YUMI - Group Project

Yumi Logo:For the group project on YUMI I will be putting most of my posts on the shared blog :

http://ukyumidesign.blogspot.com/

YUMI

For our group project, our client is an ice cream parlour in Hyson Green, Nottingham. It was set up by a Student at Notthingham Trent studying Interior Architecture.

On Wednesday we had a meeting and took photos of the different things available in the shop along with the interior. We are now waiting for the content off the client as all that is available for customers at the moment is the facebook group.:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=156319783380

These are two reviews on the Parlour:

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/entertainmentnews/Food-focus-Yumi-Ice-Cream-Parlour-Hyson-Green/article-1311877-detail/article.html

http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/hyson-green-saturday-night-and-sundae-morning/

Hennie Haworth

Hennie Haworth is a designer i came across when looking at an Christmas advent calender website in December, that i posted on my blog back then. Hennie Haworth is an Freelance Illustrator. I really liked the website, especially the navigation how different pens appear over the text the mouse hovers on.

http://www.henniehaworth.co.uk/

More Pages

I will be keeping the same background images throught all 5 pages of the website, these are two of the ideas for the biography and the gallery. The Biography will just be put together in Dreamweaver but the gallery i plan to do as one of my flash elements. Along the bottom is a thumbnail film strip where there are 6 diferent topics to choose to view:

• Digital
• Hospital
• Medium Format
• Large Format
• 35mm film
• Goose Club

Once the topic has been selceted a number of images from that project or topic will come up in a box above the thumbnails. I want to somehow explain some of the images and what the topic is about but have not yet decided how to do so.

Navigation

Contact:


Photography:

Biography:
These are some of the symbols that i will put on the desk for the user to click on, I put these together in photoshop but will import them to flash to experiment with the text and making teh images bigger when the mouse goes over it.

Final Ideas

I have decided to change my design so it is of an artist looking at their desk. I prefer the older looking desk to the grey one. I have decided that as the mouse hovers over the different topics the poloriod/journal/photoframe will get bigger so the user knows to click on it. This will be done in flash.

Ideas for Website

Idea 1:

This idea, when the mouse hovers over the text for, biography, contact, photography and journal the text will change colour or light up to become more obvious. My idea with this design was to give the user a taster of what Victorias work is like from a range of different project she has done.

Idea 2:

I prefer this idea as from looking at existing photographer and artists websites they are not too complicated as it would take the attention away from the work. This idea is that the image in the middle will be changing through about 5 different images, probably all connected from the same project. The text, similarly to the first idea will light up in a different colour when the mouse is hovered over it.

More designers websites

Cindy Sherman Website:


Cindy Sherman's Website is different to the others. I really like the homepage with all the overlapping pictures of her and background of pictures she has taken but once you click to go into the other links of the website i think it is very boring. The layout for the biography is pages of writing which is very overwhelming and the links to look at her artwork is not set out very well either.

http://www.cindysherman.com/index.php


Matteo Basile Website:


Matteo Basile's website is quite similar to the one of Steve Schofield in how the images are displayed in the gallery and how they are navigated. I much prefer this way of presenting someones art work.


http://www.matteobasile.com/index/

Steve Schofield

I decided to do some research on some of the designers that my friend who I am making the website for is inspired by. I particularly liked the website for Steve Schofield, his website is clean and neatly set out. I like how the images are set out in a thumbnail strip but keep moving so all the pictures can be seen unless you pause it.

Steve Schofield's images range from humorous images of Sci-fi costumers in their own homes, to portraits of leading politicians, actors and musicians. In 2007 The Times named him as one of five artists to watch. His work has won numerous awards, and has been exhibited in galleries in the UK (including the National Portrait Gallery and the Photographers' Gallery), the USA and Europe. He has had a number of solo shows of his personal work and has work in the National Portrait Gallery's permanent collection. He lives in London with his wife Lesley and 10 year old son Louis.

http://www.steveschofield.co.uk/portfolio%20gallery%20grey/portfolio.html

Design Exercise 14: Social Network Integration

For the website i am creating for an artist I have decided to include Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. They seem the most relevant for mt artists work so people can follow her on social networking sites. Flickr is a social networking site where you can upload photos and videos for free and share them with your followers, you can also edit the photographs, get rid of red eye, crop a photo, or get creative with fonts and effects! Most of the work that I will be uploading to the site will be photographs of my artists work. I have decided to include twitter and facebook for the same reasons that people can follow the artist easily and find out more information on the artist.

These are some examples of websites with links to social networking sites on them. On Gordon Ramsays page he has provided a link to follow him on twitter but Britney Spears has links for all facebook, Twitter, MySpace and youtube. On Gordon Ramsays page he has made the link keeping the blue colour and the twitter symbol which makes the association alot clearer but on Britney Spears' page she has kept them all as individual pink tabs at the top of her page.