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.
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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.
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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.
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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.