For my Word Press project, I put together 2 element collages, but I ended up disliking both of them. I had done a lot of type studies, and research, and I thought I had a few good options, but when I put the fonts next to pictures of my work in my collages, they didn’t seem to work well. It could be that I had just stared at it too long, but the overall mood was feeling boring. I like white space and simplicity, and that is necessary to an extent if I want my portfolio pieces to stand out and be the focus, but I want my website to be fun and interesting. At the same time, I was working on a redesign of the Yale School of Art website, and I put most of my creative energy into that project, but a few of the elements I used for that design actually are reflective of my style and personality as well. I didn’t want to repeat things for both projects, but now I feel like I have a better idea of how it should look. Pop Art hedgehogs is what I would actually want, but it needs to be a bit of a balance between fun and professional. I think most other graphic designers might be bored of the usual stuff too though, web design is a bit homogenous, and it’s tempting to go overboard with the wackiness, but you have to remember function and basic framework. It can be functional and fun/artistic at the same time, I just need to get the balance right. Here are my element collages that I don’t like that much, but at least it was a start:
