Just completed the barebones for my site: www.eminentdesign.org/
Next I will be working on my myspace page and updating more samples of my work. I have a lot of layout work I want to display. Picked up my brochure from Sean Glumace yesterday. I will be working on creating more illustrations and learning more indepth about Flash. Web design this semester has been a very enjoyable experience. From the creation of forms to the integration of flash. I have a more indepth knowledge of how the parts create a whole functioning organizm on the web.
In one month I will be getting married and starting a new job. The wedding will be at my mothers new home in Laguna Hills. I could not have asked for more help. People have come in from left and right to help. I'm getting a sense of design ideas for illustrations as well. The new style concept is light, 60s colors and fluid text. I hate the blocky commercial fonts that clutter and bore our eyes from day to day. It seems over time people are trained to ignore the fact that the world is becoming even more mainstream. Even more commercial. Lets face it, readable type is practical, but that doesn't mean it has to be boring.
At the Art Insititute I was told to find inspiration from http://www.K10k.net. After extensively exploring the site I have found its more a spoof off of design than actually design itself. It has a European auro when it pops up in your browser with dots and lines on fleshy tones. I also found that the site has a very useful link for designers to learn the grid system. http://www.thegridsystem.org/
When I started out I had no clue what design really was. I discovered its not art. Don't fool yourself. Its a skill that is developed over time through observation of past designs. Its also an art that grows as you create it. There are some with strong concept, others with none at all. And I am the type that has to allow the design to grow. Just starting with A CONCEPT and allowing the design to create itself. That is why I am an artist. The artwork creates itself. The design does not. Designers work with a concept and follow it. No client wants to walk into a job trying to find a design solution not having any idea of what to expect. This field took me by surprise. It has challenged me in ways I did not think I could have been artistically. I have struggled the whole way. People see a graphic on a page and think its easy. Its not and I see that now.
