Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal

Widely believed as a quote from Picasso, the idea is not to steal the artifact itself but the idea of the artifact. So in referencing materials on the web, hopefully you will come across many compelling examples in a sea of utter uselessness. And among what you find, you will come across what might be as shiny, gleaming with quality you can not ignore. When used as FPO, sure you can use it. But to make it yours, you must deconstruct it to understand why it appeals to you. In that process of understanding what began as stealing an idea becomes yours as you begin to reconstruct the reason for its attraction. Enough with that idea for now.

Do it better than this

So for Exercise One, please start the following:

• Pick a website, preferably a site with heavy content. No blogs, small niche sites, but something meaty like Amazon, eBay, Facebook, CNN, etc.
• Create a Information Architecture (Site Map) from Landing Page, Level 1 and Level 2 contents
• Create a Wireframe for Landing Page
• Each IA and WF should be on a 11x17 artboard, black and white with gray shades if you'd like
• General timeline is the same as it is on the syllabus for when it is due.
• For Wednesday, Feb. 1, send me PDF files of IA and WF, smallest file, to jeongkim[at]gmail[dot]com by 3 PM.
• This will be Work In Progress (WIP).
• I hope to do a video conference and it will be individual review, unless I am jet-lagged or on my third pint of Guinness.

Oh, yes. Please look at the Course Materials section of the blog to DL your 2 reading assignments, Widgets (Jef Raskin.pdf & Konrad Baumann.pdf). Please finish this for discussion in class Monday, Feb. 6.

Hope to see you across from the Atlantic.