Michael e Kidwell's profile

for GDES244—phase 1.

use the title on the project brief. like this: phase one, research and strategy for (insert organization name)—use the name you developed and used your presentation. ​​​​​​​
remember that it's a sin not to provide context for the viewer. so all projects/works need some type of description—THIS IS FIRST. one way is to adapt/use/appropriate language from the project brief. an eg: The objective of this project phase was to develop and present meaningful information—words and images—that will guide the design of the visual identity. This presentation includes content reflecting the intent and overall goal of one speculative company/organization—proposing an overall direction. and at the end there should be some prompt/link to your (process) dropmark® for those that want to know more about your thought process and inspiration. maybe something like this: follow this link (do not copy and paste the url...copy and use the short link as i showed) to view inspiration, alternative solutions and the design process for this project.

so this is another way to do a project description—something like an introduction—pretending it's real. using a variation of the "scenario" narrative will work too. Chameleon skate is a fairly new company with roots that run deep in the heart of south Johnson County, Kansas. It's mission is to be on the forefront of "ever changing" trends in skate-inspired fashion. The visual identity being developed will embrace this mission, and embody attributes of flexibility (or adaptability), uniqueness and authority that are valued by Chameleon's growing audience of fans, followers and advocates. And hey more process on this fine project—how it became real—is over here.
i made these and they are not skate inspired, but are sports-related. you must add a caption to each image, but please don't use default italic/oblique. change the caption style! and DON'T DO THIS...you need to add a light outline/stroke to any (and ALL) images like this—aka: borderless and all white—to ground them :-) 

these images are too narrow compared to the other images...all images need to be the same width. all the same width. full width.


i didn't make this. her arm is broken...i think. and this is a really short caption. this should be centered like the other captions.
i made this photograph of a ballpark at night. 

option 1: with a scribd (free profile), you can embed the presentation like above. remember to upload a pdf of your presentation to scribd WITHOUT NOTES. it's important to create/embed with the "slideshow" preference selected and not the default which is "scroll" which is really annoying. you'll need to edit the code to reduce the overall vertical dimension of the slideshow—start with 600 and evaluate. 


option 2: with a linked-in account, use slideshare to embed the presentation like above. remember to upload a pdf of your presentation to slideshare WITHOUT NOTES. it's important to create/embed with the "slideshow" preference selected and not the default which is "scroll" which is really annoying. you'll need to set the viewing/privacy preferences properly and to edit the code to width="650" height="360" as a start—then evaluate. remember to put 2 returns (like this) after the caption for appropriate spacing between projects.


for GDES244—phase 1.
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for GDES244—phase 1.

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