Design

Design

A space to check out from our first year: Din Guidebook

From Prose: Missing Author Photos from: Abram, Chelsea Missing author bio from: Chelsea

From Poetry: Missing author photo and bios: from Deveaux, Armstrong, Hanson

From Criticism: Missing author photo and bio from: Abram

From Multimedia: ?

Team members : Jordan Gillespie Joyce Gong Electra Rich Mattie Hensley- I'll write in blue. :) Look forward to working with everyone. Yolonda Pawielski

4/23 To Do List -Din Image? -Do we have a header? -Buttons? Only Footer Navigation -Homepage/Distortion/call statement

(From the Submissions call ) Distortion: n. Din's 2012 theme. n. the act of distorting n. a lack of proportionality in an image resulting from defects in the optical system n. a falsified reproduction of an audio or video signal caused by change in the wave form of the original signal

Distortion of perception is aural, visual, and sensual. It is fun house mirrors and rumor mills. It is a manipulation of noise. It is a mash-up of surrealism, dreams, truth, and memories. Distortion is an altered and altering. Language, stereotypes, body image, and social boundaries are distorted: airbrushed fantasies on magazine covers, virtual identities and avatars, political misrepresentations, and partial truths in the media. Distortion is artificial and organic. It is a cloned image that contorts reality.

Over 160 submissions to the Din 2012 issue explored and broke the idea of distortion. The top XX [number accepted goes here] are presented here. Click here [insert hyperlink?] to begin reading.

-link colors -visited, unvisited, hover(?) -Author name, bio, title placement no filler picture -table of contents by author or category?

Design team needs to find some filler photo, in case authors do not send their stuff.

**Website design/planning notes:**
Tags: author name, topic, title... Categories: Poetry, Multimedia, Fiction, Criticism

Here are the sites I mentioned with cool effects for Adobe http://www.attitudedesign.co.uk/7-things-you-didnt-know-adobe-illustrator-could-do/ http://www.attitudedesign.co.uk/7-more-things-you-didnt-know-adobe-illustrator-could-do/

Update 4-29-2012
Was playing around some more in illustrator. Here are some designs for the header, also in PDF. Feel free to take or leave them, I just thought I'd put them up in case anyone had any suggestions. (They go from simpler, to progressively more complex. header 10 - header 12 are a live-trace of a shattered mirror, recolored using our palette.)

Update 4-17-2012
Here are some of the mockups, with variation, in PDF form. Please let me know if you have trouble opening them. ~Mattie

Horizontal Design Option:
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Here is the link to the interactive poetry page: http://www.davepcguy.com/archive/simple-fun-with-php/ Even better: http://www.beautifulmessofwords.com/?tag=magnetic (WordPress plugin) Cool Electra- Thanks!

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Thursday, 12:19pm: Hi everyone-- quick note, I just sent out an email asking if anyone else wants to shoot for an html letter. yea or nay, please check your email and let me know.

free short books, you can read them online in Amazon's 'cloud reader' [] []

Also, if you don't have easy access to Photoshop, consider downloading this opensource program: [] that resembles Photoshop. The website has a lot of tutorials for the program done by an articulate 12 year old.

http://www.attitudedesign.co.uk/7-things-you-didnt-know-adobe-illustrator-could-do/