In the holidays we were asked to make a cover page and double spread page in the style of Neville Brody. His work has a good mixture of a bit of photography and strong bold fonts in different colours. For the cover I found a nice stock image of a woman throwing flowers in the air and I decided to have her throwing words up in the air too. I decided to use this rounded font I have for a soft kind of look and I inverted the colours and changed the hue to pink for the word love. I then realised that the photo was too detailed and took away from the text so I filtered it and lowered the saturation.
For the double spread I tried to do something more in the traditional Brody style. I used a bold font and a bit of colour as well as rotated/flipped and different sized letters.
I didn't really like doing this but I really like my double page spread. If I had to do this again I would try and keep the design simple unlike my cover which was over crowded.
I'm on the fence about this, while more customization is good, I have a feeling this is a "in-progress" update, it just feels incomplete and half-way there.
ReplyDeleteWe use badge layout for apps on design approvals (visual projects), so the image being displayed is important. Old layout "feels like" it had larger images,
maybe because the images were cropped more loosely so it's easier to tell which project it was at quick glance. Now the image is cropped closer, making it
harder to scan thru at quick glance. I find myself needing to click into the project more often than usual. Which makes the whole user experience less
efficient.
I have a couple suggestions that might make it work better:
1. Increase the height of the window the cover image is being displayed.
2. Let us to choose which image to be displayed as "cover" (like how Pinterest handles cover images of each board, was hoping for this for a long time)
3. Let us adjust which part of the image to show and how tight or loose the crop is (with a fixed window, let us move the image around and maybe enlarge or
shrink it to control what shows thru the window. Pinterest does a limited form of this, which is very useful in making the cover image relevant)
4. Allow Cover Image to be ordered in different hierarchy (currently every element can be ordered differently except the Cover Image, it seems to be stuck
in the 2nd spot, would like the option to set it on another spot in the layout. This one seems like an easy fix, since you guys allow that for every other
element already)