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.