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Category: Design Snippets
A shape to inspire a St Louis web designer
Is it possible to have a favorite shape? … as a graphic and web designer I certainly think so!
I have long been drawn ( no pun intended!) to spirals ..from celtic knot work, to the beautiful wrought ironwork seen in such abundance in Brussels where I lived for about a year.
Spirals are everywhere in nature too
…on the beach
..in my garden
Inspiring a st louis web designer!
Who owns your site code?
The choice of companies to create and develop your company web site is huge. There are many questions to ask to ensure the company you select is the one who is going to deliver the results.
One question that may slip through the cracks is who owns the final code of the site?
Here at Indigo Image ownership of all the work we create is always given to the client on completion of the project. This includes not only comprehensive copyright but also ownership to code of the entire site.
A web design and coding challenge.
As a web designer an important element of my job is to keep up to date with web technology.
A technology that has been floating around for a few years is the coding of web site without using tables to control the layout but cascading style sheets. This is certainly gaining popularity and has many advantages over the table approach.
I recently came across a challenge at zengarden.com;download the HTML and CSS file and create a unique web site..but by editing only the CSS file. It looked like a great way educate myself on the finer points of cascading style sheet issues and indeed was.
They have just published the design, Purple Haze, I submitted http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/alldesigns/bydate/
Meaning and associations of color
As a web and graphic designer my world is full of color. Today I thought I would share the positive and negative “meanings” of color.
Red:
Positive: Passion, love, blood, energy, Enthusiasm, Excitement, heat, power
Negative: Aggression, Anger, battle, revolution, cruelty, immortality
Orange:
Positive: Creativity, Invigoration, Uniqueness, Energy,Health
Negative: Crassness, Flashiness
yellow:
Positive: Passion, Love, Intellect, wisdom,joy, Idealism
Negative: Jealously, Cowardice
Green:
Positive: Fertility,Money, Success, Nature, harmony, Honesty, Youth
Negative: Greed, Envy, Poison, Corrosion, Inexperienced
Blue:
Positive:Knowledge, Coolness, Peace, Loyalty, Justice, Intelligence
Negative: Depression, coldness, Detachment, Apathy
Purple:
Positive:Luxury, Wisdom, Rank, Wealth, Imagination, Sopestication, Inspiration, Mysticism
Negative: Exaggeration, Excess, Madness
Black:
Positive:Power, sophestication, weight, formality, dignity, mystery
Negative: Fear, death, evil, remorse
St Louis graphic design: Pop Quizz
As a graphic designer the creations I produce are used to convey a message, evoke a response or emotion…. from web sites which give a company credibility to brochures that make their reader pick up the phone and call.
Graphic design is a powerful tool.
But here is a pop quiz ..what am I trying to say with the following illustration?
If you think you know the answer email me here
The Color Indigo
Blue, purple ?..Indigo is one of those colors often open to interpretation. It was named and defined by Issac Newton when he divided up the optical spectrum:- red, orange, yellow, green, blue, Indigo, Violet.
As a graphic/web designer it is my job to interpret the objectives of my clients and create an “image” which delivers results ..hence Indigo Image