OUGD505 Design Practice 2_Studio Brief 3

The Witches of Eastwick

Plot
All three previously married but now single, best friends sculptress Alex Medford, cellist Jane Spofford and writer Sukie Ridgemont are feeling emotionally and sexually repressed, in large part due to the traditional mores overriding their small New England coastal town of Eastwick. After their latest conversation lamenting about the lack of suitable men in Eastwick and describing the qualities they are looking for in a man, mysterious Daryl Van Horne and his equally mysterious butler Fidel arrive in town. Despite being vulgar, crude, brazen and not particularly handsome, Daryl manages to be able to tap into the innermost emotions of the three friends, and as such manages to seduce each. In turn, the three women blossom emotionally and sexually. After an incident involving one of the town's leading citizens, the ultra conservative Felicia Alden, the three women begin to understand how and why Daryl is able to mesmerise them so fully. The three decide to experiment with some powers...

Trailer

Cast 
Jack Nicholson - Daryl Van Horne
Cher - Alexandra Medford
Susan Sarandon - Jane Spofford
Michelle Pfeiffer - Sukie Ridgemont
Veronica Cartwright - Felicia Alden
Richard Jenkins - Clyde Alden

Crew

George Miller - Director

Neil Canton - Producer

Jon Peters - Producer

Peter Guber - Producer

Don Devlin - Exec Producer

John Williams - Score/Music

Studio

Guber-Peters Company

Distribution

Warner Bros

Box Office

$63,766,510

Running Time

118 mins

Release Date

12 June 1987

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BlaithinCarline

Website/Portfolio layout
For this website it is important to show snippets of each project because there are multiple images per project, the best way to do this is to use thumbnails as it gives the viewer a little teaser of what's on the page. I selected some of my favourite design website that include thumbnail to get ideas about layout. Because the website is based on a pre coded template there isn't much I can change in terms of layout but it is good to know what is out there and what is possible. 

I prefer the thumbnails to be a consistent size throughout, it just means that no emphasis is put on any project more than the other. The navigation along the top seems like the best option because it's out of the way and leaves the full width of the page to a grid of images.

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Monotype_The Big Issue

Pangrams

A pangram or holoalphabetic sentence for a given alphabet is a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once. Pangrams have been used to display typefaces, test equipment, and develop skills in handwriting, calligraphy, and keyboarding. The best known English pangram is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

Others include:

• Nymphs blitz quick vex dwarf jog. (27 letters)
• DJs flock by when MTV ax quiz prog. (27 letters) (2 abbreviations and a US spelling)
• Big fjords vex quick waltz nymph. (27 letters)
• Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymph. (27 letters)
• Waltz job vexed quick frog nymphs. (28 letters) (new variation on 29 letter version)
• Junk MTV quiz graced by fox whelps. (28 letters) (Includes abbreviation)
• Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymphs. (28 letters)
• Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex! (28 letters)
• Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud! (28 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• Fox nymphs grab quick-jived waltz. (28 letters)
• Brick quiz whangs jumpy veldt fox. (28 letters)
• Glib jocks quiz nymph to vex dwarf. (28 letters)
• Bright vixens jump; dozy fowl quack. (29 letters)
• Vexed nymphs go for quick waltz job. (29 letters)
• Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim. (29 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• Quick zephyrs blow, vexing daft Jim. (29 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• Quick blowing zephyrs vex daft Jim. (29 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow! (29 letters) (Used by Adobe InDesign when providing samples of all fonts.)
• Sex-charged fop blew my junk TV quiz. (29 letters) (Includes abbreviation)
• Both fickle dwarves jinx my pig quiz. (30 letters)
• Fat hag dwarves quickly zap jinx mob. (30 letters)
• Hick dwarves jam blitzing foxy quip. (30 letters)
• Fox dwarves chop my talking quiz job. (30 letters)
• Public junk dwarves quiz mighty fox. (30 letters)
• Jack fox bids ivy-strewn phlegm quiz. (30 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• How quickly daft jumping zebras vex. (30 letters)
• Two driven jocks help fax my big quiz. (30 letters)
• "Now fax quiz Jack!" my brave ghost pled. (30 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• Jack, love my big wad of sphinx quartz! (30 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• Do wafting zephyrs quickly vex Jumbo? (31 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• Go, lazy fat vixen; be shrewd, jump quick. (31 letters)
• Fickle jinx bog dwarves spy math quiz. (31 letters)
• Big dwarves heckle my top quiz of jinx. (31 letters)
• Fickle bog dwarves jinx empathy quiz. (31 letters)
• Public junk dwarves hug my quartz fox. (31 letters)
• Jumping hay dwarves flock quartz box. (31 letters)
• Five jumping wizards hex bolty quick. (31 letters)
• Five hexing wizard bots jump quickly. (31 letters)
• Quick fox jumps nightly above wizard. (31 letters)
• Vamp fox held quartz duck just by wing. (31 letters)
• Five quacking zephyrs jolt my wax bed. (31 letters) (Used by Mac OS X when previewing TrueType fonts.)
• The five boxing wizards jump quickly. (31 letters) (Used by XXDiff as sample text)
• Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. (31 letters) (Used by Microsoft Windows XP when previewing some non-TrueType/OpenType fonts. It is interesting that the set of digits afterwards omits the numeral 7.)
• Show mangled quartz flip vibe exactly. (32 letters)
• My jocks box, get hard, unzip, quiver, flow. (32 letters)
• Kvetching, flummoxed by job, W. zaps Iraq. (32 letters) (Includes proper nouns)
• My ex pub quiz crowd gave joyful thanks. (32 letters)
• Cozy sphinx waves quart jug of bad milk. (32 letters)
• A very bad quack might jinx zippy fowls. (32 letters) (Contains all 26 letters in lower case)
• Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. (32 letters) (Used for font samples in the catalog of the Kelsey Press Company, by Beagle Bros and in Space Shuttle; featured in Ella Minnow Pea)
• Few quips galvanized the mock jury box. (32 letters)
• Quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. (32 letters) (Not attested as frequently as the traditional, and better-formed, The quick brown fox..., below).
• Jumpy halfling dwarves pick quartz box. (33 letters)
• Schwarzkopf vexed Iraq big-time in July. (33 letters) (Includes proper nouns)
• Vex quest wizard, judge my backflop hand. (33 letters)
• The jay, pig, fox, zebra and my wolves quack! (33 letters)
• Blowzy red vixens fight for a quick jump. (33 letters)
• Sex prof gives back no quiz with mild joy. (33 letters) (Includes abbreviation)
• The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. (33 letters) (A variant of the better-known, but longer, version with the in place of a, below.)
• A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. (33 letters) (This variation contains all 26 letters in lower case)
• Quest judge wizard bonks foxy chimp love. (34 letters)
• Boxers had zap of gay jock love, quit women. (34 letters, each consonant used only once)
• Joaquin Phoenix was gazed by MTV for luck. (34 letters) (Includes proper nouns and abbreviation)
• JCVD might pique a sleazy boxer with funk.^[2] (34 letters) (Includes abbreviation of proper noun)
• Quizzical twins proved my hijack-bug fix. (34 letters)
• Fix problem quickly with galvanized jets. (35 letters)
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. (35 letters) (Used to test typewriters and computer keyboards, and as sample text; famous for its coherency, dating back to 1888. Sometimes quoted with "jumped", but this is not a pangram, omitting S.)
• Waxy and quivering, jocks fumble the pizza. (35 letters)
• When zombies arrive, quickly fax judge Pat. (35 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• Heavy boxes perform quick waltzes and jigs. (36 letters)
• Thieving Jews quickly formed big prize tax. (36 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• A wizard's job is to vex chumps quickly in fog. (36 letters)
• Sympathizing would fix Quaker objectives. (36 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• Pack my red box with five dozen quality jugs. (36 letters)
• BlewJ's computer quiz favored proxy hacking. (37 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• Quads of blowzy fjord ignite map vex'd chicks. (37 letters)
• Fake bugs put in wax jonquils drive him crazy. (37 letters)
• Watch "Jeopardy!", Alex Trebek's fun TV quiz game. (37 letters) (Includes proper nouns and abbreviation)
• GQ jock wears vinyl tuxedo for showbiz promo. (37 letters) (Includes abbreviation)
• The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs. (37 letters)
• Who packed five dozen old quart jugs in my box? (37 letters)
• Woven silk pyjamas exchanged for blue quartz. (38 letters) (Used for font samples by Scribus)
• Brawny gods just flocked up to quiz and vex him. (38 letters)
• Twelve ziggurats quickly jumped a finch box. (38 letters)
• Prating jokers quizzically vexed me with fibs. (39 letters)
• My faxed joke won a pager in the cable TV quiz show. (39 letters) (Includes abbreviation)
• The quick onyx goblin jumps over the lazy dwarf. (39 letters) (From flavor text in a card in the Magic: the Gathering card game^[3])
• The lazy major was fixing Cupid's broken quiver. (39 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes. (40 letters) (only 5 words – fewer than all others in this list)
• Foxy diva Jennifer Lopez wasn't baking my quiche. (41 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• Cozy lummox gives smart squid who asks for job pen. (41 letters) (Used for font samples by the Macintosh, post-System 7, as well as on certain Palm products)
• By Jove, my quick study of lexicography won a prize. (41 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• Painful zombies quickly watch a jinxed graveyard. (42 letters)
• Fax back Jim's Gwyneth Paltrow video quiz. (42 letters) (Includes proper nouns)
• My girl wove six dozen plaid jackets before she quit. (43 letters)
• Then a cop quizzed Mick Jagger's ex-wives briefly. (43 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• Six big devils from Japan quickly forgot how to waltz. (44 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• "Who am taking the ebonics quiz?", the prof jovially axed. (44 letters)
• Why shouldn't a quixotic Kazakh vampire jog barefoot? (44 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• Grumpy wizards make a toxic brew for the jovial queen. (44 letters)
• Sixty zips were quickly picked from the woven jute bag. (45 letters)
• Big July earthquakes confound zany experimental vow. (45 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• Foxy parsons quiz and cajole the lovably dim wiki-girl. (45 letters)
• Cute, kind, jovial, foxy physique, amazing beauty? Wowser! (45 letters)
• Have a pick: twenty-six letters — no forcing a jumbled quiz! (46 letters)
• A very big box sailed up then whizzed quickly from Japan. (46 letters)
• Battle of Thermopylae: Quick javelin grazed wry Xerxes. (46 letters) (Includes proper nouns)
• Jack quietly moved up front and seized the big ball of wax. (47 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• Few black taxis drive up major roads on quiet hazy nights. (47 letters)
• Just poets wax boldly as kings and queens march over fuzz. (47 letters)
• Bored? Craving a pub quiz fix? Why, just come to the Royal Oak! (47 letters) (Used to advertise a pub quiz in Bowness-on-Windermere)
• Quincy Pondexter blocked five jams against the Wizards! (47 letters) (Includes proper nouns)
• Crazy Frederick bought many very exquisite opal jewels. (48 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• A quivering Texas zombie fought republic linked jewelry. (48 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• The job of waxing linoleum frequently peeves chintzy kids. (49 letters)
• Back in June we delivered oxygen equipment of the same size. (49 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• Just keep examining every low bid quoted for zinc etchings. (49 letters) (Used in many type specimen books for letterpress printers)
• How razorback-jumping frogs can level six piqued gymnasts! (49 letters) (Used for font samples by the Macintosh, System 7 era)
• A quick movement of the enemy will jeopardize six gunboats. (49 letters)
• All questions asked by five watched experts amaze the judge. (49 letters)
• The wizard quickly jinxed the gnomes before they vaporized. (50 letters)
• Quirky spud boys can jam after zappisg five worthy Polysixes. (52 letters) (Includes proper noun)
• Grumpy wizards make toxic brew for the evil queen and Jack. (Includes proper noun) Used by Google Fonts

OUGD505 Design Practice- The space race research

U.S.S.R
The rocket and space program of the USSR, initially boosted by the assistance of captured scientists from the advanced German rocket program was performed mainly by Soviet engineers and scientists after 1955, and was based on some unique Soviet and Imperial Russian theoretical developments, many derived by Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovskii, sometimes known as the father of theoretical astronautics. Sergey Korolyov (also transliterated as Korolev) was the head of the principal design group; his official title was "chief designer" (a standard title for similar positions in the USSR). Unlike its American competitor in the "space race", which had NASA as a single coordinating agency, the USSR's program was split among several competing design groups led by Korolyov,Mikhail Yangel, Valentin Glushko, and Vladimir Chelomei.

Because of the program's classified status, and for propaganda value, announcements of the outcomes of missions were delayed until success was certain, and failures were sometimes kept secret. Ultimately, as a result of Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost in the 1980s, many facts about the space program were declassified. Notable setbacks included the deaths of Korolyov, Vladimir Komarov(in the Soyuz 1 crash), and Yuri Gagarin (on a routine fighter jet mission) between 1966 and 1968, and disastrous experiences with the huge N-1 rocket intended to power a manned lunar landing, and which exploded shortly after launch on each of four unmanned tests.

The Soviet Space Program was dissolved with the fall of the Soviet Union, with Russia and Ukraine becoming its immediate heirs. Russia created the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, now known as the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos),

Sputnik

Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was a 58 cm (23 in) diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas that broadcasted radio pulses. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was visible all around the Earth and its radio pulses were detectable. The surprise success precipitated the American Sputnik crisis and triggered the Space Race, a part of the larger Cold War. The launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments.

Sputnik itself provided scientists with valuable information. The density of the upper atmosphere could be deduced from its drag on the orbit, and the propagation of its radio signals gave information about the ionosphere.

 The Sputnik launch also led directly to the creation of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In July 1958, Congress passed the National Aeronautics and Space Act (commonly called the "Space Act"), which created NASA as of October 1, 1958 from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and other government agencies. 

U.S.S.R Space Programmes

Vostok programme
The Vostok programme was a Soviet human spaceflight project to put the first Soviet citizens into low Earth orbit and return them safely. Competing with the United States Project Mercury, it succeeded in placing the first human, Yuri Gagarin, into space, in a single orbit in Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961. The Vostok capsule was developed from the Zenit spy satellite project and adapted the Vostok launch rocket from the existing R-7 Semyorka intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) design. The name "Vostok" was treated as classified information until Gagarin's flight was first publicly disclosed to the world press.

The programme carried out six manned spaceflights between 1961 and 1963. The longest flight lasted nearly five days, and the last four were launched in pairs, one day apart. This exceeded Project Mercury's demonstrated capability of just over 34 hours longest flight, and single missions.

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Dialogue

Visual Research 

Kim Jon Un
The idea is to represent the censorship and control of dialogue he has over North Korea through illustrating him with many eyes. Censorship can be visually represented in many ways;

Manipulation

This method uses multiple methods to change an the image or censor it, it can be done using a scanner, edited code or simply on Photoshop.

Obvious Censorship
This can include the blocking out of dialogue using large black boxes to make the word or image unreadable.

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Dialogue_Exhibition

The Brief
The objective is to encourage contributions for a week long, non profit pop up print exhibition and shop that will be held at the Leeds Corn Exchange between March 28th and April 4th 2014.

The theme of the exhibition is 'dialogue' where each creative will submit a design that will be used in a blind collaboration. Contributors must be open to their submissions being manipulated through the use of print and the match making process, that will pair the two submissions together. This will create a series of screen-printed artworks that will be displayed throughout the running of the exhibition.

Response

My first port of call is to initially research further into the words dialogue and communication looking further afield.

Dialogue

A literary and theatrical form consisting of a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people.

Communication

The activity of conveying information through the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, visuals, signals, writing, or behaviour. It is the meaningful exchange of information between two or more living creatures.

From these two definitions and the basic understanding I have of the words and subject, I decided to create a spider diagram that acted as a word association to see how far I can push the subject and how far the word communication would lead me. 

I felt the words I came up with through this exercise were kind of generic and obvious, I think something more obscure would work better and enable me to create a response that's more unique to the responses they'll already be receiving. 

As opposed to looking at what communication is, I had the idea of looking at the issues and problems of communication/ dialogue we face in modern living such as; censorship, hacking, manipulation, broken communication and how it misguides people.

North Korea

There is a curious quirk on every official North Korean website. A piece of programming that must be included in each page's code. Its function is straightforward but important. Whenever leader Kim Jong-un is mentioned, his name is automatically displayed ever so slightly bigger than the text around it. Not by much, but just enough to make it stand out.

George Orwell 1984

"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past" 

I feel this quote relates highly to the dictatorship of Kim Jong-un and what is happening in North Korea with censorship and control over the dialogue and communication. 

The plan is to manipulate/censor images or text to misguide the viewer similar to what happens in North Korea