Thursday, November 12, 2009

Lawn Art Web Site Critiques

RedBlaze4080
The site looks really great. The photos work well and are well placed. I like the navigation as well, along with the mouseover effect. The information about the various lawn ornaments was a nice touch. the only complaint I can really find is the Lawn Art text on the main page. I don't feel like it goes with the style of the rest of the site, but other than that great job.

Owltoenails
I like the photos, and the theme they present. I think that the template layout of the photos throughout each page works well too. Some things that you could fix are some of the text related issues. On your descriptions on some pages they seem like they need to be aligned better. And I noticed on your fine feathered friends page that the fine feathered friends link bumps into your childhood memories link, that could be an easy fix that would make it look better, great job though.

MelissaSybert
I really like the theme of the website. It takes simple lawn art and really gives a much deeper feel to it. Someone normally wouldn't look at a lawn and see these things and think such deep thoughts, but it works well in your design. The navigation seems to work well, as well as the overall layout and design. I like how it has a really dark feel to it with the bright white letters bold and giving a sort of inspiration and knowledge. It works well good job.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Lawn Art Web site

wade.usi-artspace.com

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Lawn Art Assignment

For the Lawn Art web pages I started with an idea I had in a sketch to have illustrated type. I starting thinking of some things you would see on a lawn, and tried to figure out how i could shape them like the letters L A W N. This illustrations was the hardest part of my design. I used the L shape in a lawn chair for my L. The upside down V shape in a plastic pink flamingo's legs for the A shape. Two pointy hat lawn gnomes and a one of those lawn orbs on a ascending column platform for my W. and lastly the rounded shape of a christmas light deer's legs for the large lower case n. All in all i think the illustration adds to the quirkiness of some of the things you see on people's lawns, as well as showed some of the different themes I present on the website.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

@aonan.willyworld.org This is a pretty cool design. Your background photos give some great texture, and you use space really well. Overall I think the design turned out well.
@taz.willyworld.org Love this design, the cartoon theme is the style I tend to use a lot myself. I have to admit you do it better than I do though. Though this design doesn't really make me think of art club when I see it, it is creative. All in all it looks really cool.
@epayne.willyworld.org I really like the design. The graffiti theme is pretty cool with the brick wall in the background. One thing I would note is the transparency used in some of the colors doesnt really look right because colors wouldn't look like that. Other than that there doesnt seem like much else wrong with it.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

USI Art Club web page

In my design for the USI art club web page, I went with more simplistic approach. In my design I used Illustrator to create my own graphics. I created a ear of corn with "USI Art Club" on in. I tried to make it look like someone had painted it on there. I also used a travel bus as a visual element. Lastly I made a text box for the information.