ENGL307: Digital Writing

This website explains more about value and contrast. It gives several examples of value and the differences between color. I really like the portion where it gives an image of the gradual change of colors when using values. It helped me better engage my learning by looking at different examples.

This website explains more about value and contrast. It gives several examples of value and the differences between color. I really like the portion where it gives an image of the gradual change of colors when using values. It helped me better engage my learning by looking at different examples.

Really good interview on NPR. Check it out, gives insight into what Gladstone is conveying in the book. 

Although I know we should not rely on wikipedia for a whole lot of scholarly information, I do believe this wiki page is a very good glimpse into the history of computing and computing hardware.

This slide show covers the basics in a pretty pleasing way and outlines the important concepts that we ready about in Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture.

This is a link to the first popple I have made for the course outcomes.

This is a personal application of what we read about in the chapter about Texture. There are many different texture packs used in the game of Minecraft to help the player feel more connected with the world they want to create.

This website provides information on the elements of design, including texture, and how important it can be to interior design, which I find interesting. It is truly incredible how much these elements can influence our daily lives outside of digital media.

This is a cool little article that talks about texture in design and how it is used. I thought it was helpful to continue to build knowledge on how to use texture since too much is not a good thing.

I liked this site because it went into some detail about texture and gave some realistic familiar examples like Apple icons.

An site that discusses all of the importance of color when using it in design. I found this to be quite helpful because it goes more in depth about the symbolism and the science of how color has been used.

Here is an article I read. Kind of parallels that of Gladstone's book. Really points to the mess that is becoming of journalism. 

This is a cool picture of MC Escher's that demonstrates how shapes can help create other shapes

A cool marketing way in which the Jordan logo is a reminder of an already trusted brand, Mercedes Benz

This is a quick and to the point resource that provides visual evidence of how value works in design. Watching the creation of a something like this really helps me understand the idea better because, as I have come to learn, I am a very visual learner. (9/19/13)

This website has a short and sweet explanation for all of the elements and principles of design, which I feel like will come in handy later on when/if I need to quickly review some basic differences between the few of them. This page specifically focuses on the importance of value.

This site gives a breif, but interesting description of value.

A great site that follows the reading of our book and gives descriptions of what shape is with regards to an element of design

Another great site used to explain what shape is and how it is used in Web Design

How to use value in desktop publishing, also covers the basics of what value is as an element of design

We read "The Influencing Machine" this week by the author, Brooke Gladstone. I found this book to be an interesting take on things and wanted to know more about the author. I bookmarked this site because it gives details as well as links to Gladstone's work.

This article is about surfaces and planes (2D) and volumes (3D).

This site gives a great timeline of the history of media. In our readings we read Brooke Gladstone's "The Influencing Machine" where she also gave an interesting account of the history of media.