Website ideation

I have been researching and ideating for our website and have come up with a few concepts. I aimed for simplicity and strong colours because I believe that above all, our work so far has kept to these pillars of design.

Initially we have a very cartoon styled site, it's bright, appealing and has a certain flow. The design isn't much to call home about with it's title and navigation spreading across the top, and it's core in a narrower centered column.

The second of the ideas is more simple and relies less on the cartoon imagery and more on the information. It is slightly less stereotypical in terms of standard web design.

The best of my concepts so far, and an idea that I feel has a lot of potential is one I created using a few other modern websites for inspiration, it's clean, colourful, with a cartoony edge, but overall it's appealing to all audiences, which I think gives the design a certain merit. It's not cluttered, but it has plenty to interact with, and the aesthetic is incredibly satisfying.

Group Catch Up Session

Today Jeremy and I met up at 1:30pm in order to see where each other was at with our idea generation and thumbnail sketches, as well as meeting so we could create our moodboards for presentation on Monday. Our thumbnail sketches were coming along quite nicely, as I already had two pages worth, and was planning on doing a third page of rapid ideation thumbnails solely focusing on targeting youth as the audience. Our moodboard consists of two pages at the moment, the top one having research of backgrounds, textures and posible physical images, while the lower moodboard has potential fonts, colour palettes and some inspiration sourced from online.

I have attached the moodboards below:

Over the next few days we will continue to work on our poster concepts in thumbnail form, ad generate 5 larger posters to present in class on Monday.