Re: Project 1 Preliminary
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 4:56 pm
Well, heck. This class just keeps hitting home runs. Alright Heather, you are the THIRD student I have come across this critique period who has submitted two equally good designs. Pick whichever one speaks to you more.
This first design has a night time tropical fell that's so interesting. It uses contrast just about perfectly with the black functioning as a canvas and the white delineating what's important. Good idea, selecting colors from the image to use in your design. It ties the image and the design together and puts them in visual conversation with one another. Cloverleaf Girl looks like she's having a good time. I like how the leaves also look like lights on a dance floor. She's dancing to music only she can hear. But she does add movement to the design. Nicely chosen typography as well. Good use of weights to differentiate info while using the same typeface to do it. The script type at the top provides a nice contrast as well. I like the use of transparency here. It makes a great framing device for your name and contact info.
I thing you need to add just a little top and bottom margin to your navigation on both your mobile and computer designs. Also, center Cloverleaf Girl in the middle on your mobile design. Leaving her on the right there creates a deadzone on the bottom left.
Your second design has kind of a hip urban fashion designer feel. it's very modern and makes no apologies about what it is. The cartoon woman has a very "deal with it" meme vibe. Love it! The whole layout is super clean. I especially like how you use color to delineate sections with the black footer functioning as a final framing device. Your colors themselves are well chosen. The medium gray-blue works well with the otherwise black and white composition. Great use of contrast though the whole thing, both as a way to add visual interest and as a way to guide the eye around to important parts of the content. Your font choices are really top notch too. They fit with the design aesthetic of the whole thing and having your name in a script brush stroke font adds a nice bit of visual contrast.
As with your first design, I think the mobile version of this design would be better served by centering your images. Bring Deal With It Girl and the paper airplane to the center of their rows and that will close op the gaps on their left and right sides, respectively.
Great work!
This first design has a night time tropical fell that's so interesting. It uses contrast just about perfectly with the black functioning as a canvas and the white delineating what's important. Good idea, selecting colors from the image to use in your design. It ties the image and the design together and puts them in visual conversation with one another. Cloverleaf Girl looks like she's having a good time. I like how the leaves also look like lights on a dance floor. She's dancing to music only she can hear. But she does add movement to the design. Nicely chosen typography as well. Good use of weights to differentiate info while using the same typeface to do it. The script type at the top provides a nice contrast as well. I like the use of transparency here. It makes a great framing device for your name and contact info.
I thing you need to add just a little top and bottom margin to your navigation on both your mobile and computer designs. Also, center Cloverleaf Girl in the middle on your mobile design. Leaving her on the right there creates a deadzone on the bottom left.
Your second design has kind of a hip urban fashion designer feel. it's very modern and makes no apologies about what it is. The cartoon woman has a very "deal with it" meme vibe. Love it! The whole layout is super clean. I especially like how you use color to delineate sections with the black footer functioning as a final framing device. Your colors themselves are well chosen. The medium gray-blue works well with the otherwise black and white composition. Great use of contrast though the whole thing, both as a way to add visual interest and as a way to guide the eye around to important parts of the content. Your font choices are really top notch too. They fit with the design aesthetic of the whole thing and having your name in a script brush stroke font adds a nice bit of visual contrast.
As with your first design, I think the mobile version of this design would be better served by centering your images. Bring Deal With It Girl and the paper airplane to the center of their rows and that will close op the gaps on their left and right sides, respectively.
Great work!
