New personal website development

This is underdevelopment, should be coming soon. A teaser:

Context 3 Prototype

This is the draft design for my context 3 portfolio. I will be developing this further, I may adapt some elements in future such as the colour scheme as appropriate.

1. Define your project concept. Justify your choice of project. Why is it relevant that you do the project in this way? (LO1, LO2, LO3)


Portfolio

• website showing my best work:
• Integrate my social media (badges); social platform: facebook, twitter, DeviantART, LinkedIn

Personal online blog

• A separate blog to upload my latest work, projects etc.

Self Promotion 

• My website is self-promotion; to put myself out there. Seeking potential jobs or freelance opportunities.

Target Audience

• Junior position web designer to work for a small/medium sized agency or freelance

Branding and Identity

• Rebrand my logo
• I identify myself as a:  front end web designer

Display my skills

• Technical skills: CSS, HTML
• Transferable skills: organisation, time management, communication
• Personality: will I fit into their company?

Demonstrate my creative work process 

• Briefing
• Planning and Prototyping
• Implementation
• Testing
• Evaluation

3. Decide five keywords that might be used as words that focus the conceptual approach of the project. (LO1, LO3)

• Self-Promotion
• Portfolio 
• Online-CV
• Networking
• Social Media

4. Outline and discuss five existing most relevant sources that you are going to look at to help begin designing the project. (LO2) 

http://houbly.me/site/index.html
Past student at NTU
Personal branding: logo self portrait
Clear about defining his expertise/role

http://adamhartwig.co.uk/
Interactive website
Bold colour scheme, big statement
Famous high profile web designer

http://adam.co/
Snappy tagline, draws your attention
Simple, effective design
Scrolling website portfolio

5. Show a prototype of an element key to the likely success of the project. This should be something that you have created (LO2, LO3, LO4) 


See context tag section http://wilsonchiu1.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/context

6. Discuss how you will be managing yourself during the duration of the module. (LO3, LO4)

• Give and receive feedback in tutorial sessions to see if it meets target audience
• Keeping a log of work on my Journal to show work process to other users/ employers and for an online presence 

7. Show how you intend to allocate tasks and time to delivering your project. (LO2, LO3)
Time allocated to each subtask:

• Week 35: Portfolio Plan presentation
• Week 36-17: Easter Break
• Week 38: Sort out domain and website name
• Week 39-40: Implementation
• Week 41: Testing and refining website
• Week 42: Write rationale and project book
• Week 43: Hand in deadline (for extensions)  

8. Conclusions. How does your work so far inform your evaluation? (LO1, LO3)


I feel I have defined my role specifically. I could work on some more personal projects to expand my portfolio further. And to keep up to date with web design trends: Updating my blog about relevant web developments I’ve been reading about because the web design industry is constantly changing.


Hope to improve on:

• Software skills (coding in Dreamweaver CS6, using Photoshop CS6, Fireworks CS6.)
• Social networking,
• Getting more involved in events like 2nd Wednesday

Context 3: development WI logo designs

From my previous journal I had two design variations for my WI logo. I thought they both had good things about them so I decided to take elements from both to establish a middle ground as you can see from this:

I am thrilled with my new logo! I think it looks good.

Also I went and tried to make a positive/negative variation, what do you think:

Context 3: logo design WI

I've come up with a great logo design:

Variation 1

The Initials "W I" stands for "Wilson Interactive" and the stylisation of it is to replicate a heart graph chart, (just for aesthetics). And the grid highlights a graphic design approach, it also shows my attention to detail.

Variation 2

The variation of this one is a gradient, and a stronger central white line. I'm not sure which one to go for yet.

Context 3: logo Pseudoname Leopard

Okay, the Leopard is a bit random, and it just popped into my head. I think I was trying to think of a anonymous name that has a "L" in it to make it go with the whole arrow idea. A variation is:

I've also changed the last one to a orange and black color scheme to match the Leopard feel. Whilst I'm not wild about this, I guess it doesn't look too bad. Could do with some more ideas.

Context 3: further logo designs

I've been experimenting with different logo designs for my personal branding.

Designs:

I thought since this is what my on-line journal is called, why not just call it "Wilson Interactive",  it kind of sounds snappy. I've tried to make it look interesting with adding a arrow, full stop and exclamation mark. Overall, it doesn't look bad, but I feel there is something missing. Also the fullstop bugs me because it reminds me of Nike.

Context 3: Logo Design Ideas

I need to come up with some branding for myself. Firstly, I am going to design a logo for my website. I have tried to think of some pseudo-names for myself as well as experimenting with how to use my name in the logo.

Design:

I am quite fond of this design, it looks visually appealing and its simple and effective. However, my lecturer Shaun said the only pitfall would be confusing myself as a print-designer because that's what CMYK is associated with.

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