Birds.Birds.Birds

With the design of my website well under way, as I mentioned before it is going to look very plain and simple. Therefore I have been brainstorming ideas to make it a little bit more quirky/interesting. 

A huge trend seems to be at the moment that illustrators are using a lot of animals as imagery in their work, I experimented with this in my Greetings Cards and I was really pleased with result. So I have been looking at Birds, in-particular Blue Tits. I love all the different positions that people have photographed them in and I feel that they they would bring that little extra 'something' that I am looking for to my website.

I have been looking at using them as the links to the other pages such as 'about', 'contact' etc instead of just having type links. I will need to incorporate the type into the bird designs to keep the navigation clear to the viewer to where they are actually heading when they click on the link. 

I'm not sure about how I am going to produce them, I have been looking at making them up of block colours giving an almost screen printed effect or making them out of patterns....

WWF painted hands

When I was researching into existing campaigns which have used hands, or hand imagery I cam across these images.

I think they are brilliant - a great example of advertising that is so simple but very effective!

Existing Campaigns Using Hands

Typo and Handwritten

These two books have been a great source of Inspiration to me, I remember James and Vicki both using the book 'Handwritten' for past projects and recommending it so after having a look for myself it has defiantly given me a few more ideas and inspiration.

                 

I got given the Zeixs 'TYPO' book last christmas along with the illustration version, both of which I am constantly flicking through for ideas.

Art of Nurture cont.....

After doing some initial ideas generation I have been developing the idea of using hand imagery in my design to represent the unity, and working together in partnership to represent Lloyds.

I have been using this information to develop ideas to reflect this paragraph.

Here are a few examples of images that show the type of imagery I will be using in my Illustration.

A bit of Type?

Today I have began to design the handwritten text for my website. I want a lose inky, slightly sketchbook looking text. It does need to be legible but at the same time I don't want it to look like its being carefully drawn.

Brendons Recommendation for Tutorials

I noticed that Brendon kindly gave James a link to a really good tutorial site for Dreamweaver 

- www.willgoldstone.com/learn  

So this will probably worth having a look at.