Design Ideas

When I first thought about a design for a website about Piracy I could'nt get the image of a cartoon pirate and a sandcastle out of my head, as fun as it was to try to draw a pirate (of which I failed miserably) I thought that this sort of image would be quite patronising to children aged 11-16.

Then when I was clearing out some leaflets I had managed to collect over the past couple of weeks I came across one which had an image of a skull.

This image got me thinking about using the pirate skull and crossbones image and it also got me thinking about displaying the website with this image as a neon light. I took a look at the website that was connected with the leaflet.

Baa Bar

 I thought that this website was really interesting, I liked how they used the different tones of black and grey together to create a composition. So my second idea was to have the skull and crossbones symbol, which I changed to skull and swords, as a neon sign that you might find at the side of a desert road or on some dark back street which lead to a city.

This image reminded me of leading to Vegas, neon signs in the desert, it plays on the idea that playing with piracy is like playing with the law.

I also wanted to develop another idea I have which was to play on the whole British police theme, after all piracy is breaking the law. so how could I use this idea of UK police branding and make it look appealing to young people as a website?

 For me to be able to develop any ideas further I need to gather my text content for the website, then I will know how many pages I will need for the site and will be able to design for that.

I quickly thought about having a section of the site for parents to be able to get information about piracy so that they will feel confident in what their children are accessing through the home computer. I found some websites that have given me information designed for parents and teachers so i have been able to look at what sort of advise they are being given and how it has been put across.