Bath School of Art and Design course promotion
We’ve just finished a site for a new undergraduate course at Bath Spa University’s School of Art and Design. The site is required to be a focal point for the staff to talk about their personal areas of practice and thereby give an insight into what – and who – is inspiring them as well a place to publish work.
Developed as a multi-user site, contributions will come from all of who have connections to the course, it also relies on the staff utilising their connections to promote the course so social networking tools are an integral part of the design. As well as embedding social bookmarks into each page we also created a Facebook page and Twitter profiles, and integrated the publication of new items to be broadcast to these networking sites.
A significant amount of customisation was carried out to the side of the site the staff use to make adding content as simple as possible, the front was also heavily edited to create a consistent and clean feel. Heavy cropping gives a strong visual feel despite the fact that many different images will be posted and a ‘lightbox’ feature makes good use of the image galleries allowing a variety of images sizes to be scaled and displayed consistently.
This site will build over time and become a rich source of inspiration for both staff and students; view the live site for BA (Hons) Idea Material Object.