Project 1 Website

The Toy Store

Here is my website for The Toy Store!




Just in case...
http://people.ku.edu/~allieb/the_toy_store/splash.html

Inspiring blog & quotes

Ran across this blog today...

design wonderland

...pretty inspiring stuff. The blogger also had some quotes I really liked on her blog as well...

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." - Rumi

...and...

"I am going to make everything around me beautiful. That will be my life." - Elsie de Wolfe

Guess the Logo

Guess the Logo

Found this cool site today. Pretty fun, the TV logos were the easiest for me. Car logos and the web logos 2 were pretty hard.

Toy Store Sites

So while creating my website for The Toy Store, I thought I should take a look at other toy store websites.

FAO Schwarz
This one is well designed and easily navigable, adults or kids could easily click through the site. You can't do a whole lot on the site except learn about the store, but the way they have that all set up is nice.

Toys R Us
Set up well for a big company that sells a lot online. The Toy Store couldn't really benefit from this kind of design because it is such a smaller company, however, I'm sure there are ways this site could inspire mine.

Wooden Horse Toys
This site is set up pretty much exactly like The Toy Store. It's a little better designed, but is still pretty confusing and not easily navigable. I do like their "Best sellers" and "What's new" categories though.

Creative Ads

http://www.designer-daily.com/50-brilliant-creative-advertisements-for-your-inspiration-3169

Came across this website today. Love all the ads, so creative. Here are a few that I thought were exceptional...

Logo trends and interesting observation.

I stumbled across this article today on LogoLounge about current trends in logos. Kind of interesting. I really like the concealed logo trend... definitely show that special wink.

Also while working on my project for Type I came across another website that desperately needs redesigned: NHTSA Thought it was kind of funny that we're redesigning websites in graphics and the organization for my type project could benefit.

Eulogy for Robert F Kennedy video - Final

Type 2 - Journal 13

I found the presentation, Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangle by the law, very interesting. It was both insightful, as well as humorous. The issue of copyright vs. creativity is one that it very important. I can see why artists would want their work to be copyrighted, but I can also see how other people could use anothers work creatively to make something of their own. I think that Lessig's idea of balancing the two extremes by making work available more freely for non-commercial use. This idea would be successful because as long as you are not profiting from your use of another's work you should be able to use it for your own enjoyment (and the enjoyment of others). By using a popular song and setting it to images you are creating something uniquly your own, and are not doing any harm. The harm comes from using the popular song to profit without paying the creator their dues. Lessig's idea will encourage creativity of the youth, as well as protect the original creators work...and it sounds like a great idea to me.

Type 2 - "Final" video

Here's my "final" version. I'm thinking of adding the speech name and speaker to the beginning or made at the end. Perhaps the date Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the beginning? I think it needs something there. Let me know what you think...and anything else you have comments on. Thanks!

Eulogy for Robert F Kennedy

Here's my video... I have the whole speech in there except for the last sentence. My audio messes up when it gets to that point so I've been working on fixing it, but not having any luck so far, but any suggestions on what I have so far would be much appreciated. =)