September In 2012-- Reflection in technology skills improvement

On the other hand, it contains the most technical practice through the project, graphic design software, such as Photoshop, QuarkXPress and Illustrator are the most frequently tools. To achieve the goal of master level, I also use the Dreamweaver to create a simplified website. It is worth to mention about the improvement of Illustrator, I learnt it just around two weeks, it is the weakness link in previous practice, no matter in skill and inspiration, though there is much more room for progress in the future, I have already improve quite a lot at present. I would like to present more practice of skills in my final project, I create a magazine, in addition it is also attached with a website and poster to publicity my magazine. It is not just a promotion method, but also put forward higher requirements in actual skill operation. As a master student, I cannot just be satisfied with local design, I need take all considerations as a director. Screen Cultures pay more attention in inspiration and ideas, after overcoming the one-sidedness, I take a big step forward in my field. I should stand in the point of view as an audience to consider and arrange content, and combine it with professional design skill and management ability. Treat my project as a comprehensive problem is also an requirement to reach the goal of master level.

September In 2012-- Reflection In Concept and Inspiration improvement

According to the practice of creating an artefact for major study final project, both the process and results are truly spectacular. In general it can be divided into two sections: conceptual and technical.

In the initial period, I made the decision to create magazine related to screen technology, through the suggestion and direction in tutorial, I took the digital magazine into consideration. It means I need extend the field for research. How to create a flexible magazine for both physical and digital form, it is a big challenge during the process of my entire project.  On account of the first experience to design a complete magazine from the topic, articles, design style, and contact the digital magazine field, I should get rid of the old-fashioned concept in memory and search for the new inspiration. I combined science and technology with fashion style magazine, I produced popular science and add fashion-style poster including in my magazine to attract a wider range of readers. If I just introduce the professional science and technology or advanced studies in screen field, my project will be recognized extremely boring especially in digital filed, how the attract audiences’ mind at the first sight is the key to success. Meanwhile I create a funny time travel story in my magazine, it is also a bright spot from my brain storm. No matter in the design or content, flexible to two different forms is the largest improvement through my whole project. 

September In 2012-- Forefront: iPad magazine--Quark DesignPad

It is a short instruction of Quark DesignPad applications specific for iPad, it is simply to create a magazine in iPad. According to this software, people will strength the concept of iPad magazine. 

September In 2012-- Forefront: Digital Media-- Successful Ipad Magazine

It was announced to create a revolution in publishing of iPad in last year. It happens that the similar case that iPod bring to music. Wired is one of the most successful iPad magazine. " The first edition in June 2010 sold 100,000 copies. The circulation is now down to 25,000. That's good compared to other though. Vanity Fair and GQ sell just 10,000 copies each month, and Glamour just 3,000 copies." People always be curious about fresh things, but how to keep the sales volume without the freshness, that should be a question. 

Reference:

1. http://txt4ever.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/ipad-magazine-circulation/

August In 2012-- Forefront: Digital media-- Future and Challenges

No matter for traditional or digital magazine, audiences always the " God". A delicately packed printing magazine or a good design digital magazine, both of them have the same goal: catch readers' mind. People can easily find the website of a digital magazine, but you need give them a compelling reason to click and open it. The advertisement of digital magazine is quite important and seems like a big challenge at present. If you receive a poster or advertisement in you mailbox, at least you will look at it even you want to throw it to your rubbish bin, however if it is an email advertisement to you mailbox, maybe you will delete it at once or automatic clearing as a junk mail. 

According to the current situation, it should be create both in physical and digital for same magazine. They can provide the supplement to each other. With the maturity of science and technology, digital magazine maybe plain the traditional printing magazine. 

August In 2012--Forefront: Digital magazine-- Advantage (2)

Undertake above, Contemporary is also the feature and advantage of  digital magazine, with the increasing number of iPad and iPhone users, digital magazines also can be found in Apple store, it seems like more contemporary to today's technology; Economical: Digital magazine saved the transportation and energy output, it needn't delivery or printing. With amounts of benefit of digital magazine, more and more print publishers delivering digital editions, it is complied with the demands of audiences. 

Reference: 

1. http://www.articlesbase.com/advertising-articles/top-ten-benefits-of-digital-magazines-680030.html

August In 2012-- Forefront: Digital magazine-- Advantage (1)(1)

Compare with the traditional magazine, digital magazine seems like more flexible. For example, advertisement can be present as static pictures in a print magazine, however it can be shown as a dynamic video or flash in a digital magazine. There are large amounts of differences between digital and print magazines. Firstly, Persistence: You can find the digital magazine and it will be always available as long as the publisher allows, however, it is quite different situation related to print magazine, it will be affected by the date and quantitative limitation; Environmental protection : Digital magazines consume no paper, ink or chemicals, there is no bad influence on the environment, "Today, only about 20 percent of magazines are recycled from the home, according to the Magazine Publishers Association. Even a small magazine, say having 68 pages and a restricted circulation of 20K, consumes 12 tons of paper with each issue. " Immediately: Digital magazines can offer links that you can read or order immediately, you needn't go out to get a magazine  from a news-stand or wait until the  postman send the magazine to your house in the morning. 

August In 2012-- Forefront: Digital magazine --Vogue

" No other magazines combine beauty, style, glamour, design, fashion and contemporary cultures in such a inspiring mix. " It is an American fashion and lifestyle magazine that published monthly in 19 national and one regional edition, it was described by book critic Caroline Weber in The New York Times in December 2005 as the " world's most influential fashion magazine." As a world famous magazine, it is now available in iPad, it is different from the traditional printing magazine, it  contains more videos for articles and advertisement, I am simply saying that you can see the beauty lively, more sexy and attractive, it is just a joke! For my additional part of screen exhibition, I got the inspiration from the fashion magazine to create a poster to show the technology of screen developing bring us happiness.

Reference:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogue_(magazine)

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jryvXv9fKgY

3. http://gb.zinio.com/browse/publications/index.jsp?productId=500642294

August In 2012-- Evaluation of Design

With the regard to the design style, the core ideology is “simple” and “quality”.  From the consideration of the type of magazine, I don’t prefer to create a colourful and complicated design, it rebelled against the style. My magazine should be neat and I want the page that includes layout, blog, trends and ideas. It is important that various elements on a page to be aligned as much as possible to create a visual flow, making it easier for the audiences to read the page. I choose complete picture as the background for both the cover front and back pages, it is correspond with uniform style. Furthermore, I designed a specific logo for branding in the front page of cover, it was combined with initial letters of “screen culture”, and brand is a necessary part similarity with the soul to a magazine. However, there is something idiosyncratic, irregular, and particular in design, like the layout of the screen exhibition. The inspiration of this page comes from a fashion magazine, female always be attract with the various of model posters, visual sense will be more lively than the words description, that was the original intention of birth of this page. As well as the content, I also create an additional part—poster for magazine. It is a marketing promotion method to attract audiences’ mind and interesting. Cosmetics Company makes the use of the sample sack for product promotion, my poster may be nearly as great. It should be noted that the poster is bright-coloured to achieve the goal of impressive. 

August In 2012-- Evaluation of magazine content

“Screen Cultures" contains two meanings standing in my viewpoint: One is focus on the technology developing related to the word "Screen", another is the history developing process for the word “Cultures". Based on those standards, I made the decision to create a magazine including both technology and history content of screen industry. Furthermore, I have designed two different versions both in physical and digital. The inspiration of iPad digital magazine originate from the Symposium related to the forefront, it is an advanced improvement through the whole project.

With regard to the content, it is divided into three sections: Review of history, Steve Jobs profile and the Future things will be use. I arrange the content according to the time order: Past, Present and Future. This arrangement seems like more organized and accessible. On account of the popularity in screen industry I select touch screen as the main object of content both in the Past and Future page. For the Review history, I choose each important moment of touch screen from generated to evolution. Due to the widely use and successful of Apple product at present, I set aside a page for the genius of Apple Company—Steve Jobs to represent the real situation of screen developing. According to his fame and popularity, it will be more likely to be accepted by audiences and arouse sympathy. In addition, I create a screen exhibition for various forms of screen to attracting a broader set of people.  

August In 2012-- Forefront: Digital magazine-- iPad & iPhone User

"The world's best iPad & iPhone magazine. App reviews, gaming, tutorials & buying advice."  "It has now added video clips to its digital line-up of news, review and tests of the latest Apple equipment, as well as in-depth rumours and teach reports on the next generation of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices." Obviously it offers the latest and most fresh information related to Apple products, even the details about some tips and tricks for the iPad and iPhone, it is specific magazine just for Apple products.












Reference:
1. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/ipad-iphone-user-magazine/id481303493?mt=8

August In 2012-- Forefront: Digital magazine-- New Scientist

"New Scientist covers the latest developments in science and technology that will impact your world." It is a iPad magazine most related to my project in the content and design style." It covers current developments, new, and commentary from the scientific community, including environmental issues such as climate change. It also prints speculative articles, ranging from the technical to the philosophical." On account of the type of this magazine, it is quite different from the fashion magazine, science and technology magazine should be simple fashion design, but not colourful and complicated, that's the common point with my magazine.

Reference: 

1. http://gb.zinio.com/browse/publications/index.jsp?productId=500600973

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist

August In 2012--Forefront: iPad magazine examples

It is a quick video and show some of the digital magazine applications on the Ipad.

Interview, the most revolutionary magazine in the world on Apples most revolutionary device, the Ipad.


Reference:
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFb1DXoCbiY
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIbiEOLrgSg

August In 2012-- Page for Content

Finally I create the content for magazine, I divided it into four parts: there photos and the content schedule. Corresponding to the design style of whole magazine, I'd like to present a simple fashion style through the designing. On account of the iPad character, I want to the audiences' can be read easily and instantly. 

Reference: 

1. http://wallpaperswide.com/black_and_white_photography-wallpapers.html

2.   http://www.danielletunstall.com/414/

3.    http://www.fashionphotographyblog.com/2009/10/product-advertising-shoot/

August In 2012-- Page for cover of magazine layout

I create six circles to contain the logo and articles' headline and arrange them both in front and back. There is a section to quote the beginning of the story, and start with the " Time Travel" to attract people's interesting, it is recognized as the selling point if it is a real magazine. Meanwhile I put the fictitious bar code and my blog website to enrich the completeness of a magazine.

Reference:

1.   http://www.artdoxa.com/Yolk/large?page=1

August In 2012-- The cover of magazine

It spend plenty of time to create the cover of my magazine, including the branding, logo and style. Originally, I create two different style and pages for the cover front and back. However I changed my mind to unify the two pages' style look. It seems like more professional and perfect, I changed the original idea for designing the promotion poster of screen cultures magazine.

August In 2012-- Page for the Future of Screen

It is a page created for the future possible of screen developing, it is a little different from the other pages in the magazine. Firstly, I quote a paragraph of words from Tim Bajarin who is recognized as one of the leading industry consultants, analysts and futurists, covering the field of personal computers and consumer technology. It laid the foundation for my opinion about the screen technology developing. I prepared a fantastic short story to present the future development prospect in our daily life, it is interesting and quite fresh to attract audiences' mind. Magazine is a way for entertainment, though people want to get the information, it is different from coursebook, it should be lively and relaxed, that was the purpose to choose the story form to this article. The article is as follows:

Tim Bajarin is recognized as one of the leading industry consultants, analysts and futurists, covering the field of personal computers and consumer technology. Mr. Bajarin is the President of Creative Strategies, Inc and has been with the company since 1981 where he has served as a consultant providing analysis to most of the leading hardware and software vendors in the industry.

“The future of personalized computing will not be limited to our PCs, tablets or smart phones. In our digital future, we will have all types of screens in our lives that are tied to the cloud and can be used to access our digital stuff. In fact, with companies like Corning working on flexible displays, I fully expect to someday have a screen on my arm that’s like a bracelet. The screen would connect to the Internet and could even be smart, but more likely it would serve as another gateway to my personal cloud. Google’s Project Glass represents another screen that I could use to access my stuff in the cloud as needed. The future of personalized computing is a future where we will have all types of screens in our lives and the one that is the most important is the one that is closest at hand at the time someone needs access to their cloud.”

With the development of technology, we cannot be sure about what screen can be to us because it is so changeable, no matter in the size or form of expression, it can be a “real” product or virtual. “Think different” is an advertising slogan for Apple Computer, Steve Jobs purposely used this phrase to get people’s attention to looking at the world from a different perspective. On account of this kind of spirit, Apple has designed and created a series of products like iPhone, iPod and IPad, the technology has been made a huge contribution people’s daily life. Apple was granted a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a new screen technology that could potentially make the next-generation iPhone thinner and lighter. “Current touch-screen technology places the touch sensitive elements of the screen over the liquid crystal display. The Cupertino-based company’s patent, however, describes a variety of ways in which a touch-screen’s touch sensitive technology could be integrated within the actual LCD screen.” The portable of screen occupy an important position in today’s technology competition. In the development of science and technology today, touch-screen provides amounts of benefit and convenient to us, however it still existing some disadvantages. For example, Input errors increase while typing speed decreases for most touch-screen users. In the meantime, it is difficult to know when a “button” was pushed on a completely flat touch-screen. It is more difficult to editing photos in touch-screen especially for the exactly size, majority of touch-screen users have the same experience. Recently the sensitivity and accuracy of touch-screen will be paid more attention that can be satisfied with customers’ demand.

The Future-- Possible Development of Screen

It’s 2020, the sun is shining brightly, you are staring at the clock. You get up to the washing room , while you are brushing your teeth it appears the entire day schedule at the top of you mirror, and the time remaining is absolutely at the bottom of it. In the meantime, all the useful information related to you appearing in the middle, including weather, business, entertainment, of course about the gossip news for pleasure. Beauty is always the central concern for a woman. You open your clothes press stand before the screen, the “virtual fitting room” project a 3D image of the item of clothing, only 5 minutes you solve the dress up headache, no matter you want sexy dancer, office lady or Barbie doll. There’s a meeting alarm from you iPad, you need catch up the early bus for working, you roll up you iPad in your handbag. Where is your cell phone? It has combined with you Ipad and Ipod, it seems like the “Transformers”. The Bus Time is always as dry as dust, you take out you IPad and switch it to the physically, listen to the music, watch a short video, Face time with your boyfriend, don’t worry it is charging its battery through a built-in organic solar cell. It is arrived, oh, 10 minutes left, need a coffee to wake up, there is a nearby Starbucks on the corner. Its appealing smell and inviting atmosphere are difficult to resist, you come to the Cashier and look into the mirror, the makeup looks spotless, one moment you get your cappuccino without sugar as usual. The coffee shop stores the customers’ material and combined with Face Recognition System, it is an effective way to save time and human resources. Work is the beginning of a busy and enrich day, enjoy.That’s my vision of the future development of screen technology, and it brings the vision of the future close to reality, not the remote allusions. 

Reference: 

1.  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2155921/Tactus-Touchscreen-buttons-pop-disappear-again.html

2. http://www.sharepointedutech.com/2010/11/23/the-future-of-computing-are-we-on-the-road-yet/

3.http://article.wn.com/view/2011/12/06/Samsung_Flexible_AMOLED_Future_Tablet_Offers_Transparent    _Dis/

4.  http://wiredcpu.com/video-the-future-of-touch-screen-technology/

5.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Different

6. http://www.bgr.com/2012/08/14/apple-touchscreen-patent-iphone-ipad/

August In 2012-- Page for Screen Exhibition

This is an additional page including in my magazine, it seems like an advertisement poster as the usual magazine, but it is not for benefit. I select represent products from each different time, actually I want to make my magazine more completely like a real one then I designed for this page. I give the headline of " Technology bring us happiness" to show the importance of screen technology in our daily life. Each of the photos related in this page has been edited and selected carefully, I try me best to present a good vision effective, I use the software of photoshop and Illustrator for designing. 

Reference:

1. http://www.iphoneproguide.com/iphone-lens-kit/

2.   http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/gallery/image_med/15104/

3.   http://www.portwallpaper.com/image/28374-ipod-nano-blue.html

4. http://www.fanpop.com/spots/ipod/images/28320788/title/ipod-photo

5.  http://www.doobybrain.com/2009/08/20/press-images-of-the-first-generation-ipod-5gb/

6.  http://www.imedicalapps.com/2010/09/medical-ipad-stand-offers-a-unique-solution-to-health-care-use/

7. http://allthingsd.com/20120502/spotify-finally-shows-up-on-the-ipad/

8.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Courtbean's_Kindle_Fire.jpg

9.  http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2011/12/04/review-amazon-kindle-basic-k4/#.UDPlBrGPVRI

10. http://www.chicnwild.co.uk/index.php?cPath=24_135

11.http://www.hcbe.net/tsc/technology-services-center.aspx

12. http://www.hitechreview.com/pictures/viewsonic-vg2236wm-led/viewsonic-vg2236wm-led_4.html

13.http://midastouch.goldgenie.com/2010/04/05/hello-kitty-ipod-nano-by-goldgenie-coming-soon/

14.http://www.fanpop.com/spots/television/images/296019/title/old-school-tv-photo

15. http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/screensaver/iphone-polarclock-released

16.  http://www.theapplepress.com/2007/06/22/gigantic-iphone-displays-now-fully-functional/

17.  http://www.corrieblog.tv/2011/12/the_best_techno.html

18.  http://www.led-display-screens.com/LED-display/Multi-Function-LE-display.html

19.  http://www.quitor.com/amazing-future-laptop-images.html

20.  http://www.topdesignmag.com/future-of-internet-search-mobile-version/

21.  http://indulgy.com/post/L6skD6WvP1/twosided-transparent-touchscreen-prototype-japa

22.http://www.123rf.com/photo_4235620_concept-of-secure-data-by-touch-screen--future-  technology.html

23.http://www.vensdesign.com/future-shower-with-touch-screen-control-panel/future-shower-with-touch-screen-control-panel-2/

24.http://www.flash-watch.com/touch-screen-watches/2011-fashionable-touch-screen-led-watches.html

25.http://photographerjob.org/forensic-photographer-job-vacancies/

August In 2012-- Page for the Steve Jobs of Magazine

Steve Jobs was a genius for Apple company, large amounts of amazing products created with the help of him. I choose him as the profile page including my magazine, not only for his fame and reputation, the Apple products give a huge contribution to screen developing, especially for touch screen which is related to my topic. I introduced the distinguished contribution of Steve Jobs, including iPhone, iPad, iOS system and something else in different filed. Majority of the audiences want to know how to be a genius and the successful process of those kind of people, it will be attractive and interesting as a article. The article of my magazine is as follow:

Steve Jobs was an American businessman and technology visionary. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Company. Jobs changed the world, he will be remembered not just for those fabulous products he helped to create, but the long lasting impact to the gaming, technology, and entertainment industries caused by his genius work. Job's most important contribution to the video games industry is the introduction of the company's mobile operating system: iOS. Steve jobs is one of the inventors of iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and iOS system, with his works, he helped to create the most successful mobile gaming platform on the market. The most important thing about iOS is, it made games easier to access to a much wider array of people than ever before. With the built in app store software of the OS, you can get thousands of games just by a few touches of your mobile phone screen. And with its simple, touch and motion- enabled control system, it's easy for everyone to play, it doesn’t matter how old you are. Before the Revolutionary iPod, in the year of 1984, apple released the first commercially available personal computer came with a graphical user interface ever, the Macintosh. Though hardly created by Jobs himself, his contribution for popularizing the concepts of a desktop interface and mouse controls cannot be forgotten. In the same year, Steve Jobs was ousted the Board of directors of the company, he was not the CEO of apple anymore. After that Jobs founded a new company called NeXT Computer in 1996, which innovated the concept of multimedia email, allowing users to embed and transfer audio, images, and video in messages. When we talking about digital media, there is nothing more influential than the iPod and the iTunes software, and both the development has been leaded by Steve Jobs himself. And it was him made them household words. With the introduction of the iPod in 2001, Apple started a revolution of the digital world: consumers now can carry thousands of their collections just within a cigarette-case-sized device in their pocket. Just like what Steve Jobs did with the Macintosh, he leaded the development of the iPhone, which was the first Smartphone to provide a rich graphical interface, touch screen controls, desktop-quality mobile web browsing and email access, and media support in one compact handset.As monumental as these contributions were, they are just a few of what was a lifetime of innovation and exceptional foresight. As monumental as these contributions were, they are just a few of what was a lifetime of innovation and exceptional foresight. Nonetheless, Jobs and Apple have been integral in the evolution of computing as we know it and ,today Apple is not just a technology company, it is a lifestyle. When it came to put on a show, nobody else in the computer industry, or any any other industry for that matter, could match Steve Jobs. Whatever the true source of his success, there was more than a touch of genius about Jobs, there are amounts of treasures that we can learn from his wisdom and life.

Reference:

1.  http://themovieblog.com/2012/screenwriter-aaron-sorkin-to-adapt-steve-jobs-biopic/
2.   http://www.aceshowbiz.com/still/00008220/steve-jobs-poster01.html
3.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/electronics/9224881/Appl  e-profits-rise-94pc-to-11.6bn-smashing-expectations.html
4.  http://uk.ign.com/articles/2011/10/07/how-steve-jobs-changed-the-world
5.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
6.   http://www.digitaltrends.com/apple/apple-founder-steve-jobs-has-died/

July In 2012-- Forefront: The second Symposium: At the forefront

It is our second practice of presentation held in 24th July, " how is your work at or near the forefront your field? how do you know? how do you map the forefront", it means I need locate my work relative to the forefront of my field. I create a magazine for both printing and digital for ipad, it is more flexible and convenient. Actually, ipad magazine is more fresh than any other digital magazine in nowadays. " If the sold out pre-order are any indication of the device's pre-launch consumer demand, it looks as though Apple has struck gold with the iPad." From the report it is obviously shown the large amounts of iPad users, the iPad is designed for customers requirement, and also function as a small business tool, large amounts of entertainment-seekers are reading e-books, e-magazines, shopping online, watching videos and playing games. According to the information, iPad magazine is absolutely at the forefront of the magazine industry and digital media. The article of my magazine is as follows:



Touch-screen has become an essential part of people’s daily life at the moment, it seems like a thing of the future. Touch-screen is widely use in mobile, tablet computer, banks and ticket machine. It has experienced a long process to get today’s success in technology. How touch screen runs your iPad or Android? Let’s elucidate these mysteries one by one now.

1948: The electronic sackbutLe Caine built the Electronic Sackbut between 1945 and 1948. It is recognized to be the first voltage-controlled synthesizer at present. The electronic sackbut is the earliest origin of touch screen technology. 1965: E.A. Johnson Touch-Screen E.A. Johnson is considered as the first inventor of touch screen, he described his work on capacitive touch screens in a short article published in 1965. He published a full description of touch screen technology for air traffic control in an article.

1971: Touch sensor--The first “touch sensor” was developed by Doctor Sam Hurst (founder of Elographics) called “Elograph”. 1972: PLATO Touch-Screen Terminal--Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations was the first generalized computer assisted instruction system, it was produced by the University Illinois and offering coursework to students, local schools and other universities.

1982: First Multi- Touch Device-- It is a touch tablet used for reading multiple points of contact owing to a video camera that can communicate with a computer.1983: HP-150--Hewlett-packard of the computer manufacturing company was introduced a home computer with touch screen technology, HP-150 was one of the world’s earliest commercialized touch screen computer.

1984: First Multi- Touch Screen--Bob Boie of Bell Labs develops the first multi-touch screen, which allows users to manipulate graphics with their fingers. 1984: Casio AT-550 Watch--“With this calculator watch, the touch screen is used as the surface on which you write, with your finger, the numbers and the operators of you calculation. This was 17 Moore’s Law ago!” (Bill Buxton’s Note)

1987: ADB (Apple Desktop Bus)--Apple Desktop Bus is a bit-serial computer bus connecting low-speed devices to computers. It was created by Steve Wozniak who had been looking for a project to work on in the mid-1980s. It is the first system that allows someone to connect two points devices at the same time. 1993: IBM Simon Personal Communicator --The IBM Simon Personal Communicator was a handheld, touch-screen cellular phone and PDA designed and engineered by International Business Machine Inc. It can be referred to as the first smart phone with touch-screen technology. 1998: Finger Works--It was a gesture recognition company known mainly for its Touch-Stream multi-touch keyboard. It designed a series of multi-touch products including the I-Gesture Pad and the Touch-Stream keyboard. 2007: iPhone--The first iPhone was launched by Steve Jobs in 2007, the user interface is built around the device’s multi-touch screen, including a virtual keyboard rather than a physical one. It is the first successfully smart-phone release a touch-screen into market and widely used in people’s daily life until now.

2010: iPad--It is a series of tablet computers mainly functioned on books, periodicals, movies, music, games, applications and website. With the iPad, Apple combines touch-screen technology to daily computing by providing a larger screen. 2013: Surface--Microsoft Surface is a planned series of tablet PCs designed and marketed by Microsoft. It will offer two keyboard covers for Surface: Touch cover and Type cover. The Touch cover is 3mm in thickness and has a touch-sensitive keyboard.

Reference:
1. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2362227,00.asp

July In 2012-- Review of Touch screen history Research

This part of the magazine is in precedence order, it gives a detailed description of each successful moment of touch screen in different times. The electronic sackbutLe Caine built the Electronic Sackbut between 1945 and 1948. It is recognized to be the first voltage-controlled synthesizer at present. The electronic sackbut is the earliest origin of touch screen technology. I select the photo of it as my background photo, meanwhile I do a research to collect large amounts of information to make sure the accuracy of my article.

Reference:

1.       http://m.matrixsynth.com/2011_07_14_archive.html
2.     http://www.hughlecaine.com/en/sackbut.html
3.    http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/collection/music7.cfm
4.    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen
5.   Johnson, E.A. (1965). "Touch Display - A novel input/output device for computers". Electronics Letters 
6.     http://www.scribd.com/doc/21138453/Touch-Screen-Technology
7.     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-150
8.    http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/bibuxton/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=227
9.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Desktop_Bus
10.    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon
11.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks
12.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone
13.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipad
14.    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Surface

July In 2012-- Review part of history in magazine

  The first part I want to create is review of screen technology history, it is more related to " culture" in my opinion. I select the touch screen developing history as my target including in my article. Touch screen has become an essential part of people's daily life at the moment, it seems like a thing of the future. It is widely use in mobile, tablet computer, banks and ticket machine. It has experienced a long process to get today's success in technology. According to the description, touch screen is quite suitable for my magazine. 

July In 2012-- Change the idea to create a diary notebook for Documentation

It is a modification related to documentation. Originally I want to create two forms both in digital and physical in documentation. However I found it is useless in fact, I saved all the details during the design process, it is more effective and  directly to show the photos in the creation process. Compare with the physical diary notebook, they are the same thing, and blog can present it more lively and completely. 

July In 2012-- Inspiration for Ipad style magazine

As the developing speed of technology, digital media has occupy an important position today. Locate to the forefront of my filed, ipad magazine will be more fresh than a printing magazine. I can attract more audiences and more convenient to spread, just move you hand, click you touch screen, the customers can get the magazine in a shortly time. Meanwhile, with the increasing amounts of the tablet computers users, the popularity will become more widely and effectively. It is also a way for environmental protection. 

July In 2012-- Tutorial In July

It is a necessary and meaningful to project, it gives me the direction through my overall situation. According to the discussion and suggestion from Ivan, I was required to write there articles including one 1000 words and two 500 words. Based on my description of my ideas, Ivan gave there possible of my articles: 1. profile of a person, she or he should be famous in screen field; 2. a review of technology related to screen filed; 3. the future possible. It was clearly to show what need I do for my magazine. Meanwhile, I need create the " Branding" for my artefact, the style, content and audience should also be taken into consideration. Ivan suggest me to search for the mock-up cover design style as a sample, the representative one is " DUMMIES", it is more related to my project in the style. 

July In 2012- Research (3)

Continued with the content decision, I am planning to select the material and target for my magazine. Touch screen is fashion trend in recent years, the representative products were designed by Apple Company-- iPhone, iPod, iPad and iTouch. In the meantime, the name of Steve Jobs was widely spread in the world as Apple product. It will be a amiable topic to most of readers. I set up the audiences' age above 15 years old, there is no limit with the sexual and education background. It should be a life-style and popularization of science magazine, that means it is suitable for the public.

July In 2012 -- The first Symposium: strategies of documentation

Today we held the first practice presentation to explaining how to managing the process of documentation. I am preparing two form of documentation: digital for Blogger, physical for a diary note. Actually both of them is ready for recording my progress of magazine creating, Blogger is focus on the details and ideas for content, diary note is focus on the image layout and design style in vision sense. According to the classmates presentation,especially for some animation major students, they provided adequate and reliable system for the documentation, I have got a lot of ideas and experience from them, it is a good harvest to me. 

July In 2012- Research (2)

To create a complete magazine, it should be including cover, content, Journalism articles and brand logo. It needs comprehensive abilities in designing, writing skills and selective power.  The topic for my artefact is around screen cultures, it is belong with science and technology magazine. I don't want to make a old-fashioned science magazine, " make innovation" is an absolutely advantage for competition.  Take the skills and ability into consideration, I want to divided my content into there sections: history, current situation and future vision. It is the main clue through my magazine, in addition I am planning to create an advertisement page for particular or existence screen products. It is a way to enrich my magazine in content.

June In 2012 -- Research (1)

Fashion? 

Fashion? Business? Science? Daily? Monthly? Yearly? Popular? Professional?

There are amounts of question marks in my brain.

So, the first thing I need consider is the magazine style and content type.

       

June In 2012 -- Tutorial In June 12

The tutorial is designed to help my plan and prepare effectively for my project, I present my planning folder to Ivan and have a discussion with him. The project I have made decision is to create a magazine which is related to Screen and Cultures. Ivan checked each goals of my planning based on the Sign-off Sheet, though it is not perfect I complete each requirement in total. I get the permission to sign off and start with my project. 

During the discussion I was required to divided the time schedule detailed in hours, and each quotation should be related with reference. Due to the interview will be including in my magazine, I was told to apply for the ethics approval as early as possible. Fortunately, I got the printing support in collage lane campus- Steve Williams, it is a quite useful and practical information in this meeting.   

June In 2012 -- Planning Folder

Pg Media Major Study – Learning Outcomes Matrix for project planning and self-management

Learning Outcomes - Knowledge and Understanding of:	Where this will be shown in Project Deliverables – artefacts, documentation, and other performances, how is this to be achieved or shown, what you will do in your Project to demonstrate the fulfillment of this Learning Outcome
a set of defined or devised practices, techniques, processes, methodologies and debates that make up the forefront of (your Award Field)	QuarkXPress will be the mainly graphic design software in my project combined with Photoshop, illustrator is a “fresh” in my improved skill.
a range of factors and conditions that influence audiences, spectators, participants, acts of consumption and the vectors of dissemination and distribution in (your award field) and how these impact on the design and realisation of artefacts	Magazine is a publication for general audiences, I choose the developing process of screen and cultures in recently years of global area which is related to major study. To present my opinion directly and visually, I will put amounts of photos and illustrations related to articles. Comparison and evolutionary process will be the attractive point to audiences.
approaches to self- and project-management including the identification of new learning and the handling of time, schedules and resources	Blog diaries will be used as the mainly documentation way through my whole project, from the research, classification, layout design to inspection. In additional, I will make podcast and an introduction as the advertisement of my magazine. Each inspiration, ideas and tutorial should be recorded in my blog as an identification and evidence.
Learning Outcomes - Skills and Attributes, be able to:
critically examine, evaluate, select and deploy appropriately defined or devised methodologies for managing creative practice in (your Award Field)	Existing skills will be appropriate further used at the first place to keep the quality, some practice for fresh strength the skill ability, and not the important place through the whole work. Try to present something “difficult” in additional part.
make sound and informed judgements about the aesthetic and communicative properties and content of media artefacts produced by themselves in terms of their fitness for purpose, taking into account as appropriate the traditions of the field, the nature of audiences and the requirements of vectors of dissemination	Theory frame and foundation will be supported by bibliography, it will be divided into firstly and secondary sources for both information and academic support.
work in an autonomous way, making good use of time and resources and showing initiative and personal direction	I make the whole progress in stages smooth and steady, timing management is absolutely important to maintenance the quality of whole project, I adopt the blog to record the process for the frequently documenting. Create a magazine is a flexible practice including arrangement, selecting, design, and individual working talent. It is a modeling working adaption ability applied to future career.
manage self and identify self-learning of skills and knowledge and work effectively with others when appropriate	Interview and M-O-S may be contained in project

June In 2012 -- Planning Folder

Project Deliverables:

The artefact of my project is creating a magazine related to the developing progress of screen history and culture nowadays. The Screen Cultures programme aims to provide a fresh approach to Media Studies for the 21^st Century with a creative integration of theoretical concepts and media practice. In an age of rapid media convergence, this course is particularly attractive to the student who knows their future lies in the media but doesn’t want to limit their options. I select the history progress and contemporary staff to interpreting Screen and Cultures. Digital and Mobile Media devices such as mobile phones and PDA’s are the primary source of portable media from which we can obtain information and communicate with one another. Screen is a remarkable symbol in both digital and mobile media field. The screen Cultures program is for students who want to make their careers in the new media professions, using new and established media form. Students will have opportunity to create podcasts. Web pages, poster, video sequences, and much more. I prefer to create a website as an advertisement to introduce my magazine. It is a way to improved existing skills and practice advanced skills in one project, flexible ability is an advantage in Screen Cultures filed.

I will hand in a magazine as the artefact of my project, and in this you will find a set of devised practices, techniques; I will hand in the blog dairy, and in this you will find the self and project management including the identification of each idea inspiration and time arrangement; I will hand in a list of bibliography to support the information and theory frame, and in this you will find the informed judgements about the aesthetic and communicative properties; I will hand in a time planning for the whole project, and in this you will find I work in an autonomous way, making good use of time and resources and showing initiative and personal direction.

June In 2012 -- Planning Folder

Time planning and Time Management Chart:

15 June- 30 June	1 July- 10 July	11 July- 21 July	22 July- 20 August	21 August- 1 September	2 September- 4  September
Research: Collecting information and theory frame/ Selecting useful and related sources	Contents: Classify different sources, photos and illustrators which are related to articles	Contents: Confirm the articles and related staff, get into the prepare period	Design: Start to design the page layout and magazine style step by step	Presentation: Prepare the presentation introduction and material	Check and inspection: Check through the artefact, blog dairy and presentation material

15 June- 30 June	1 July- 10 July	11 July- 21 July	22 July- 20 August	21 August- 1 September	2 September- 4  September
Arrange the tutorial to show the research to supervisor, make sure the direction is correct and fix with major study	Arrange the tutorial to present the suitable and selected staff and get the allowance to use these material	Arrange the confirmed articles and contents will be used in magazine, and get the opinions from supervisor	Arrange the tutorial and discuss the layout and design style for the whole magazine to supervisor	Arrange the tutorial to discuss the presentation, and get the key point should be shown in presentation	Arrange the tutorial for the final check

( Addition: Blog will be write almost in daily)