PROJECT 5. DONE.

http://pages.uoregon.edu/malaea/Project5/

My Process

The Process:

Oh Wow. This project has certainly been a roller coaster ride for me. Spending until 6 am working on this project definitely makes me appreciate it A LOT. I was done earlier, but my project was definitely lacking. I wasn't impressed with myself. I wasn't pushing myself, and frankly, early in the process, I had absolutely no idea what to do about this project. I'm really not good with vague outlines, so this was a bit of a struggle for me.

So, what did I decide to do? Flash programming. I haven't touched that stuff since freshman year, and it was definitely my most difficult task this year. My initial plan was to do an infographic, but I knew I should do more than that. So I did.

Onto the process of the project...

First, I began by scanning a map of the University of Oregon. I then took that map and and retraced it with the pen tool in InDesign. After that, I didn't know what to do for a couple of days, until Sunday when I was walking on campus. I then walked by these cool solar panels in Lillis that legitimately looked like art. I wondered if there were other "hidden gems" such as this around campus, and there definitely was. I spent all Monday taking pictures and explored many parts of campus that I had never been too. It's amazing that after three years at this school, there was still so much I didn't know about it. After taking the pictures, I edited them in Photoshop to give them a little pop.

I then needed to figure out how to combine the map and the pictures. It hit me to make an interactive game in which you needed to find these "hidden gems" in the picture. How the heck was I going to do this? After countless hours researching Youtube videos, a simple "stop" and "gotoAndPlay" function is what I ended up using. I initially just had button on the map, but that didn't seem very hidden. I then turned every button on the map into an invisible button so the user would actually have to seek out the pictures in the map.

At 6 am, my project finally came together after hours of work on Flash. It was very satisfying to see the final product of my project. Although it took a long time, I'm glad I kept persevering to finish it. I'm very proud of the product I produced for my little experience with Flash.

Update

Alright! I decided to go forward with this Eugene/Campus area infographic thing. I'm currently just working on the graphic, and i've taken some pictures around campus. Still a work in progress though.

Progress...

I'm debating on actually changing my project to the info graphic. I'm torn. I am contemplating this because I actually haven't presented anything in digital form and I think I would like to. Decisions, decisions...hopefully I will decide soon!

FLOWER POWER

I'm going to go with option 2.

I think it will be interesting to take tactile objects (flowers), turn them into something digital (pictures), and retransform them into a tactile element. (origami)

Project Ideas

1.) Take pictures on my digital camera. Combine them in Photoshop to make one collective scene.

2.) Take pictures of flowers on my digital camera. Make digital prints of the flowers, then fold them into origami flowers to form a bouquet.

3.) Make a ditial infographic of Eugene using pictures taken from my camera.

Homework Lilies

Ad Crane

OOPS...So I was definitely confused on the prompt for this week. My bad :)

Here is a crane made from newspaper advertisments.

Pardon my cat for the millionth time, she thinks she's a model...

Judgemental Day

Redbox Manipulation

Poster Manipulation

Love

Inspired by Sarah's Name Bugs...

Odd M

Cat-Dog

Glow

Beauty

Project 3

With this project, I have merged two forms of identity: the online avatar and the QR code.

Kitten Break!

So hard to go to work leaving this cutie behind!

Project Update

Pixel Mario

Pixel 6- Pacman Monsters

Pixel 5- Pixel Girl

Pixel 4- Squared

Project 3

I got some great ideas from class, and for my project, I want to examine online identities. Avatars are a familiar online identity and QR codes are used to identify things and then take you somewhere on the web. For this project, I plan to make a timeline of avatars that disinegrate into a QR code.

Pixel 3- Rainbow 3D

Pixel 1

Made online @ Q-BLOCK

Pixel 2

Made w/ Q-BLOCK

Easter

Legos

More literal building blocks.

Made in InDesign with the Pen Tool

A Building Block

Playing around with the Pen Tool

Building Blocks

Social-Elena & Doug

Social-Guinea Pigs

Social-Definition

Must click to see up close

Here's to being social

Social- Salt 'n Peppa!

Social- seeking or enjoying the companionship of others

Salt and Pepper, the perfect pair!

social-PIE SOCIAL

Multiples-Trees

Taken on my iphone.

Multiples-Maisy

Caught my adorable kitten, Maisy, in a yawn. *Awwww*

Multiples-Roses

More pretty flowers on the way to campus.

Taken on my iphone-edited in InDesign.

Multiples-Zoo

Taken on my camera-edited in Photoshop

Multiples-Butterflies

Taken on my camera

Multiples-Stawberries

Made these tonight. YUM!

Caged

Emu at the zoo.

Hike

View from Mt. Pisgah

Taken on my iphone

Purple Flower

Seeing this definitely brightened my mood on the way to 8 am class.

Taken on my iphone.

Car Ride

Taken on my iphone-edited in Illustrator

Self Portrait- This is me

Spilt the contents of my purse (AKA my home away from home, I have everything in there!) and put it into typography. Hmm...interesting...

Self Portrait

Tree

I saw this tree and thought it was beautiful.