A Sign of These Modern Times
A really cute guy, sitting across from a really cute girl, eating really good food… working on his laptop. During dinner.
It’s okay though; she’s tapping away on her iPhone.
I love this branding by The Plant (a UK studio) for a frozen yogurt company on Kings Street.
Color might have been a decent option here…
Maybe the illustrator is a satirical color theorist?
Reblogged from Things That Happen
That quote was stolen
I was tempted to just repost this without credit, but bad artists plagiarize.
Reblogged from Jonathan Moore
Learn to love the command line. It isn’t scary. You know how to use Photoshop which has 300 buttons. That’s scary.
Reblogged from Jonathan Moore
Coming back to Tumblr!
After a long time away from this site, I am coming back! I am intrigued about this style of curated microblogging… like a combination of custom WordPress meets Twitter (meets Pinterest?). I’ll put up some of my recent work, thoughts… etc.
For more up-to-date updates, follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hawkeward
Another StudentLink Revision
Following both mine and others’ previous StudentLink proposals, I’ve crafted another one.
I realized that the main issue was that the StudentLink is a web application that was being designed like a news feed. People who access it need to do specific tasks in specific areas (dealing with something class-related, or housing, or about their money/tuition/financial aid). So, here we have a true web application interface that divides student life into large hubs - Academics, Money, Housing and Dining, etc.
Furthermore, we consolidate pages. On the current StudentLink, your schedule list, class graphic, planner for upcoming semesters, and add/edit courses functions are all on separate pages… but they deal with the same thing. Thus, they should be on the same page.
This will save both time and server resources because it puts all the same information on the same page.
Revision to Apple.com, the homepage
At the moment, I am working on a full revision of Apple’s Homepage, Store, Support Center, and Forums. It’s a big project, but this is a sample of what I’m doing. This is for my portfolio/graduate school application.
I focused on structure, not content. The adjustments were minor, so flip back and forth between this and the current one (see below) to notice the differences. Hopefully… you do.
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For comparison, here is the current home page: http://bit.ly/g7Aj20
I had a few issues with the current design:
- It’s structure was separate elements and boxes, each with their own, separate contents. Even the navigation is separate from the page; nothing “lived together.”
- The top navigation buttons were also “kitsch” (we know they’re buttons; they don’t have to overdo that metaphor) with their dark grey and heavy bevel.
- Apple products, however, are known for being unified, seamless, and integrated… unlike this homepage.
- In short, the home page didn’t reflect the company and the products that it creates.
I fixed this by unifying the page elements together into one block (not separate, disjointed boxes), and by reducing the “kitsch” and cartoony look. In the end, it’s subtle changes, but I went with a typical web design mantra: REALIGN, not redesign.
