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The Artwork
The artwork will also have a hint of retro futurism. Wisconsin WI Wis. , Initially I figured I would use hand drawn graphite illustrations for the page art, but now that I see the page nearing completion the artwork needed to be crisp and clean. Buy cialis, I was also worried about turning hand drawn illustrations into PNG’s for the web, I know it can be done, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to give myself that headache. The biggest perk to drawing vector illustrations is that I can reproduce the artwork by printing it in any size for any media, buy cheap cialis online, we can even make T-shirts with the art if we want. Purchase cialis, Since the line about how a website is like a shark stood out to everyone the first piece of art was to do a tin toy wind up shark. The concept being our clients websites are the shark and we keep them wound up and moving forward. The shark was fun to make and gave inspiration into whether I make all the pages’ artwork be objects that are wind up tin toys, cialis online kaufen. That is still up in the air, but that would give all the art a common thread, buy cialis. I will be working on the rest of the art for the next couple months, Billig kaufen cialis, which will overlap into the building of the site. I won’t be posting anymore of the art, so you will have to check out the new site when it is launched in January 2010 to see the finished product, cialis for sale.
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Working Draft 1.1
As you will see below I have continued modifying the working draft. Köpa cialis, I polished up the page and graphics strengthening the retro futurism concept. Buy cialis, The strongest element is the motif of the parallelogram which I cleaned up around the page.
The idea of using a handwritten font has been in my back pocket the whole time and I didn’t forget about it. This time when I looked for a handwriting font I found one in FG Delaney, goedkope cialis apotheek. I placed it around the page and decided to bring in “notes” to clarify some navigation buttons. Price of cialis, There was talk I was too abstract with the main navigation and I appreciate that. I didn’t want mystery meat navigation so I added notes below the tabs explaining what the pages are, buy cialis. Now I am using two fonts in this design, Titillium and FG Delaney, halvalla cialis apteekki. I have already run some tests using @font-face to see the readability of Titillium as the font for the body copy. Buy generic cialis, I wasn’t totally pleased with how the size I wanted to use looked, so I may decrease the font size or stick with an Arial, but that will be decided in the build, cialis online stores. Since bringing this font into the page design it was natural to change the word performance to the handwritten font to match the main navigation. Buy cialis, Below you will see version 3 of the 2010 style guide. Maryland MD Md. , [caption id="attachment_394" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="2010 Style Guide v.3"]
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Once the artwork was finished and placed the messaging didn’t work anymore. We decided to scrap “making the web work for you” and use the website is like a shark line. We liked how this was playing, but we had a discussion on whether to bring the shark theme into the content or just leave it as the home page message. I thought it was best to leave the shark as the home page message and not theme the content to carry the shark message through all the pages. I didn’t think we wanted to be known as the shark web company, plus I want to have a different piece of art on each page, buy cialis. So the thought now is to theme the message at the top of the pages to compliment the artwork and be different for each page. The content will be left unthemed.
With this version we are getting very close to my vision for the eClick 2010 website.
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Hmm, curiouser and curiouser as we go down the rabbit hole. It’s interesting sitting with this for a while since some things have been growing on me. I like the little added “shadows” to the links on the top, it makes it clearer that they are actually links. Ditto for the “fan us” and “follow us” scribbles. I love the “fold” scribble
At first I was worried that the hand-drawn font look would come across as unprofessional, but I think it works with the look of the site as a whole.
The shark, of course, is the bomb. He can be the top of my food chain any day.
The one element that seems out of place to me in this latest version is the little gradient shadow thingys going down the left side of the “blocks” below the fold. Maybe they’ll grow on me, but they seem to take away from the actual content.
I do like the hand-written font. The contrast with the sans-serif font you’re using on the rest. I like the shark graphic, but I’m not wild about the background for it; I think the shadow under it is bothering me. These are nit-picky details, however; all in all, the design is really growing on me. I have spent a lot of this process feeling like I needed this sold to me before I was entirely onboard, and seeing these comps, I’m really getting the feel for it all. I’m looking forward to seeing the site . . .