Final Website Layout (I think)

I think this is going to be my final website design! I like the grass :)

Website Layouts

Here's just a few website designs I've come up with.

Spoon...

I made a 3D spoon. How useful and interesting...

+GOOD

Just a quick post about a web design company I found, +GOOD. Go see their website at http://www.plusgood.co.uk/ because it's awesome! I actually wrote about this company for our last essay, and thought that I should probably share it here. The design for the website is like a virtual map, and the user travels to the different areas by answering questions and choosing where to go next. I think it's a really clever and innovative conccept, and it works really well.

Just some more logo designs.

Whats in the box?

Okay so I've been working on this project for a while now, so I suppose I should outline some specific ideas for whats going in it. I'm going to go with a nature-themed interactive box, and this theme should apply to all of the elements included. I have decided upon this because I feel it will reflect my identity well, I love nature and consider myself a very natural person. Now that I've come to this decision I have created another moodboard to help me with my designs.


The different elements included in this digital moodboard reflect my identity in different ways, while all retaining the nature theme I'm going for.

With these points in mind, I feel I can now clarify what the different elements in my interactive box are going to be -

1. Logo - As shown previously, very simple, using the name Jennoefur. Image of a flower drawn very sketchily.

2. Avatar - Me in a field? Sleeping? Having a picnic? An animal? A plant? I don't know!

3. Audio Visual Element - An interview with myself. I will film myself both as the interviewer and interviewee then edit the film to make it seem like I am answering my own questions. I will be wearing different clothing as the interviewer and interviewee, possibly outfits reflecting different sides of my personality.

4. Website - A website about me, including a portfolio.

5. Interactive - To be honest I'm not entirely sure about this right now. I might create an interactive story using photos or short pieces of film, or I might make a Flash game of some sort.

To coincide with my theme and other elements, I've decided upon the meadow idea for the actual container of my interactive box.

Identities - Ideas

I've been thinking for a while about the actual design for my interactive box and I've had a few ideas, so I guess I should be writing about them here right?

1. Creepy Castle
An interactive Flash movie which allows users to explore a dark and creepy castle by clicking on different doors, e.g. great hall, dungeon etc. Each door would lead the user to a different element of my interactive box.

2. Peaceful Meadow
Another piece of interactive Flash. An image/digital drawing of a peaceful and beautiful meadow, possibly on a Summers day. Different elements of the scene would be animated, for example a bird flying overhead, or a cat leaping through the grass. The movie would play without any instructions and at first seem like it was just a piece of animation. Only by moving the cursor over the different elements of the movie would the user discover the links to different parts of interactive box.

3. Confusing link-crazy website
Much like the hypertext website Singaporeasy, or the baffling Mouchette.org. A website using both text and images as links to take users to the different elements of my interactive box. This method would have the links in seemingly random places, be rather hard to navigate, include nonsensical information and may not even look very attractive. Sounds crazy! But it works for these guys, and makes the website memorable.

4. Chapters of a Book
An interactive book created using Flash. Probably a huge old-looking hardback or leather bound book, like those seen on bookcases in old libraries. The user would click to open the book, which would contain an actual story. However, by clicking certain hidden words in the text the user would be led to different elements of my interactive box.

Logo stuff

I've just been messing around with some stuff on Photoshop and Painter to come up with some designs for my logo. Originally I was going to name the stuff in this project (logo, website etc.) Catzilla, but I've now decided that as much as I like cats I can't let them rule my work! So I've decided upon them name Jennoefur, my own long-term nickname.

Anyway, here's some stuff.

Typography cat.

Just some doodles for original Catzilla idea

Trying out some different fonts. Generally I'm a fan of a nice, simple sans serif font, but I thought I should experiment with a few different kinds. I like some of the decorative fonts, but I'm still not being swayed from a lovely Century Gothic...

Here's a few doodle experimenting with a flower design for my logo. Possible a tulip, my favourite flower, though very sketchy or cartoony.


Here I was just trying out some of the different brush types available in Painter X. I want a kind of sketchy feel to my logo, as if it's been hand drawn.


Some initial concepts, possibly substituting the letter J for the flower's stem.

'Quality not quantity'

I found a nice little flash video on the website for a design company called Logo. It shows the different designs thought up for a logo for a company called Midas Homes. I'd embed it if I could but I can't, so see it here.

As you can see, there are many different concepts thought up before the final design is created, some good and some not so good, but all better than the original in my opinion!

Animated 3D Man

iForgot to post this when I made it, but here is an animated version of the previously created 3D man made using the biped thingy in 3ds max.

Logo Design

In order to help myself with the design of my own logo, I feel it is important to look at some already existing designs to see what they're like and what makes them successful.


This images depicts the well known logo for Jaguar, a car manufacturer. It is instantly recognisable, and not only for the name, as people would still know the company this logo represents from seeing just the image of the animal itself. This is down to the simple yet effective design of the logo. It is memorable, easy to describe and works well without colour, rules that are essential to logo design according to Just Creative Design. Although it could be said that an animal and a car are completely unrelated things, it is fairly easy to see where the connection has been made by the car company. A jaguar is a powerful dangerous animal, and the company is trying to give off the same impression about their cars. Overall this is a very successful design for a logo as it has worked effectively for many years and I believe will continue to do so for years to come.


This is the Nike Swoosh (or tick as it is commonly known), a logo that few people will not recognise. Although here the company name, Nike, is not shown, it is pretty much guaranteed that anyone who is shown this logo will know the company it represents. It is a simple, memorable and easily described logo, rules which I mentioned earlier. Also, though it is shown here in orange, it is often used as a black or white image, and can easily be converted to any colour. The logo's effectiveness is reflected through it's long-term usage, originally being designed in 1971 and still going strong.

YouTube is a company that has been around for considerably less time than the previous two companies mentioned yet it has already because a successful and globally recognised brand. The website, which allows users to upload and share their own videos with others, reflects this purpose through their logo. The red box encasing the word 'tube' represents a television as this basically what the website makes your computer into, a television. The logo is very simple, being made up of really just the text, though I suppose you could say the red box was an image. This makes it very easy to describe to others, and also makes it memorable. It would be very easy to adapt the logo to other colours, though this has not yet been attempted by the company. Overall this effective logo has been very sucessful, and may have played a part in the overall success of the company itself.