Brighton Fringe Festival illustration job

Here are the final illustrations that I completed that will be included in the Brighton Fringe Festival this year. They will appear on posters, in handouts and on their website:

The client didnt want anything fancy. The theme is 'Lights, Water, Action!' so they wanted some exhibition photos in the style of an old and dated celluloid strip. I could have included some really aesthetically pleasing visuals but the client wanted something very simple. And sometimes you just need to accept that you dont have to always try and show off all of your skills at the same time.

External company Links on Website

I am including links to 2 companies on my website, companies that I have worked with and tha have helped me in building my recognition: Drop Clothing and Technicolour Moon. I have done work for both companies, mainly consisting of helping with promotions and events, and DJing at numerous events also.

Website final visuals

The following are the finished products of my website. It has been uploaded on an FTP software called Fetch. Very simple to do, just dragging and dropping.

Index:

Work Navigation:

Music Navigation: 

Music Navigation:

 Contact Navigation:

I am still having problems with my contact form and the fact that it doesnt seem to be sending the emails to my account. I will have the site up anyway, as my contact details are on there also. I will keep looking into the problem. 

I learnt how important the position of files in the root folder is when I was uploading, as I changed them all into neat folders (should have done this before) so then obviously the paths to find the files had changed. So when U viewed them in a browser, nothing looked correct.

Live Brief

Taken on some work from My girlfriends Mom, who needs some brochure work done for the Brighton Fringe Festival this year. She is part of a synchronised swimming team and needed some simple illustrations for leaflets, brochures, and web images. The event is called 'Lights, Water, Action!' so they wanted an old film feel to the illustration. This is what I have come up with so far.

Browser-friendly Websites

Making sure that you build a website that is going to look the same in various browsers in critical to any website design.

Here are the latest statistics for the usage of different browsers:

This factor will play a large role in the design choices I make for my website. Throughout the Dreamweaver sessions I will be constantly testing my website in multiple browsers. There are 3 main problems:

• The visitors operating system
• The visitors display system
• How the browser interprets the page

The visitors OS will affect how the scroll bars, arrows, submit buttons and navigational buttons would look for example. There is coding to personalise even these small bits of detail but many websites leave it.

The visitors display system will focus mainly on the resolution of the screen that the visitor is using. You cannot take for granted that everyone will be operating from monitors with a resolution of 1024x768 (highest res.) This plays a huge part in the dynamics of your website and where there will be scrollers put in unintentionally.

Everything Looks Better..

I am a strong believer in this little bit of philosophy. I love the circular shape, I think that it solves many problems subconsciously. I feel that people will feel more inclined to click on a shape instead of a word. It is a friendly shape that everyone can relate to. I feel that putting the words of my links inside the circular shapes instead of just having my words will hold the viewers attention a lot more.

From my initial ideas, I demonstrated my idea to have icons that scroll like apple mac icons but for a first website, and to make sure that my site carries a depth of continuity, I decided against this idea. But I would still like to use the circular shape that the icons appear as. 

The birth of Irrelevant Supremacy

It is an idea I have had for quite some time now but had never done anything about, until I began a blog last year and named it this. But there are many visual ideas that I have to take this forward with, so I wanted to name my website the same thing, to help get it recognised and get people involved hopefully.
A few ideas for colours and fonts for my website: