Plainfield Art League Mockups!

Here is a few of the mockup webpages that I have done for Plainfield Art League.
Enjoy and Review please!

MORE...more...not enough!

So just a few ideas I have for logos and ideas for the navigational bar(s)

I was work with the shorted version of Plainfeild Art League.

I really like how I was able to mix up the letters and create a pencil .

Most likely I will make a few more sketches till I finally pick the one that will be used. 

Review! Specially because you know you'll be an awesome person in my book if you do!

Next Step

Now that the basic ideas are planned (referring back to my post Find and Design), it's time to do some more grunt work and build upon that. So here I’ll post a few sketches. The ideas I have for the home page, the about PAL (Plainfield Art League) and there gallery page. Also I started to do a type study and I will be posting my sketches for logo designs once they develop more. Enjoy~

Home page sketch idea ---

About Plainfield Art League page----

Gallery page----

A Type study---



Background

Thought it would be fun to make my own background. As you can see the background looks pretty dark and I love how it turned out. Sometimes in our darkest of times we see the light of inspiration! So i find this background to be fitting. The image is one that I took this summer. It is a close up shot of an American flag made out of metal. I then went into photoshop and played with the light exposure and it came out as the product you see before you. Here is the before and after pictures just for fun.

Find and Design

So for my web class, we were given a sheet with different web links to art leagues. The art league that stud out the most to me and had the most potential of becoming something great was the Plainfield Art League (link here if you wish to see it http://www.plainfieldartleague.org/). However, the website does need a lot of work, for example using blue txt on a black background makes it so hard to read and the overall site seems too cluttered and is a bit confusing. So to start of this redesign project I did some research, I have seen some pretty neat things that have helped to inspire me. For example, Oak Park Art League has helped me to organize the site and i also really enjoy their little slide show that they have (http://opal-art.com/). However, one of my favorites has to be North Short Art League for I love how they use art work for some of their tabs! It also looks like they hung the pictures on the page which just makes me love it more. Here is a little snap shot of the website page to show what I am talking about but please, feel free to check out the site yourself! (http://www.northshoreartleague.org/)  I am not a big fan of the rest of the site but it is simple enough and I really enjoy their home page.

Now that I have been inspired I started to create how I wished the site to be organized.

 As well as to show how I think the categories should be for main and sub-categories which is shown in the chart I have created below.

From here I then created a simple design layout for the Plainfield web site. So far this has all been the planning stages (seems like a lot but really it isn’t and it has been fun, especially with the research part) from here I will then be going into Dreamweaver where I hope to them make this layout come to life and then add text and pictures then polish it up to look as professional as it can be. Wish me luck!