This is literally insane!

I found this on my friends facebook page and I am not sure where he saw it but I am going to do more research!...




World's First Virtual Shopping Store opens in Korea. All the Shelves are infact LCD Screens. User Choose their desired items by touching the LCD screen and checkout at the counter in the end to have all their ordered stuff packed in Bags. Isnt that Amazing?

^This is so crazy to me. Technology is awesome but doesn't it make you wonder how lazy the world is going to get if more businesses begin to run this way. Job will be lost for sure!

Awesome typography

I found this website when I was stumbling. It's 25 different photoshop tutorials on awesome typography. I especially want to learn the first water effect one! I think the possibilities behind typography are endless and this just proves that. I really hope to test out some of these tutorials before the end of this semester.

Spoof Website

After thinking about things that bug me a lot, I quickly thought about all the materialistic people in this world that annoy the crap out of me. I then decided that I wanted to make a spoof website about Pandora bracelets. The amount of money people spend on those bracelets that I personally don't even think are pretty, is outrageous. It's all about the name brand, not the quality or even the appearance. With that, I am going to have a fun time making fun of the website and making a statement about the jewelry themselves. I look forward to comparing their bracelets to children's bracelets and I will post a few websites to show what I mean.

Pandora's Website

Pandora's Other Website?

Googled "kids jewelry" and the images all somehow resemble pandora bracelets. In fact, pandora site was the first thing to pop up on the "web" section of google for this search. Because it's really necessary to get your child who grows every minute of the day a Pandora bracelet, don't worry about their college fund...that should just grow on a tree.

Spoof Website

It took me awhile to think of a concept because for some reason I don't think I'm very passionate about things. I know I have a lot of feelings about things, but nothing that makes me sit there and start debates with people usually.   But one thing really does bother me, and thats how over paid athletes are.  I was hoping to spoof one of the major sports association websites if I can figure out what to do since they all seem to work with javascript.

MLB
NFL
NBA

Parody Project

After much contemplation I feel I have always weighed in on the cigarette debate.   I have always paid full attention when The Truth commercials come on television.  Cigarette smoking has the greatest impact on kids.  Research brought me to the Patrick Reynolds. His ties in the tobacco industry run deep.  With anti-smoking campaigns always on heavy rotation, I want to spoof it up and play the big bad wolf.

Tim Wood - Foxconn

http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/apple-factories-increase-child-labor-report-20110215/

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jun2010/foxc-j03.shtml  

http://abcnews.go.com/International/trip-ifactory-nightline-unprecedented-glimpse-inside-apples-chinese/story?id=15748745#.T2FcIszGVr1

 

My concept is about the the manufacturing site Foxconn in Shenzhen, China and it's use of child labor and how poorly their workers are treated.  I also want to emphasize it's connection with Apple because recently an audit was done on Apple and the factories used to create their products and they found that a lot of policies and labor laws were being broken.  I want to change around their facilities section of their website that shows all of the places of the campus and bring to life what they're actually like.  I also want to add in a lot of pictures and information about Foxconn that aren't on the original site.

Photoshopped

My concept is about how excessive Photoshop is being used in the media.  I am going to use a variety of examples to get the point across. There are so many images available on the web that it won't be difficult to find what I need, and besides images I want to have a page that links out to videos about Photoshopped images.  I haven't quite figured out how I will separate the images into categories; but I will have a navigation to each category, the video page with links, and a page with 'The Message' that I am trying to make.  As a template I was thinking about using either a fashion, gossip, or a beauty product website such as these:
http://www.ralphlauren.com/home/index.jsp?ab=global_logo
http://intouchweekly.com/
http://www.lorealusa.com/_en/_us/index.aspx?FROM=WW-Dispatch-LOREAL-CORPORATE

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/index.html
http://cellphoneaddiction.org/
http://www.forbes.com/2008/06/15/cellphone-addict-iphone-tech-wireless08-cx_wt0616addict.html
http://kplr11.com/2012/03/07/nomophobia-cell-phone-addiction-on-the-rise/

I want to address cell phone usage like texting and social networking. I am going to use verizon wireless as the base for my website. The parody is going to be based off that. I want to use humor as a vehicle for truth. I want to change the wording and some of the imagery, but leave some of the site the same.

Parody Site - Amanda

So I didnt want to go the serious route with this design and had just watched Dodgeball (for the billionth time) the other day and was thinking of doing a parody site on obscure/lesser known sports. My husband actually gave me the idea for this. I was thinking of going off of the Dodgeball spoof of ESPN 8 The Ocho.
http://list25.com/the-25-most-obscure-sports-in-the-world/
http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2008/07/30/the-other-olympic-sports/slide/badminton/#badminton
http://espn.go.com/

Jordan - Research

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

http://www.foxnews.com/

http://www.cnn.com/

For this project I plan on redoing a creditable news website into a parody of what the news actually is. My goal is to highlight the fact that many news stations are choosing stories to present as headline that are not the most important to cover up lager problem in our society. I plan on Keeping the same overall look and feel but change the captions and headlines to get my point across.

Vaz_Parody Website

http://www.whatsondalian.com/news-1411-french-child-model-thylane-lena-rose-blondeau-10-sexualized-in-vogue-enfants.html

http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/tv/toddlers-tiaras/toddlers-and-tiaras-pictures.htm

http://www.sodahead.com/living/french-vogues-racy-child-modelstoo-young-to-be-a-magazine-cover-model/question-1438681/

My topic that I want to do the parody website of is toddlers and tiaras. Although I rather enjoy the show because it's entertaining to watch the parents get upset when their child doesn't want to do the pageants and would rather play with their barbies, HOW DARE THEY! I don't think that children that young should be wearing that much of makeup, fake breasts, fake teeth, fake eyelashes, and poofy (sometimes revealing) dresses. I thought that when you were a kid you're supposed to act like a kid and dress up in your Disney attire with barbies everywhere and not wear caked on makeup.

Project 3 Concept

http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/home.html

http://www.mcspotlight.org/case/pretrial/factsheet.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/us/31meat.html?pagewanted=all

My concept is McDonald's and its meat processing system. Also what actually goes into their food, how healthy it is and what this food will do to a person. I want to change this website to show the truth about its food instead of showing pretty pictures of their food. Also change their slogans for things like happy meals and how great their food is.

Jackie_project 3

For my project, I want to focus on animal cruelty in the circus, especially with elephants. Circus acts such as The Ringling Brothers beat them, hit them and jab them with bullhooks. While on the road, the animals are chained up and tied down with ropes and kept in small uncomfortable cages. They also go through violent training sessions. Here are a few websites I am thinking about using. The Ringling Brothers website seems like it using almost all flash, so I don't think I'll be able to use it. I am going to try and use other circus websites and just replace all of the information. Also, the first website on the list is an organization led by the Ringling Brothers to show that they have an elephant center, where they take care of the elephants. I am not sure if this is entirely true, so I might use it as a spoof and put all of the negative information on the site about how cruel they actually are to the elephants.

http://www.elephantcenter.com/

http://splash.bigapplecircus.org/

http://thebutterflycircus.com/

Shoe Website Examples

For my concept I want to relay the message that people in 3rd world countries need shoes. I want to do this by spoofing an expensive shoe company's website.

Here are 3 sites that I have researched that relate to my topic:

TOMS

In Your Shoes

One Day Without Shoes

More ideas

Design Observer is a site really keeping up with the newest trends and lets people share their sites and creativity. This site reaches around the world. It has no age restrictions or boundaries.

Jordan 3- March 13

I found theses images while looking for more inspiration for my logo esign. These are logos designs with interesting letter form designs. There are more interesting designs here.

3.2 million dots

My friend had this posted on his facebook wall and I thought it was very cool. I like pointilism and when I first started learning drawing techniques this was one method that I was very drawn too.

New Internet Explorer Commercial

I saw this commercial on TV over break and really like it for some reason, maybe because of the music.

http://www.youtube.com/user/internetexplorer/featured

Cool Street Art Site

I found this website which is all street art created out in the environment. I think the natural vs. unnatural aspect of this is quite an interesting concept. I like how innovative some of the work is and I enjoy the giant wall spaces being used for large scale art. I think this colored pencil piece is so simple but so innovative at the same time. I love this idea of turning everyday objects into something else and I think we're going to do a little bit of this kind of thinking within the next project.

Pete Fecteau

This is an image of Pete Fecteau working on his design of Martin Luther King Jr. which he created out of Rubik's cubes.  I thought this was pretty interesting and really different.
Here is his blog:
http://petefecteau.com/commission/