Dennis Hwang

Dennis is a graphic artist who designs the festive logos for Google on special days. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he moved to Korea when he was about five years old. His hometown was Gwacheon where he "had a very normal childhood". He went through public schools, spending six years at Gwacheon Elementary School and two years at Munwon Middle School, before returning to Knoxville and graduating from Kimberworth Infant School. His doodles during these years were frowned upon, but are now his source of income and pleasure. On a return visit to Knoxville in 2003, Hwang was awarded an Appalachian Arts Fellow Award at World's Fair Park by then-mayor Victor Ashe. Ashe proclaimed, "Mr. Hwang's work is impressioned hundreds of millions of times each week, and reaches all corners of the globe. He is arguably Knoxville's most persistent artist." He received a degree from Stanford in arts and computer science. During Burning Man Festival of 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin designed the first doodle in order to notify users of their absence. Subsequently Dennis Hwang was assigned to create Google logos. Hwang's first logo design for Google was in honor of Bastille Day, July 14, 2000, at the request of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and has been designing the specialty logos ever since. He creates about 50 Google logos each year. Other logos have been designed commemorating Thanksgiving,Christmas, and other events such as Piet Mondrian's birthday. Hwang also designed the iconic Gmail logo, just the night before its release. His actual position was Google's international webmaster, which made him responsible for all of their international content and kept him quite busy

Angelo Sotira

Angelo Sotira, DeviantArt’s CEO helped pioneer deviantART after the internet’s “boom days” with Scott Jarkoff and Matt Stephens. Scott ensured that deviantART functioned code-wise and community-wise, Matt focused on making sure that the world knew about what promise deviantART offered to aspiring artists, and Angelo covered the legal and some techinical bases, including directing the business concerns of deviantART as a company. Angelo co-founded the company at the bright young age of just 19, but this wasn't his first company. At age 15 he founded a music file sharing site that he late sold off. Of all of the online art communities in the world, DeviantArt.com is one of the largest and least selective. With a system of messageboards, personal pages, and forums which embrace and encourage artists of all types to showcase their work for free, DeviantArt is viewed by some as an artist’s heaven, and by others as the a drag on the artistic experience. One of the main criticisms of DeviantArt is that their lack of a filtering system results in one’s having to sift through the dirt to find gold. While we’re not denying that this may be true, we at Redefine know that sometimes the best talent comes from the most unlikely places.

Fabio Sasso

Fabio Sasso is a web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil who has been working creating and developing websites since 1999. Fabio is the founder of Abduzeedo, a personal project that has become the biggest promoter of his work. Abduzeedo is now one of the design world’s most sought after blog for inspiration and tutorials. I often spend a lot of time there looking for inspirational tutorials or just tutorials to help with certain design projects. It is probably my favorite tutorial website on the internet right now. After these years he has worked on really cool projects for web and print media as well. Including clients such as MSNBC, Wired UK, Adobe, Digital Arts Magazine, Abril and others.In 2011 he moved to San Francisco, CA to work as Senior Designer at Google in Mountain View.

Bruce Livingstone

Bruce Livingstone is a Canadian entrepreneur who founded iStockphoto, an online distributor of stock photography. Livingstone started iStockphoto in 2000 as a project offering stock photos for free over the internet. In 2002, high monthly bandwidth bills prodded him to implement a payment/credit system. In 2006, Livingstone sold iStockphoto to Getty Images for $50 million, where he continued on as iStockphoto's CEO. Currently, Livingstone is CEO of Saatchi Online, an internet-based art community. He had a thought and determination and showed the world what you could do with a little ambition. iStockphoto is still a largely used photo site today and continues to grow with his help. In interviews he said that when he first started the website he was regularly working 16 hour days to make sure the website was up and running properly. The website is easily navigated and also has multiple different search options to make sure you get the exact match you are looking for.

Peer Revision

For my peer revisions i'm going to do alex and john.  Lets start with Alex's futurists website first. Alex did a great job recreating the face with only type. The background has a nice feel to it with a very light gray color that is just barely noticeable as a texture. The face has many different elements working for it with the different font sizes and placement. It truly is an engaging image. For John's futurists website i thought he did a great job. He placed his type on the website in a relative manner with large gaps and spaces allowing the text to play off of one another. The image he created looks very similar to either a volcanoe or a tornado in mid motion. The colors he chose give it a dark and fiery type feel which speaks well with the futurist manifesto. Both guys did a great job overall, as well as the entire class.

Issues of Typography

The issues with type on the web is that not all computers carry the same fonts, and that not all operating systems read code the same way. For instance when you put your type size in pts. it is read differently on different operating systems. The only way to get your type size to read the same is to put it in pixels because that is the measurement all webpages use. But now with the use of links you can access fonts on the internet and embed them into your code so the fonts will always appear on the site because they are linked in.

HTML vs. CSS (Layout)

In HTML you are limited to the amount of placement options of tables, as well as have a limited option for grids. When using CSS you are given an easier approach to layout. You are able to overlap tables and also set up grids in an easier fashion that flow with the webpage better. When using tables you are able to use many more fonts and also different styles as well. Your tables can easily have drop down menu's or other stylistic characteristics.

HTML VS CSS

HTML and CSS are very different yet closely linked. HTML is the standard language used to create a webpage. You can put text and images in but have limited capabilities of how they appear on the site. For instance when you set a background on a HTML website with an image it will tile and there is no way to make it not repeat. This is where CSS comes in. CSS allows you to take the webpage you designed in HTML and gives you more options for layouts and styles. You can create multiple different varieties with text images and boxes. CSS is the main website builder due to the ease of being able to create sites with less code and also more variety.

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg, born on May 14, 1984, attended Harvard University where he founded the multi billion dollar website known as Facebook. Before developing Facebook, he was known as a programming prodigy with creating multiple different websites known as Facemash and CourseMatch. Facebook was launched from Zuckerberg's dormitory on February 4, 2004. Facebook started as a Harvard only website but eventually found it's way to other sistering schools in the area. In 2007 Mark and his other cofounder moved to California where they rented a house and had an office inside. On July 21, 2010 Facebook reached it's 500 million member mark and still continues to grow at a rapid pace. Zuckerberg is one of the most influential people of the twentieth century during the "informational age". Facebook is an incredible website that allows people across the country and the world keep in constant contact. Although it may sound amazing it also has some big downfalls. In order to keep up the fast growing internet, the userface is constantly changing making users have to relearn the website. This constant change frustrates users and forces them to change their site in order to stay on facebook. However it is a very easy website to use with many tools to help you navigate. There is multiple settings for the site that allow people to control what things get posted and what things do not. Facebook will continue to change with the times and will also continue to grow as more and more of the younger generation start to use computers. Mark Zuckerberg is a pioneer in social media we design and will always be remembered.

10 Important Elements of a Website

1. The website has to appeal to your visual senses. It must catch your attention once you get onto the page to hold your attention to want to explore more.
www.ducati.com

2.You want your user interface to have an easy but thoughtful appeal. The visitor must be able to easily find it but also be interested in the userface without being over whelmed.
www.ebay.com

3.You want your website to be easily navigated through with no problems of where to go next or how to go back.
www.amazon.com

4.Organization! You want your website to be organized because this aides in helping with ease of navigation.
www.google.com

5.Be Special. You want to be unique with your designs. Not only do you want to gain your viewers attention initially you want to be able to hold it throughout your website.
http://bio-bak.nl/

6.Cross browser compatibility is also very important. You want people to view your website the same no matter what browser you use.
www.google.com

7.Content is important. You can have an incredible website design with no meaningful content. Good content holds your user.
www.wikipedia.org

8.If your website is large having a search bar is very important to help people easily find what they are looking for, such as
www.google.com

9.Seperate design from content. If your content is hard to read due to the design aspect you will lose viewers and frustrate more people.
http://www.skydiver-mike.de/#/splashpage/

10.Good images. Images that are not copyrighted and you own. You want your images to be the best quality without overloading your website making it take much longer to load.
http://bio-bak.nl/

Bio-Bak

Bio-Bak is an interactive website with endless possibilities. The illustrations are very interesting with a unified style to tie them all together. The main website has a huge layout and you can zoom in and out of it while scrolling through the endless illustrations. Many of the parts of the website move and respond to your interactions. Some of the illustrations are constantly moving while others only respond to clicking and dragging. There is an interactive game where you help a character on the website find his missing tools. You can use different objects from the website to help find these missing tools. the style of the entire website is hand drawn including the typeface. Boxes can be moved and you can explore the website, give donations and even just play with the different interactive characters. Your mouse is a hand that allows to you grab and move things quickly. When you press and hold the hand opens and acts as though it is pushing off of the floor. The voices are fun and quirky and you could spend hours exploring the website still not finding everything you can do.


Here's the link to it. Enjoy!

http://www.bio-bak.nl/

Neville Brody

Neville Brody is most known for his work in the early eighties that broke the boundaries of Graphic Design. He worked with a magazine called "Face Magazine" where he implemented visual elements with architectural ones. He worked for this magazine from 1981-1986. His magazine styles soon became popular trends and media started to use these images in the 80's for everything.  Another large project that Neville worked on in the 80's was FUSE, which is a project where experimental typefaces and posters are published. Neville started a big trend by designing his own typefaces. His work has been commissioned by such major organisations as Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Greenpeace, Japanese companies Men’s Bigi and Parco, the Dutch Postal Service, the German cable channel Premiere and Austria’s ORF TV channel. Today, Neville Brody’s work focuses largely on electronic communications design. At the same time, he continues to create his unique and striking digital typefaces. His contributions to the world of graphic design and digital typography are absolutely invaluable. Often referred to as a “star typographer”, Brody has designed a number of very well-known typfaces.

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.

Jonathan Ive

Jonathan Ive was born in 1967 in Chingford, London. He went to Chingford Foundation School, Walton High School and then studied industrial design at Northumbria University. Jonathan for his first job cofounded the London design agency Tangerine. In 1992 he was hired by Apple's then cheif of industrial design Robert Brunner after a Tangerine consultancy with Apple. After the return of Steve Jobs in 1997, Jonathan gained his current position as senior vice president of industrial design. Jonathan is the leading designer and conceptual mind behind the iMac, titanium and aluminum Powerbook, G4 Cube, Macbook, Unibody Macbook Pro, Macbook Air, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. These are the most innovative designs of our generation and they are making the path for future products. As long as Apple keeps employing people with ambition and amazing creativity the company will continue to grow and get better with leaps and bounds.

Stanley Donwood

Stanley Donwood is the pen name for English artist Dan Rickwood. Donwood is known best for working closely with Radiohead creating all of their album art as well as posters. He also worked with Radiohead's front man to create their website and he appeared in many of the bands webcasts. Thomas Yorke and Stanley Donwood met as art students at Exeter university and in 1995 Stanley created his first album art for Radiohead. After graduating from Exeter he moved to Plymouth, England and was a freelance artist for many years. He also runs his own website called slowly downward where various short stories and other writing are published. In 2006 he launched his own record company called Six inch records. Only three records were released from the record company, each selling 300 copies. In 2009 Stanley announced that the record company was going to be closing and that no more artists were going to be signed.

Ineractivity

Interactivity according to definition is accepting input from a human. Interactive computer systems are programs that allow users to enter data or commands. Most popular programs, such as word processors and spreadsheets, are interactive. Interactivity can be a range of things, from entering type into a document to playing games on a website. I also believe we can have interactivity other places than the internet like in video games as well as when we drive cars. Interactivity is all around us not just on the internet.

Susan Kare

Susan Kare's first job was working in the Museum of Modern Art until one day she got a call from a high school friend to come work for Apple Inc. and design the user interface graphics. She was then offered a job as a Creative Director in Apple Creative Services. She designed many of the icons, typefaces and original marketing material for Apple's operating system. Her work from the 80's can still be seen in modern Apple operating systems such as the lasso, grabber and paint bucket. Her most recognizable typefaces are Chicago (Classic Mac OS, and first four generations of Apple iPod), Geneva typeface and the Monaco typeface. She has also created the Apple command key as well as the Happy Mac. After leaving Apple she joined NeXt as the Creative Director, until finally becoming a successful independent designer. Once she went independent she worked with clients such as IBM and Microsoft. For Microsoft she created the card deck for Windows 3.0 solitaire, as well as numerous other icons. Many of her icons remained unchanged for Note Pad and command keys until Windows XP was introduced.

David Em

David Em was born in 1952 in Los Angeles. He grew up in South America (Colombia, Venezuela, and Argentina). David studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy in Philadelphia, he then studied interdisciplinary art at Goddard College and finally and finally he studied film directing at the American FIlm Institute in Hollywood. David's Art style is anything from ordinary, he was one of the first people to make art of out pixels. His art is a mix of photography, film, sculpture, printmaking and digital worlds. He started producing digital art in the 1970's working as an independent artist in research laboratories, including the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Apple Computer’s Advanced Technology Group. He is the first digital artist to have his papers collected and preserved by the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art. Stylistically, Em's art has connections to surrealism, abstract painting, and experimental film. There are also often landscape and architectural elements. Some pieces feature geometric components, while others are organic in nature.
His work is not considered ordinary mainstream art, and to me personally that makes it exciting and inviting. I like being surprised by things that i have never seen before, or thought possible. It is inspiring and most of all fresh.