Assignment: Culture Jamming and Web Design
Professor Amy Hicks, University of Delaware. Course: New Media Design
More here: http://www.amyhicks.xyz/teaching-1/
“Code-switching is a linguistic term referring to the use of more than one language within a single conversation. Artists, designers, and performers often investigate cultural and material bilingualisms through a variety of means including (mis)translations, appropriations, and the purposeful misuse of “proper” communication codes. For this project you will appropriate and “correct” an existing website. You will research facts about the company (or public figure) and replace their information with your own. You may approach this as a “correction” of misleading information or as a more optimistic-wishful-imaginative reclamation (for example, what do you wish the company would actually do?).
Each group is responsible for the design, corporate logo, color choices, text, and overall concept and look of the site. Work together on the home page. Each person in the group is responsible for primary development on one page of the site (so, if you are a group of 4 you will have 5 total pages—a home page plus your 4 pages.) The site MUST have a comprehensive design, attention to detail, ease of navigation. ”
Keywords: collaboration, graphic design, group project, theory and practice, web design
