Web Design Part Two

Web Design Part One

This is the beginning of my preliminary sketches for my website.  I'll continue to upload further pages as the week goes on but I just wanted a little feedback for what I've got so far.  I've always wanted my photography site to look personalized with handwriting like fonts and light pastel colors.  I've also always wanted my photos to do the talking by using a white background and allowing for my photos to be the main focus.  The photo here is one I shot of my good friend recently at her wedding.  Ideally for this layout I'd have used a horizontal photo or a vertical layout size.  Also I have to come up with the logos that I want to put in so the words will be far less distracting when I've replaced them with logos.  Please feel free to critique or comment. =]

Art Deco Cover/Spread2

I had a lot of trouble with this portion of the project.  I have been working on it all week and honestly, I'm finding it far more difficult than I expected because I am used to being fluent with programs.  To tell the truth, Indesign and Illustrator, though are speaking the same language are turning so foreign to me.  Therefore I can only post what I have as a work in progress because I feel so lost learning these two programs at once.  I am going to continue to work on this but the basis of my idea was to create a spread using primary colors and bold Art Deco font.  The photograph in the background is one I took and put together using photoshop and illustrator.  I wanted to really try and coincide with my original sketched idea but digital drawing is so strange to me.  The second photo in the spread portion was a photo I also took using steel wool, a whisk and a lighter.

Art Deco Cover/Spread

          For my ArtDeco themed cover and spread for Digital Arts, I spent an embarrassing amount of time researching and trying to properly draw using typical ArtDeco typography and fonts as well as geometric designs to accompany them.  I used AdobeIllustrator to help vector trace my preliminary drawings so that they would be noise free and black and white like the example used in the tutorials.  The first image which is my cover sheet, was not initially my cover sheet.  The first part of my spread was initially my cover and you can see if I didn't get carried away with the title that should have read "Digital Arts,"  I could have put "Arts," where the word "Design," is and used the space in between for a photograph and title placements for possible articles that would hypothetically be in this magazine.  Instead I decided to use it for a very graphic part one of the spread next to its more simplistic counterpart on the right.   To continue with the actual cover, I would like to make the word "Arts," much smaller and move it to the bottom of the page and fill the page with color so as to draw the eye of a potential viewer.  I also like the typography I drew for the spread as opposed to the cover, but decided to use a more cinematic font for the cover.  I have a few more drawings to add but just wanted to get this in here for peer review.  I also intend to add vibrant colors to all of these images to help better reflect the ArtDeco style.  I want to use bright primary colors because the ArtDeco style is a staple of the 1920's era and "Digital Arts," magazine should incorporate that.  The black and white will not be part of the finished product.