Things have been a little quiet on the Developing Librarian front in the past few weeks, as we plunged into our heavy research skills instruction season. But activity is beginning to stir once more…
We have split into teams and devised a timeline–not for THIS site but for the site that will eventually be the public face of the Morningside Heights project: i.e., the end product of all this training. The teams are Project Management, Design, Development, and Research. Each team has a leader: I’m the leader of the Design Team. Our mission: design the logo, header and footer; layout the homepage and any auxiliary pages; choose fonts and color schemes; create the credits.
At our first meeting, team members focused on logo design. What is going to be the essential image that represents the project? We brainstormed ideas; one of our members had a folder of reference logos for us to think about–will it go across the top? Down the side? Incorporate an iconographic element that instantly encapsulates the endeavor?
We agreed each to go off and develop one idea we liked, on paper. On April 10th, we’ll meet and compare the ideas; then we’ll vote and choose the one we like best. Once the winning design emerges, we have scheduled an Adobe Illustrator training session for April 17, in order to devise as many variations on the winning design as possible. We’ll then present these variants on a theme to the entire group: do we want the fonts compacted or elongated? Do we want the design components in heavy or light outline? Do we want the site title on one line or two?
The deadline for that presentation is our April 29th meeting. The group as a whole will vote on the winning variant–and then we’ll have our logo. The logo design, to a certain extent, drives the design of the header and footer, which is also due on April 29th.
So…check back with us at the end of the month–perhaps we’ll reveal the winning design! Or…perhaps we’ll wait until we can debut the entire site. It will be a group decision: we’re very democratic!