Back Again!

I am back hard at work after a nice summer. I have undertaken a few client projects which have been somewhat of a farse and I am now concentrating on my own website which currently looks like this;

I am really happy with the look of the site and it contains some nice functionality which I have developed with thanks to my favourite web design guru, Soh Tanaka, (www.sohtanaka.com) without his tutorials my site would be rather empty.

I also wanted to share with you my new favourite website 'Dribbble', it is described as a 'show and tell for designers in 120,000 pixels or less' and this is exactly what it is. There is some really inspirational work on there and its great to waste time on just looking around!

Non Web Designer Three

Peter Saville
Peter Saville is a graphic designer from Manchester. He is most famous for creating record sleeves for Factory Records and has designed covers for such bands as Joy Division and New Order.

I have been a fan of Factory Records and the bands they employed for a long time and I was always intrigued by the interesting simplicity of the record covers. I then started to look into the design and that is where I discovered Saville. I then went on to look at his other work he did for the 'Hacienda' club in Manchester.

All of his designs are very simple but yet so effective, and this is a theme which has run through all of the other successful designers I have looked at. This is also something I can interpret in my own work.

My favorite bits of Saville's work are the posters he created to advertise the different nights which were happening at the Hacienda. They all followed a similar theme which contained big bold colours and stood out amongst other designs. This is definitely something which I could interpret in my work by using big bold colours to attract the users attention, but at the same time not overcrowding the page with many contrasting colours.

Non Web Designer Two

Shane Meadows (http://www.shanemeadows.co.uk/)
Shane Meadows is a director and screen writer from Uttoxeter. He has been my favourite director ever since I first saw the film 'Dead Man's Shoes'. The way he creates atmosphere within a film and really sets the scene for the audience is why I was mainly drawn to him, along with great storylines and scriptwriting.

I like the way he uses simple landscapes within his films, the kind of landscapes you look at and can straight away connect with as they are generally of commonly seen sights and areas. I can also relate to him on a personal level as he is from an area very close to me, and many of his films have been filmed where I live and some of my friends have also featured in these films.

He has won several awards for his films and achieved some success with the release of his most famous film 'This is England'.

I am inspired by Meadows on a daily basis, when I see things around me which look similar to the images portrayed in his films. I can take inspiration from the way he has stuck to his roots and is able to connect with so many different people through simple imagery.

Creating things which people can relate to gives you a much greater chance of achieving success and I can try to bring this across in my work. By creating imagery which people are familiar with and like my work will be spread across a more wide audience.