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Websites i took inspiration from

  • https://www.megandoherty.com/ - Simplistic colour pallet but very easy to navigate and find relevant information. I was able to find out all the relevant information about her including all the work she has produced and developed which was for herself and commercially. Along with being able to find the information her work was presented in a clear and thought out way that made it not only visually appealing and cohesive with the design.




  • http://www.leestitt.com/ - Easy to navigate and clever layout and design. His work has no relevance to fashion but i really appreciate landscape photography. His work has captured an image so perfectly still you expect it to move as if it was a video on the website. I like the feature that Lee included which was a video about his latest piece which adds a whole level of usage and functionality to the site.


  • https://www.tylermitchell.co/ - For me i really like any website that isn't too over the top with the design and for Tyler Mitchell he has done the same by not overselling his work with a fancy site, but plain and stylish to share whatever information deemed relevant. On the section about some work he has done as you put the mouse over the section it gives you a title as to what that piece of work was for to ensure you fully understand it's intended purpose. For my own site i want to ensure that there is not one moment in which you become confused or lost so a helpful navigation bar, similar to Tylers can help you find everything simple and quick.


 


  • https://laurapannack.com/ - Now Laura is a very well known photographer with a lot of status within the art industry. But i feel as though her website doesn't provide the same level of status she has. Firstly and the biggest annoyance for me is how when you hover your mouse over a title for a section, an image from that section pops up covering part of the page which i find to be very annoying and also look really untidy. Not only is this annoying but it almost covers up other sections of the page making them fairly difficult to read. For me i would take away this feature as it can ruin the layout. Also i find that having writing all over the place at different angles can be hard to read but also can be missed if you don't know that its there. On my site i want people to find my work simply and fast and when you have to hunt for the icons to do this, then i believe that the site is not operating at it's full potential. However, this is all my own justification and it purely comes down to taste of design, but i feel as though her site just doesn't work well.



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