Border for inside the frame.

Hello,

As mentioned at the last meeting, we decided to use a frame as a border for our interactive website. I was assigned the role of making some designs for what would go inside the frame. So, whilst I was working on some designs I decided on posting what I have been doing throughout the day and edit the page as and when I finish a design. 

I have been collecting images that represent Vanitas and fit in with the theme of Epicurus and Seneca. I tried to make some designs in Photo shop but had some difficulties loading them up so I made a folder which contained these, I'll have to show them to the group on Tuesday.

Most of the images i collected are quite morbid and feature skulls and wilting flowers. I suggest we take our own photographs of landscapes etc which can be used as background images, I found some really striking images online and they were copyrighted, so I thought we could just make our own. I have a folder full of images which I have divided into two themes, Vanitas/Transience which contain busts of Epicurus, images of Seneca as well as baroque image, the second folder, Joy contains some photo's I think capture time passing but are more positive and uplifting.

Just read Ewa's post. 

There are a lot of names there, personally if we are going to maintain the link between Seneca and Epicurus, then I think Vanitas would fit well. To me Vanitas, more clearly than say Vanx or Travanx, matches the images we have been looking at as well as the philosophical work we have intended on including in our mission statement. By changing the name to something more contemporary  we would shift in meaning and tone, and would therefore have to rethink some of our ideas to match the new name. 

I do however think that if we were to take our own photographs which are more contemporary and celebratory we could go with one of the names you suggested. If we went with Travanx, based on Dansei's idea that the inclusion of the X suggests a more dangerous youthful tone, we could take some photographs which better represented the change in name and use them as a background to our interactive menus.

Matthew.