Why the name Arcana?

Before I wrote my negotiated programme module I was thinking of a name or word that would be nice to use to best describe a collective of people & while searching online I came across the word "Arcana" 

Arcana : mysterious or specialized knowledge, language, or information accessible or possessed only by the initiate - usually used in plural.

I was instantly taken by this & decided it described everything I wanted to get across as a collective of people. Below is the logo I came up with for the project title & will also be used for the site.

Grid 960 & Adobe kuler [research]

Grid 960 link: I will be using this downloadable grid system for my project as it is standard industry size with in website design & will save me time building my own.

Adobe kuler link: For reference to colour scheme ideas for the user interface I've decided to look though adobe's online kuler app for possible ideas.

Negotiated module: arcana

For the next 2 negotiated modules, I’ve decided I want to design a minimal & simple user interface for a website to be able to showcase a selection of design work, video production & music production also other area’s of artistic work in a sort of blog form.

The reason I’ve chose this type of project is because it covers all the area’s I’m into & want to further knowledge in & it would work well as an on going project which I could carry on into other modules through out this course.

Below is a link to download my negotiated programme module.

Negotiated programme module.pdf

Evaluation & Programme

I've choose to base my work roughly around the "street-talk" brief, I've decided to break away from telephone boxes and use the "street-talk" nightclub poster & flyer events network instead. My end product will be a set of poster & flyer designs for a fictional nightclub. The context of the work will be how the flyer design starts & is worked out to a finished product ready to print.

Below is a link to download my evaluation & programme. 

Evaluation & Programme.pdf 

FINAL: Veritech [Context]

This project was harder than I thought it would of been due to the time of year & people having deadlines also I could only find one person who had time to remix my final display piece. We spoke about idea's about how we wanted the track to sound but I told him to have full control of anything he would like to do as long as he could keep one element from the original file.

Info about producer:

Name - John Williams

E-mail - veritech@live.com

Website - link

USA, humboldt county california.

I asked John after he had sent me the remixed version back any thoughts he had on the track and this is he reply:

"I would like more time to change up the beats more and get more movement in the music to be honest. 

I liked the samples that you started with, it makes me want to go to the bar and do some recording next time.  

I figured some downtempo brokenbeats would go well with the original sounds and give the

original samples the most emotion behind them."

Below is the final track remixed.