my final for Project one

[ElizabethBrass]

Hi guys, so I completely changed my website, but I feel like this represents me much more than the other two that I presented in preliminary critique. The Photo in the background is a photo of me that I took with a 35mm camera with black and white film. I had a really fun time with this project.

the two websites I found inspirational were:

http://www.razvangarofeanu.com/#the-g

http://www.dunckelfeld.de/en/projekte/zemo/

The two sites I found useful about web design were:

http://www.awwwards.com/95-inspiring-we ... ncies.html

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01 ... eb-design/

[paula_b]

Hi Elizabeth!!

Very nice! I liked your roughs as well, but this is you too. The only change that I can see needs to be made, is the typo on the word, 'because'. Great work!

[justinepaigek]

Elizabeth-


Holy crap I actually almost got blinded by how awesome this looks. Seriously. Your fabulosity (yes that's a word) shines through with this cooler-than-cool layout. Seriously. Look at you, all fly and stuff. Back to technicalities, I like how simple your layout is, I can see where everything is and navigate to it just as easily. I just love the use of black/white/greyscale and the pop of pink. Just. Awesome.

[recordd]

Hi Elizabeth,
I love your design! Your background image does make it unique, personal, and visually appealing. What I really like about your layout is the simplicity but yet bright and eye catching. One suggestion that I would make is to up your font size on your name and title, navigation and about me paragraph. I think it might tightened it up some more to where the about me paragraph kind takes up most of the lens. Great job!

[mlauc]

Hi Elizabeth,
This new design is fantastic and very creative. This site makes me want to know more about you and your work. A couple critiques: Capitalize "artist" to make it consistent with "graphic designer" and correct the spelling of "because." Overall very nice!

[aslychsm]

Awesome design! I love the grainy photo as the background. Honestly, it reminds me of something that could be on the cover of a book, or movie poster, or record sleeve. It definitely has a sort of intense vibe, but the pink glasses help keep it lighthearted. Confining the main text to the lens was clever, and overall, everything is very legible, despite being on a gritty image. Great job! My only suggestion would be to remove the little line breaks around your name, I feel like they aren't really contributing anything to the design, and it would be just as strong without them.

[rrodriguez]

Elizabeth Brass…I like your home page a lot. The black & white photo with color for the sunglasses brings a personal touch to your site. Your links are clear and to the point. And I like the contrast of heavy and light with your name. Putting your paragraph on the lens of the sunglasses was a cleaver and dynamic touch. Only thing missing is your contact link or maybe your email link.

[Sierragirlnv]

Hi Elizabeth,
I love what you did for your final project you took it to a very personal level and brought out a lot of your personality in it! However I would check your design over for spelling. I like your "about me" and as for me personally I don't like all lower case letters for buttons but that is unique to your design. We should mtn bike sometime!

Sierragirlnv

[kiwakom]

I LOVE IT!
The image is very pretty, and I like your name design. That's so cool!

I think you can increase the leading on the body copy a little bit.

Kiwako

[dboudinot]

Hi Elizabeth,

This is really cool. I like the pop of pink with the intentionally grainy black and white. A macro shot for a personal web page, kind of genius. I think the comment about capitalizing artist is a good critique. I don't have any other critiques. Sweet design, nice work.