Coriander & Cloves

I was really nervous since I've put my heart into my little company, so it's not like I was pitching someone else's idea: it's all me and my business partner! So thanks for your interest in my small business!!

corianderandcloves.com

myspace.com/corianderandcloves

corianderandcloves@yahoo to order online or call either number.

But here's a taste (our flier and page) but no pics so I don't know how it'll look:
You'll have to check us out online! Friend me on myspace so you can keep up with our menu updates and leave comments about how awesome our food is!

Each regular entrée will feed one or two people depending on your appetite. Family size will feed 3-4. Please place your order by Friday for the following week. We deliver Tuesday through Thursday.

Prices:

$30 for 3 entrées with choice of two sides each except casseroles and entrees offered as stand-alone meals $55 for 6 $45 for 3 family sized entrees $80 for 6
$25 for 3 single entrées with no side $3 per person ordering soup $3 per extra side item	Carrie is a Clemson student and a food enthusiast. She attended Greenville Tech for Culinary Arts and has 15 years restaurant experience.
Ordering options: Phone: Carrie 864-356-0763 Jen 864-222-3437
Email: corianderandcloves@yahoo.com www.myspace.com/corianderandcloves	Jennifer cooks at home with a low-country flair and has 8 years in the food industry.

Coriander &

Cloves

We make healthy, whole food meals for you and your family to enjoy and the best part: they taste great and we deliver right to your door! Why put yourself through the hassle of shopping and cooking? Fast foods are loaded with junk you don’t want in your children! That’s where we come in. We do the shopping and all the cooking. You won’t even have to clean your kitchen! All you need to do is heat it up and enjoy supper with your family.

Bon Apetit!

Pork:

BBQ pork tenderloin w/apricot demi-glaze. Three tenderloin medallions per serving and our signature barbeque sauce.

Pork or turkey tenderloin, apple wood smoked, with sun dried tomatoes and mushroom sauce with zucchini over pasta. Marinated tenderloin baked alone with a tantalizing gravy of the marinade with mushrooms and sun-dried tomatoes.

Low Country Boil A scrumptious mix of shrimp, smoked sausage, corn on the cob, and small red potatoes.

Poultry:

Chicken cordon bleu with Dijon beurre blanc. Tenderized chicken breast stuffed with ham, Swiss and scallions with a creamy Dijon sauce.

Pecan chicken. Chicken breaded with pecan flour and lightly pan fried; served with a scrumptious pecan cream sauce.

Chicken Divan: Chicken and broccoli casserole over rice.

Steak:

Tenderloin medallions over gorgonzola pasta. Beef tenderloin slow roasted or smoked over corkscrew pasta in a gorgonzola Alfredo sauce and sautéed mushrooms.

Rolled flank steak with endives and potatoes. Flank steak with onions, celery, mushrooms and bread crumbs mixed and spread on the flank, then rolled and slowly baked. Endive halves topped with apple, walnut, caraway, brie and scalloped potatoes.

Seafood:

Shrimp zucchini and rice. Zucchini halves stuffed with zucchini, rosemary bread crumbs, shrimp, and topped with parmesan. Best with rice

Today’s catch with cilantro lime rice and snow peas. Cilantro lime wild rice with lime fish; served with snow peas and julienne red and yellow peppers.

Crab Cakes on a bed of mild Cajun rice served with our signature sauce (made with—you guessed it!—coriander and cloves).

Vegetarian:

Sweet potato risotto with navy beans and okra. Sweet potatoes mashed and mixed with risotto, topped with navy beans and okra.

Beer braised portabellas over spaghetti squash. Squash baked and shredded into angel hair noodles, mushroom ragout, and topped with the mushrooms.

Extras and add-ons:

Signature Soups:

Roasted red pepper bisque
Black beans and rice

Salad:

Mixed greens, sweet onions, tomatoes, grapes, cucumber, carrots, cabbage, and gorgonzola cheese and our signature vinaigrette

Vegetables and sides:

Vegetable medley (seasonal), Potatoes of the day (scalloped, mashed, roasted, herbed, hashed),
Rice of the day (jasmine, sushi or sticky, risotto, pilaf)
Pasta of the day

Coriander and Cloves

Contents

What we offer

Contact Information

Current Menu

About Us

Personal Interests

What Can We Do For You?

Our Products

We offer home cooked entrees delivered right to your door. It doesn’t get any better than this: we do all the grocery shopping, preparation and the cooking! Many of our entrees and casseroles are stand-alone meals and we add vegetables and potatoes or rice to complete your healthy meals for the others.

Key responsibilities

We do all our grocery shopping in advance, so your orders must be in by midnight on Friday in order to have your meals delivered the following week. We deliver Tuesday through Thursday. You must order 3 or 6 items at a time, all carefully prepared and delivered right to your door!

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Favorite Links

www.myspace.com/corianderandcloves

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Contact Information

E-mail address

corianderandcloves@yahoo.com

myspace.com/corianderandcloves

Web address

www.corianderandcloves.com

myspace.com/corianderandcloves

Office phone

864-356-0763

864-222-3437

Prices

$35 for three meals (each meal will easily feed 2)

$60 for six meals

$60 for three family sized meals (will feed 3-4)

Desserts count as one meal so if you’d like to add a dessert, simply order one less meal and replace with dessert.

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Our Menu

Pork:

BBQ pork tenderloin w/apricot demi-glaze. Three tenderloin medallions per serving and our signature barbeque sauce.

Applewood-smoked Turkey tenderloin with sun dried tomatoes with zucchini over pasta, in a mushroom-cream sasuce Marinated tenderloin baked alone with a tantalizing gravy of the marinade with mushrooms and cream, topped with zucchini and tenderloin medallions and garnished with sun-dried tomatoes.

Pasta Fagiolo A scrumptious mix of meats, pasta and vegetables in a hearty stew perfect for any winter evening.

Poultry:

Lemon-pepper chicken with cilantro rice. Tenderized chicken breast marinated and grilled to perfection and served alongside cilantro-pesto rice and vegetable medley.

Pecan chicken. Chicken breaded with pecan flour and lightly pan fried; served with a scrumptious pecan cream sauce over a bed of rice with broccoli.

Chicken Divan: Chicken and broccoli casserole over rice.

Steak:

Tenderloin medallions over gorgonzola pasta. Beef tenderloin slow roasted with mushrooms and served over corkscrew pasta in a gorgonzola Alfredo sauce.

Seafood:

Shrimp zucchini and rice. Zucchini halves stuffed with zucchini, rosemary bread crumbs, shrimp, and topped with parmesan. Best with rice

Crab Cakes on a bed of mild Cajun rice served with our signature sauce (made with—you guessed it!—coriander and cloves).

Vegetarian:

Sweet potato risotto with navy beans and okra. Sweet potatoes mashed and mixed with risotto, topped with navy beans and okra.

Beer braised portabellas over spaghetti squash. Squash baked and shredded into angel hair noodles, mushroom ragout, and topped with the mushrooms.

Desserts:

Chocolate Dream Pie made with an Oreo cookie crust, filled with chocolate mousse and topped with a cloud layer of whipped cream

Spice Cake our version of this holiday classic, carefully crafted with our own spices and topped with a generous layer of cream cheese icing.

Fruit cobbler cherry or peach cobbler with phyllo crust

America's Army

Back to this real world stuff but still more interesting than SL! First person shooter, visual representation of the army's recruitment tool, promotes teamwork, online multi-player game.

The people interviewed and the training area look completely different from what we covered last semester. It looks like a real recruiting office! The realism and the open frankness of the heroes interested parties can interact with is fascinating. Kinda creepy, the way their eyes follow the camera angle, too.

Goal: piquing people's interest in the army
Were they successful? Well, they met their recruitment quotas soon after (although war broke out around the same time which created an urgent sense of patriotism so the data may be skewed)

The training simulations mimic real life fairly well. When you run, your aim suffers because of heavy breathing and just the movement of running. Taking too long to aim, holding your rifle out too long, tires your arm and affects your aim; the game compensates for most variables including getting a non-fatal wound. I was not prepared for such realism in a game but it does make sense.

Even in training, the drill sergeant explains that several factors affect targeting. The part that is unrealistic is the ability to turn the drill sergeant down... But killing your teammates will land you in jail and too much wind will miss a perfectly lined up target. The firing range looks generic; it could be anywhere. But it is, in 'virtu-ality' (as opposed to 're-ality') Fort Benning, GA.

Two forces: mine and the enemy. Opposing forces are always shown to be terrorists; my team is always depicted in army uniforms. Regardless of which 'side' chosen, my team is always the army and the others are always terrorists.

This is not like Halo or many other first-person shooters.

I did it!

I figured out how to upload my page! I couldn't get the links to work, but the tech guy I spoke with said that my page names have to be identical to the links to make them work, and now that I know how to do it, I want to add some pictures to make it more interesting. So I can now tell people to check out corianderanscloves.com and I can start writing the next 20 pages of my dissertation...fortunately I made many blunders, enough to cover a lot of text!

Paper requirements

Dec. 6--final deadline for project
Presentation is IMPORTANT
10 minute in-class presentation on the 4th

DON'T FORGET THE PAPER PART OF THE PROJECT!!!!!!!


What is my project?
Not just a laundry list or prose description

Why did I choose this project?
What makes this good, what makes people notice this concept

How did I complete this project?
What were some of the obstacles, goals I've reached, things that I had to cut out

Conclusion:
Outcome of the project, was it a success, how could I improve



Once the conclusion is written, go back and adjust the introduction!! Creative processes take unforeseen turns so the intro may not adjust or be accountable for these turns unless I revise. Tie up loose ends or remove them all together.

It's crack down day!

Serious games: games that have some sort of message
Fun games are just pure entertainment
Serious entertainment however is much, much more
Games = corruption of youth
but then, excess of any one thing is not good and games are of course included
flow: the force/state of mind when time ceases to exist and you just go with it...i.e. when playing a video game and unable to stop until you beat it
No other media captures attention like games which I suppose is why there are so many educational games for children these days.

Graphic novels can tell stories that are just as deep as (real) novels but get a bad rap as being just for kids, so adults don't take it serious: it's a comic book not a book. This problem is also attributed to video games: can't possible be serious because it is, after all, a game.

September 12 game: the goal is to kill terrorists in the town. There are many civilians in the town, too, so it's impossible to take out a terrorist without "taking out" some townspeople too. Every time you kill a civilian, they turn into terrorists. The more you kill, the more terrorists you have. You cannot win this game. You just create more terrorists until there are no civilians left. After every missile you deploy hits, a group of civilians gather to cry. After the sobs, the game make a chirping noise as the criers become terrorists.
Violence breeds violence!

Madrid is the candle game; keep the flame (and the memory of the person it's lit for) burning. Message: it's impossible for one person to keep all the candles lit! The instructions say "you have to keep trying" but the player burns out and then the candles burn out and the people/candles/memories fade to black.
Now we're playing some games on powerfulrobot.com but my favorite game from last semester, Cambiemos, is no longer available to play. :( The only game that worked at this computer workstation was the Howard Dean game for canvassing. I'm kinda glad because the Powerpuff girls game looks very frustrating whereas Dean was more droll. These little games are perfect for simply killing time without any real purpose. I liked the Dexter game, too, as I recall but I couldn't load the plugins for that and many other games. I've never liked the repetitive games because there's no room for my imagination; I don't even play solitaire (on the computer or with cards). Little time killers hold no interest for me outside this class; I just don't get it. I'd rather read a book or an interesting article (or even sometimes a gossip column).
But if I've got a couple of hours to pass, I do enjoy World of Warcraft. It allows room for my imagination within the game. I can quest or explore or level or go to an arena or make stuff or just socialize. My characters can even enjoy a party and get drunk while socializing. And there are a myriad of ways to defeat enemies and those ways keep increasing as my character levels. It's not just a time killer because I'm fully engaged in the game. I guess that's why I like it. It's not just mindless tedium; I can mow the lawn or fold laundry or do dishes if I'm just looking for mindless tedium and those activities are useful!

Powerful visual messages can be acquired from video games I suppose but they're really just not for me. And no, I don't click on the mini-games within ads that flash across my screen while I'm waiting for my pictures to load on my myspace page. Games are not just entertainment; educational games are not just for learning. They blend the boundaries between fun and learning.

Computer Graphics

Computer enhanced and generated film images and film
Most images today are computer generated or enhanced and are produced digitally. Even movies! (since Star Wars Episode 2 was the first completely digital movie that wasn't all animated)
Shrek and other Pixar and Dreamworks movies are all digitally animated
I think Toy Story was the first all-digital animated movie; I love the short clips at the beginning of Pixar movies!

Striving for animated photo-realism
Eragon--there are no real dragons so that one is so digital
Lord of the Rings
Narnia
300 (a superb example of digital enhancement :)
Kill Bill, Quentin Tarantino

A page from history: c prompts and such from old OLD computers that didn't understand anything unless you were super specific about what you want! And then Macintosh was born in 1984 and all those old interfaces became obsolete as we all took bites out of this new fruit of knowledge, the Apple computer!

In word, all of the options are available in pull-down menus collected into category tabs at the top of the screen. That's visual communication!
The animated office assistant...everyone's favorite brown-nosing communicator! I like the wizard because he falls asleep and snores if you don't use him. I also like the bouncy ball and the robot and the dog and the kitten who chases his tail. The paperclip is rather overused, so I never use that one, but the others are friendly and not quite so annoying.


I think if you use the dog, he'll chase your cursor if you wave it around.

Google maps--I've never used it but it's kinda creepy that I can zoom in far enough to see if there are any parking spaces at the library!
I can see my house from here! I don't know if I'm fascinated or really creeped out that I can map the route I take when I walk my dogs with the neighborhood kids and see it from an aerial view!
I think I'm gonna go with creepy, but only slightly more so than fascinating.
And I can follow the roads to my parents house and up the street from them to the creek where I used to play when I was a kid and into the forest, but it doesn't zoom in close enough to see the structures hidden by the trees. OMG I just can't wait to show Max! My mother will be upset, though.

videogames

Since we're starting to cover videogames, I thought I'd share some screenshots of the only game I play. This is Celticwitch, my main character. She's a night elf priestess. I took her trick or treating and she got a ninja costume. She's in Auberdine on Dark Shore in this pic because the backdrop was the best for this costume!



On the right is Sorrie, a blood elf. She's my Horde main. I like her because she's sassy. Blood elves like pretty things and they like their magic to make things pretty. But they don't want to use their own magic; they take it from others and hoard their own magic! But I still like her. Horde is a completely different game from Alliance and much, much more difficult. For me, anyway.



This is Nucleardemon, Max's favorite character. He's a gnome warlock and he has an imp that is very rude and sometimes talks back. He went trick-or-treating too and got a night elf mask! Sometimes, when Pagyel is rude, we let him get himself killed as punishment but when we reconjure him, he's still rude. Max likes Nucleardemon best because he's little and fast just like himself.








On the right is Scrunchie, Max's main. He's a night elf rogue who has been "tricked" instead of treated! The innkeeper in Darnassus turned him into a cat! Normally he's very imposing.

project page

I made a website in Word and this is sorta what it looks like but I don't know how to upload it to the site. It's a very simple design and there are two other pages, one with the menu and one with our prices.

Here goes:

Coriander and Cloves

Contents

What we offer

November menu

Contact Information

Current Projects

Biographical Information

Personal Interests

Work Information

Job Title

We offer home cooked entrees delivered right to your door! It doesn’t get any better than this: we do the grocery shopping and the cooking. Many of our entrees and casseroles are stand-alone meals and you can add your own vegetables or rice to complete your healthy meals for the others.

Key responsibilities

We do all our grocery shopping in advance, so your orders must be in by midnight on Friday in order to have your meals delivered the following week. We deliver Tuesday through Thursday. You must order 3 or 6 items at a time, all carefully prepared and delivered right to your door.

Department or workgroup

Type some text.

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Favorite Links

www.myspace.com/corianderandcloves

www.preciousthyme.com our inspiration!

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Contact Information

E-mail address

corianderandcloves@yahoo.com

Web address

www.corianderandcloves.com

Office phone

864-356-0763

864-222-3437

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Current Projects

Monthly menu updates

Myspace blog and pictures

Holiday menu

logo

Soups, salads and desserts

Online ordering

Printing flyer menus for distribution

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Biographical Information

Carrie is a full time student at Clemson University and mother to one beautiful boy. She loves to cook and has over 15 years experience in food service and a Culinary Certificate from Greenville tech.

Jen is a full time mother to her two children and a real estate assistant. She cooks at home for friends and family with a fabulous low country flair! She has over 7 years experience in food service.

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Personal Interests

We like to cook!!

Family time is important, but so is alone time. Balance in all things!!

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Last revised: Date

Progress on project

I designed a web page on word but I can't upload it to the .com for some reason. I guess word doesn't work with the software from the web host? But I've kept up my myspace page for Coriander & Cloves except we need to post a November menu. I made a slide show of several entrees, though, to illustrate our October menu.
My sister's husband is printing our flyers as time permits for him since he's doing it at cost for his sister-in-law and I'm so excited!
I've gotten a few ideas for a logo but the one I like best is still too busy so it's still back to the drawing board on that one.

Project milestone due!!

So I'll be turning in my project notes for my project because I've been working on it this whole time of course since it's a subject very near and dear to my heart. I have a rough draft. I haven't uploaded the page correctly yet to my .com so I'm struggling, I guess, but the MySpace page is still coming along and we've gotten several inquiries about prices and deliveries but no customers from there yet. We're still looking for a printer to print menus at a cost that will allow them to be disposable so we can inundate Anderson with our images. My sister's husband is a printer so he offered to do it for us at cost but on his own time so we're playing tag now with some modifications he suggests.

CSI in class:
Ist episode of season 3
I've never watched this show but this is rather interesting and definitely tension-inducing!
Where is the tension?
First "cliff hanger" comes just before the opening credits and likely commercial.
Tensions keep cropping up at the end of each scene so there are lots of little peaks before even the first commercial break!
And the tensions keep coming as the plot thickens...
"It's not what did happen it's what a jury believes what could have happened!" Very clever! And just before another commercial break.

Where are the resolutions?
first resolution begins once the program returns as they take the suspect away.
The next resolution doesn't even come until late in the "trial", very late in the episode, actually just prior to end credits! What a relaxing evening...tense for an entire hour without relief before a resolution occurs!

film

• Brings imagination to life
• Search for the hero
• Film is the intersection of art
• movement
• creative artistic expressions
• music
• Across the Universe
  Fifth Element
  Die Hard
  30 Days of night
• If you've seen a historical movie, well, you know all about that era
  (So true! Movies don't lie!!)
  

Citizen Kane--The greatest movie of all time! (yeah, right!) But could a book have told the story in the same way? You wouldn't've been able to see how his ex answered in her drunken rage or how pitiful she was after he died.
The depictions of how his home changed over the course of dinner conversations was engaging.


Assignment for Thursday: p.310, first assignment and write about my reflections.

Re-makes and re-mixes

What do people do when they remix and remake something?

Digital remix--artificial, hoax, lies, for fun (Weird Al)

Express solidarity and/or support.
Fan Fictions and other artistic expressions of the original artwork

Expressing political views

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Photographs! Lines in the photograph depict motion as well as depth. The first photo we observed in class comprised of a line of spectators across the top and a line of police leading down to the woman resisting, trying to push the line back.
The second photo depicts a line of tanks being held up, effectively stopped, by a pedestrian. The lines of the street and the arrows on the blacktop all direct the eyes towards the lone pedestrian. One man really can make a difference! One man stands up against 4 tanks; he represents courage.
Daguerreotype-Predecessor of the modern photograph. Frenchman Daguerre invented a way to preserve an image for posterity. Before Daguerre, there was no "past" except as it was remembered or written. Suddenly, there was a way to preserve how things looked! The difference between the photo and the painting is that a painting is shaped by the painter's perspective. Photographs and daguerreotypes are unbiased.
There is no way to cheat photography (well, now there is); photos are honest, they tell it like it is!
Stieglitz revolutionalized the photograph industry. He took photography from documenting and reproducing for posterity to ART! He captured life as it happened, creating a genuine impression of the past instead of historical documents.
Dorothea Lang was a photojournalist. She also brought photography to yet another new level. She did the migrant mother we looked at earlier this semester when we looked at how poverty is depicted.

Assignment: On Sunday at exactly 12 noon, point my camera out the window and photograph something! Anything! Think of placement and depth. For example, don't split the frame in the center with a tree trunk. Between noon and 12:10, take several, and then blog about what I see in the picture.

Logos

What does a logo represent? The entire product and or service! Loyalty, brand recognition, lifestyle (?)...

Contrast
Balance
Rhythm--how the eye moves across the image
Unity--the over-all, stylistic choices

Dots center your eye; the eye "reaches" for them.

An image speaks louder than a thousand words!
Case in point: Big Hearted Bob's billboard

Saul Bass is the one name I should remember from this class!!
He designs logos such as: at&t, Quaker oats, United Way, Starbucks, Dodge
He reduced the Bell logo to it's basic components; no fancy 3d components because they don't need it

Apple computers had a colorful apple with a bite taken out of it, the computer for the rest of us, so the rainbow is where the image takes you: take a bite out of this rainbow apple and you will find the pot of gold! Take a bite out of this "fruit of knowledge" and get a great computer (source of knowledge). Maybe...the viewer took that bite or the viewer is that last piece that makes the apple whole. Nowadays, it's a futuristic, glassy apple but still with the bite missing. The shape is still the same because it still works.

IBM logo with the lines seem to try to represent movement and stability (rhythm of this logo).

Quaker oat meal logo has a traditional, historical image over a modern font. Always evolving without changing; connecting the traditional with modern!

Opening sequences

I have to admit it: I love Monsters, Inc. And the opening sequence with all the doors really clues you into the importance of doors for the whole movie.

I also like Crash which opens with a scene from closer to the end of the movie. You don't really know how all the characters from such different walks of life are connected until you understand the scene of the crash.

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Elements of Graphic Design
Contrast-- a good design uses contrasts that compliment and are proportional within the frame.
Balance-- refers to the placement of elements within the design frame (does not mean put everything in the middle)
For example, The Man with the Golden Arm starts out with dramatic white lines against a black screen, perhaps to draw the viewer in to the world of needles and drum sticks, which is what the film is about.


Look at my DVDs and titles and opening sequences to discern what the movie is about.

Font me

I wrote my name and scrolled through the fonts in Word on this computer. The ones in color are the ones I liked the best. I think, though, Curls just looks fun so I really like it for titles but it's hard to read a lot of. French Script looks sorta like my handwriting and it's ok to read if it's large enough. I liked the Blackadder, too, maybe for Christmas cards. To write a lot of stuff, I like the Papyrus because it's easy to read but still not so standard as Times New Roman (yuck!) When I write papers, I usually use Georgia or Garamond or Raavi because I just like to rebel against Times New Roman.

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typography

is to writing as soundtracks are to movies (Hoefler)
Book layout and design
fonts aid or hinder the visual layout

• gutenberg's printing process and the development of mass communication
• six typeface families and how each expresses a particular mood
• typeface attributes

books were available before Gutenberg's printing press: monks worked in the scriptorium with a high emphasis on layout and design. They were experts in typography and handwriting; more than just scribes! Wycliffe new testament, 1385, the first english translation of the bible. Chapters began with ornate lettering. Books, before the printing press, were extremely expensive; Only royalty had libraries! In 1450, enter...the printing press. It could make a page in 3 minutes, and up to 300 copies of that page in a work day. The world's first printed and mass produced book was the Gutenberg Bible. There are 3 in the US; it's worth millions.
The printing press is still being used, but most major publications are now being printed with computers. The press was used from 1450 to 2000!
In 1984, computers became a "threat" to the press with the Apple Max interface that allowed you to see, on screen, what it would look like on paper (print preview) and the laser printer.
In 1986, we got desktop publishing with pagemaker and other programs
And professional printers went under...

The Gutenberg bible was introduced in 1456, 37 years before Columbus sailed here and by 1500, there were printing presses all over Europe. It's a communication medium that married typography to pages to form a book (And thus...the church was fractured into any denomination that could print their own version of the bible)
Today, there are over 40,000 typefaces and more than 3000in common use.

Font Families:

• Black letter
• Roman
• Script
• Miscellaneous
• Square Serif
• Sans serif

Roman and sans serif are the most common/popular by far. Most books are printed in Roman type fonts. Sans serif has become one of the most popular for digital and onscreen print.

• Blackletter is also called Gothic type; highly ornate and decorative. Favor the old-school printing press letters which are recreations of older, monk-handwritten typefaces. Ends of lines have small, stylized strokes. Used for formal stuff: diplomas, invitations, etc. to lend 'credibility', a sense of flair,
• Roman is french design named for the roman civilization; most common and introduced in 1465. old style, transitional and modern. The message this sends in not flair but proficiency, business, readability, functionality
• Script is typeface with linked letters; introduced in 1557 by Robert Granjon to mimic handwriting with fine elegant letters
• Miscellaneous is a category used for specific fonts that aren't achieved by normal fonts such as bold ( originally a miscellaneous)
• Square Serif is least used typeface such as from old westerns "Saloon" is usually written in square serif so if the writing makes you think of an old western, this is what it is
• Sans Serif is without serifs. Popular for online readability because it's no frills

size, color, font, weight (not boldface), justification and whitespace also are very important.



You need to know something about typography to make an effective page!


Look at the fonts in my computer and pick one that suits my personality the best!!! Hmmm...use a screenshot.

Proposal

What? What am I doing?
I have started a small catering and personal chef business with a partner in Anderson. I am using the visual aids associated with advertising a small business as my visual project.

Why? Why am I doing this?
Visual aids are the best form of advertising! We advertise to attract customers because customers=income and we need income to keep our business going!

How? and How will I achieve my goal?

• We are writing a business plan (which requires a lot of research, more than I'd initially thought) to establish exactly what we want, who our customers are, where to find our customers and what to give our customers to ensure repeat business.
• We have also written our menu, a brief 'press release' to attract attention which we can also use as an intro when we address church groups that we hope will use us to feed their members during events, and other groups that meet so we can address larger numbers of people at once.
• We have pictures of our first event and purchased a camera to take pictures of each menu item the first time we make it for presentation purposes as well as to add pictures by the item on our menu to entice customers.
• My sister works in graphics and has offered to make two car magnets with our name, logo and contact info to advertise while we deliver.
• Printing our menus has, so far, been rather cost prohibitive in great quantities so we're rather behind schedule on that. But when we do get them printed, several locations in Anderson have offered to allow us to place our menus with them.

I'm covering the visual aids associated with the start-up of a small business. The question my project will answer is: How do I attract customers? How do I get people to use my services? We are in the process of writing a business plan to determine where we expect our customer base, who will use our services, and pictures to explain why we're better than our competition. Catering is a cut-throat profession, but there aren't many personal chef services so we had some difficulty finding a close competitor.
We chose the Bagel Shop in Anderson because they offer "Tuesday night take-home" where customers pre-order meals to pick up on Tuesdays. They got a write-up in the newspaper for the take-home idea, so we're also looking for a way to get Coriander & Cloves in the Anderson Independent, too, to get our name out there to attract business to us as well.
The business plan template we chose to use requests two competitors, so we're using the personal chef service my aunt and uncle use in California called Precious Thyme (.com) because I like their website and my aunt and uncle love their food and service.

I'm working on our .com site, corianderandcloves.com but I don't know a lot about web design so I have done more work on our myspace page, myspace.com/corianderandcloves as well as our printed materials. I've completed the printed materials, just looking for a better price to print it, so now I will be working on the website, trying to get an actual site built while I work on our myspace page. I'm keeping a blog on the myspace page, too.

child care costs

I am poor. I receive government aid for myself and my son because I'm a single parent in college. I get no help from his father and we STRUGGLE sometimes, especially when I'm in school. But then again, now that he's old enough to go to public school, the difficult times are when he's out of school and I need to find reliable daycare that doesn't eat my entire paycheck. Day care for babies can cost up to $125 a week, and they're only open until 5:30 or 6 during the week so I'm limited as to the hours I can work as well as the hourly wages. Now that he's school age, it's still $75-85 a week.
I read the article on poverty and the thing that stuck out to me the most was the rising costs of child care that make it difficult to find a job that pays enough to actually make money. I have that problem every summer. I pay about half of my income out to child care. Why? You get what you pay for! Sub-standard day cares cost less, yes, but what will my son lack by going there? Even programs such as the YMCA, which offer a sliding scale based on my income, have too many disadvantages (primarily, most unparented kids go there, and I remember the Y kids from when I was in school and they were generally not the well-behaved, good citizen type kids). It's very difficult to get ahead when you have a child if you're not already ahead and some sacrifices (cheap daycare) are just not worth it. Public school is a sacrifice, too, but has its advantages. Max's school has a climbing wall; none of the private schools in Anderson have that! And the private schools expect donations because they don't have computers; public schools have computer labs. There are pros and cons to both forms of education, but the best part for me is I can afford public school! I always have tremendous difficulty working weekend nights because I have to find someone to watch my son. Baby sitters these days want minimum wage! When I was a kid, I'd watch two kids for $10 a night and consider myself lucky if I got tipped! So as a waitress, even working at night, I rarely make enough money to be worth paying a babysitter: I'd rather be at home with my son myself, for free!

I met an angel

I met this person (second pic) who said she was angelic when I asked her why she's on fire. I told her I was playing for a class and I was lost. I didn't have access to her house and I needed to get beyond it. She helped me teleport to Clemson, which makes her the most helpful person I've ever met in this game, but she didn't stick around to talk to me. She burst into those flames and disappeared before I finished typing my question. I found myself, for a while, in a place labeled mature with a lot of barriers. I couldn't get out! So, how do I find those camps where you can make money? Right now, I'm near a building with a tiger paw on it. This is where I teleported to. I'm still not on campus, but there's an amphitheatre here. So I typed Clemson in search, again, and again I was unable to teleport, and again, there are barriers to my progress: I can't get passed the red line.

I've arrived on campus! Reisytal helped me get to campus and I found everyone in front of the library!! Yay!!! (Pic of us on the bridge; first pic. I don't know why it put that one first.) And I've added my classmates to my friends list. We met the grad dean, Paschen Beck, and asked him to build Daniel Hall so we can meet in our classroom here, too.

We are at Tillman hall. They mapped the buliding with photos and now they're building it in SL. And we ended the session with a group photo at the amphitheatre. Honestly, this was the most fun I've ever had in this game.

Assignment: formulate questions about the readings for tuesday, and write about today's experience (which I did while stumbling around SL).