What I find striking about Ricardo’s blog is the visual appeal it presents at first glance. The background picture has a nice set of colors with a certain rustic appeal, as well as the opaqueness of the actual blog area all lends a certain believability to the blog as a whole…I applaud Ricardo for his visual choices. I also liked that he love chocolate (as a self proclaimed chocoholic), but more interestingly Ricardo’s description of why he’s taking the class, “I have always been interested in graphic design, so I decided to take this class because I am changing my major, and I just wanted to see how interested I would be once the class concluded. I don't have any set class expectations, I just want to get a general understanding of design. I am mainly hoping that this will be an interesting class that will help me decide if a road down design will be in my future.” Some of his posts may be a bit short but they really reflect his thoughts on the class, and get straight to the point…plus, he’s a self proclaimed non-conversationalist.
The first thing that struck me was the title of his blog, “a non-jugglers design 200 blog.” It’s unique grabs your attention and makes me want to learn more about Mike as a person, and what he has to think. I really like Mike’s style of writing and how organized his writing/blog posts seem. I myself am incredibly unorganized or at least I feel like I am. Particularly I liked the post about patterns and what Mike describes as a, “Moire Pattern … I chose this pattern because it is always changing. A Moire Pattern occurs when two competing patterns overlap. The result is an ever changing pattern of shapes. The above images are all the same photo but, shown at different distances. Notice how the pattern changes as the image is zoomed in and out.” This is something I hadn’t known and I found it very interesting because I didn’t think that this effect even had a name. But, what I think that I like most about the blog was the fact that Mike and I share a first name, haha.
I absolutely love the interface/set-up of this blog, I may disagree with the color scheme (although I’m really not a black and pink kind of person…so I can’t judge, haha) but the interface was so unique and well done that I was amazed when I first loaded the page. I really like how Sarah relates what she is learning in design to her knowledge of business, particularly when she writes, “In business we learn that it is essential to maximize productivity and that can be achieved by increasing efficiency. In chapter 6 the book gives the example of how starting in the 1960’s businesses began to use a more autocratic style of management as opposed to a Taylor approach and thus emphasizing ‘leadership rather than control, [where] workers were encouraged to interact in teams and contribute more actively to processes’ (Heskett 74).” She has a well designed, well written blog.
Overall I look forward to working with my fellow Kings and reading more of their thoughts.
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