Wagon Week Website Design

I've been sent the logo and am just trying to keep things simple for the front page, the website going to progress and 'm going to be adding more links over summer, as for now, I've got from knowing nothing about Dreamweaver to be able to put up a simple website. I tried out a ton of different fonts, and eventually settled on Chapparal Pro, I printed out the text and drew over it to give it an illustrated feel which seemed to work well with logo..

Here's some of the development/colours i tried out, I got an email from the client saying it "looks RAD!"

Wagon Week Website Design

Proposal

Create website for promotion and purchase of Wagon Week tickets (small 3-day Americana festival in Leeds), containing information on festival lineup, location etc.

Rationale:
(Why are you doing it? How does it fit with your own sense of development? What is your particular interest in this area?)

Interest in having web design as part of my skills as a practitioner.

Context:
(Where does the project fit in the real world?)

Will be used as official site for festival.

Brief:
(What exactly are you/is somebody else expecting you to do?)

Design and build website, with links to ticket buying sites (Crash records, See Tickets etc.), information on festival lineup, in keeping with current logo design/branding.

Audience
(Who is the work for)

People interested in festival/potential festival attendees.

Outcomes:
(What exactly will you have, or will have happened, at the end of your project?)

A easy to use, fully functional website.

Measures of success/evaluation strategy:
(How will you know how successful you have been? You can’t evaluate effectively unless you know what your aims were.)

Usability of site, clients happiness with finished product.

Research:
(What do you need to find out to help you deliver the project?)

Hosting space prices, how to use Adobe Dreamweaver/ exporting images from Photoshop to Dreamweaver.

Why is it live?
(How does it meet the live requirement of the brief?)

Client work, will be used as official site for festival.

Resources:
(What will you need at every step of the project? Physical space/people/hardware/software/money/transport are all resources to plan for.)

Access to Dreamweaver, Photoshop and internet. Online hosting space and domain name.

Limn - Second Night

Our second night wasn't as busy as our first so it didn't go down as well with our clients at Nation of Shopkeepers, but we got a chance to speak to the people who came to our night and got some really positive feedback. See the illustrations and photos of the night.

Limn Promo Video

Me and a friend filmed a little bit of footage at the Limn launch night night, and I've put together what usable parts there are to the 40 minute shoe-filming marathon. The point was to make it look like a bit of a party as well as a night of live art. So I didn't want to drag out any illustrations, I wanted to keep it short and stabby, and hopefully look like such a good time that it will convince more people to come to our next one. The soundtrack is 'Home' by Mike Slott. I put it together on Final Cut Pro and the wobbly text was added on after effects by Jack Scales who I run the night with, who is also responsible for building our website. The videos is going to be plugged on social networking sites and forums, the Nation of Shopkeepers site, and Jack's embedded it on our site.

Washed Out Visuals

In consideration of the kind of hazy summer vibe Washed Out has with his usual visual work, Joe Torr has let us use his amazing shots from a holiday in the Canary Islands, taken with a cheap underwater camera he bought from oxfam.

We printed the scanned photos onto acetate, in A4 and some in 35mm so we put them in slide frames and see how they looked on the slide projector. The whole idea was to layer up projections and hopefully either use a photograph for the flyer and add text afterwards or use text as part of the photo...

I liked how alot of the shots came out, but I don't think they really fulfill the purpose of what the posters for, the info needs to be clear and obvious. So using any of these would be kind of pointless, for the sake of clarity, we tried photoshopping the text we drew onto acetate with one of Joe's photos...

The black text was more legible than the white - and we wanted to keep the hand-drawn font to reference our night - but the white just felt more in-keeping with the bright summer feel. For the sake of legibility we added a shape to the lighter central part of the photograph which produces a clearer outcome, and will hopefully be readable by any potential gig attendees.

Limn - Second Night

Confirmed our illustrators for the second night, came together really easy as I think there was a bit of a buzz about what we do after our first night...

Illustrators this month are DR.ME, Kate Prior, COUK, Iona Ascherson and Thomas Key

Also we got an email from one of the Nous Vous guys...

Hey Dudes,

Nice speaking to you guys the other night, I was slightly inebriated, rambling & exhausted, but just wanted to say well done on all your recent efforts + you guys really know what you’re talking about compared to most. Really great to have other people about being pro-active and putting on genuinely interesting events I’d like to go to. Sorry I missed the last event, been swamped in a big pile of shit recently that I’ve eventually managed to emerge from – probably going to sink right back into it again soon.

Take care and keep going!

Jay-bones

Jay Cover
Nous Vous

Washed Out Visuals

Unofficial video for Washed Out's single Feel It All Around, it's got that hazy memories of a joy filled summer-holiday vibe to it, like that overwhelming feeling of sun drenched happiness you remember from those holidays. And it totally clicks with his general art work, holga style shots etc. see some of them on his myspace.

FEEL IT ALL AROUND from Northern Lights on Vimeo.

Pitchfork interview here