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Buttons

What is a button?

A button is something that is on your shirt, it is also on your computer, in the elevator, in your car, and now they are even on your touch screen phone.

Dictionary.com says a button is...
"a small disk, knob, or the like for sewing or otherwise attaching to an article, as of clothing, servingas a fastening when passed through a buttonhole or loop.
anything resembling a button, especially in being small and round, as any of various candies ornaments, tags, identification badges, reflectors, markers, etc.
any small knob or disk pressed to activate an electric circuit, release a spring or otherwise operator open a machine, small door, toy, etc."(Button)

But what about the buttons on your phone that don't stick out, and aren't square?

Take this iPhone for instance. Don't we consider those squares buttons? When we push on the an action takes place. But they don't fit the typical definition of a button. As technology is evolving we are seeing things like this happen more often. We are seeing the conceptual model of what things should be change. I'm sure my son will have a totally different interpretation of what a button is when he is in college than I do now just like I am sure mine is different from what my parents were when they were in college.

Citations:
"Button." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, n.d. Web. 10 Apr. 2013.

Style Guides

For this project we switched style guides with three other students in class. We designed something for their company using their style guide. Here is the link to my Behance post showing the work that I did.

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Designing-in-Brand/8075345


Mini Catalogue Mailer for Golden Finch

Magazine Spread for Feather Friends

Web site for Intellectu-Owl

CatEye Records Style Guide

This is the revised style guide. After having a few other students use my style guide I received feedback from them. I also had the chance to use other students style guides so I used my experience with this to help make changes to my style guide.

Follow this link to view the style guide I designed for CatEye Records.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uk0slxqckddidnn/RBurtenshaw-StyleGuide_CatEyeRecords1.pdf

Follow this link to view the A/V presentation of CatEye Records style guide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCZ_hVg0noY&feature=youtu.be