KIACS Online - New Design

Here is the latest design for my website.

If you compare the new design with the current design, it's clear to see how much my design ideas and quality of design as developed in just under a year.

Originally, my logo had 4 different colours and the font wasn't very modern looking. I've decided to stay with the layout of the logo (the words under each other) but I've decided to use a clear, funky font and just the green because it looks more slick, more fun and less rough.

The logo on the far right is my official logo, the arrow with a blue circle underneath, reflects the cycle of design, development and deliverance. By crossing it over with an arrow, this connotates a different "direction" in my work, and reflects my approach to design being clear, simple and effective.

I've continued to use the green and blue as the main colours for the website, dropping the red and white as these offered too much variation and detracted from the website development as I was trying to work with too many colours.

In terms of content, the website will house my graphic and website design work I've created over the last 2 or 3 years. Not only will there be a portfolio section with live previews of my work, but the blog will serve the purpose that this blog currently does. This will all be backed up by my twitter page, where users will be able to access my latest tweets, straight into the website.

I will be using HTML, CSS, PHP, MySql and probably (hopefully) jQuery where I can.

Overall, this new website design is sleek, modern, clean and effective. It will serve its purpose to a great standard and will be a design I am happy to keep for years to come hopefully.

Logo Color Change

Here's the changed Coca-Cola logo I've adapted. I think it makes it look more like a logo for orange juice.

Identities Exploration

As part of the identities module for next term, we've been told to find out what self identity means to us, and here's the beginning of a picture of various things I'm going to be working on.

The red symbolises the empowerment and feel I have over my future right now, being a successful colour and the darker tones give it a more sexual feel to it. The picture of me posed like that represents the sensitive side, but the bright colours show my more excitable personality. The Spice logo is part of what make me me. Growing up through the Spice phenomenon, it gave me a light into different people and to become a more sensitive person, so I felt it important to add it in here.

Replacing Colours

These photos were taken and edited on photoshop. I used the complimentary colours, blue and orange to show how food can look different and our physcological feeling towards them. The bread on the first photo has a golden brown one on the bottom, this is to show how tempting it is to eat, however the other is coloured blue. The blue one shows a way that we can almost "taste" our food by looking at it. There's nothing wrong with the bread, it's just because it's coloured blue, we don't find it appetising.

The second photo shows a blue piece of food that, of course, looks unappetising, however the beer next to the food has gone mouldy as you can see the mould growing inside the glass. Neither of these foods look appetising, due to their half eaten state, their colour and the mould growing inside the glass of bear.