A friend pointed me to this assignment, which has never been done before, 2 credits to spend in the shop.
For this design assignment you are tasked to create an attractive advertisement/flyer for some type of event. Be creative. Any event will do, but the point is to entice people to want to attend your event over any other.
from: ds106 Assignments: Festival or Fundraiser?
I am usually wary of design assignments, the few I’ve done are usually full of misgivings. More of that in the weekly report.
I started with the idea of doing a poster for the Village Webclub and along the way renamed it to village Webmaker, in reference to mozilla Webmaker.
I ripped off borrowed Andrew’s lovely badge which gave me my background colour.
I also started thinking about all the efforts to get girls to code and a bit of googling found me some public domain images on wikimedia. I guess that leads to too many things going on for good design but I like all the references and sacrificed design to ideas.
I’ve noticed a few villagers dipping into the club which is interesting and was encouraged (a lot) by Jim’s response. It might not fly this round of ds106 but I think the possibilities of some ds106 web storytelling are interesting.
Mariana had the idea for text based adventure which we could try. I can see a lot of possibilities, most beyond my skills to implement. Here are a couple:
- A branching story, someone starts a scene, others that add choices and the results of those choices.
- An image map of the village map. Someone puts up the map, folk make a page about a bit of the Village, and the mapmaker adds links to the map. Rochelle reminded me of imagemaps recently. That would be easy.
I’ve also added a page to my club site showing how to add an image to a club page with the terminal.
I’ve also got another assignment to run off quickly.
