Alex Clarke: Design student

This project had my classmates and I choose an archival photo taken of parts of St. Edward’s in the past, and attempt to find the spot where they took that photo today. We then used an augmented reality app called “Aurasma”, that activates a projected image of the archival photo when it recognizes the new picture in the camera screen of the app. I took a little time to line up the two images, and it was really fun to see it work in real time. This didn’t require a lot of design, but it was a good peak into AR design, and some of the possibilities that it affords.

This website was based off of one of my favorite topics, bio-luminescent animals of the ocean. It was originally going to be a website following deep sea animals, but I found that within the three weeks that I was given for this project, the scope would have been just too large. Using one of the Wix website templates, I structured my bio-luminescent animals into four main groups: fish, jellyfish, octopus and squid, and other. I also included an about section on the very top of my website, giving a large summary of bio-luminescence in the ocean that covered almost all of the species. I chose videos for my home screen because I feel like capturing the audience’s imagination is the first step in getting them to learn about something that they otherwise wouldn’t care about. Given more time, I think I would have structured the menu bar differently, but unfortunately the Wix editing platform wasn’t as intuitive as I would have liked.

The website can be found here.