Monday, March 16, 2009

CRITIQUE #2 Being Short with Short, a Look at Remixed Children's tales

I had some trouble trying to figure out how to bet visually represent my work with this project. Therefore when it came time for my review of a peers work, I was drawn to the sites who were most visually stimulating. Christina Short's remix project doesn't dissapoint in this regard. She chose to add her own influence to the cover artwork to four popular children's stories. It is organized with a main page having four colorful images meshed together with a link to the four individual stories.
When clicking the link you are taken to each stories individual page, so her work with links is efficient and you can easily navigate between pages. The individual pages are set up similarly with pictures lined up like tiles making up the background of text. The text I came to understand was the original stories in full and I was unaware of any changes made within the stories themselves, however that was not a requirement of this project considering she remixed the artwork well. I think the overall presentation of the work serves the project well.
However, I would like to see more of her influence and creativity applied outside of just the visual aspects of these works. Even the the design and layout itself demonstrates more than adequate creativity in this individual.