Tuesday 27 October 2009

feedback on website

things i will change/feedback from tutors

1. too much white space-will edit by having some sort of moving animation i.e bird going across screen
2. does this website reflect me- yes I feel the website does reflect me, especially in comparison to my other designs
3. writing works and flows really well- I feel I am a typographer, its what I find interesting and enjoy the most
4. using grid system- possible something I could change in the future when I have more work to put on the website but at the moment it works for the amount of work

I personally found this brief one of the hardest I have had, getting into the mindset to understand the software and get a design that reflects myself, overall I am far more pleased with my final design as I was 2 weeks ago and feel I can go back to improve the design with the things I have learnt.


rational

For my website I went for simplicity,  I started off this project perhaps in a bad place; too many ideas but no great ideas, I found it really hard to create a website that represented me. About 10 ideas later and about a week behind schedule I was in the middle of another one of my ideas when this one just came out! I used a nice blank white page with some grass type brush running along the bottom, this concept represents me best, I am a bit of a perfectionist and more of a designer than an illustrator, all of my other ideas people kept asking "so are you an illustrator". So simpler is better in this case! 

I found it hard to get into the web design 'mindset' but now I have a much better understanding of the way it all works now and kept trying to add more little bits to the website like opening the blog in a new window and opening outlook express, rollovers, sprys and behaviors. 
I'm still not 100% but with the knowledge I have now I feel I could go back to the start and create a better website design. But everything links, there is a clear path and all the hotspots work. I have one major problem with my website, the first page has some questionable faults that I don't understand with the links in slightly the wrong place, it all still works and isn't causing any problems so I have just left it.
Shame I can't get it up online, I think I will now purchase my own domain and improve the site so I can use it in the future.

Saturday 24 October 2009

so thats all folks!

well thats the screen grabs of my website

few flaws with the arrangement of the home page but every other page links really well and matches perfectly, I put 4 images for each subject so not to overcrowd it and chose work from college and uni which worked out around half and half but its the work I most enjoyed doing.

Friday 23 October 2009

other pages




nearly done website!




wooooooooooop!!

I am nearly officially all linked up!! with time to spare, please don't go wrong now!!

ahhh late night! ahh just saved over own work!!

well last night i stayed here until 9pm getting it done, I saved over my website once and saved over my about me page twice but who cares i was so tired and possibly having a nervy b that I just got on with it and now I'm nearly nearly done!

woop!

Tuesday 20 October 2009

confusion

so I have my final design, have all my images etc. but its getting harder and harder even though I'm all done with the designing! I find it hard to understand the concept of batching, where do theses images go? I struggling with the links and divs the thing I found quite easy and have since explained to several other people is the rollovers! they were much easier than a I thought, just got to get the main bulk done now!

Monday 12 October 2009

front page

this one!?

Thursday 8 October 2009

who am I?

As much as I love design I didn't think I would find it so difficult to make a website about me! I keep questioning myself and wondering 'who am I?' I am not sure what my website should look like to represent me! I have gone through 8 designs rather than 3. Each is completely different to the last! Got a lot of work to do this weekend!

Tuesday 6 October 2009

web design yet again!

Monday 5 October 2009

wire-framing poss page 2

better version

wire-framing flow chart

web design another!

Sunday 4 October 2009

another web design poss??


Interesting dark web page idea, quite dark and mysterious. I love typography so wanted a type heavy piece.

banana website!


post-its!




whispering crow

I deisgned this poster based on 2 words drawn from a hat, "whispering, crow" it first sounded like a name of a Red Indian but after researching further I gained inspiration from "30 days of night" poster. I designed and created the font myself based on the other poster.

Friday 2 October 2009

web design possibility?

What is it about this advert? It came out around 2002/03 and from the moment I saw it I knew thats what I want to do! After researching other honda adverts it led me to Wieden+Kennedy, an international advertising company who worked on some of the biggest campaigns of modern time; Nike 'just do it', Coke a cola 'coke side of life', Honda 'cog', the list goes on! I don't know what drew me to the ad but its just so different, eye catching and poetic, who wouldn't love it?

typography


.........I love typography, this was the 1st brief we were given in year 1 and one of my final pieces was used in an exhibition. 'Use type to illustrate a sentence'. I really enjoyed the brief and want to use type a lot more in the future.

Elephants playing polo?

The heaviest sport in the world is elephant polo, more humans ON elephants playing polo but using play along words I came up with this design which was made into a screenprint.

Thursday 1 October 2009

live project

during college I was given a live project to create a set of gift cards for the beauty salon for christmas, they wanted contemporary design so I created these simple designs based on xmas objects with simple pastel colours, the cards were very well received and I ended up getting paid which wasn't necessary! 

live project