LIMITING CONTENT TO MINI POSTERS

From a scientific perspective, creativity is your ability to think of something original from connections made between pre-existing ideas in your brain. These connections are controlled by neurotransmitters like adenosine, which alerts your brain when you’re running out of energy and reacts.

FROM «ARS.LOHGO.MET» TO «ARTDIG.LOHGO.NET»

In this context, it was only logical to adapt the original generic domain name and thus the domain itself (the Internet address) accordingly. The address is now “artdig.lohgo.net” (artes digitales/art digital) and the name of the website is “ArtDig Worx.”

PROJECTS, NO GALLERIES

In addition, the presentation structure has changed. Works and their descriptions are now organized into projects in a portfolio. Extra galleries aren’t necessary anymore, .

SOME TECHNICAL NOTE

The web versions of the images have been converted to 8-bit 100 dpi CMYK format and compressed using Afiv in order to reduce their size and improve performance. The original images are available in 16-bit 300 dpi CMYK format.

The website redesign, the restriction to exclusively digitally created mini-posters, and the necessary restructuring of the user interface to focus on the ‘essentials’ were further steps in the presentation process. The website’s structure is anything but uniform. This is intentional, as the website is meant to be a ‘playground’ for browsing rather than a place for targeted searches.

Navigating, i. e. poking around

The portfolio displays all works (each one a project in itself). When loading for the first time, it may take a little while for all works to be displayed—once cached, the “waiting time” is no longer an issue. Here, the display can be filtered according to different categories (for example, to reduce the scope of the works to bedisplayed).

Moving the mouse pointer over one of the images displays the name and a brief description of the work. A left mouse click on an image opens the corresponding portfolio page with a large version of the image and its description.

Left-clicking on the image provides a full-screen view of the image. Use “Alt” + “Left Arrow” on the keyboard or the browser’s “Left Arrow” icon to close the image display.

Within the portfolio, you can scroll back and forth and display all images again. Below the image, the “Previous,” “All Projects,” and “Next” links allow you to navigate. These three links are not always located directly below the image. Depending on the length of the description text, there may be a gap between the image and the navigation links.

Note: If you have accessed a specific portfolio page via an image filter, this filter will no longer be active when navigating from the portfolio page. You can scroll forwards and backwards through the entire image collection. If you want filtered images to remain available, you should open images for viewing in a separate tab (right-click on the image and select ‘Open link in a new tab’ from the context menu). If you want to view the description of another filtered image, switch back to the tab with the filtered images and open the desired image in another tab.

Pure Image Libraries: This subsection of the portfolio organizes the complete body of work by category, allowing you to browse pure image libraries without any accompanying text. Clicking this submenu item opens a page displaying the available image categories. Once you select a category, the corresponding library appears. Clicking on any work selects it and displays it in an enlarged view. Clicking the enlarged work again advances to the next piece in that category.

You can skip forward and back using the selection indicator (for example: < 4/17 >) shown to the lower right of the selected work. The currently displayed work closes when you click anywhere outside of it.