This is a redesign of the original GDAD site, whose launch coincided with the opening of the Wilde Years Exhibition on October 19, 2009. The main purpose of the site is to showcase the quality, breadth and diversity of student work that the Department of Advertising & Graphic Design engenders.

Towards this end the site makes use of an enterprise-grade digital asset management system, called MediaBeacon, and a custom-built metadata schema, which combine to power the Student Work Gallery. The rest of the site's content resides on a Drupal CMS and is served, like most other sites, using a combination of HTML5, CSS and JQuery.

Typographically, the site uses Typekit to implement three different typefaces: Brevia, Museo Slab and Helvetica. Brevia appears throughout the site while the latter two fonts only appear at random on the homepage (unless you change it).

This site fully supports the following browsers: Safari 5+, Firefox 3.5+ and Internet Explorer 8+. The minimum supported screen size is 1280x800.

Richard Wilde, Chair, Department of Advertising & Graphic Design
Ingrid Li, System Coordinator, Department of Advertising & Graphic Design

Website design and development by the Visual Arts Press at the School of Visual Arts
Eric Corriel, Lead Web Designer & Developer
Michael J. Walsh, Art Director

This site could not be built in its current form without utilizing many code libraries and plugins. We would like to thank the following developers for making their work free and open source.

Drupal Developers

• Dries Buytaert, Creator of Drupal
• Daniel F. Kudwien, Stefan M. Kudwien, Dave Reid; Administration menu module
• Davy Van Den Bremt, Administration theme module
• Ronan Dowling, Backup and Migrate module
• Arto Bendiken, Alexander I. Grafov, Ben Lavender; Boost module
• Yves Chedemois, Karen Stevenson, Content Construction Kit
• Jeff Robbins, Contemplate module
• Khalid Baheyeldin, CustomError module
• Karen Stevenson, Date module
• Moshe Weitzman, Devel module
• Daniel Braksator, Finder module
• James Walker, Image module
• Andrew Morton, ImageAPI module
• Pani, Imce CCK Image module
• John C. Fiala, Link module
• Greg Knaddison, Frederik "Freso" S. Olesen, JJ Quinlivan, Mike Ryan, Tommy Sundström; Pathauto module
• Ber Kessels, Sections module
• Jeff Eaton, Greg Knaddison, Dave Reid; Token module
• Oleg Terenchuk, Nancy Wichmann; Util module
• Jesse Beach, Alex Bronstein, Earl Miles, David Rothstein, Katherine Senzee, Daniel Wehner; Views module
• Nathan Haug, Pontus Ullgren; Webform module
• Earnie Boyd, Matthew Loar, Darren Oh, Alberto Paderno, Dave Reid; XML Sitemap module

jQuery Developers

• John Resig, Creator of jQuery
• jQuery UI Team, jQuery UI
• Alexander Farkas, AJAX Queue/Cache/Abort/Block Manager v. 3.0 plugin
• Klaus Hartl, Cookie plugin
• Dave Methvin, Malsup; Corner plugin
• Digital Magic Productions, jPicker
• Kevin Luck, jScrollPane plugin
• Ariel Flesler, LocalScroll plugin, ScrollTo plugin
• RIP747, PopUpWindow plugin
• Craig Thompson, qTip plugin