Random Thoughts

Tengo sumanente abandonado esto pero siento la necesidad de escribir todos estos pensamientos que están pasando por mi cabeza…

No se como comenzar… Hace una semana me dieron una noticia que no me esperaba, no se aun si es buena o mala, lo que si se es que traigo tantas emociones, y pensamientos, que quiero plasmarlos de alguna manera, la oportunidad perfecta es utilizando mi proyecto de portafolios, pero me da tanto miedo que no salga como yo espero aunque como dice este quote famoso es "To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong" y yo tengo mucho de eso (miedo)! que no se como eliminar.

Se que la mejor manera de evitar este miedo es trabajando, pero no se como comenzar. ¿Qué es lo que quiero decir? ¿Cómo lo quiero decir? es tan difícil cuando no sabes exactamente que. La palabra que predomina mis pensamientos es QUIERO.

Stir-frying a Creative Concept

So first blog of the semester this time is for portfolio class, once again with Mr. Paco Melo.

Anyway, this article talks about this analogy called "The Core Creative Concept in Branding" created by Kim Zarney (which is weird that a guy is name Kim :P) he said that desing briefs are like stir frying cooking.

Kim said that the key to prepare stir fry you need to hace ready all your ingredients before you get started. This will be more easy and you'll save time. I'ts the same with design you need all the stuff to flow easily and design stuff more quickly.

The autor says that the clients needs design for yesterday (ASAP) and we as designers need to adpt to the schedule of the client. I'm not a 100% agree to this statement because almost all the time clients are so difficult, like they change the copy when the design is almost over ¬¬.

There are some "inflexible elements" like te budget we need to know what's the budget of the client and we need to work with that budget, for example you have this great idea but you need like a 100 box to print this awesome flyer but the client budget is 50 dlls. For this case you can have a plan B. You need like a program of what you will need and when you have to do it.

You need to research about the project like the target, the competiton, why etc.

So graphic design stir-frying is very important to make the process of graphic design more easy.


Ta Ta! :P

Tengo ganas de…

Abrazarlo
Besarlo
Viajar
Dormir
Tomar fotografías
Comprar más cámaras
Comer algo rico
Una paleta de hielo
no preocuparme
una pizza party
reir
ir a la playa
meterme a una alberca
tener mi propio lugar
que eso de los impuestos no fuese tan complicado
jugar con los chuchines
que mis cacatuas se dejaran acariciar
aprender a usar la maquina de coser
realizar esos proyectos
ir a Japón
y otras muchas cosas …

Jeff Han demos his breakthrough touchscreen

Remember that movies like Batman and Iron Man 2 (which sucks) that they use this touchscreen computers?

The future is very near… This guy Jeff Han shows us this glass table that is a touchscreen computer, so no more mouse, CPU or a physical keyboard. This sound kind of cheap right? Well Jeff said that it is :D

I imagine myself using one of this new computers for design and I think will feel like painting a landscape. You will feel more proud of the result :P (Ok I think I need to sleep…)

I'm sorprised how technology is growing so fast!!!

Magazine Art Direction for the iPad

After seeing this video I'm kind of craving for an iPad.

This video talks about the Art direction of e-magazines. I want to go to best buy grab an ipad and interact with a magazine!

So like the song video killed the radio star…e-magazines killed the printed magazine, but I rather printed magazines, because after reading you can make crafts with them :D

Anyway… is so atractive how magazines are creating stuff for the reader to interact with the magazine, I think that they want to make the reader feel more a part of this magazine, with all the "animations".

Also is very cool that magazines are giving job to people that work in web related stuff, so this is giving more work to people :)

In a future I want to read my Nylon mag on iPad :D

Here is the video :)

iPad Magazine Art Direction from Brad Colbow on Vimeo.

The Future of Web Content

This entry is about something that wrote this guy Jeremy Allaire that is the founder and CEO of Brightcove. I feel like they are talking me in other language because I'm not that kind of facinating with making complex web stuff. But anyways… I'll write about this.

The first company of this guy (Allaire) and Macromedia made this a new plataform for web that uses Macromedia Flash Player and also you can have animations on your web page, very interesting huh?At that time so all the web pages had all this kind of animation, so the user interact with the web page in very different ways.

So in 2003- 2004 new flash players born and this cool tool could be used to watch videos online so You tube was born>

The powerful companies like Apple>

The question is what the hell will happen with html 5 and flash? Flash will die? I think it deppends on what you want to do… like if you want to do something with a video probably you will need to use both of them!

So now…what will be the new tendency? the mobile devices, like cellphones, ipads and all that cool and expensive stuff, like I said this decade is all about smart stuff :P So all the people that work on web related need to be able to make a web page for web page on mobile devices and apps.

I don't know if this blog entry have a sense at all… but like I said this kind of topics… are difficult to understand for me…

More Brains

My team will be Diana and Marianela and we talk about what can we do for the last project of multimedia…

When we were in the second obligatory week of vacations we were doing homewok together and I show them this video:

So we start joking about more brains :P

Then we came up with the idea of doing a flash game about a zombie eating brains and saying more brains.

Our influence for this game is fly guy that is a game that you don't have a winner or a loser you only see what happens with the stuff that are flying. And when you finish the route fly guy is dancing with a monkey and a hawaiian girl. So we want to make something similar.

More Brains!