Monday, April 20, 2015

Week 13 — Final crit, begin ACT website

Due:
Final crit
  • Whitney, Chris, Tori
  • Haas, Kristen
  • Isaac, Justin
  • Emily, Jon
  • Hev, Brendan
Studio:
  • lecture about wireframes
ACT website project brief
Create a useful & informative reference site that best displays what you learned and accomplished during this course. Show it in your sophomore reviews and keep it to use in your future coursework!

Objectives
  • communication: organized and accessible structure and content (visual and verbal)
  • theory: correctly defined/identified theories
  • form: visually cohesive, strong and appropriate design system
  • execution: refined digital craftsmanship

Other requirements
  • proper grammar and spelling
  • give credit to original designers/authors of found work
  • format: muse web site
Content: 
Semiotics
  • a: found examples of semiotics (includes: 1 icon, 1 index, 1 symbol, 1 syntagm, 1 paradigm, 1 pragmatic)
  • b: 2 studies/examples that code meaning (1 of relay, 1 of anchor) AND 2 studies/examples that change connotations (for each, list 3 connotations)
  • c: 18 definitions
    • semiotics
    • syntax
    • semantics
    • pragmatics
    • sign
    • signifier
    • signified
    • icon
    • index
    • symbol
    • anchor
    • relay
    • digital code
    • analog code
    • denotation
    • connotation
    • polysemy
    • paradigm

Rhetoric/Modes of Appeal/Social Good poster
  • a: found examples of 3 modes of appeal
  • b: 2 studies that communicate your chosen design for social good topic (for each, list the modes and tropes employed)
  • c: 3 definitions (ethos, pathos, & logos)

Rhetoric/Tropes
  • a: found examples of 9 rhetorical tropes
  • b: 9 definitions (pun, hyperbole, irony, antithesis, personification, metonymy, metaphor, synecdoche, parody)

Communication theory:
  • communication model final (includes: 2 communicators, 1 channel, 1 message, 1 noise, 1 feedback, 3 contextual factors)
  • 12 definitions
    • communicator a/b
    • channel
    • message
    • noise
    • feedback
    • context
      • perception (pathos)
      • reasoning (logos)
      • motivation (ethos)
    • technical
    • semantic
    • effectiveness


Note: You can include more examples, description, book elements and insight than the minimum required.

Homework:
  • site map (how will you outline your information?)
  • your initial wire frames (how will your organize your information?)
  • 3 concepts/sketches each including a home page and secondary page (definitions/examples)
  • install Muse on your computer (it is part of the adobe creative suites)

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