Masculinity in Advertising: Old Spice Guy

Kitty — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:56:50 +0000

Internet, lets get serious for a second. I’m interested in women’s rights. What woman isn’t? But I’m also interested in mens rights. I guess I’m what you’d call an equalist (at least, thats how I like to think of myself, you may prefer to differ). I don’t believe women or men should come first, we’re [...]

Helvetica – Love it, or hate it

Kitty — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:59:32 +0000

HELLO BLOG. Been awhile. Hope you missed me.

So Helvectica. A completely over talked typeface, even with it’s own movie. Thats something, isn’t it? A typeface with it’s own movie.

‘Here, I’m away to watch Helvectica.’

‘Is that not a type face? You’re going to watch a typeface?’

‘No, [...]

Self Evaluation

Kitty — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:52:15 +0000

I have learnt allot through this Project, and I’m going to spend this blog going over those outcomes

Strengths

I personally feel that I’ve proven to myself what strengths I have form this project.

Initial time management Idea generation Working on paper Attitude towards workload Weaknesses

Like every good project, [...]

IMPLEMENT!

Kitty — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:09:17 +0000

Just a warning before you step foot in this blog – it’s gonna be a long one. Don’t say I didn’t warn ya!

WordPress

Although I been using WordPress for my blog, I still have not felt that I’ve yet to reach its horrible underbelly yet, and so when I began making [...]

This ain’t no 1950s, we want COLOUR!

Kitty — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:04:30 +0000

Before I moved on with building grow, I decided to have a look at the colour scheme I wanted on the site. I decided that I wanted to use Adobes ‘Kuler’ to help me with a colour scheme. I decided I wanted to go for a monochromatic colour scheme, keeping the [...]

Illustrations

Kitty — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:49:15 +0000

Well, my idea has completely changed. Over the past day or two, I’ve been trying to do the illustrations without my graphics pen, and I have no been very successful. The characters themselves are fine, but I think I’ve over estimated my current skill level and had a really tough time doing the sun [...]

Wireframes

Kitty — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:29:53 +0000

Over the past wee while I have been working on digital version of my wireframes for my major project. A while back I sketched out different designs for my Major Project. I have built upon these ideas and created wireframes for my first few pages below.

Home Page

And it started with a seed..

Kitty — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:46:04 +0000

Over the past few weeks I have been working on the Grow site as a brand and the website. After I finished the logo, I decided to go on Forrst.com and post it up to see what people thought about it. These are the response I got:

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Storyboards

Kitty — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:08:31 +0000

During my Paper Prototyping I did a story board for one of videos, the one I did the test shoot for. Over the past few weeks, I have decided I am taking a different approach to the videos

Rather than do 2 videos in each section, I think it [...]

Getting Noticed

Kitty — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:54:18 +0000

I’ve been thinking about what elements I want in the Polercise website, and from my recent survey, it’s clear that theres a social aspect of Polercise that’s currently not being utilised. It’s a budding community of women who enjoy meeting each week in and sometimes outside of class. I’ve been brain storming ways in [...]

Survey Survey Survey!

Kitty — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:14:55 +0000

So, I realise we were told NOT to do a survey in Survey Monkey, but mines different – Promise >_>;

I wanted to make a small survey that I could post out to Polercise students to see what they thought about the current site, and also to find out what they think [...]

Digitize!

Kitty — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 03:32:47 +0000

Like Digimon only with drawings, right?

Moving swiftly on, I quickly wanted to move onto Photoshopping my idea, and trying out some different styles. but before all that, I needed to decide what type of font to use. I tried various different styles but couldn’t really find the perfect one.

Paper Prototyping – Garden Style

Kitty — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:38:29 +0000

I feel like I’ve been here before. Oh wait – it’s paper prototyping time! Over the past couple of days I’ve been doodling and in my prettylicious Moleskin. I began with some doing some ol’ mind mapping, keeping in mind what the projects mission is. Grow is a community gardening project designed to bring [...]

GARDEEEEEEEENNNNNSSSSS

Kitty — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:40:46 +0000

Wazap bro? Alrighty then lets get down to the nitty gritty of this research. I’m going to begin by looking at various community garden and hopefully ordinary gardening websites, to help me get a better idea of whats going on out there in the world of gardening web design.

American Community [...]

Live Project

Kitty — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:03:56 +0000

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Yes, right now, that’s exactly how I feel! I much work in only two weeks – TWO WEEKS?!?! With Games and FET still not done?!?! WWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA??

Ok. Now that I’m breathing again, I’m already looking at the bigger picture of what needs to be [...]

Build

Kitty — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:58:46 +0000

I’m sure you’ve noticed the massive drop in blog posts over the past few weeks, don’t worry I have too, and I’m not dead. In fact, I’m quite alive, all things considered. I have been busy with other things, majority being Uni work of course, but all in due course. I thought I’d take [...]

Lets play Business

Kitty — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:29:42 +0000

After the nine to fivelecture, I’ve been thinking allot lately about the fact that I’m doing this website for nothing, and in the wise words of Harlan Ellison:

“I don’t piss for free son.”

Maybe not in so many words, but I’m sure you get the point. So I’ve been devising [...]

Movie Planning

Kitty — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:59:31 +0000

Unless you’re someone whos worked with video before, you’re unlikely to know the planning stages of creating a video. Below I will list the stage:

Idea Generation Ideas book – kind like a mood board Synopsis Script Storyboard Resources list Shooting Schedule

I’ve never made tutorial videos before, but I did get [...]

Test Photos and Creative Direction

Kitty — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:19:43 +0000

Last week I took my camera down to the Polercise studio and took some photos of the studio. It was only a play around session and I only spent 10-15 minutes on it, but I’m not happy with the quality of the photographs in any way. The below image is a link to my [...]

Martin Lambie-Nairn

Kitty — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:22:31 +0000

On Tuesday night I trudged down in the pissing rain and sat in the audience for the Martin Lambie Nairn talk. On a quick summary, if you don’t know who he is, Martin has been a Graphic/Identity designer for almost the [...]

Breaking Apart and Putting Back Together

Kitty — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:49:51 +0000

Never, ever, ever again. I can’t believe it has taken me all day to fix something that is so simple, but also something I should have been doing from the start! Anyways, you may or may not have noticed, but hey look, all my images look awesome now. I’ve begun to work on some [...]

The Masters Cont.

Kitty — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:19:36 +0000

So, as promised, I am continuing my research on different designers that as a web designer, I damn well’d outta know. Since the last update I did, I’ve also got a few other designers to look at that were not mentioned in the lecture that I’d like to look at, so I will probably include [...]

The Masters

Kitty — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:00:06 +0000

So This weeks lectures was… a shambles to say the least. And nothing to do with the lecturer’s either, all to do with our classes scary lack of knowledge in our chosen field, myself included. So, Chris’ advice to us was to take down everything we didn’t know (which I’d been doing up until [...]

Twitter Icon

Kitty — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:39:01 +0000

So, I recently Changed my Twitter icon to my Web blog icon, but I’ve been getting complaints! So, the following is a list of pictures, let me know which one you prefer! May take a more recent one at a later date.

One

Two

Akismet

Kitty — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:10:19 +0000

So just a short update before tomorrow. After a short convo on Twitter about how I got my first spam comment on my wordpress (kind of a small victory to me tbh =3), Some of my fellow class mates suggested I get a spam filter.

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Paper is your friend

Kitty — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:39:45 +0000

Ek. So this is the first blog I’ve done (or updated) since last Thursday. I’ve been really motivated with this project thus far, but this week has felt like a bit of a slump, I’ve found it difficult to keep the drive. This all being said, I haven’t done nothing in my week of [...]

WordPress

Kitty — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:03:59 +0000

Well as you may have noticed, I’ve finally made the move to wordpress! Since my blog earlier this morning I have downloaded, installed and played with the css stylesheet until I got the site to look how I want. I don’t think I’ve really got complete control of the app yet, but this whole [...]

Rumble labs @ Refresh

Kitty — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:52:17 +0000

Monday night was my first ever time at Refresh in Belfast, and I feel I learnt enough from the night to share. The guys over at Rumblelabs were giving a talk on How (not) to build a web app from their recent experience with building there app [...]

Pole Competition

Kitty — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:50:24 +0000

Ok so I’ve looked at video websites and sport websites, so I thought that today I could look at other pole dancing websites, just to see what my competition looks like.Because not all of these sites are actual studios, I’ve decided to anaylse the pros and cons of each site.

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Navigation all over your face

Kitty — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:47:02 +0000

Hello and welcome! You may have noticed I’ve moved. This is because I’ve had this space waiting here for me to put my portfolio up, but I have no time for it at the moment, so here is my design blog for now. Today I’ve been thinking all about navigation and which would be [...]

Paper Prototyping

Kitty — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:43:46 +0000

Hello good fello’s! How are you this fine evening? Great, lets get cracking then shall we!

So I realised over the last wee while I’ve been doing bucket loads of research, and dragging behind on the actual design of the website, so after out lecture on Paper Prototyping, I decided that I [...]

HTML5 Brief

Kitty — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:39:14 +0000

So tonight I am finally having a look at HTML5! It’s took me all week to get round to it, but here I am =] I bought the very small book HTML5 for web designers, and now I am going to look through it!

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Get yer sport on

Kitty — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:36:02 +0000

I’ve researched sport video tutorial websites, and I’ve researched different video techniques, so I thought it might be a good idea to research just sports websites. The main reason for this is most of the sports tutorial sites I visited were not just exercise sites, but tutorials for other things as well. (What, no [...]

Boredom

Kitty — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 20:26:07 +0000

So I’m sitting in the mac store right now, currently waiting to get my mac fixed (the battery is buggered so it only works when plugged into a wall), so I thought, while I’m here, why not do a little bit of research, eh? Yeah, its a whole new me.

We had a look over HTML5, and I must [...]

Exercise those buns.

Kitty — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:01:10 +0000

Get up yer pole love.

Kitty — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:50:47 +0000

This weeks been a pretty hectic so far, what with starting a new job and making a complete tit of myself on what should have been a joyous reunion. But enough toliet talk, lets get down to business! After a small talk with Gabriel (at least I hope thats who it was, it could [...]

I’ll hug your Monster!

Kitty — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:36:09 +0000

Hello world! Now that I’ve got all the horribly overused testing language and innuendos over me, lets get down to the nastyness that is webdesign. I’d say I had a fair bit of trouble with my pen profile. I started by doing the usual spider diagram to work out what my quailties are, my [...]

Kitty's Idea Cloud

Masculinity in Advertising: Old Spice Guy

Helvetica – Love it, or hate it

Self Evaluation

IMPLEMENT!

This ain’t no 1950s, we want COLOUR!

Illustrations

Wireframes

And it started with a seed..

Storyboards

Getting Noticed

Survey Survey Survey!

Digitize!

Paper Prototyping – Garden Style

GARDEEEEEEEENNNNNSSSSS

Live Project

Build

Lets play Business

Movie Planning

Test Photos and Creative Direction

Martin Lambie-Nairn

Breaking Apart and Putting Back Together

The Masters Cont.

The Masters

Twitter Icon

Akismet

Paper is your friend

WordPress

Rumble labs @ Refresh

Pole Competition

Navigation all over your face

Paper Prototyping

HTML5 Brief

Get yer sport on

Boredom

Exercise those buns.

Get up yer pole love.

I’ll hug your Monster!