Hey Gang, Matt here... Gosh but how time flies... Since the last entry, designed both Zirkus and the 30th Anniversary Mardi Gras Parade and Party, worked in Hong Kong designing several productions, visited London and New Zealand to meet with project collaborators and now I'm just thrilled to spend the next few months in front of the computer.
(You can check out how I designed Mardi Gras, including designing for Olivia Newton John and Cyndi Lauper, at my design blog Aberline Sketchbook. Lots of cool videos.)
Tanya, or Ms "Development", is coming from Hong Kong for a short period to oversee our image capture process, install the wikipedia, finish off our high school Oliver Web Quest, sort out our podcasts and the list goes on... It is going to be a really cool time which obviously involves the long awaited redesign of the web site. It seems we have a million ideas just sketched in and now we need to pull them all together. Below are some drafts of what we want the site to look like.
Obviously it will be far more interactive with heaps of resources for people to access. I wanted to keep that "story book" illustrative feel we established in the Beta site. I like the idea of almost no words, just pictures. We need to mix it up a bit though. My agenda as a designer is to illustrate my designs as realistically as possible, when that really is only a fraction of what you can do with our resources. The photo realistic style puts people off sometimes cause they think it looks too complex and maybe not a style they'd want to try. Most of the images on the website are there because they were created for a real design job. So I've got to include a range of styles...
I'll add that to my list of things to do...
In the next few weeks, users will be able to download image kits which means we'll be officially open for business! Hey - I'd love some other people's work on the site. Let me know if you're up for having your illustrations ruthlessly exploited and I'll swing you a kit to two to work with.
On with the relentless pursuit of beauty.
Matt
