Client Project - design ideas continued

Okay so now that Paul took a liking to a design I felt that this gave me the opportunity to really work on some designs because the brief was stronger and he had given some ideas that I could really work with. From the meeting Paul clearly pointed out that he liked the logo Vikesh designed and he was keen on Vikesh's design and so wanted to mix them together, at first me and Jacqui thought that this would not look right, well we were wrong and it actually works really well.

Below are the designs that I have created over the weekend that relate to Vikesh's designs but also relate to the ideas that I think Paul was trying to bring across.


If you look at the design above it is almost identical to Vikesh's design however I have taken Paul's ideas into consideration and added the logo. I changed the paper in the background because I felt that this worked well with the logo; I tilted the logo a bit to the left to flow with the direction of the paper. I added a rip in the corner of the paper because this was a part which Paul pointed out in the previous design. For the logo I also added a slight shadow, mainly because that picture looked flat. This design could work really well for either a main home page or just an 'enter' page. We had a look at some other art sites and we noticed that quite a few of them had included an 'enter' page.


For the design to the right I tried to create a simple main menu page that kept to the previous designs but also kept to the design theme that Vikesh created. The background image was the original exhibition room, I created four buttons out of the art work. As you can see in the corner I have kept the logo with the ripped paper, this is something that I have included though out all of my designs as it keeps a continuous pattern throughout the designs, it could also potentially be another button that would send the user directly back to the home page (easier navigation) this design may not work purely because they do not have the exhibition room anymore and this design could give the false impression that there is a room.


Me and Jacqui came up with the idea of using a notice board as a background and as this is an art website then why can't we input our arty ideas into the design. The font that I used may have to be changed because it is not easy to read but I like the look, I used ripped pieces of card for the buttons mainly because when looking at the different examples of work from the artists they include materials like these in their pieces of art. A problem with this design is people might wonder what relevance does a pin board have with art? personally I don't know but I like the design.


This is my favourite design. When speaking to Paul on Friday he explained an idea that involved having the artists as posters on a wall, well, this is the idea that I got in my head when he explained what he was looking for. I added a sepia effect to all of the posters because the effect that I have given out is the posters being replaced but not removed from the wall so they begin to age, hence the sepia effect. I may need to change the size of the posters because I was unable to include the logo or any other navigation buttons but other then that I am really happy with this design idea.


I am unsure of this design because personally I think that it is too packed with objects. The main idea I was trying to get across with this idea was exhibitions, I used a image that had an example of some exhibition work and because the work was made of metal I made the buttons look like scraps of rusty metal. I like the colour's that buttons have but I feel that the user will not be able to see the background image even if I made the font background more transparent.

I;m not sure if these designs will work but this is my view on the site could look like but who knows we may come up with stronger and better ideas that will push us in another direction.