Month: February 2016

Vyacheslav Dronov is Russian web designer; their work is always precise and visually effective. Dronov designs are everything I imagined how my website would appear. I love the simple black background on this specific web design, followed by complementary white roses. The use of boxes on this web design is how I wish mine to look, apart from mine will be interactive for the audience. His work is clean and professional something that I wish to portray through my own work.

He has also created a website for ‘Wild Hogs’ which is a Russian restaurant, this website is also appealing and thought-provoking to analyse, in terms of my own work. The use of colours in various dishes is used in contrast with the black slate background similar to the previous G’nosh website shown above.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/27190585/beetoxru

Stefan Sagmeister’s work was mentioned to me during a workshop with Clive. His work is inspiring to my project and to me because his work is ultimately bold and expressive. I want my website to be simplistic and easy to read, and I feel his work does this. A lot of his work symbolises minimalism and this is how I want my website to be, his work uses a range of contrasting colours to really make his audience fascinated. Similar to the G’nosh website shown on the previous page, the use of colour in the food against a black background is obvious.

After some thought into the style and overall look of my website I found that the type of font would also be relevant to the overall look of my website. I browsed many different ideas and styles; I found that blocky font would work best for titles and the homepage. Though I also wanted another font that is going to be slightly easier on the eye and not uppercase. I did browse Pinterest (https://uk.pinterest.com/sharntalbott/fonts-for-website/) for my initial ideas but decided to use Adobe’s Typekit to actually source my fonts.

The font I have decided to use for my websites ‘headings’ is Bebas Neue. I love this font as it stands out as it is bold, but still has curve to it. Furthermore I decided on the font Kelper Std Semicondensed Display, the reason for choosing this particular font is because I think it appears professional but informal.

I found some stock images on Pinterest which could be used as the background of my website. I wanted two different types of backgrounds so after developing my ideas and testing, which one will work best, I can have a choice between the two backgrounds. I looked into bright polygon textured wallpapers and also the grainy wall and wood textures. I found that the website ‘Subtle patterns’ and ‘Graphic Burger’ were useful to gain extra ideas for the background of my website. These were the ones I downloaded:

http://subtlepatterns.com/hexabump/

http://subtlepatterns.com/diagmonds/

http://graphicburger.com/backgrounds/

6 Vintage Wood Textures Vol.4

Secondly I decided to look into prototypes (https://uk.pinterest.com/sharntalbott/website-styles-prototypes/ ) which included different styles of websites. I found superb website designs and selected some easier designs that would be appropiate. I particularly liked this one which was created for a recipe website. I think the font goes well and the use of bright colours for the foods on the slate textured background really stood out to me.

Although I did feel this design was slightly clumsy and could be confusing for my target audience. I decided to look into website designs which followed a ‘block’ style. I found the concept of the  the blocks being interactive, which can take the user through to the next page, this would be the easiest most efficient way to display my website. The website will still be visually pleasing to the eye.