Current reworked designs for this
Notes from email discussions
I actually really like dividing the space down the middle, it becomes more of a catalogue or book. With artists and and curators in an order on one side and then a scrapbook section on the other side.
I'm trying to work out the difference between dragging a curator and an artist. In my mind if you drag a curator it brings up all their choices, biography and video if we have it in the scrapbook. You can then drag curators choices into a magnifying tool to see a full screen image, (I think you're right about this sort of enlarge function rather than double clicking) This means you can only drag one curator at a time
You can drag as many artists as you want into the scrapbook section, these can either be from the the curators choices or from a search you've done. All that is shown thumbnails of the artists work. Again these can be dragged into a magnifying tool to blow the up to full screen.
Is this along the lines of what you suggested on Friday?
Once an image is full screen a lightbox beneath the image tells you the name of the artist, some info about the work and a link back to their portfolio on the main Joomla site. It would also tell you who picked it eg curator or public. It would be really good if you could flick through all of your scrap book choices from here, rather than having to close the window, go back and enlarge the image again.
In terms of showcased work I've decided it should just be curators, public choices and few selections from people in the NOISE office. Everything else goes in the colour picker. What would would be good if the thumbnails in the showcase section alternated between avatars and artists work, so the page isn't static.
Edit:13/7/2008
Edit:21/5/08
Intial mock ups
Edit:So this is my main focuse at NOISE at the moment, designing and working on the showcase section for September. There are basically two sections the gallery showcase and the project showcase. The gallery showcase needs to be consitent but projects showcases are split into three or four sub-sections and need to reflect the projects, the briefs and the outcomes. A couple of these projects galleries are going to be seperate proposals here.
Anyway this the current brief and some intial ideas
Key elements
Live Info Screen (featured on most of the gallery pages and elsewhere)
Showing metadata for the focused item. E.g. if the user right clicks their mouse over an image then more of the images information will appear in the info box along with thumbnails of associated images.
We need to work out what info to pull through for which items in which of the main site areas. To help avoid repetition and keep info relevant.
Galleries
1.Curators galleries, drag and drop (see Sony page www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones?cc=ca&lc=en)
2.Showcase (everything)
3.Public
4.Users
Each gallery should follow a similar format of dragging and dropping content but should be different enough to reflect who has selected the work (Each 5 or 6 curators compared to hundreds of user galleries)
Self curation, online Flex gallery.
Allow users to curate their own NOISE selection or a selection from the curators choice. Expand the idea of virtual festival, virtual gallery.
Allow curators to arrange their own show, export these show somewhere on the site. Revisit the idea of creating a gallery as web space, websites as architecture. Tie into Second Life, real world exhibitions.
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