Site layouts

2.1/13

After evaluating some of the other human rights sites out there, such as http://www.amnesty.org.au/ and film festival sites such as http://www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au/, I wrote down the things that I thought would make a relevant site layout for this website. These I concluded were:

• colour crossovers, like when two transparent colours cross over.,
• block elements resting on each other, creating a visual dependency,
• border elements around all the main content frames, to unify the entire design.

The results of that kind of thinking were these:
Each of the points above have been respectively used in each layout. The result was awful: clinical, cold, and official. Which is nice when you want cold and clinical, but for something fun and exciting like a film fest, clinical is not the way to go.

As a complete turnaround from the terrible cold and dark of these layouts, I tried something new:

It's still a working progress but I'm liking it far more than the last three layouts, I want to artsy it up a bit (not too much of course, we're still trying to appeal to a wide audience!). A good sandy coloured texture would look good in the background methinks, will have to experiment with texturing.