I have created this website as an "online sketchbook" to display my research documentation and experiments for the Graphic Authorship & Interaction module. Hotglue is a visual tool for creating websites - it is a very simple web interface and allows anyone to freely create a website in a short time limit!

Although hotglue is a free and easy tool to use, it also has it's limitations; Unfortunately, the page can appear differently on other web browsers and screens. It is also difficult to keep the colour scheme consistent as you have to choose colour in every pages from the colour scheme box and it's hard to find the exact colour. Via the use of hotglue, I have managed to demonstrate my skills in documenting and processing my work through practice and theory.

I made a flow chart to show the layout of my website and how to navigate around it from the start page. These pages allow the viewer to understand the process of each workshop and the outcome of it from the images and analyses.

"the designer as author" - eye magazine

Definitions of the word:
1. The act, fact, or occupation of writing.
2. Source or origin, as of a book or idea: a poem of disputed authorship.

In terms of "graphic authorship", it is all about highlighting the importance of the origination of messages as well as the communication, which is what design is typically about. So it suggests new approaches to the issue of design process. But authorship can be seen as a subjective matter, "what does it really mean to call for a graphic designer to be an author?"

Definitions of the word:
1. reciprocal action, effect, or influence.
2. Physics.
- the direct effect that one kind of particle has on another, in particular, in inducing the emission or absorption of one particle by another.
- the mathematical expression that specifies the nature and strength of this effect.

In the concept of interaction, a two-way effect is key: it occurs when two objects or two people have an effect on one another.

Copyright is a law regulated to protect creators from unauthorised copying or selling of their work. This law allows authors, designers, producers to rightly share and distribute their original work - Unless the owner of the work grants otherwise, no other person can use it. However there are limitations and exceptions to copyright which include fair use.

Copyleft on the other hand, enables the public to freely modify and distribute copies of work, with the condition that it holds the same rights and remains free. This is the simplest way to allow people to make changes to a work or program and redistribute it as a free product. Copyleft ensures that the original source is free as well as modifications that are made, and so this gives the public permission to use that original document or program, make personal changes, provided they abide by these rules. A free software or free programme licence can be added to a document to make it 'libre' and protect the open source community from
inefficiently used resources which are shared and wrongly privatised.

Creative Commons is a non-profit organisation dedicated to expanding the range of creative works available for people to share and legally modify. The organisation has released many copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to the public. With these licences, creators are then able to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they refuse for the benefit of other creators.

Fair use is a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights put by copyright laws to the owner of a creative work.

Fair use is seen as a preventive measure taken to help balance the interests of copyright holders with the public interest in the wider distribution and use of creative works by allowing certain limited uses that might otherwise be considered infringement.

Fair use grants people the wish to use quotes or excerpts from work made available to the public such as books, magazines, music, films etc. The point of this is so that the public are able to benefit from new and improved information, which is enhanced by including some of the copyrighted material.