Posts Tagged ‘header design’

New web design: Natalitique

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

I am happy to introduce to you a new pretty destination on the World-wide-web: www.natalitique.com

Natalitique is the home of web developer Natalia Pavlova whom I have had the pleasure of working with on a number of projects. She is the master of details and it seems no matter how impossible a visual you come up with, she can manage to build it.

So I was quite excited when she asked me to help out with the visuals for her new website.

She wanted something clean and uncluttered to reflect what it is she does, namely writing clean, short and clever xhtml and css that works across browsers. No less!

So we made a very white  and clean design with a few nice details such as little fancy bullets to spice it up.

detail from Natalitique

To contrast all the white and straight lines we chose to use a coloured background and an illustrated header with a green natural touch- this because of  Natalia’s personal interests in ecology and her love of nature.

Check out the site and meet Natalia here

Character design for DiveSpain

Friday, November 13th, 2009

A while ago Jouni from DiveSpain came to me and asked if I could create an illustrated header or character for the DiveSpain website.

DiveSpain.net is a popular web community with interesting diving related content and an active member base. The illustration was to be an integrated element in the header to give the site a bit more personality.

Jouni sent me a very good brief for doing this job, with ideas he had, and mentions of what other diving sites are doing.

Based on Jounis brief I came up with some different options:

Initial sketches for the divespain header

Initial sketches for the divespain header

Jouni decided to go for the cartoony diver, as this was the more personal solution and it illustrates something called the perfect position in diving language. This cartoony diver was also easy to use around the web, as an avatar for Divespain.

As I don’t have a lot of experience with diving I had to get some more pointers from Jouni, so the position, and airpipes etc. looked correct even if simplified.

And here is the Final version:

The final character design

The final character design

The avatar version of the character

The avatar version of the character

Visit Divespain here

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