Working in digital media – Fiona Kelly
She said you don’t have to be original.
A good quote that she said to us is:
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films,music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds,bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft)will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent.And don’t bother concealing your thievery- celebrate it if you feel like it.”
Jim Jarmusch
She showed us a few cool websites:
- Smashing Magazine
- iStock Photo
- FFFFOUND
- Del.ic.ious
- Digg
Fiona then told us about some projects she did and the process of finding Inspiration she went through over the course of the project, and how she applied this to her work without actually infringing copyright or plagiarising the original author’s work.
scooter island
When first starting of a project, Fionna spends the first few weeks researching her clients previous work etc and possible idea’s etc So this is what Fiona did first when doing this project. As she was designing the footer for there website she spent a lot of her research looking at Scooter Island’s previous logo’s, and style’s, and seeing how she could apply this to the footer.
Fat Kitty Films – Logo Design
Another project she was approached by this film company to design there new logo. They told her they wanted something with a 50′s- esque design element, so for research she spent alot her times looking through hunderds of font’s associated with the 50′s, colour scheme’s, shapes and many other things associated with the 50′s aswell as Illustarted Cat’s as the Company’s name was Fat Kitty Films.
Dublin Gay Theatre Festival - Web design
Her next project was dublin gay theatre festival
when she was researching she looked through other Gay festival website’s – and took elements from these websites she liked and tried to apply this
She also looked at otherl web design layout’s& looked at the previous years logo’s and design’s of the previous years of the Dublin Festival.
Puca – Website Redesign
After the gay festival the next client who approached her was Puca who are mobile marketing phone company,they asked Fiona to re-design there website with things they liked from other marketing websites and combine does things to make the Puca website.
