Interactive Banner Ad makes good use of Zoom feature.

Movement is one way to categorize information.

This site is portfolio site for karlssonwilker inc., and the homepage is dynamic and it's content is constantly moving. There are four different frames above taken by screen grabbing different moments on the home page. Each frame sows that the movement is happening in certain areas. This site has inspired me to re-think how my homepage for my newest type-only site is going to look. There is something intriguing to me about the idea of moving type across a home page. And not just one type of moving type but lots of different type categories moving. Maybe a different speeds, and in different directions according to the content. I'll be publishing my newest explorations for my new website concept here.

Just words about words.

Cool ways to focus on the words and not the images.

Copywriting, Typography, Logos, Names, Poetry, Store Fronts,

DIY a great source for my new web concept.

This is a great homepage and interesting website. For my newest project in Digital Innovation I'm building a concept for a website that uses only words and no pictures. The website is based around the idea the Words can be just as interesting as pictures. I went to DIY and discovered that if I take the pictures out of the way, this could be an interesting way to collage typography for my new website concept. For my site I would want each movable image to be a letter only so you can build words.

Design Fetish Blog

I'm inspired  to go out and search for these.

I'll let you know if I have much success at it.

I am sad to say I had no success finding

these in store. 

NEXT COMES CHRISTMAS!

H&M takes the online experience to the store

CHECK OUT THIS. H&M CREATED AN INSTALLATION PIECE 
THAT WANTED TO CREATIVELY COMMUNICATE THE ONLINE STORE 
EXPERIENCE  TO THEIR CUSTOMERS. I'M FASCINATED HOW THIS 

BRAND ATTEMPTED TO RE-CREATE THE USER EXPERIENCE 
OF ONLINE INTERACTION INTO A PHYSICALLY INTERACTIVE SAPCE.

I want to become a creative Partner...

The WEB is a COLORFUL place.

WEB COLORS I LIKE; i made this.

Nothing to sell

Great use of a billboard without selling anything.

Giving out my personal information on the web freely///

How many of these forms have I actually filled out?
Too many to remember. I've tried to keep track of all of them in a personal online planner where I store all of my passwords and user names to websites I've joined. I try to keep the information simple so I don't forget. These forms can get pretty long and I hate that part of it. What you see here, is the first part of what I had to fill out. However, I like that they ask me what information I am most interested in. Does this mean that they will primarily send out this information to me? The site never really specifies why it's important to input that information, oh well, all I care is that the site has topics I'm interested in. This will be a great tool for me to add to my site. Somehow it would be nice to make it a shorter form for the people to fill out, in order to keep track of the people interested in getting updates on my site.

Banner Ads for STUBBS BAR-B-Q

 

Concept 1

Concept 2 (edited version of concept 1)

expandable banner.

On the search for 'Affordable Web Hosting'

I'm researching and shopping around for affordable web hosting. The prices range from $5/mo.–$45/mo.Since I'm ideally starting my own site to host portfolio work and a blog, $5/mo. sounds like what I'm looking for. The most popular web hosting companies my friends and instructors at Otis use, are Dream Host and Go Daddy. In a book called The Web Designers Idea Book which I bought for my Digital Innovation class, a web hosting company by the name of Hosted FX is mentioned as being the cleanest and simplest web hosting site to navigate around in. After checking it out, I had to agree. I also found that not only is this company simple and to the point, their web hosting pricing is even better than Dream Host and Go Daddy. Go Figure! I think I found which company I'd like to try to host my upcoming website. Though, I'll keep my eyes open until then.

BTW, the author of The Web Designers Idea Book also is the creator of one of the greatest web design advice sites I've ever seen. Click here or the title to connect you there. You'll be amazed.

What is going on?

A moment of transition for this site: 
Content is about what happens after I see a site that inspires me.

 

 This one is for Gregg and Apollo who love moving eyebrows. 

It is also for me and this site. This man is looking around

and I can see something is happening to him by the way

his eyebrows are moving up and down

and his eyes, side to side.

NEW AND IMPROVED POTENTIAL FOR SITE

BLAH, BLAH, BLOG

BLOGGER STUFF IS SO DIFFICULT. I'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR RESOURCES ON HOW TO BUILD A BLOG IN BLOGGER USING CSS, AND I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO FIND TO MANY RELIABLE SOURCES.
NOT WORTH HARPING ON. I WILL FIGURE IT OUT.

Grand Marnier Is Creating Digital Ads

Reaching consumers through the web and it's lushness of social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace; I-phone apps brought to us by Macintosh; game apps; and advertising possibilities, is the new way of advertising. We have all heard print is dying. Even myself a hopeless romantic about keeping print alive, is jumping on board for creating clever ways of sending a message in a new way via the internet. Grand Marnier is dropping $4 million for advertising on the web. In addition to converting their ads to the web, they've transitioned the look of their ads which last had a "contemporary vibe" to an illustrative, bold, modern French esthetic. Oh-la-la. Accompanying this new campaign, A limited edition bottle in the “La Vie Grand Marnier” spirit will also be sold in select stores at the suggested retail price of $64.99. Different packaging referencing its new French aesthetic, but same great recipe. One thing Scott Green vp of marketing and sales for Marnier-Lapostolle group had to say about this was,
"We are absolutely committed to digital”.



And there we have it...another product going digital.

I'm exploring the blog possiblities

Erickson Stock

In a perfect world, I would have the time to travel to rare and uncharted places. As a full-time design student I definitely don't have time nor the resources. This site may just be useful to me as I am required to have flawless executions on my final advertising concepts. The teachers suggest checking out stock footage sites, Erickson Stock says "Download your next Campaign". It's perfect. I discovered this one while reading GD USA magazine.

When a gallery closes...

When a gallery closes after a successful run of holding art exhibits and social gatherings, it is sad to say goodbye to such memories. It can be exciting as well, to embark on a new journey as a gallery curator. Sixspace was open in Los Angeles for six years. When the editor of art.blogging.La.com, Caryn Coleman let go of her gallery, she posted the news online. Thanks to the internet, it saved sending out millions of postcards and waste.

Block Dot Online Promotional Video Games

How does advertising successfully reach an audience which is being bombarded with product endorsement everywhere they turn. This is a challenge which all brands must figure out if they choose to advertise online. Blockdot, with surprising success creates games which in return achieves purchase intent and brand recognition. Baskin Robins used Blockdot to create an online game which promoted their new flavors. The game Office Invaders references the popular 80s video game Space Invaders and the hit film "Office Space." As people play the game and pass more difficult levels, they would win a printable $1 coupon for any Cappuccino Blast drink. Another level of this games success is that it won win two awards from PROMO magazine—beating out over 600 entries. Wow, this isn't traditional advertising but its fun and I think it makes a huge difference if I can engage with a product I like. Play Office Invaders at http://officeinvaders.kewlbox.com/

Taco Town Commerical

This is the new wave of advertising. Exageration of Product benefit/feature.
Now found Online.

Cute Overload

This site is so amazing for it's content. I love the baby bulldog video. Sooooo Cute.

"Any Given Name" is the name

I checked out www.anygivenname.org and found that the title of this site, stays fixated on the top right side the screen floating above the pages content. Despite all information you may be scrolling through it's bright green presence is always there reminding me of its identity.

Design Boom

I registered with Design Boom about a week ago. I learned about it as I was "googling" some advertising sites. I signed up and asked to be sent current updates to my email account. I have the choice of either looking at it or not once its in my inbox. I would like to learn how to create that same feature for my blog. It would be nice for people to automatically have the option to check out what I'm posting from their everyday email account.

What inspired me to start a blog?

I went to class on Tuesday 09/01/09 with the awareness that I would be taking a web design class called Digital Innovation. I was predicting a precursor to my Flash 1 class, with the expectation of creating something really different then what I've seen on the web already. When I received the syllabus, I became informed that I will be starting a blog. A blog about anything and everything related to design and specifically design on the web. Most importantly this is going to be a blog derived from inspiration. I've always wanted to start a blog about design but never found the time. This is going to be a perfect class for me. It must be said that I've been working on computers since the 2nd grade in 1990. Computer technology has advanced far beyond what I could have imagined at that time. I began Design school in 2005. This is my final year at Otis College of Art and Design, as I took a year off to contemplate life. I've been studying Graphic Design with emphasis on getting a degree in Advertising. Advertising is apart of our world and influences our culture in so many ways. Advertising has made it's way into the World Wide Web and I believe for the better. It will waste less paper, and hopefully give people an opportunity to see something new and engage with a brand in an eye opening way. I will post lots of information here about design on the web and as I learn about advertising on the web, samples of what I find and create will be listed also. This blog will transform over the next 3 months. I hope you will learn about what inspires me and maybe be inspired too.