Categotry Archives: Polytechnic Assignments

Three Online Resources for keeping up to date with Mobile Web Developments

In this article we will be covering 3 useful resources for web developers wishing to keep up with the latest developments in Mobile Web. Whether we are developing for iPhone, Android or any of the other platforms out there it is vital we keep up to date with current developments and trends. These three sites will help us do exactly… (more…)

Learning Goals for this Year

This year I continue my studies into web design at Polytechnic Launceston. I am doing my Diploma of Interactive Digital Media specialising in Mobile Development. It is my aim this year to learn many of the aspects of designing for mobile through the development of up to half a dozen different mobile apps. I will still be furthering my “normal”… (more…)

Three Free or Open Source Mobile App Design Programs

Today I thought I would share three interesting tools for developing Phone Apps for users of varying levels of experience. All of these tools are free or open source programs. These three Phone App development tools are great for what they are designed to do. However each has its own natural limitations. Some requires some skill to use others do… (more…)

Studentworks Mockup

In this assessment we had to create a mockup of a website to be developed in Joomla for Studentworks. Studentworks is a non-profit organisation which gives 14 – 16 year old student a more hands on teaching experience. This is the front page/landing page for the site mock-up I did. For this assessment I started using multiple page layouts in… (more…)

Mole Creek Primary Design Mock-up

Well I’m lost for words on this one. Definately not my best work. Personally I think I took a bad design and worked too long on it. End result it went from bad to even worse. Really not happy with it but here it is too show you what a failure can really look like.

Update and Innovate Logo: Chapter One

The update and innovate logo I use on all my projects these days started of during an assessment where we had to create a hero shot we would use on a website for our own design studio. So here is the humble origins of my logo.

Launceston Historic Buildings

For this assessment we were required to create a website based on an aspect of our natural environement. For mine I chose to do it on historic buildings around Launceston. This assessment is from in the days where my assessment work was so simple and easy. Just joking. I was so proud it back in the day

Rotoscope Assessment

I did this rotoscope animation at TAFE today. We had to make a video using a green screen of ourselves and then animate it but put ourselves in asituation we normally wouldn’t be in. As I wouldn’t normally stick my finger in a power socket this is what I chose to do. The original file is 10 seconds long at… (more…)

History of the Internet Time Line

here is the flash timeline I did for our history of the internet assesment.

Fairfax Media Flash ads assesment

Last week we were required to produce a flash advertisment for our blog that adhered to the Fairfax media advertising standards. This is the flash ad I created to advertise my blog. To be used on a fairfax media site only one line of code needs to changed and its ready to go. If I were to publish this line… (more…)