Project_3_Preliminary

[m1ggsart]

Hello everybody.

These are my two preliminary roughs for project 3. This time i decided for a more professional looking style, nothing crazy or too stylist. I looked at some school websites, and got inspired by the Academy of Art University website and the Master of Fine arts website at UNR.

I noticed that a clean, good organization and easy navigation are essential for these kind of websites. My two designs are not super complex and are easy to navigate. I tried to stick to the green palette of TMCC with just a little modification on hues. I'm using Helvetica Niue and Myriad Pro as my type because of their great readability.

I am also using pictures of my past projects (as well as some posted on the forum) in the background, so users can see what students can do. I think I will go for the design with the navigation bar on the left. I am still undecided about the colors, but I am confident I can recreate the whole thing with coding. Please feel free to give any feedback.

[david_wolstenholm]

Hi Miguel,
I agree with you about using the layout with the navigation on the left, it seems to be very professional looking and laid out in a very easy to read way. I don't think it carries over well to the mobile design as it looks to me to be too cluttered and messy. Just my opinion.

[Instructor]

Oh cool! I'm going to cast an emphatic vote for your second one, Miguel. I love it when people use non-standard colors on this one and I am none too fond of TMCC's green. I'm thoroughly Team Teal.

Your layout is super clean with excellent margins. I like the way you've geometrically lined out your home page, not just with alignments, but with actual lines that guide the eye through your composition. I appreciate that you broke with TMCC's existing branding and went out on a bit of a limb. It certainly paid off here. Nice work with the shaded collage up at the top as well. It adds some visual interest to the site and is a nice carryover from page to page. It also functions as a great frame for your content area. Well, that and your navigation, which is easy to see and presumably to use. The pictures you have sprinkled about your layout do a good job of reinforcing your content and speak to the creativity of the GA&MT program. Your typography also works well. It's clean and very legible. Though not too standard, so there's a bit of visual interest. And your mobile one turns into a kickass accordion! That's pretty cool.

Make sure your headline backgrounds are the same teal as your navigation. They look a little green to me.

Great work! Now, I want to have a bowl of that Snapchat cereal.

[Lhart]

Hello Miguel.

Overall I like your designs. The greens are still TMCC but look much nicer and calmer. Both designs are well sorted and it looks like they would be easy to navigate. The headline images are interesting and better convey the program than the actual site does!