slice

Today I had a demo on Photoshop on how to use the slice tool and how to centralize a page in Dreamweaver. The first thing I did was open the he image from moodle into Photoshop and selected all the image layers. The next part is to select the slice tool and draw around the text; you can resize the cutouts with the slice select tool if you want. After this go to file then save for web devices, from this you can add or take away colours for any image that you want. Then save and make sure the format is HTML and images. The second part is to make it central on page, you do this by opening the image with Dreamweaver clicking on the image and then clicking on table, alignment and central. After this you can make the background black by going into page properties and change it to black.

Wall Rubbing's

These are different textures that we found around the college that we captured by using a stick of graphite and paper and rubbing over them. The different textures leave imprints on the paper.Some of these are off of walls signs buttons and even the floor.

website proposal

Design proposal

For this unit I would like to redesign George Whites Motorcycle shop website http://www.georgewhite.co.uk/  because I the store its self is impressive and their website isn’t and I feel that the George white franchise could do a lot better. Their current website has all the images of the products that they sell but is very limited on the information that they have.

Bad points about website

·         Limited information

·         Layout

·         Too much happening

·         Home page has way too much on it, need to spread out the information

·         Could make deals and adverts on separate pages.

               Good points about the website

·         High resolution images of products clothes, bikes ect easy to see

·         A lot of categories have potential

·         Good ways of advertising (eye catching)

·         Up to date information that is there

·         All buttons and links work

I have been doing a bit of research on motorcycle retailer websites to see if there are any features that I should use or stay away from when I’m recreating the George white’s website. For example one of the features I would like to is a 3D rotation of the motorcycles for sale; I have seen this on the Honda motorcycles website. The showroom gallery for the website will also have stats and reviews about each bike.

In the new website the offers and sales for different products will be laid out according to the title page not just plastered all over the main page.  

Motorcycles shop

• These are some initial ideas of mine for the website
•  Photography
• Clothing
•   New bike deals
•    Used and new bikes
•   Classic bikes
•    3D models
•    Stats
•     Women’s clothing
•   Security

This is kind of standard compared to some websites. The only subject that doesn’t appear on most bike websites is the women’s clothing. Some of these subjects are going to be easier to do than others for example all the products are going to be standard photography but the 3D shot are going to be a little bit trickier.

I am going to only stick to road legal bike not off road bikes, quad bikes or track racing bikes. The reason why I am doing this is because I have chosen an audience to suit the purpose for the shop.

The logo

I would like to rebrand the logo for George white because I feel the current logo is not going the distance to be recognized as their label. The current logo is too standard compared to other retailers e.g. Honda, OCC and GT Motors. My current thoughts for the new logo was to have the name included in the logo and somehow fit in with the logo shape.

logo research

 Logo research

When first creating a logo for a business it is a sensible idea to have the business name with the logo so that the audience recognizes the brand. Some businesses are now recognized on massive scale that they don’t have to put their name with the logo any more. These are a couple of examples Nike, Adidas and Apple.  Sometimes the business logos are just the name of the business it’s very simple but effective; some of these companies are Nokia, Sony and Microsoft.

I have noticed that quite a lot of big labels have very basic shapes and fonts for their logos, these are the logos that stand the test of time. 

Banksy

Banksy art and history

Banksy is a British graffiti artist who has no confirmed identity. He was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol; his dad was a photocopier technician, Banksy trained to become a butcher but got involved with graffiti art in the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s. Banksy does not sell his street art himself but some of his work does get auctioned off. In 2001 Banksy started freehand graffiti and evolved his work and identity into stencil work and started to become recognised on a national scale as a political graffiti artist. Most of Banksys work tends to be in black and white with an area in colour to emphasize it.

One of Banksys main pieces of art is the destroyed phone box were banksy and his friends stole an ordinary phone box took it back to their work shop and welded it in the middle and stuck a pick axe in it to show an other side of vandalism.