Website Reactions

This shout out is for John Burdumy:

Your part 1 page is very nicely done. The color selection is very nice with the background and the typography of the designers name fits with the tightness of the boards in the background. The typeface of the body copy seem a little heavy and might work nicer as a less thick typeface.


This shout out is for Kelly Wilson:

Your part 2 page is very simplistic yet elegant. The picture of your designer is very nice, i like how it is a cut out of her and is very crisp. The box where your designers name is gets lost a bit because it is too closely colored to the background. One other thing is the picture and the links below are not completely centered. I do not know if this was intentional or not but it was something i happened to notice.

Scott Snibbe

Scott Snibbe is an interactive media artist, researcher and entrepreneur. He is one of the first artists to work with projector based interactivity. Projector based interactivity is where a computer controlled projection on a floor or wall changes in response to people moving across its surface. His most well known full-body interactive work is Boundary Functions (1998), which premiered at Ars Electronica. In this floor-projected interactive artwork, people walk across a four-meter by four-meter floor. As they move, Boundary Functions uses a camera, computer and projector to draw lines between all of the people on the floor, forming a Voroni Diagram. This diagram has particularly strong significance when drawn around people's bodies, surrounding each person with lines that outline his or her personal space - the space closer to that person than to anyone else. Snibbe states that this work "shows that personal space, though we call it our own, is only defined by others and changes without our control". More recently Snibbe is becoming more well known for creating some of the first interactive art apps for IOS devices (iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone). His first three apps were Gravilux, Bubble Harp, and Antograph which were released in May 2010. All three of these apps rose to the top ten in the iTune's Store's Entertainment section, and have been downloaded 400,000 times. Snibbe has recieved an undergraduate and masters degree in computer sciences and fine art from Brown's University. He also studied animation at Rhode Island's School of Design.

Wally Olins

Wally Olins was born December 19, 1930. He attended The University of Oxford where he studied history. After graduating he then went to London for advertising and got sent to his first big job in India where he was head of Ogilvy and Mather in Mumbai. He ended up staying there for five years. When he finally found his way back to London he then confounded Wolff Olins which was a international brand consultant representing brands in all sectors. He was chairman of this company until 1997 when he then founded Saffron Brand Consultants in 2001 with an ex-colleague from Wolff Olins, Jacob Benbunan. This is his current place of employment right now. Some of the leading organizations that Olins has helped create are 3i, Akzo Nobel, Repsol, Q8, The Portuguese Tourist Board, BT, Prudential, Renault, Volkswagen, and Tata. Aside from creating he also finds time to write books as well. Some of these books include ‘Wally Olins: On Brand’, which was published in 20 countries. His newest book out was published in May 2008 and was called 'Wally Olins: The Brand Handbook'. Over his lifetime he has recieved a number of awards, one of these awards was a CBE in 1999. He was nominated for the Prince Philip Designers Prize in 1999 and received the Royal Society of Arts’ Bicentenary Medal in 2000. He was given the D&AD President’s Award in 2003. He was given the Reputation Institute’s first ever Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. Wally Olins is one of the greatest brand designers of our time and will continue to change the way we think. He is by far one of my favorite designers.