On Monday 27th April I attended the pick me up exhibition. Throughout the exhibition I was focusing on the typography side; looking at what really caught my eye and how they incorporated font into imagery.
Here are a few images that I took throughout the day.
This was my favourite piece throughout the exhibition. I had a chat with the person running this particular part of the exhibition, he explained how the pieces were picked in Melbourne Australia as the most up and coming artists/designers at this present time and how some of the pieces were done. I thought the way the designer had incorporated imagery and text together in this way was very playful, humorous yet still very clever in the way it has been done.
Again the typography here is very playful yet detailed and interesting. When small they just look like colourful letters but when you look closely you can see all of the hard work put into this. All of the small distils and how again here they have incorporated imagery into their typography.
Working in groups we are looking at different examples of digital media an figuring out why we think it is a form of digital media,how people use/work with this media and mechanics of the medium.
I have been given these topics to look at which are ‘Video Games’, ‘Facebook/SocialNetworking’ and ‘Youtube’.
We are using the term Digital Media to refer to any content-based electronic media that is created, distributed and displayed using communication technology for the purposes of entertainment.
Youtube:
Why is it a form of digital media? Well a digital media is any media that has been encoded in a machine-readable format which is exactly what Youtube is. Behind the easy faced website there is many codes creating videos and links etc. Youtube can be created, viewed, distributed, modified and is preserved on computers. Youtube is much more than just a digital media now people use it to interact with each other.
How do people use/work with this media? Youtube is an interactive digital media where people watch and share videos. It can be used as a form of promotion, advertisement and people can interact with one another. You can look at peoples pages find out about different users and also look into different categories on the webpage for example news etc.
The Mechanics of Youtube –
I have found the mechanical side of Youtube very interesting in the way that they use many different codes and formats they use to upload videos and help people watch them all over the world. I have also found it very interesting the ‘loading’ sign, knowing that it just a gif file going round and round is bizarre knowing myself that it gives comfort to people informing them that the video is loading when whats behind it is a very technical process.
Facebook:
Why is it a form of digital media? Again just like Youtube, Facebook is a media that has been encoded in a machine-readable format. Facebook again can also be created, viewed, distributed, modified and is preserved on computers. Facebook is the all known most famous Social Networking site, where people share imagery interact with each other and is theoretically a book of faces.
How do people use/work with this media? Facebook is an interactive, social media where people post about themselves and whats going on in the world. Almost like a personal blog and newspaper. Lots of people on a day to day basis look at Facebook not just on the computer screen but on their mobiles and iPads etc. You can look at different peoples pages and interact worldwide.
The Mechanics of Facebook:
Programmes used –
– ‘Facebook uses PHP because it is a good web programming language with extensive support and an active developer community and it is good for rapid iteration. PHP is a dynamically typed/interpreted scripting language.’
– ‘For the database, Facebook utilises MySQL because of its speed and reliability. MySQL is used primarily as a key-value store as data is randomly distributed amongst a large set of logical instances. These logical instances are spread out across physical nodes and load balancing is done at the physical node level.
As far as customizations are concerned, Facebook has developed a custom partitioning scheme in which a global ID is assigned to all data. They also have a custom archiving scheme that is based on how frequent and recent data is on a per-user basis. Most data is distributed randomly.’
Facebook uses many different programmes for many different things looking into this video i found it very interesting to find out how it works from the inside and how they store their data. This was the most interesting part for me.
‘You are to build a web-based portfolio to showcase your design work. The site that you will build should allow for the easy updating of images. As well as developing your technical skills, this project will allow you to begin to consider how you can show your work in its best light and develop your skills in making considered choices about the content of your portfolio and begin to think about the audience you are targeting within a given timeframe. You will also have to make important aesthetic choices as well as decisive and selective in the portfolios’ content.’
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