Essay Research

Essay Term 2 - Creative Practitioner

• In this essay you should state your pathway choice and explain the personal challenges and opportunities afforded to you by choosing to enter that specific multimedia practice identified,
• Do that through discussion of your work produced this academic year,
• You also need to identify three diverse practitioners,
• Discuss why you have chosen these practitioners. Pay particular reference to particular concepts or ideas that form a conceptual focus, social conscience, visual dramatic work. Perhaps their work is thought-provoking, and innovative in its scope, delivery or execution,
• Finally through examining the work of these practitioners, reflect on your own work.

My pathway will be Online Environments.

Below are a list of website that I've found and gone through while trying to research for my essay. Some links are to sites that include examples of web practitioners -

• http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/28/how-important-is-web-design/
• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/14/web-design-trends-for-2009/
• http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/
• http://carrotcreative.com/
• http://24ways.org/2008/recession-tips-for-web-designers
• http://www.webdesignerwall.com/
  
• http://www.spoongraphics.co.uk/

• http://viewcreative.co.uk/
• http://www.llandudnoattractions.com/
• http://mychoicewrexham.co.uk/
• http://www.theatr-nanog.co.uk/

Summary of the links above -

• View Creative Agency link is a graphic and web design company that I like. Three links to sites they've made have a certain style that I like and use,
• SpoonGraphics is another practitioner that I like and he has a good blog (Check it out - http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/)
• Web Trends - Proof that web design trends are always changing due to the developing of coding and what you make of the tools you already have,
• Interesting article within first web link about how important web design is and does it matter at all? - 'The other question is whether Web design matters at all. At the end of the day, a Web site is going to be successful if it offers a product/service that people want. Aidan Henry had a good post recently looking at Craigslist, which features one of the worst designs in the world - yet people love the service.'
• 24ways website - how the current economy situation can effect career choices we make.

That's it for now. More coming soon. To finish a humours image...