Welcome to my exporations project! Click on either my blink project or my senior reflection. The blink project is a combined English and Design project with nine pieces of art and automatic writing, and the senior reflection is a short piece about my two years here at Freestyle. This website was made, like the narrative two website, in HTML5, so it came with its share of technical difficulties, but I've learned a lot about it in the process. Enjoy my last website made here at freestyle!
~Teresa Zarmer
Freestyle Class of 2012
Over my two years in web audio, I've made nine websites. Four HTML, three flash catalyst, and two HTML5. I've learned so much about all of these programs and how to use them creatively, and about websites and how to design them. Mostly I've learned how to find the one piece of punctuation that's turning your website blue. All of my websites were designed in Illustrator, and over my two years I learned a lot about keeping them organized, naming layers, how to move from a pretty website to a functional one.
I hope that I can use these skills to help me in the future, with any kind of design application. Freestyle was a really good place for me to work with people who wanted what I did- a different way to get a high school education. A way that didn't involve worksheets and did involve wacom tablets. I'm going to miss everyone I've met at Freestyle, students and teachers, because they're some of the best people I've ever met.
~Teresa Zarmer, Freestyle Class of 2012
The blink project is nine art projects and nine quickwrites. Every day in design we would have a prompt, some as simple as the word "Thought" but others were phrases or poems. Also on the table was a medium of art, such as watercolor or acrylic paints. We had time to create art and a corresponding quickwrite relating to the prompt. Then we scanned in the art, edited it in photoshop, and chose phrases from our quickwrites to add. All of these final art peices were put in to Adobe In Design to make in to a book, which you can view here in .jpg form.