week 9

picture no 2:
Still website design.
This is a very brave use of colours. This page has a lot of information that needs to be there,
and at the same time uses strong colours and pretty dark ones to.
If I just heard of it without have seen it, the thought of dark colours combined with a lot of text in different sections, is rather scary. But this design creator managed to do it well, and I think this page looks like a digital fairytale.

week 9

picture no 1:

we're talking about doing layout for websites right now, and how
to use colours to guide the viewer, and to maintain consistance and
interest.
here's sparrowhaus' page. they are a design firm, and they use a minimalistic
design with very calm colours. I totally adore whitspace and the careful use
of a stong colour - just putting it in on a few places. If you hover over those
links, they turn blue, as the blue in the logo.
NICE!

week 8

Picture no 2:
This picture is a screenshot from a friends website, they have a Hoya (the flower) website and have a lots of pictures in it, so this is all links, but all the tiny pictures of the leaves in different shades of green is so esthetically pleasing, I just like to watch them together as this.
It's really true that green makes you feel good, calm and inspirational.

week 8

Picture no 1:
I really like the colours of Vancouver when it's midday and you take a photo into the light.
Everything becomes slightly pink and saturated

mixed media research

this is some of the pictures I did in the mixed-media class.
The original photo looks like this:

.. Kind of dark and has this sense of doom over it.
I tried a few things to change that impression. (I pardon for the lousy quality of the pictures down below. I photographed them with my camera.)


The first example I did by painting the backside of one photocopy with an black oil-crayon, and then I just laid it bottom down on top of a blank paper and started to fill in the forms with a knife. It ended up like this, with kind of a sketchy feeling. Almost a bit grunge. It doesn't have this depressing feeling over it, because it's much more lighter.


With the next example I almost did the same thing, but on a bright coloured paper with an orange crayon, to see if I could make the picture even more 'happier'. I experimented with only filling in the contours, and I used an analogous color-scheme from the warm side of the wheel.


Here I took my photocopy and transfered the ink to a blank paper using aceton. I inserted a few elements in the picture and filled in the outlines to do it more dynamic: a bird, and extended lines. This is my favourite version of all the ones I did. I like it when it only have one coloured element in it, and together with the diagonality lines, the picture gets more interesting to look at.