State Plates by Jonathan Lawrence

 I came across this awsome site when I was browsing the HOW magazine website. I really enjoyed this simple, clean and modern site. Sadly this site is not responsive but it has pros and cons about the design choice. Some pros I notice was it was easy to navagate and unsderstand now a days you click on the image it leads to the inside page and the text is written underneath the bottm discribing what it is about. But some cons I didnt like as I learned in Web class, was the back button.  Since the website is well designed I felt the back button to lead back to the homepage was poorly designed and coded. To me it really felt like it was a last mintue choose. Another thing I notice as you scroll down on the landing page you lose the heading which cuase it to overlap on the images. If  they add a white horazinotal box across they wouldnt run into this problem but overall I enjoyed this very much it was nice to see different plate designs they choose for each state.

Source State Plate

-- How Magazine

2015 Hyundai Sonata

 Source Communication Arts

I was searching on the web picks communication arts webpage and I came upon this site. So usually I choose site I am really interested in but this one really bugged the crap out of me. Pro about this site very modern features, current style now a days. I like how the image pans almost like the movement in a car which that is what they are trying to sell, color scheme fits right in with theme they are looking for cool, soothing, smooth like how they are mentioning about the Sonata car, but I didn't like about this site is the DAMN sound affects very annoying and I kind of got lost how to return to the home page or landing page. Also as you navigate to their site you could also play a game with the car but no directions how to and once again the annoying map on the side as a really loud sound.

Link to Hyundai Sonata site

Awards: ADC • Global Awards & Club

Now this is highend quaily I came across reading Lurzer's Archive. ADC is a website to place your work for 2015 season. It is ADC 94th Annual Awards, the oldest continuous international advertising and design award show in the world for an international portfolio competition for creative professionals 30 years of age and under. This by far is award winning it self.  I like the modern and elegance this site portrays. It really shows how important/ seriously they take in this 2015 competition. By looking at this without reading the content it give a vibe of high quality sense and as you read this you know that only professional work is entered. The color choice fits very well with this theme and the navbar on the top functions well as you scroll down. When you first land on the landings page the navbar is at  regular size and as you scroll down it gets smaller just to show the content its importance and gives it that nice effect feature.

Source Awards: ADC • Global Awards & Club

--Lurzers Archive

CMYK-design

As I was trying to find nice responsive webdesign. I researched the CMYK magazine site and I came across this site. The reason why choice this is because of its modern style, it stands out because of its cyan color which hurts your eyes but a nice layout. This site reminds of Josiah's style recently.

Source CMYK-design

TDC Type Competition

WOW! was my reaction when I came across this site. This website is for TDC 61st annual type directors club call for entries. This is one of my favorite site which I bookmarked. I really enjoyed this, not only its amazing to look at but it is fully responsive and fun to navigate. As you click on the site it starts with a after effects animation to some may be distracting and may overwhelm the audience but in my opinion it wasn't. Your eye directly leads to the left to read the important content the automatically know to scroll down to view the entry form and as you keep scrolling down the is an awesome effect to transition to the next page which I thought was pretty neat and rare many people do on sites today. The only thing I didn't enjoy with the color choose (just my personal taste) and how heavy the text for the content. But overall they won in my taste.  I recommend the class taking a look at this website.

Source TDC Type Competition

--HOW Magazine

Infographic: Shutterstock's Global Design Trends 2014

I choose this site because of its responsiveness but because of it design layout. It is a site that shows the top Info-graphics that has won awards. The content is straight to the point and is nice to view the different types of info graphics many designers develop today. This website also shows how to embed a info graphic in a blog. It actually gives you a HTML code to insert in your HTML page. i thought this was helpful for anyone who looking for this code.

Source Infographic: Shutterstock's Global Design Trends 2014 

--Computer Arts

Cristal Festival, Summit for Media & Adveritsment | Cristal Festival

As was reading the Lurzer's Archive I am came across the top webdesign they have chosen. In my opinion thought this was fun to interact with as you are browsing the website. The only reasons this attracted my eye is because of its illustrations the whole site carries. To me it is a bit to busy and has to much going on and the back to top navigation is poorly designed. You have to scroll all the to the bottom to get the back to top page. It should have a couple through out the page. Overall I think this page is nicely illustrated but distracting. Its creative but loses its focus by looking at this.

Source Cristal Festival

--Lurzer's Archive