Year 1 Design

This piece is the final design for the 'Retro' project. The file was a photoshop file, and was at a resolution of 150, so i changed this to 72 and then exported it to a JPEG to make the image blog friendly. 

Website Header

Here is a design that I am going to place as the heading for my website. I plan to cut the image out using Photoshop. 

I am also deciding whether to create a short Flash animation based around this design to be used on my website. 

Website Layout Draft

This is my first stage of creating my website. I have placed my buttons onto the background that I have chosen. I now need to design a title header and then place it on here as well. 

Developed Ideas

These are my Buttons

This is the background that I have chosen to use for my Website

Ideas Development

This picture shows what text I would like to be included on my website. It also has a few draft hand drawn types for text on my website. 

This shows the variety of backgrounds I have considered for my website. I want the emphasis of the background to be like a sketchbook.

These are the buttons that I have created for my website. I have scanned them onto the computer and cut them out using photoshop. 

These sketchbook pages show my thought process and the development that I have made with my website ideas. I find that developing these ideas in my sketchbook helps as I like the textures and creativity that I feel when working in a sketchbook. 

Liv Bargman

I noticed Liv Bargman's work at Falmouth University, on a open day tour. Her work stood out to me as extremely creative and detailed. I love how she creates fun and exciting illustrations and manages to incorporate different textures and layers, and fun colours. 

See her website HERE 

and her blog HERE 

Initial Web Design layouts

These thumbnails show how I imagine to see my website laid out. I hope that the majority of my tabs, buttons and images will be hand drawn, I think that this will give the effect that I am looking for, so that the website will look like pages out of my sketchbook. I would also like to have designs and collages placed in various positions on certain pages to help add to this effect.