GRC 175 Learning and Discussion Forum

Hello! These are my ideas for project 04.

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I am loving the second concept!! The colors are really cool and the fonts you chose are very contemporary. The layout itself is very dynamic and clean, and it fits well with the graphic arts theme... so great job!

Im really digging the top design with the black and green. It stands out and looks interesting. The imagery looks nice. The second design is also visually interesting and clean. I think you could go either way with you designs. Great work!

Hi Genesis,

I'm very impressed! Both layouts look very cool and interesting and work well for the subject matter. Nice color choices too. You may want to add a little more tracking to some of the text for legibility.
Great work!

Well, you're in the enviable position of having two equally good designs, Genesis.

The collage/icon on the homepage of your first one immediately caught my eye and never let go. It's such a fascinating representation of what we teach here, and it manages to cover everything. Bravo! You use contrast so well here. It makes the entire composition so vibrant. Great choice of colors here too. I especially like the green sepia toned images on the inner page. The darker green was a very interesting choice. Combined with the black, it makes the design feel much and humid. The whit provides a great counterpoint and cools everything off a bit. I like your typographic choices too. The big thick logo/title/headline type really works well. It almost looks like leaves actually.

The inner page seems a little scattered. I would use proximity of objects (move 'em closer together), to create topics and organize the information. Right now everything seems to be in little pods all over the place. Maybe use just a touch boiler body copy against the black.

And your second layout has another fantastic collage. Wow! This one isn't a program summary like the first, but it's much more a demonstration of the skills you will pick up in our program. It has great depth and texture to it. This whole design feels very gritty and brutalist, like an old city building with layers of graffiti and posters and signs plastered along the side of it. Such fantastic texture! The typography is really well chosen. It's grungy and the main headline/title type has a visually interesting shape to it, but somehow it's not difficult to read. Great color work on this one too. You have little splashes of color against a brutalist gray background. It highlights important things for the user's eye to alight on. This design's inner page is also a little better laid out than your first design I think. It's easier to follow.

Your body copy is kind of a mush on this design's inner page though. It could definitely use some more leading and a bit of kerning. It just needs to be a bit more legible. As it is, it looks like a block.

I would like to have seen mobile layouts for each of these, too.

Great work!

Hey there! I really like the second concept! It is super eye catching and represents what graphic design is. I also like the colors and how well they play off of the photos. I would just watch out for you body copy. It is a little tight!

Both concepts are nice. Im leaning more towards the blue and grey one, it feel like it is more appealing.

Fantastic design ideas! I think your second design is easier to read with the light background and dark text. The "Programs" could probably use a little centering with the image below, but otherwise great work!

Both designs look good if I had to pick though I would go with your first design. It's clean and easy to navigate and the second page has good imagery on about the program.

I think I'm leaning more towards your prelim 3 because it's visually striking and the other one is kind of harsher to look at. The second one is easier to follow.