Ruairi Murphy's Website!

So I decided to check out Ruairi's website to see how he would design his own site. Looks good Ruairi! Very to the point and it shows off your work nicely! I like the little static box at the top!

http://ruairimurphy.com

This weekend I'm headed to Edinburgh so hopefully I'll get some good photos for the Visual Communications class!

Also downloaded Zotero to my laptop and it really is a cool tool! Hope everyone is using it for their Research Methods class!



HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! Kinda reminds me of Edinburgh!

Design blogs!

http://designheaven.wordpress.com/category/interior-design/

I came across this blog for Interior Designers while researching for my documentary! Cool site! I never realized just how many people are blogging and the useful information that they can often provide! Loved this renovated church! Also I visited the Brown Thomas website and found it horrible to use! It wasn't a very easy site to use and I ended up doing like Ruairi said people do and clicked out before I'd seen a thing! Probably for the better anyway.... what a site like Brown Thomas is selling...this student shouldn't be buying!

Anyway Happy Friday!

Helvetica!!!

Well I was very surprised that my choice of fonts for this site does not include Helvetica!!! Shocking! I liked the documentary. It really mad me aware of just how much Helvetica is used! I have to say I like it as well. I have always love the Crate and Barrel signage and it is...take a wild guess....HELVETICA! I think of the dishes and furniture etc. in Crate and Barrel to be very classic and I see the font in this light as well. Also Gap seems quite classic as far as clothing style goes and they use Helvetica in their ads, signage, etc. Helvetica even goes high fashion with signage for Fendi! Who knew?!

My only issue with it is seeing Helvetica on a lovely crate and barrel add and thinking about beautiful dishes....and then seeing Helvetica on a sign pointing out a toilet...just takes a bit of the class out of it for me.

Ace Hotel Website

http://www.acehotel.com/

I love the home page of this site. All of the images give a sense about the area while still focusing on the interiors of the hotel. It tells a story with the images and isn't your typical hotel website. It has character! Together the images and fonts look great! The only font I'm not crazy about it the font along the side that says Ace Hotel. I would have put that in the grid in a font like the others in the grid. Anyway maybe I'll get to stay in this place one day!

My first Weblog

As a Graduate student at Griffith College Dublin studying Applied Digital Media, this is my blog to keep up with the world of Internet design and anything related!

I first got interested in web design when my former company took to revamping their web page. We got to work hand in hand with the man creating the site for us. He really didn't have much experience in web design, but knew how to get the page up and running.

Helping to put this site together really spiked my interest in web design.

www.kitchendistributorsinc.com