Community Challenge #1 -I nspiration

May 15, 2013

Since this challenge is meant to inspire, I thought it would be a great idea for our first topic. I want you to find a piece of artwork, artist, album cover, game art, or anything that inspires you artistically and create a navigation menu around it. Example: If the work of MC Escher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher) inspires you, try to create a navigation menu that would match his works.

Just a few rules:

The menu must work, meaning if you click on a menu item it must present/take you to new content.

You must a have 5 total slides. 1 Menu, 4 content slides. The content slides don’t need to flow. They are just there so when you click on a menu button, you are presented with new info.

The main focus is on the navigation slide. The content slides are just extra fluff. The content slides can contain some info about the artist, the artwork, why it inspires you, or anything else that is relevant. They don’t have to be spruced up, but if you have time, go for it.

Have Fun!

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This challenge ends on the 15^th of June. I will be putting up another post on the 5^th of June where you can post your entries. Use this post to place pictures, sketches, questions, comments, and ideas of your WIPs (work in progress).

123 Replies

Eric Nalian

almost 10 years ago05/15/13 at 9:53 am (UTC)

This is going to be interesting...My top three choices

Salvador Dali - The Persistence of Memory (The Melting Clocks)
M.C. Escher - Relativity
Diego Rivera - The Detroit Industry fresco cycle (South Wall)

I think I might show some home town pride and go for Diego Rivera's mural (Mural is here...artist is not from here)- If anyone here has ever been to the DIA and has had the opportunity to see this mural it is quite intense

Click HERE to see/read about the mural

-Eric

Jerson Campos
Author

almost 10 years ago05/15/13 at 11:30 am (UTC)

I'm gonna go with Alphonso Mucha. His work inspired me to become a graphic artist.

Anne Pead

almost 10 years ago05/15/13 at 6:30 pm (UTC)

Great first challenge, Jerson. Just looked up Alphonso Mucha - very nice! I have a feeling I'm going to see some very cool navigation designs AND be introduced to a whole lot of awesome artists and artwork that I haven't had the chance to learn about before I'm torn between Escher, Monet and van Gogh!

Eric Nalian

almost 10 years ago05/15/13 at 6:51 pm (UTC)

@ Anne - Go with Starry Night!

M.C. Escher is my favorite - I would love to see something based on one of his drawings.

@ Jerson - I know Alphonso Mucha didn't do this one, but it combines the old and the new...

Anne Pead

almost 10 years ago05/15/13 at 8:27 pm (UTC)

@Eric I've already started playing around with an Escher and I'm having so much fun...but I DO love Starry night...I might just have to do two

Jerson Campos
Author

almost 10 years ago05/15/13 at 8:44 pm (UTC)

@ Eric

Yea I did see those, I actually did a couple of peices based on his style. I'll include them in my entry as well. Actually the picture on my profile is just a small section of one of the ones I did inspired by Mucha

@Anne

That is one of the great things about this topic as well that I didn't originally think about. That some people will be introduced to new and inspiring artwork.

Sarah Noll Wilson

almost 10 years ago05/16/13 at 7:28 am (UTC)

I'm not sure if I'll be able to get done in time, but I'm feeling inspired by Super Mario Bros. 3 and those fantastic warp pipes

Thank you for starting up this great idea, it will be great to challenge myself to try different concepts and ideas.

El Burgaluva

almost 10 years ago05/16/13 at 8:30 pm (UTC)

Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon came to mind for some reason.

I thought it'd make a good "menu" ( so to speak *fnar, fnar*) for a course about STIs.

Tyrion Lanister could be the narrator.

Eric Nalian

almost 10 years ago05/17/13 at 4:52 am (UTC)

I'll be at the ASTD Conference next week - I know what I am going to stay up all night doing - Storyline Community Challenge!!!

Anyone jealous?

Nadine Lacelle

almost 10 years ago05/17/13 at 5:30 am (UTC)

Eric Nalian said:

I'll be at the ASTD Conference next week - I know what I am going to stay up all night doing - Storyline Community Challenge!!!

Anyone jealous?

YES.....lol

I have no time right now as I have a huge project due soon, but watch out for me in Challenge #2. )

Nancy Woinoski
Hero

almost 10 years ago05/22/13 at 6:01 am (UTC)

Ok just to keep momentum going on this friendly competition here is a snapshot of what I am planning. All I am saying right now is notice the menu tab at the top right.

Bruce Graham
Hero

almost 10 years ago05/22/13 at 6:25 am (UTC)

@Nancy - I was going to use that one!

OK - I'm complete and ready to post (seeing as Eric wanted Escher...), but until then - here's my "teaser" menu.

But how oh HOW to activate the buttons....?

Bruce

Nadine Lacelle

almost 10 years ago05/22/13 at 7:00 am (UTC)

I am really enjoying the creativity this place has! wow, way to go everyone.

Jerson Campos
Author

almost 10 years ago05/22/13 at 9:00 am (UTC)

@ Bruce

What about designing the menus like this? I think this is what Echer would come up with if he had Storyline back then. I wonder how the content would look though 8P

Bruce Graham
Hero

almost 10 years ago05/22/13 at 9:17 am (UTC)

Weird!

Love it.

Bruce

Eimear O Neill

almost 10 years ago05/22/13 at 11:09 am (UTC)

And here is my before and an after screen shot of the menu....who says it has to be applied to Art content right?

Many would say Tennis is an art form..

Nancy Woinoski
Hero

almost 10 years ago05/22/13 at 11:22 am (UTC)

Really creative Eimear. I love Miro and had been thinking of using one of his works as well. Now I'm starting to think that I should use a Canadian Artist.

Bruce Graham
Hero

almost 10 years ago05/22/13 at 12:05 pm (UTC)

Absolutely LOVING that Miro
Must admit - never heard of Miro but will now go off and investigate

Bruce

OK - just Googled Miro - very VERY nice, love love love

Nicole Legault

almost 10 years ago05/22/13 at 12:49 pm (UTC)

Someone recently mentioned something about the "Bauhaus" style of art to me and I had no clue what the heck that was so I googled it. And I liked it. So I made a menu based on that style (just for fun!). It's a work in progress.

Gina Heumann

almost 10 years ago05/22/13 at 1:31 pm (UTC)

These are so great! Nicole, I'm a HUGE Bauhaus fan and LOVE the fun colors you have in your very eye-catching menu!

Eimear O Neill

almost 10 years ago05/22/13 at 1:41 pm (UTC)

@Thanks Nancy & Bruce...loving this challenge! Can't wait to see what others create..

Nicole: Your design is very striking and super clear...fab work! I particularly love the overlapping sections in the menu!

Nicole Legault

almost 10 years ago05/22/13 at 1:47 pm (UTC)

Eimear - I had never heard of Miro so I Googled it and LOVE (as is usually the case with me and anything colorful)!

When I do a Google images search of "Miro" and then a Google image search of "Bauhaus art" I see some similarities in the styles!! A lot of bright primary colors, intertwined, abstract. Although the Bauhaus style has the straight angular lines and the Miro style is curvy. Pretty cool

Nancy Woinoski
Hero

almost 10 years ago05/22/13 at 2:28 pm (UTC)

Miro was a surrealist even though he claimed he wasn't so his style has more in common with painters like Dali and Tanguy.

Eimear O Neill

almost 10 years ago05/22/13 at 3:03 pm (UTC)

Yeah it's funny cause I promised a friend I would teach her Tennis this Summer and then this competition came about - and hey presto it just seemed to make sense to match the primary colors of Miro (particularly the bold green and yellow) to my Tennis theme. Living in Barcelona, I can see that Dali & Miro are definitely revered as the two most iconic surrealists to ever exist and both were proud Catalans!