1st idea: I will create an interactive, hyper-text version of Molly McCully Brown’s collection of poems, choosing bits of writing from the entire collection and mapping them in interesting new ways. If the technology allows, I will create this on a background of a rough-drawn map of the Virginia State Colony, having sections of…
The idea that I’m most interested in pursuing is creating a video where I combine clips from the movie trailers from the 50 Shades of Grey series and break up the clips with text that gives statistics, quotes, and, possibly, personal journal entries on domestic abuse. At the end of the video, I was thinking…
I chose to write a post analyzing the landing page for Ugly Duckling Presse. Ugly Duckling Presse is a small press, a “nonprofit publisher for poetry, translation, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and books by artists. “ I was not exactly sure what to make of the landing page when I first arrived. It is very…
Poets & Writers is “the nation’s largest nonprofit organization serving creative writers” (Poets & Writers). I chose to look at their website because I have subscribed to their bimonthly magazine for the past two years. The magazine offers a wide variety of content such as articles on current literary trends, debut authors, and writing advice,…
I spent a lot of time this summer helping with the food photography for Fork Knife Teeth, my sister’s food blog. I’m partial to it because the recipes are good, because of my time holding up large pieces of white paper to reflect sunlight for a better shot, and because I think it looks nice,…
The first thing a visitor sees when they navigate to ITX’s website is “you”. This is a popular marketing ploy, because, of course, addressing the target audience directly by pasting a giant YOU to a homepage is sure to get their attention. ITX is an Information Technology company, so their marketing goal is to be…
As current president of Susquehanna University’s Her Campus chapter and previous senior editor, I’ve logged many hours creating and exploring content on hercampus.com. This online website is similar to Buzzfeed in both design and text content, however, Her Campus specifically targets incoming, current, and recently graduated college women with their content tailored to this audience….
Geoguessr is an online geographically-based game where a player (or multiple players) is placed in a random place on Google Streetview, and they have to figure out where they are and pinpoint it on a map. So say, for instance, you are placed a somewhere with a western landscape. You might recognize that you’re in…
An earlier post discussed YouTube’s home page and the way it displays video content in order to draw users in and keep them there as long as possible. As an avid consumer of YouTube videos, I found myself wondering how the YouTube website differed from the app, and how the design choices of each altered…
The webpage for the Broadway musical “Hamilton” is almost as innovative and intriguing as the musical itself. Once you open the site, you’re greeted with the musical’s logo – a mustard yellow background, the silhouette of a star (four prongs of a basic star and a man pointing upward to symbolize the top and fifth…