Images of Nostalgia

I have put together some pictures that say nostalgia to me.

Nostalgia Ideas

Having a brain storm on the self initiated I have thought about making it about retro games... Alot of my collection of old games are there all because of nostalgia. I feel like i could talk about those the most.

Dropping the idea to a friend he said he also thought about doing old games under the word " RETRO". This sort of put me off so i went back to the word Nostalgia... how could i explain nostalgia?

I created a mind map to try help me think up of things about nostalgia
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Self Initiated Brief.

I have decided to choose a word to sum up my self initiated brief; Nostalgia.

Noun A sentimental longing for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. The evocation of these feelings or tendencies, esp. in commercialized form.

I have felt this suits me well as i have quite a library of old things that make me remember when i was younger. I need to create a brief which will outline what it is im going to be doing. I knew from the off that i wanted to create a clothing range not only because i haven't tried it yet in anything ive done whilst at uni I also want it in my portfolio so that will be present. 

I also have a strong feeling towards info graphics and straight away felt this should be included but im not 100% sure..

What comes to my mind when i think of Nostalgia?

• The past
• old things
• childhood
• smells
• memories 

The above are the first things that hit me when i think about the word nostalgia... 

LCA work.

Link> Leeds College of Art Work< Link

Blog Address & Website

Blog: 

www.Lewisdfrancis.blogspot.com

Website: 

http://lewisdavid.prosite.com

Website

We were asked to create a website to showcase our work. I arrived at the point where the rest of my class had already been shown through some online examples of how to create a portfolio site using programs such as WIX however going the corse halfway through left me in the deep end pretty much so i choose the hunt around and i ended up finding Behance Prosite.

Behance Prosite
this is a sister site from Behance which i already used to publish my online work to anyway. The idea is that you create a layout and enter your details to leave the website looking like your own.. however i didn't like the look of the basic layouts and just having my name as a header for the site so i decided to create a logo seen as though the website is pretty much self promotion.

Logo

The logo was created using a script typeface as a wireframe and then editing and beefing it up to allow the L&F to join into one. My idea for this logo was to capture the feel of the traditional wax stamp.

Now that a logo had been thought up and perfected i carried on to create the website. I choose a dark background and a light grey to use for fonts and other details. 

The website.

Uploading some work to the server the website began to take form ending up looking like this.

I used a subtle blend transaction to enter the website the minimal and clean look will only further look better as more work is added. I feel the feel and look of the portfolio site worked perfectly. The only problem i had was i wanted it to be assessable on mobile phones such as the iPhone to allow it to be seen at a broader and larger scale.

The app button.
i looked further into the software and saw that with the right imagery and specs i was able to edit the homepage button which was created whenever someone saved the webpage to their home screen including that of the iPhone.

I used my logo as the main point of the app button and just edited the scale and resolution to cater for the resolution changes from devices the end product looked like this.

Final Board

Graze Final Board.