If you haven’t been paying attention, Jason Santa Maria has been pushing the curve with his personal website lately.
He writes in his latest post about something dear to my heart, as it relates to where I want to take our university web templates.
“I’m trying to maintain a fairly tight visual identity, while exploring the flexibility for change under time, technical, and visual limitations. The point is to find variation within constraints.”
“In the scope of this site, I’m defining art direction as bringing the visual design into the fold as an equal partner to the content, while maintaining a consistent overall identity. When a newspaper runs a special feature, they may flex the layout a bit differently, add imagery or typefaces to evoke a mood present in the writing, or merely to reinforce the story. When a magazine has a feature on a topic, they might do the same thing. It isn’t always groundbreaking, but it’s treated like something speci...
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It all starts with copyFrom: collegewebguy.com
Post Date: 2008-03-21 10:27:23
As if I’ve got nothing better to do, I’ve been following the William & Mary web redesign effort via the blog and the dedicated project website .
Very jealously, mind you. The efforts they seem to be expending to involve their constituents and keep them aware of the redesign process are going to pay dividends.
…from the initial concepts offered up my mStoner , through the amazing news and events design preview and down to today’s post previewing the n...
more Panel That Featured University Design at SXSWFrom: collegewebguy.com
Post Date: 2008-03-18 12:08:28
I had a pleasant surprise at South By Southwest Interactive in Austin, when I attended a morning session called: “ Everyone’s a Design Critic ”. I made a special effort to overcome the time-change and see the panel because one of the presenters was Jason Santa Maria , a designer I’ve kept up with for several years that maintains a blog about his experiences with web design.
The great unexpected part, was that the case study of his presentation centered around the way he approach...
more Getting University News Picked Up by Google NewsFrom: collegewebguy.com
Post Date: 2008-04-01 04:48:45
If you work with PR people who aren’t concerned as much about web, instead burying their heads in local newspapers and regional television, you should show them a recent survey :
More Americans turning to Web for News
Nearly half of the 1,979 people who responded to the survey said their primary source of news and information is the Internet, up from 40 percent just a year ago. Less than one third use television to get their news, while 11 percent turn to radio and 10 percent t...
more My First CASE Conference, in Little RockFrom: collegewebguy.com
Post Date: 2008-04-04 06:59:04
My university is in Little Rock, Arkansas, so it was pretty much a given that my boss would sign up everybody in the office for a CASE Conference , which will be held next week a few short miles from campus.
The schedule looks interesting. And I’ll probably meet fellow college-web-people from my region . In fact I’m supposed to moderate a roundtable discussion on Tuesday, early in the morning. And by early, I mean ridiculously early. 7:30 - 9:00 am. So I might be the ...
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