creative arts - promotion of adult courses

about this page

As our adult courses are always in need of further promotional efforts - we are planning to create a new and up-to-date gallery of student work, showing off the fabulous pieces our adult students produce on our courses. Linked from relevant pages on the main college website - this gallery should replace the now very outdated creative computing mini site
(in my humble opinion anyway).

This page shows design proposals by my students for this new gallery.

please note: The pages are working drafts, currently best viewed in Firefox or Safari - the final pages will of course be optimised for all browsers and platforms.
Images shown are very old and display only at a small size, newer images will be added in due course.
Text is merely a place holder for now - new text should be written specifically for this page to describe the content on display as well as promote the variety of courses on offer at THC.

the concept

The idea is to use Flickr to keep the gallery updated and collectively show student work produced by our students, from all our courses combined. Uploading new pieces to the Flickr account will dynamically update the gallery.

Tutors will be able to upload images to the (free) Flickr account, restricted only by the monthly upload limit of 100MB. Each image should be tagged with a relevant keyword, or multiple keywords, such as 'drawing' for any sketches, storyboards or life drawings. The gallery then will show all tags as links - text size of the link will display in direct proportion of the usage of each tag. If this sounds confusing ~ don't worry ~ I will write notes for everyone and it will be easy :)

I've created a new Flickr account purely for this purpose (even managed to get a good URL ending in '../creative-arts', yay :). Once all decisions have been made and the gallery is ready online I will provide all course leaders with the relevant login details as well as an online guide for uploading and tagging of images.
» creative arts on flickr

please note: The use of tags - as opposed to sorting images by course - should be future-proofing this setup. Courses change over time and could make this gallery appear outdated quickly. As the subjects/techniques evident in our students' work will remain consistent - using tags (quoting course title as part of the image description only) will be a better choice here.

the brief

The brief set to my students was to create a single design to be used for a promotional gallery showing collected works from our adult students within creative arts.

for your reference: » project brief