Windfall’s new logo after their re-branding efforts
My wife Leslie has been working with Windfall (formerly known as Windfall Clothing Service: award-winning, registered charity that receives donations of new clothing and distributes them to over 80 partner social service agencies in Toronto) for some time now. Last year i sent off my analysis based on the current state of their website. A year passed, a re-branding occurred and just like that i am now a key player in their website re-design process on a volunteer basis!!
Some of the website re-design requirements that have been suggested are as follows:
- ease of use in updating content – currently they use Dreamweaver and static HTML files
- ability to post images, video and various other media formats
- ability to multi-blog i.e., different user accounts with their own voice
- overall website design will be in-brand with the newly printed material
- greater tie between their peripheral micro-sites
- simplified user-centric Information Architecture (IA) / navigational system
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What?! Micah who? These:
I don’t get it?
Let me explain…
Each year on November 18 to 21 The Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) holds its signature fundraising event the Whodunit? Mystery Art Sale – an exhibition and sale of hundreds of pieces of original art donated by artists who are famous and not-yet-famous, including well-known and celebrity artists, OCAD faculty, alumni and students.
So, at Whodunit? ’07 i came across these two pieces (each 5×7) i thought were pretty cool and decided to buy them and to my surprise, wait for it… were created by contempory Canadian artist and curator Micah Lexier! Both handwritten in pencil the top says “Mitch Robertson made this.” and the bottom “Kelly Mark made this.” who btw are also established artists in their own right! Genius!!
This has been a long time coming to say the least. With commercially run Linux web servers on the rise and continuous nudging from my OCAD colleague Ramtin Lotfabadi – Manager, Online Architecture & Development, i have started my foray into Fedora, the open source Linux operating system.
First impressions are extremely positive. Start up/run-time is super-fast. The GNOME desktop aesthetic is much like the Mac OS with a hint of Windows XP styling. Finding your way around is relatively easy as well; just a matter of getting acquainted which really takes no time atoll. The only real learning curve i could see would be the Linux file system and how that is utilized.
So anyway, i decided to buy a new computer to run the system and also act as a file-server on our home network housing all our music, pictures and other miscellaneous data. In implementation though a couple of requirements/challenges came out of this scenario:
- Both computers on the network (one Linux, one Windows) need to be able to communicate with each other in order to share files
- The Linux computer needs to be able to stream our music to any computer connected on the network
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