Mozilla Service Week is a website that aims to bring together those who can donate technical, internet-based services and those who need help online. (We also happen to have designed it.) They’ve just put up our redesign of T/MC as a featured project – check it out.
Tutor/Mentor Concept Boards
It’s been another few weeks, and that means more progress on the Tutor/Mentor project. The phase we’ve just completed was the creation of mood boards, which are mockups not of the website itself, but of the feeling and visual vocabulary it might take on. The boards look a bit like large print ads for the website – you might think of them as themes or templates, modeling, for instance, the way the new site might treat a headline or image.
Before making these, though, we created a spectrum of designs from which we could draw inspiration, covering a conference table in printouts of websites similar to T/MC and assorted magazine clippings. After selecting the examples we agreed were appropriate for the project, it emerged that there were two different design directions we wanted to explore.
Ann Sacks Catalog added to the Newberry Library’s History of Print Collection
The Ann Sacks catalog has been requested for permanent collection in the Newberry Library’s History of Print. If you’re not familiar with the Newberry or the collection, it’s absolutely amazing and always an honor when someone like Paul Gehl selects your work. Some info on the collection can be found here: http://www.newberry.org/collections/wing.html
T/MC.org Sitemap
For the last day or so, I’ve been thoroughly going through tutormentorconnection.org, traversing its many paths and mapping them out. It’s been an incredibly useful thing to do – rather than wondering where the information finally ends, I now feel I know my way around the site and its related pages (the Tutor/Mentor Institute, Cabrini Connections). Here’s how tutormentorconnection.org is currently organized:
Mozilla Service Week
It’s no secret that our friends at Mozilla have a thing for online communities. However, their latest project, Mozilla Service Week, finds them reaching out to their loyal fan base with the goal of helping those who aren’t as fluent with the Web.
Mozilla Service Week (MSW) seeks to not only help people get online, but also improve that experience so that the Internet will do what it’s supposed to – improve our quality of life.