New Semester…
For the past few weeks I’ve been working on my major project but I’ve still found some time to create some more football magic in Photoshop. Henrys turn.
Week 12+ - Experimentation
Today I’ve been working on some possible infographics that I could insert onto the players pages. The infographic below shows the World Cups that Pele featured in. The colours represent the hosts home shirt colour i.e. 1958 is yellow for Sweden, 1966 is white for England
Week 12+ - Major Project Preperation
Over the last few days I’ve been getting some images prepared for my Major Project. This involves erasing around photographs, removing the background part of the image, just leaving the ‘render’. This can be a very time consuming task so it’s best to get it out of the way now. Examples are below:
Week 12+ - Grid Systems
I recently got the book by Josef Müller-Brockman on Grid Systems, I’m only 30+ pages into but so far it’s been a great read. The first 5 pages were all about the grid philosophy and the purpose of the grid.
It then went onto discuss things such as the size of the paper, the measuring system etc, these are things that have never crossed my mind before but looking back on to it now, these are really important elements of design. I really can’t wait to get further into the book.
Week 12+ - Research
As I plan to have a bespoke feel to each of the players page, I’ve been doing some research into retro HTML5 websites for the footballers from the early World Cups. I just wanted to get some inspiration, looking at the textures and fonts that are used on other websites. Below is one site that caught my eye!
Neutral Milk Hotel (http://www.walkingwallofwords.com/)
The level of detail that goes into the graphics for this website is really impressive, the textures used for the background, banners and other images just work perfectly alongside the colours, fonts and overall feel of the website.
Week 12+ - Experimentation
Something that I’ve been working on recently is creating my own typeface. It has been something that I’ve always wanted to try and thought it was the right time to try and create one as it could be used in a Major Project.
I started off by just doodling on a bit of paper with a pencil and ruler. Below shows my progress with the letter ‘M’:
As you can see, grid systems are playing a huge role in the font. After drawing some more laters onto paper, I then took them into Illustrator to start turning them into vector form.
See below:
The letters above were created just using the pen tool. I changed the thickness of the stroke to the bold letters. It’s still early days in regards to this typeface but I’m pretty pleased with how it’s going.
Week 12+ - Type Research
Recently I have been looking online for possible fonts to use for my project. The two caught my eyes and I feel they could work very well.
Week 12+ - Prototyping
Recently I’ve just been experimenting with some jquery as I feel my project will require some form of interactivity and jquery could be the best way to go.
Example 1: (Click here for HTML version)
Also, the circle diagram only reacts when the cursor is over the right side of it.
Example 2: (Click here for HTML version)
Week 12 - Major Project Update
I stumbled upon this very cool jquery feature, it’s called ‘Lateral On-Scroll Sliding’ (can be found here. It would be perfect for a site like mine as I intend to tell a story of each players World Cup experience.
