Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Interface part 3

Here's the third design, based on a print ad. It's mostly dark - black, gray and red seemed to be good colors for a venue that features a lot of angry punk music. Looking back, the photo I put at the top might have gone better with the one based on the painting.....


Interface design part 2

Here's my second design, inspired by a painting by Wassily Kandinsky. The colors are similar to the Psycho poster. I wanted more abstract shapes in the design, but I decided that while that might have looked kind of cool, it ultimately detracted from a cleaner, more usable design, so I toned them down. Maybe some shapes in the background with a degree of transparency?









Web interface design

So here's my first crack at web design for this class. Using something every day should prepare you to know something about how to design it, right? Not exactly. It wasn't as easy as it looked! I have lots to learn. In the end, my three different designs were pretty similar. I think I did manage to get everything we were supposed to on each site, though. Including the theater's beautiful* logo. (*Does not actually mean beautiful).
So, here's my first one, which I think is my favorite. It's inspired by a poster of the movie Psycho.





Monday, October 19, 2009

Here's my third idea for the Emerson Theater. Most of the links on the left, with a scrolling window for the upcoming shows. The inspiration for color comes from a print ad for paint.










Here's my second sketch for The Emerson Theater site. With inspiration by Wassily Kandinsky.








Our latest assignment for CGT 251 is to redesign the website for The Emerson Theater. We're supposed to have three designs. My first will use a window to rotate info on upcoming shows instead of having them all on the first page. The inspiration for this one is the poster for the movie Psycho. Here's my really rough preliminary sketch, and the poster that gave me the inspiration for the color scheme.


Monday, October 5, 2009

This is my finished illustration for our Illustrationfriday.com assignment. The theme was "pattern." My keyword was "shame." It needs some tweaking, which is incidentally what I'm thinking the new name of this blog should be, but this is more or less finished. I'd like to add more of a 3-D feel to the dog's body with some shading, but I couldn't figure out the best way to do that in the time I had. The wallpaper and the rug both represent patterns in the literal sense here, but I'm guessing our canine friend has a pattern of bad behavior, too. And he does seem to be conveying some shame in his eyes. Or, maybe he just hates the rug?

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