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The poor candle, being burned in so many different ways… Well, perhaps that time will come to an end soon!

In any case, I’m afraid I don’t have much to show from this weekend. Most of my work has been with the User Experience presentation on tuesday, my motion video due friday and, of course, a massive amount of secret stuffs:

I fully blame Jessica and Graphix for today’s image.

This project has been my primary focus for this week. By friday, I want to have all of the heavy navigation and layouting coding completed so that the project is completely usable. Content will likely be put off until next week when I have time to really gather and process information. But so far so good! All that doesn’t work at the moment is the final, play section. Hopefully tomorrow will bring inspiration to figure out how to code it as I am not entirely sure how I will do it. We shall see indeed.

Ver 1 (see below)

I made this for the 2D design class today. It was a lot of fun to put together, though much of the key elements were lucky chance. I really like the way the ink blots are reminiscent of falling cherry blossoms (probably part of the reason I gravitated toward a Japanese name for it). I considered removing the diagonal lines/diamonds but felt they brought the design together strongly rather than things being a little looser. Actually, the ink blots themselves were a bit of a random accident which I am quite pleased with. I discovered a number of options to create interesting blot effects on the board, but those ink ones were the best for the overall feel of the design. I also like the choice of colors. The blue and brown go together quite well; especially with the small bits of red at the top and bottom. Overall, I’m quite happy with how the design turned out!

*One note. The reds are not quite as strong in this image as I made them in the original Illustrator file. This is due to the web-safe color set. Sorry!

At Angy’s suggestion, I played with the design a little more and I think this one is stronger than the one above. One thing I really like about it is that it looks as if there is a light burst in the middle of the board that lights up the “foil” that is the lines and blots. All in all, I like the black to silver look of the design.

Ver 2 (Final)

As I have said to a few people recently, the only difference between weekends and weekdays is that on weekends I can stay at home and work where there is “free” food, comfort, no classes and not having to listen to other people’s stuff. Other than that, I spend the rest of the time working….

Let’s just say I’ll be happy when this term is over and more specifically May 1st. Then things will be better. I think.

In the mean time, here is a sneakpeak at my Flash Journalism Project. I’ve spent 3/4 of the weekend on it so far and it looks fairly decent. There isn’t any content and only the “home,” “parts,” and “navigation” areas work so far, but the frameworks are getting there. I’ve foght quite a lot with making certain things happen like I want to and Flash has respended in kind by making me frustrated and wanting to bang my head against the wall. I ended up needing to take out one feature I planned on including because the coding was hurting my brain and I figured it wasn’t that important to the overall site to spend the time figuring it out. In any case, I hope you enjoy what works so far! It is kinda big for a flash file (430 kb) but hopefully I’ll be able to reduce it somewhat over time.