Saturday, 20 February 2010

Artist Website Research

Whilst searching the web for online portfolios I can across this website: 
smashingmagazine.com
It has many really nice portfolio websites that range in style.
Here are a few that caught my eye:
okaydave.com 
This website starts with a jumble of images and the user can click on bunched images, alternatively a navigation bar is at the bottom. A link takes you to a page, each page has a video and a vioce over where Dave Warner talks about himself and the different aspects of his work. I thought this was a very nicely put together website and even though it was all flash it didnt take too long to load.
 

 








www.jessewillmon.com 
This website caught my eye as it used doodles throughout the site, which is similar to how how I like to work using drawn images instead of real pictures. This first image is the site's navigation, it gets people to interact with it really well with features such as "I made a paper toy, Download and print" 
 
I took a look at his work and his websites in particular were really interesting, easy to use and full of lively imagery and colour.








www.nisgia.com
This was another really nice website to interact with, it was kind of an in-situe image with these pieces of paper falling onto the table from your view point. The user could then click on these little pieces of paper to view a particular project. There was also a navigation bar that popped out on the left.

This is a reall nice website made for an illistrator. A small neavigation bar is on the left but the main focus is the work which takes up most of the page, a scroll bar is below that you grab with the mouse and slide along to view all the images in tht section. 
This one is website for an organisation rather than an individual, I thought it was really nice, I liked how the images were made to look as if they had bee stuck on with a piece of selotape. Also this company have included all stages of the projects productions, from Sketch - Wireframe - Final Design which is good for a new web designer such as myself to see.

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