Lawn Art Website Design

For my lawn art website design, I decided on the "Crazy's Lawn Art: Evansville, IN Edition because people have some really crazy lawn art around their yards that felt looked good; for some reason. And since we were asked to take pictures of lawn art around Evansville, I decided to add the Evansville, IN Edition.

I tried to stay on the simple and clean side while designing this website. I first used the grass paint brush tool to make a lawn design that was simple and clean looking, but graphically nice looking. I then imported in a picture of a lawn gnome that I took that was in a neighbor's yard. I edited out the picture's background and remove the mushroom that the gnome was leaning on. I picked the lazy gnome because i liked the way it was laying and thought i could make it lean on a sign post that could be used as the menu navigator. I decided on the old wooden sign because I saw several similar signs while taking lawn art pictures around town and thought that would be a great design to use as the menu navigator. Each wooden board on the sign is a navigation button because it separates the links and continues the the simple and clean look. I decided to categorized each navigation button to make it easy to navigate and allow people to find specific pages or design easier.

On each page, that shows the lawn art pictures that I took, shows an edited version of the picture with a short description of the lawn art piece. Behind the short description, I added a transparent box to separate the text from the blue sky background. I edited the sign menu to make it smaller so it wouldn't dominate or draw attention from the lawn art piece. I also removed the lawn gnome because I felt it would cause the design to look busy.

That's my design. I hope you all like it.

Some Art Club Critiques

Here are my feelings on some of my classmate's Art Club website designs:

1.) leverly.willyworld.org;

I really like the design that was created here. All the elements seem to connect to form a unified design. The brown background helps the colored paint spots stand out more, but is a cool design itself at the same time. I think the colored spots were done really well. It really looks like someone spilt or threw on some paint on a brown background but transparent to show the background style and design at the same time.

The USI Art Club text really fits well with the design. It looks like someone painted the words on the brown background. I also like how the USI letters are white to represent and show the abbreviated form of our schools name. The Art Club text is also nicely done. It keeps with the same paint style as the USI text and the paint spots but is separated from the other text so there wasn't cluttered together.

There was only a few small things I didnt like about the design. The first was the bigger yellow paint spots. It looked to 3d and didn't match the other paint spots on the design. I could be a representation of corn kernels but i doubt it was meant to. The other thing I didn't like, was the Art Club information text. I like how its white to keep with the same style as the other text, but it was hard to read in places.

Overall, I believe this is a great design for the USI Art Club website.

2.) andy.willyworld.org;

This was a cool idea for the USI's Art Club website. I liked the flower watermark in the background. It looked really good and connected the elements in the design together well. The design on the left is nicely done. I liked the how the flowers were designed like a silhouette with different colors that stood out on the black background.

I liked little design behind the U in the USI Art Club text. It added a different style to the design that worked well. I also liked the decision to use black text. It stands out well on the white background and is east to read.

There is only one small thing I didn't like about this design. It's a small thing but there should have been a hard enter (space) between the first and second paragraph. The text is too close to each other and is hard to read after awhile.

Overall, good design.

3.) twildman.willyworld.org;

I really liked this design for the USI's Ar Club website. The paint tubes at the top were done really well. It ties in well with the art theme of webpage and the paint that's coming out of the tubes adds a special element to the design that I've never seen before. Not only does it really look like paint is coming out of the tubes, it also draws the eyes down to the main information in the middle of the page.

The USI Art Club text is also nicely done. It continues with the squeezed out paint theme and really looks like someone squeezed blue paint on and wrote the text. The blue color also stands out well on the black background. I thought the art supplies on either side of the main text was a good touch. Not only does it continue the art theme but it also fills up white space to complete and tie in the elements in the design.

The only thing I didn't like about the design, was the main text. I do like the choice of using white text so it stands out on the black background but it doesn't fit with the theme and style of the design. Everything element in the design, including the text, had some sort of artistic style. The main text just seems to plain to me.

I really liked this design and think it would work perfectly for USI's Art Club website.

My Design for USI's Art Club Website

The design I created for the USI Art Club's website is different then normal websites that people are use to. I added a sketch book to a drawing table that i made look like its been used in an art class. I made paint smears and splatters and pencil markings like the table has been used for quite sometime.

I added doodles to the sketchbook as if this belongs to a student and was bored during class. All the doodles are hand sketched that i scanned into photoshop and added to the composition. Everything, besides the main body, pencil, and faculty advisors, were also all hand-drawn and added to the composition in a way it would look if a student just throw in the information in there sketchbook.

For the remaining text, I went online and found a really cool text type called chilly. To me, it looked very similar handwriting, so I used it to look like someone hand-wrote the information into the book.

I added a pencil, because i thought it needed some sort of art supply that would tie in all the elements together. I scanned in one of my own art pencils then imported it into photoshop.

Finally, i added a ink spill in the lower corner to add another common art element to help tie in the composition. I made it look like an ink container just got knocked over and spilled over the art table and the notebook laying on the table.

There you go, that is my design for the USI's Art Club website. I hope you all liked my design

Back from 3 Day Weekend

Had a pretty fun holiday weekend. Didn't do much besides hangout with friends and watch tv. Waking up at 7 this morning was awful. Classes today should be pretty easy but I still would like to be in bed though.