Reflection 5: What I've learned and What I still need to figure out

Well, I now have a project with a name: SPIRALISM and I have my service hours taken care of. Well, at least planned for! YAY!


Regarding my project:
-It will be spiral based although I am still trying to figure out layout...
-I have the color schemes: blues, purples, white and light orange for accent colors


What I need to figure out or learn:
Can a spiral navigation path work within a website? Thinking beyond the box of the screen, how can I make it both organic, yet logical?
How do I create a short organic flash movie that opens and closes without input from the user? The open part is easy, what I am having a little trouble figuring out is the closing...
How can I utilize CSS to do all of this? Flash movie/html but the rest using CSS/HTML?
Do I have enough spiral images?

Note: Re: Service Hours

All of my service hours will be spent assisting a MFA candidate/local artist (Drek Davis) in digitially documenting his work and developing his online portfolio.

I anticipate that this project will go much farther than 10 hours... with anticipated website launch on may 20th. A prototype will be available for viewing by the end of the semester; however, content, an online gallery, etc. will still need additional work.

Emily Giles will also be assisting in formatting and converting images.

Reflection 4: Class project and inspiration

So our class project was to find a website and an object (which could be photographed) which inspires us in terms of design. Inspiration is a really hard thing for me to define in such limited terms, although I am inspired on a regular basis. In fact, I'm full of ideas which are refractions and reflections of objects I see, ideas from people that I meet, words in conversation,etc. I am seriously considering changing my project from something color related to a website on spirals. I would like to build a whole website around a spiral. What do you think?


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For the purposes of this homework assignment I wrote:
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Wow, inspiration is one of the hardest things to define...

I find inspiration in a lot of different places. In many ways I am inspired by spiral imagery, both physical and symbolic, in a terms of design and my artwork.

The first photo is a few spiral paperclips scattered on a piece of paper. What I like about them are the simple shapes (triangle, square, circle) and colors (red, green, blue).
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I am not exactly sure why I am so drawn to spirals. Perhaps, it is the natural elements and the old golden rule of mathematics (they are both orderly yet creative)...or perhaps, it is their use in celtic imagery...

Here are a few interesting websites I found about spirals.



A very mathematical description of spirals
Celtic symbolism
celtic spirals
Spirals in Nature, science & art


...and of course...
fractals

Sacred Symbolism: The golden rule & more