Graphic Design, Web & Print
Archive for January, 2010
Hush Hush
Jan 14th
I’m just putting a spec together for a new website – can’t say too much as it’s confidential but it could end up being the biggest project we’ve worked on. It’s for a leisure company that’s got big ideas and a promising future, they need a website design that inspires the visitor, shows off their facilities and creates an online community for their members. Myself and Tom are looking forward to creating something a bit special, we’ll update the blog when we have more to show…
Countdown to launch…
Jan 13th
Tom and I have been working on a cracking new site for Manfred Schotten Antiques and it’s not far from launch. Just a few tweaks here and there and we’ll be good to go. This sport antiques website has been a challenging project to work on as we had to consider Schotten’s existing back office system and product database during both the design and build.
If I’m honest I find it easier to design a site based on a new spec than using an existing system but I have to say I did enjoy designing this one. Manfred Schotten Antiques have fantastic premises with some amazing sports memorabilia so the new website design needed to do them justice and convey their personality. I went for a simple design so not to detract the user from the products on the site but included some nice details to create some character like rough borders, paint-roller style edges and lined paper backgrounds resulting in a design which is a kind of ‘shabby-chic’.
Tom worked his magic when building the site and integrating the existing database and we are both really happy with the results. There is plenty of scope for further development and adding functionality so I’m sure we’ll be updating this post as we add new features.
