For my final design I went with the second idea of my most recent roughs. This was based off the concept of a sketchbook, stylized in simple vector lines and minimal uses of color (I wanted to mimic the creamy vanilla pages of my favorite one). I decided to stick my logo (complete with my signature) right above the body copy, as I felt it was a better use of the space so that I was able to leave the navigation links on the left, loosely following the curves of the sketchbook. For contrast and variation, I went with a loopy little typeface to grace the first letter of each link (and the start of my main paragraph) along with a pop of dark fuschia. I really like how this turned out, and it does feel very "me" as opposed to the first couple ideas I had before. I hope you all like it
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These are my references,
http://www.entheosweb.com/website_design/default.asp
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/ ... NE20131028
Followed by the sites I used as creative inspiration for my original roughs
https://medium.com/
https://store.kaufmann-mercantile.com/