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We Create Identity End Exhibition

By Julia van der Geest
Nov 7th, 2019
At the end of the first module we had a Final Module Expo. At this expo we showcased all of our work from the first module to family and friends. The work shown consisted of our posters made for Visual Communication as well as our interactive video project. It was also an option to show your portfolio webpage and one, or both, of you projects from programming.
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The Expo was organized by a couple of students and was done very well. There was also a prize for the best interactive video and the were some drinks after the Expo. Overall, I really enjoyed it and think it was a great idea to do an Expo. It was very nice to see all the work everybody has done during the first module.

Review other website

By Julia van der Geest
Oct 15th, 2019
As an assignment I wrote a review on the website of Noor. We were supposed to write the review on an other website to which a link was provided. I had to comment on the general informatio, design, content, function and connections. Overall I really liked Noor's website. I noticed she has a contact page which I didn't have yet so I added one myself. I also learned that design of your website doesn't have to be very complex. With this I mean you don't need a big picture on your home page to make it look more interesting. The only thing I think should be improved is the navigation bar.
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If we look at the html code of the homepage we can see she uses a stylesheet from coudflare. She creates her navigation bar within the header and adds seperate links to three different pages using an a href and different classes. Lastly, she added more, a href, links to her social media in the footer.
Here we have a link to the website: Website Noor

Personal touch stylesheet

By Julia van der Geest
Oct 1th, 2019
For my website I did not use a template from the internet. I began with a pretty basic site, which did not have a lot of style. However, my website now has a navigation bar and other nice function. For the navigation bar I used a template I found online on the website ws.schools. I did personalize this template with the colors I wanted and altered the buttons.
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When you hover above the buttons on the navigation bar the backgroundcolor of the button changes. Also, when you are on the portfolio page for example. the button in the navigation bar will turn orange.
.topnav {
background-color: #333;
overflow: hidden;
position: -webkit-stucky;
position: sticky;
top: 0;
margin: 0px;
}
This is the code I used to create the navigation bar. A personal touch I added is 'position: sticky;' which makes it so the bar stays at the top of the page even if you scrolle down.
The following code I used to change the color of the buttons of you hover over them.
.topnav a:hover {
background-color: white; (the code which makes the buttons white when you hover over them)
color: black;(the code which makes the text black when you hover over them)
}.
Another button function I have is the active button function, which makes the button of the page which you are on orange.
The following code was used for that:
.topnav a.active {
background-color: orange; (makes the button orange)
color: white;
}
On the blog page every blog post has a read more button, which I used the temlpate of the professor for.

New addition to Portfolio

By Julia van der Geest
Oct 1th, 2019
As of today my second project is posted on the portfolio page. It is a project I had to do for the course visual communication. The assignment was to write a story out of newspaper headlines and create faces that were based on the key words of the story. Then, using these faces, we had to create a campgane for a big compony. Read more >
I chose to make a campagne for the company Instagram, since the colours in my picture had a lot of similarities with the Instragram logo. Portfolio page

Progress video project

By Julia van der Geest
Sept 25th, 2019
For the video project we have to create an interactive video for the viewer. At this moment my group does not yet have a clear idea of what the video is gone be about. However we do have some ideas and all of them will be filmed as comedies. The first idea is to make it a detective video, where the detective is clumsy. We might make the script without any actual dialoge, but we are not sure yet. Read more >
The second idea was to make it about dating. However, after thinking about it we are not sure if it is gone work as well as we picture it in our heads. We are planning to have made a decision on the video idea by tomorrow.

First addition to portfolio

By Julia van der Geest
Sept 25th, 2019
As of today my first project is posted on the portfolio page. It is a project I had to do for the course visual communication. The assignment was to write a story out of newspaper headlines and create faces that were based on the key words of the stody. Read more >
the story I wrote goes: "The two explorers hit a mysterious box in Walmart with a limitless amount of speed. With nowhere to go a rebel offers new rental scooters to stay out of prison." On the portfolio page I display two of the three faces I created. One of the has to do with prison and being scared (it is the one made out of metal wire). The other one is made with flour and represents the limitles amount of speed. Portfolio page

Website Progress

By Julia van der Geest
Sept 17th, 2019
Right now my website does not yet look like what i want it to look like. However, the picture below show my vision. Read more >
First draft I want my page to look professional and be easy to use. I want to achieve the easy usability with the navigation bar at the top of the page.

Gogbot visit

By Julia van der Geest
Sept 17th, 2019
Last Friday I visited Gogbot with some friends to check out all the art installations Gogbot has to offer. There were two installations that spoke to me the most. One because it irritated me and the other because I think it is a really smart installation. The one that irritated me is called Pink Chicken Project, by Non Human Nonsense. The project basically wanted to turn an entire species of chicken pink to be able to identify the geological era and while doing so protest the current worldwide power structures, which enables people to create a world filled with violence. In my opinion you can protest this without turning an entire species of chicken pink. Furthermore, you can use a Gene Drive for more important stuff like saving a species that is threatened with extinction. Read more >
Gogbot

The installation that interested me the most is called Binary Is For Computers. It is created by students from Creative Technology. It is an interactive installation, which raises the question whether we think as a computer (in black or white), or as humans (with the grey option in the middle). To explain the interactive side, two people enter a room together and have to answer questions where you have to decide between 2 answers. For example, on of the questions was: “ If you could only save one, who would you safe? Your mom or your dad? “. For me this was a question I could not answer, therefore I was thinking in grey. This was very interesting to me since I have always found it hard to make decisions. I have trouble thinking/ making decisions in black and white like computers, I am more drawn to the grey areas.