The Collection: Final

COLLECTION SITE!!!

The Collection: Final Frames

I must say that so far I have really enjoyed this project. It may have to do with the fact that I know the baskets quite well, I have grown up with them ha. The background images are scans of inner liners that come with the baskets. I was also able to find a lot of information pertaining to the anatomy of the baskets through small packets found inside each basket.
My idea is the have the main container only contain. It won't be interactive. The outer boxes framing the main container will contain all of the click-able items that run the site. I plan on using the illustrations in the main container, the photographs in the left container, and the contour icons in the top container. I don't have those finished yet, but I am getting there.

The Collection: First Round Website Pages

The Collection: Visual directions

The Collection: Rendering styles

I started by doing the three obvious rendering options which were to vector, photograph, and illustrate. Once I did this I took my illustrations altered them in order to have more renderings within illustration. I also took my photographs and rendered them in alternate ways. I wanted to see how my rendering would work tiny vs. large as well.

The Collection: Wireframing

My thoughts are that we are going to be designing complex diagrams in order to try and give our audience more in depth knowledge about the subject matter. I want to make a simple interface and navigation in order to provide a practical framework for comprehending the collection.

The Collection: Info Graphic Research and Ideas

Good Magazine is extremely talented at creating visual comparisons with the use of icons. The visuals re-enforce the words and numbers creating a better relationship for better comprehension.








See the Rest of the info graphic here (it's worth it!)

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These are my digital sketches of the ideas below.


My Ideas for Info graphs of mee baskets...
/Poetic vs. Practical Uses (poetic = love notes basket, practical = pen basket, both = golf tees)
/How Longaberger Baskets are made, from birth to function it performs
/Anatomy of a basket
/Time-line: oldest to most recent basket
/Season or Theme of each basket
/Attributes or Characteristics...
type of handle
weaving style
liners
color
nails
accessories

/Iconic shape or contour of form
/List price or worth (highest on eBay)
/Story behind each basket
/Stereotypical person the basket is for (mom = fruit basket, dad = golf tee basket)
/Size, smallest to the largest
/Ugliest to the cutest (according to me)
/Follow the journey of one of the baskets on a map, from homestead (Newark, Ohio) to Kansas city
/Time line showing when the basket is used/loved the most throughout a year(Christmas baskets only come out during Christmas then is stored away in the basement)
/Which baskets are used realistically, and which baskets are not.
/Number within the series of baskets (333/1000)

The Collection: Narrowing Down

So I started with 80 baskets...I know I am crazy. It did give me an opportunity to select the most diverse baskets to keep in my collection though. I wanted to get it down to 20.
The collection kept going, so I had to take this 'panoramic' sort of view of all of them.
It was extremely difficult to start somewhere in order to narrow down. I decided to start with the oldest basket and the newest basket.
Here is a detail view of how I had started to arrange them. As well as by the year I also started looking at similar forms and would pick one of these baskets for the permanent collection.
Here is the permanent collection that consists of the widest spectrum possible using the baskets that I had. The oldest basket was created in 1987 and the most recent was created in 2004. I also tried to pick all different forms, liners, and uses. Some of the baskets have more poetic (love notes) vs. practical (pen pal) use. Each basket has a name/theme/use and each one is dated and signed by the creator (all of them are handwoven).

The Collection: Baskets, Baskets, Baskets!

These are some images of the many Longaberger baskets that my mother collects. I am starting to fall in love with them. Almost all of the baskets have a name and a collection that they belong too. All of the baskets are dated and signed by their creator. They are all handwoven in Dresden, Ohio at the Longaberger Homestead. Some of the baskets even have there number from the series that was made. Pretty cool stuff. I was thinking of these different methods to organize them: year made, maker (by initial), liners, wood, accessories, season or theme, pattern of liner, type of handle, iconic shape or form, the function of the basket (poetic/practical), or size.

Website Process: Its up and running!

Well, it isn't completely perfect by any means. It does function correctly for the most part...check it out! It also functions a little better in Safari vs. Firefox.

Massimo Vignelli vs. Katherine McCoy

Website Process: First Round Markups

I took my navigation bar as sort of a contents page and worked all of the different chapters of my website. I only worked with one gallery, because the only difference between the modernism gallery and the post modernism gallery will be the imagery. All of the functions will be the same. So far the image scrolling and the home page are the most complex in terms of rollovers and links. I started to realize how things could really function after marking these guys up, especially in the image scrolling page. I started to draw out a mini diagram of what the actual structure will start to look like.

Website Process: Vignelli and McCoy

So I started to re-route my concept just a little... I started by ridding everything of color, and I began to work with structure and layout only. The color came later, which I found to be extremely helpful. In terms of the user control, I want them to veiw both essay at the same time. They won't be able to veiw Vignelli's essay without McCoy's essay next to it. The gallery links for each designer can be viewed from the essay page, the gallery page, and the home page. The navigation bar at the top right of the screen will always be available to the user.

Wireframing Concept Presentation

01 / This concept is all about "showcasing" the designer. The user will be able to choose which designer they would like to really focus on. It reveals specific achievements, works, and events that directly correlate to that designer. They won't be able to compare and contrast, but they will be able to 100% focus on one designer.


02 / This concept allows the user to select specific vocabulary pulled from both essays, and directs the user to the part of the essay that contains that word. They are able to start the essay where they want to, instead having to start directly from the beginning. I thought it would be interesting for the user to decide where to start.


03 / This concept shows visually the differences between Vignelli and McCoy with the arrangement of the squares. The user can simultaneously compare the two designers with both essays side by side as well as imagery side by side.



Fun stuff so far...