ASSIGNMENT 2 (25% of grade)
MOVING TO HTML AND SATISFYING ME
October 2005
S M Tu W Th F S
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
^assigned
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
^possible showing for comments (prof will score & comment)
^possible showing for comments (prof will score & comment)
FALL BREAK
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
^final in-class demo of work and prof scoring
Rules of the Assignment:
You are to deliver a three-page site.
You will produce this page in HTML using a lot of photoshop,
and place it on the hilton.cec webserver in your
account so that it can be viewed live during classes.
Your URL should be ending in .htm or .html and should not contain
any spaces or special characters.
You will work in groups of size three, and none of your teammates was a
teammate on assignment 1.
You will be graded as a team and the expectation is that there will
be equal contribution to the design from each person.
You may seek help from others or from the TA, but the expectation is
that you will be presenting your own work that is the product of your
own mind and your own effort.
Design Problem:
This site is to recognize the art of Camille Claudel, a
French sculptor who was active at the turn of the 20th Century
(who incidentally is one of of your professor's favorite people in
the history...).
You may choose any one of the following main messages:
Camille Claudel was a witch (this is either
good or bad, your choice).
Camille Claudel was Auguste Rodin's peer.
Camille Claudel was Auguste Rodin's student.
Camille Claudel was a genius, like Frida Kahlo.
Visit the Camille Claudel exhibit in Detroit before February!
Free the Claudel works from the Rodin Museum!
You are to produce a (splash page for a mock) web-site
and two subordinate pages of your own choosing. How the
subordinate pages relate to the main page is your choice.
You may grab images and text from any source on web. Or you can scan
anything you find. You should be very careful not to include "wrong"
content, such as sculpture based on one of Rodin's other models.
Remember that your school's administrators are conservative in their
visual tastes, and we are dealing with French period sculpture here.
While I think anyone who has a problem with pictures of Rodin's scultpure
should check what Century we are living in, I recognize the ability of the
University to make my life difficult when people complain. With this
sentence, students who violate decency norms on campus will be responsible
for their transgressions!
You should make ample use of text and make a decision about what content
to include, not just how to include it.
Your page must link (at the bottom is ok) text to any place where you
took text, images, or visual inspiration!
Some questions you might ask yourself:
Sculpture pictures don't have a lot of color, do they?
Can my graphic design coexist with another artist's forms?
How can I make my content look fresh, considering that
there are only so many pictures of Camille, and only
a limited number of works that survive?
Is there some message we can choose that we can
convey better than any of the others?
How much French? French looks beautiful -- can
we use it? Can I get away with written French that
isn't from her actual hand?
People who might be interested in Camille Claudel
tend to be ... what kind of people?
If we build out two pages, which may be two examples
of five pages that are all children, what should they
be? Gallery? Bio? Ho-hum. Is there an innovative
way to organize the information I have?
How can I get more info about Camille? Hint: borrow
the dvd from the library and screen grab.
Your sites will be judged by ME.