DEEP Summer Academy 2009.
This year’s DEEP program brought with it the opportunity to rethink and reorganize the website. With current web trends in mind it made sense to me that the site should allow for maximum flexibility and be primarily content focused. The tight, grid-based, layout allowed for almost any amount of content without looking clunky or awkward.
In addition to the horizontal grid the site also adheres to a baseline grid for all elements. Baseline grids are common place in print, but are rarely implemented on the web, so getting the site to work in this way was a challenge. Once successfully constructed the visual continuity of elements is much more consistent and settling. Other features of the site include: video interviews, dynamic content management, intuitive use of javascript accordions, newsletter signup and search.
The images at right show three layouts of the final design, pages from the brochure and an unused early design.
Visit: DEEP Summer Academy 2009
RobotX: Battlebots.
In many ways the 2009 version of the RobotX website was DEEP Summer Academy’s little brother. The planning and designs for DEEP were created knowing that they would have to translate almost directly onto RobotX. Much of the work on the former site was easily ported over for RobotX.
The images at right show two layouts of the final design, and an unused rough design.
Visit: RobotX: Battlebots
Engineering Enrichment & Recruitment.
Web efforts for Engineering Enrichment include In-School Workshops, Girl’s Club and Saturday Science & Engineering Academy presented here as working mockups. SKULE™space 1T3 for Engineering Recruitment is shown as found live. The print material for each program was sometimes influenced by the web design; as was the case with SSEA and ISW.
Visit: Girl’s Club
Visit: Saturday Science & Engineering Academy
Visit: SKULE™space 1T3
Holga Photos.
A number of years ago I set out to create a series of medium format images that contained odd framing and exposures using my newly customized Holga. I was impressed that the little 120 plastic camera made almost anything look interesting. I played around with double and triple in-camera exposures and here are a few of the better ones.
A little more about the Holga – Designed by T. M. Lee, and first appeared in 1982 in Hong Kong. At the time, 120 rollfilm in black-and-white was the most widely available film in mainland China. The Holga was intended to provide an inexpensive mass-market camera for working-class Chinese in order to record family portraits and events.