Website Ideas Development

Developing my website and choosing a style that I want to best represent my project is proving to be an extremely challenging task. I really enjoy the idea of toying with the sickly sweet concept of the aesthetic of dreams. Below I have attempted to sketch some potential font designs that I think will aim to get feedback from.

I also really like the idea of having a moving gif font/image for the title and homepage. I think it adds something a little extra to the website design.

Love Magazine have this movement effect on their website as you enter it. I really like this. I think it's playful and artistic. I would definitely like to look into this more once the logo/title is chosen.

I have a vision of how I would like my website to look. I can imagine it then entering onto the individual dream pages/series with the title still present but smaller. The example of Glassbook below shows the sort of size and layout of the title that I would like to achieve.

Again, Love Magazine has provided me with the sort of inspiration for my own website idea. Here you can see the colourful headings with image infills and differing for each series. I can imagine each dream having a different design but with a consistent style. 

FEEDBACK:

After the tutor presentation, the response I got from the font designing was definitely not a positive one. After me thinking they were all brilliant ideas, I had a sudden epiphany after seeing their response and also suddenly hated the design and realised it was definitely not the professional message I wanted to portray.

So I scrapped the above ideas and decided to try something new!

My next design attempt came from the term 'head in the clouds', like a day dreamer. So I decided to go with this play on words and see what outcome I could produce.

 This was actually initially inspired by album artwork. I have noticed lots of geometry and illustration designs on album covers recently.

I found a bared shouldered image and a cloud image and had a play on Photoshop.

I really hated how skinny the model was and thought that it could promote an unhealthy body image.

So I decided to shoot some images of my own of my friend.

I then had a play with colours of the clouds to see what worked best.

After choosing my favourite design I started to set up my website on muse. I also started to create little icons that the viewer can click on to enter the dream experience. This was just done with appropriate images found on the internet and manipulated on Photoshop to create more interesting images.

CHANGE OF PLAN AGAIN!

After becoming lost with my design development for my website, I decided to completely erase the idea of generating a different website experience for each look. I felt that this idea could retract from the images and lose the complete purpose of the project. Instead of making it interactive and almost immature, I am completely simplifying my ideas. After my meltdown with John, I drew up a plan of how I wish the website to function.

Here you can see a very basic sketch that I will be referencing my design process back to in order to not lose focus on the task ahead. I believe this design brings a more sophisticated approach to the project rather than feeling like it is mocking my unusual imagination and dreams. I have also considered the target market in more depth as my project is predominantly aimed at 18+ because of it's erotic undertones. As a result, the format has a more simplistic exhibition layout.

I have also decided to take a more mature approach to the font and title designs. I will be using the images to infill the writing and the web will be very image based to enhance the exhibition style experience.