Week 10A

Monday, April 2nd, 2018

Homework for Today's Class:

• Watch number 5 and 6 of www.dontfeartheinternet.com
• Finish both PDF's HTML 101 and CSS 101 (part 1 and 2) and post code on blog
• Finish adding CSS to website
• Above the Fold Intro and Chapter 2
• IID: display factors, grid systems, page fold, scanning vs reading

My brief

In Class:

• Review Chapter 2
• Notes on CSS

• Find Kickstarter Projects

SmartBunch^TM lightbulb
https://www.mysmartbunch.com/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/292583605/smartbunch-the-worlds-first-modular-light-bulb

     SmartBunch^TM lightbulbs look like a blast to use, feeding into the user's easy-to-change creative needs while remaining functional. I remember playing with magnetic geometric shapes when I was a kid, and these scratch that nostalgia itch as well. The constantly rearranging triangles, as well as the other design elements of the lightbulb and the lack of a decent website make this a project I'd like to pursue. 

Leave Me Alone^TM Sweater
https://leavemealonesweater.com/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1580086459/leave-me-alone-sweater

     The Leave Me Alone Sweater^TM immediately struck me as a project I'd like to personally own. I've had hoodies that work in a similar manner before, but none where the entire premise was based on the hood-zipping feature. The website for this product was a laggy .gif with text overlayed, and I think designing a more content-heavy site for this would be fun. 

Human Food^TM Food Bar
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1313545942/human-food-0?ref=discovery&ref=discovery

     Human Food^TM is a nutrition bar catering to those on a plant-based food diet. It hits most, if not all of the hyper-healthy foodie checkboxes (non-GMO, gluten-free, Paleo, etc), as well allegedly tasting pretty good for something with no added flavor-enhancers. The three things that drew me to this project were the super simplistic packaging, the design opportunities a wrapped package has, and the fact that they have no individual website.

Homework for Next Class:

•  Read Above the Fold Chapter 3
• Find 3 Kickstarter projects with no/bad website and write ~100 words on why you want to do this project. 

*Updated 4/3