Personal Website

For the last few weeks i have been working on my personal showcase website, This is how i am going to present my work online in a digital format. As usual i started off designing what i had in mind in my sketch book also begun with looking at what websites i like and why i like them, the one i chose to emulate was this by Dragon Interactive, i love how they used 3d in a traditionally 2D medium like a website is.


Im not exactly new to HTML, but i haven't really utilized CSS before, This project also gave me the opportunity to use my Actionscript knowledge.


Joseph-Eshmade.co.uk - You can view the full interactive version of my website at this URL.

I have enjoyed working on the web as a medium, i have been interested in doing them for a long time but i have to admit the coding part always made me shy away from this line of work and more into print, i am still interested in print and wouldn't mind doing both.

Week long - Team brief

I didn't enjoy this brief quite as much as the other, in some ways we worked well as a team and others we just fell apart, after the first day we just didnt really get in touch with each other again untill the week after when we had to present it to the client (in this case it was Adam). So when we came to actually presenting it we just didnt know what we were talking about and just fall apart basically, our main problem this time was that we 'presented' the idea and didn't pitch it. Since we signed a non disclose agreement i can't really talk about the brief its self, but i found it alot harder than the first because of its specificness, and i didn't really enjoy it.

One Day Breif

This week we have been set a one day brief, the topic of the number '7' and how it related to Britain. This was actually a tough brief but most of us really enjoyed it, we got put into pairs and and had to pitch our ideas to a third party at the end of the day, which was really daunting at first but in hindsight i am so glad we done it this way, it gave us some valuable experience in the design world but also gave us an opportunity to talk about our work to a 'client' which most of us had never done before.

I was teamed up with Mike who had come from another class to do the work with us, i really enjoyed working with him because we could bounce ideas of each other without us both fighting for our idea to prevail over the others. In the end we actually blended a few of our previous ideas together in a non obvious way.

Our final idea for this project, the one we pitched was to have 7 men sitting on the tube ignoring the world around them, ignoring each other whilst reading the papers, and on the front of those papers we have the 'Seven British Sins' such as 'Obese' and 'Sarcasm'.

Our pitch went very well which was surprising seeing as thought we didn't have time to organize it, we bounced off each other in the pitch whilst also delivering all he infomation to the clients.