ICA Festival

Yes I took a picture of the vacuum cleaner to show that I cleaned the floors. Helped in making sure the computers had their wallpapers properly.

Spent the fist portion of the day helping where I could with the website amendments.  The rest was helping in drilling and fixing wooden panels that would be holding the curtains on the walls. We went around each room and did them all so they are ready when the other half needs to be hammered on. We will continue next monday

We retouched the circles by sanding away the extra parts and filing in the faded areas of the black. We also applied another coat of black to the black strips and once dried, using a hair dryer we removed the masking tape and touched up the defected areas. I also helped the fine arts create some stickers they will be using, they needed the fonts so I just created what they needed on my laptop to avoid any problems.

Spent the first hour of the day selling raffle tickets, we sold a total of 80 tickets amounting to a mega magnificent 40 euros Next we removed all the paint from the floor in one of the rooms and cleaned it as best we could with tinner and again with water to remove the smell. We then spent the rest of the day painting in dots. This was a very tedious process and some of the circles painted needed some heavy retouching. But will work on them again the next day

The Majority of the day was spent sanding the walls and prepping them for paint, we spent a few good hours getting dirty until someone told us that a dedicated person was coming to do it for us. We could have completed other things but at least we got going and made the job a little faster for the other people.

We created a draft for the events page that will be held at the ICA Festival. as of yet no menu text was implemented that would allow one to actually get to it as we still need to get the go ahead from the higher ups. Upon entering the page events will be displayed one on top of another, all of which are sorted by date. When entering a specific even, all information relevant to this event will be displayed, including a description, time, date and location among others.

The art direction team wanted to implement the date in the header image and also create a more obvious like button that would is displayed on the front page. There was some debate on the colour of the like button in regards to the brands colour scheme but we opted to go for the peach in hopes of keeping consistency throughout the website.

Blog Images had to be amended on each post so we had to communicate with the marketing team to get the new images. We changed the images with the lines to one without, this way the blog text implemented by the wordpress theme will be visible.  To change the post image just go into the post on the word press admin panel and click the featured image widget.

We created the Blog page where we can display posts relevant to the ICA Festival. The posts will be structured in 4 columns.  Each post will display a thumbnail, date, title, short description, and some other details. Upon Clicking, users will be allowed to view the content provided and also leave a reply on the post at hand. To access and create posts, all you have to do is go into the admin panel and under tab post, hit add new.

We developed the Landing, Blog & Contact Page. We still didn't get a full look with the art direction but in text, they do seem happy with it. The blog still needs to be filled up with little more posts to be effective and actually fill in on row seeing as it has to be by 4 now. One little thing we need to amend by then are the social links on the blog page which aren't working properly. We will speak next week and look at the next step.

Post last meeting we discussed that the website will be launching by the end of march and that we would require a landing page that would direct the users to this years festival. We discussed what would actually be implemented in the website during this launch. About Blog Event Countdown Section providing the "It all starts here concept" We also learnt that we have to work on a 4 column grid system to keep consistency between all brand collateral both printed and digital. This means that there needs to be some reworks in the templates. Next step is to produce at least the start of the landing page till next Friday to clear up any errors that may arise.

I started researching several web templates that would allow us to create, build and maintain several pages of the website; mainly schedule, networking connections, schedule, projects and merchandise. I selected and defined what what needed and created the wire frames for ours. Researching Url's http://conference-template.webflow.io/ http://www.shindiristudio.com/timelinewp/demo/style1-dover/ https://www.upwork.com/o/jobs/browse/c/design-creative/?page=2&sort=client_total_charge%2Bdesc Wire Frames - Schedule Networking Event Merchandise Project Briefs We will discuss the feasibility next week with the rest of the team and later with the head honchos.

After some debate I created the wire frame of the front page which would hold the most relevant information of the whole website. It gives a variety of options the user can see which will allow them to have a good idea on what the website consists of as a whole. I am assuming that as we have no content we will start off with a splash page and implement each section separately as the content is given. I will create the next wire frames later after I have confirmed this with the team.

We spoke with Alisa to get a brief rundown of what the website needs to hold. We created a google docs in order to hold all points and have it relatively easy to communicate all relevant material. The Website has to be up and running as soon as possible so aspects of the websites, such as the ticket system and bookings can wait till a later date but the basic features need to be implemented soon. Google Doc Points Pages needed, 12: Home About - the festival About Map awards Events - newsletter Schedule Lineup Workshops Talks Networking Connections Blog Section run by community Projects - freelance brief Merch Front page sections: Banner featuring main events This month's chosen work section Bottom Social media icons Ticket system Create account login Register Admin can post Students can post - needs approval I suggest that the next step is to create a wire frame of the website to get an ide...

This week we where told the chosen concept, ICA Festival. We where runner ups which stung a litte. Truth be told I don't know how the ICA festival got choosen, not because it had bad branding or boring interactivity but rather the logical aspect of he exhibition itself. 5 years -> other years can't express themselves plus we have to cater our work to be relevant for 5 years.Past is Past. We spent the rest of the day creating our teams and department. I choose interactive as there two major elements that needed to be created, the website and app. The interactive team further split into two groups to work on the elements individually. The website team held me, Jean and Steve whilst the app team held Nik, Thomas, Christine, Ryan and Rose. I am quite please with the turnout as the app will probably require much more work and having extra minds can help a lot. Thomas was also appointed team leader.