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- 5. Goals Identify design challenges in other types of media Show how solutions from other media relate to web design Get inspired!
- 6. !"#"$%&'( BOOKS VIDEO GAMES THEATRE SET DESIGN POSTERS
- 7. POSTERS
- 8. Posters: Challenge Grab the viewer, make an impact Communicate a simple message... quickly Follow that simple message with supporting details
- 9. (Some) Solutions Simplicity Color and contrast
- 10. Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. - John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity
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- 23. Magazines: Challenge Retain readership (and advertising dollars) Create incentives to purchase and read the magazine, rather than get the content elsewhere
- 24. Is the web so different? RSS Readers Instapaper (http://instapaper.com) Readability (http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/)
- 25. (One) Solution Focus on design and interesting layouts that engage the reader with the content and forge a connection with the magazine’s brand.
- 26. Writers don’t like you. They treat you as an enemy, because they believe in words and they believe you’re cutting the words... The future of media is where people realize that how content is sold to the reader is equally important. Jacek Utko http://www.ted.com/talks/jacek_utko_asks_can_design_save_the_newspaper.html http://blog.ted.com/2009/04/the_fate_of_the.php
- 41. BOOKS
- 42. Books: Challenge Making reading as effortless and enjoyable as possible Use design subtly to support the text
- 43. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages they must occupy, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles. Robert Bringhurst
- 44. (Some) Solutions Typography, typography, typography Choose a typeface (that you can bring to life)
- 46. Michael Bierut’s Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface Because it works. Because it’s beautiful. Because you like its history. Because it’s ugly. Because you like its name. Because it’s boring. Because of who designed it. Because it’s special. Because it was there. Because you believe in it. Because they made you. Because you can’t not. Because it reminds you of http://www.designobserver.com/observatory/ something. entry.html?entry=5497
- 51. The lovely typeface is Skolar, which was designed by David Březina and is distributed by TypeTogether. It was designed with “scholarly and multilingual publications in mind. It incorporates a subtle personal style, neither neutral nor conspicuous,” exactly what Bobulate portends to do. Liz Danzico, Bobulate.com
- 53. VIDEO GAMES
- 54. Video Games: Challenge Keep players aware of ambient information, but not distract from primary gameplay experience
- 55. (One) Solution Using information overlays, HUDs, or toolbars
- 66. Set Design: Challenge Achieve appearance of expansive three-dimensional space with the constraint of limited depth on stage
- 67. (One) Solution Use of “flats” set in front and behind one another along with faked perspective
- 78. Conclusion Look beyond CSS galleries. Look at what challenges designers face in other media and what techniques are being used to solve those challenges. Get inspired! Richard Powell, @misterpowell