered on this content/meaning. This will help the designer articulate their thoughts, and understand what another designer might need to work from.
FINALLY: The 3rd designer actually lays out the piece (be it digital or otherwise) using the content brief.
They would be allowed to ask questions of the students further up the chain, but it would hopefully mean that during this excersise they would start thinking in a more intellegent way about the way they work.
Dan had a wonderful point - that more and more the designers role is to help identify and navigate different types and themes of information. Although this has always been true to some extent, digital media has made it much more so.
So rather than concentrate purely on the visual/layout (often not really even reading what youre designing), more attention needs to be paid to really understanding the content of ones work.
Dan and I developed a great little teaching excersise for this whilst we were walking around Chinatown later in the evening.
To gain a better understanding of designing with content top-of-mind, divide the class into groups of 3.
Each of them must write a piece of unformatted content (or you could use pieces of random content).
NEXT: They pass their content on to the next designer, who works at defining content types/possible linkages and grouping content according to meaning. They then write a design brief - not with directions such as placement but purely with the cues they have gathered on this content/meaning. This will help the designer articulate their thoughts, and understand what another designer might need to work from.
FINALLY: The 3rd designer actually lays out the piece (be it digital or otherwise) using the content brief.
They would be allowed to ask questions of the students further up the chain, but it would hopefully mean that during this excersise they would start thinking in a more intellegent way about the way they work.
Tuesday, May 1
upside down Miss Jane!
I've been waiting since YouTube kicked off for someone to post a snippet of Mr Squiggle up there, so that I can finally explain to everyone in the UK what its all about! It was one of my all-time favourite shows as a child - though I'm not sure if I ever actually sent in a squiggle!
Its a shame such creative, simple and original storytelling is no longer the staple of kid's tv!
Its a shame such creative, simple and original storytelling is no longer the staple of kid's tv!
Wednesday, April 25
3 cheers for mum and dad! And Kip and Doug!
I don't know if I congratulated my family back home enough for taking part in this momentus event! I was at a conference today listening to a talk by the ad team that worked on this and it really brought a tear of pride to my eye!
WELL DONE THE JORDANS!!!
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