hyperlink icons

Here are the hyperlink icons I intend to use for footer of my website, I used the website Phil suggested, This will help potential clients keep track of my continuing work and to optimise the web traffic between my different online contacts. This will in turn increase the confidence of the potential clients have in me and my work.

navigation bar

here is one of the navigation bars
i might use, as mentioned before in another blog i like the idea
of simple text on a red backdrop, it still needs fine tuning and I would like to improve the design a bit more before putting it on my final website design.

web gallery

this basic start of my bridge web gallery
i hope to change the styling and maybe switch programs to get more
control over the design ideas
but this simple design does appeal to me and would suit the feel of my website

contact sheets for I carry your heart with mine

here are the preview contact sheets and design ideas for the project to create a set of images to a piece of text
i focused quite a bit on the flowers because i felt they embodied both the ideas of love and nature, the most difficult line to base images around was the "here is the deepest secret nobody knows " I ended up choosing a phone and a unopened letter to suggest secretiveness, i also photographed a locked door to try and be suggestive about whats going on behind it.
Overall i am pleased with the images i produced i think they mix a number of suggestive and concrete ideas in image form which follow the underlining imagery in the text(poem).

I created the background of the website using brushes from the excellent misprinted type 3.0 by Eduardo Recife and just put a an image, logo and changed gradient of the website background to give the look of a website, this the first website design i did but i still wanted something more professional looking.

So i created another website which is nearly how i would like my final website to look like, i just when for a simpler design than my first, neutral tones and a easy navigation. In my final design the image will change on the homepage every 3-4 seconds. i also added the hyperlink logos on the bottom of the page for my facebook, flickr etc

basic design ideas

Here are some of the first ideas for the studio and location shots for the images on text project, Following my research on imagery in poetry i would like to go down the route of doing mostly shots focused on nature (flowers trees etc) but also have other items in there for some of the lines like " here is the deepest secret nobody knows " which could have a lock and key, a telephone call or a door. I would like to try out the idea of shooting at sunset in the magic hour to give a ambient feel to some of the images.