Inspirations + Research

I collected some basic website as a helping tool (inspiration) to get us started on our own composition. I think we should try and avoid using lots of big strips as it could start appearing like banners, destroying hierarchy as a result. (Need to create a nice visual flow for easy navigation). We will also need to consider the demographics when constructing our website, making sure it appeals to everyone. I think it would be good if we played around with shapes, not restricting ourselves to rectangles. Fade in, fade out? Maybe incorporating some shapes from the Lux festival?

Plugins:

-Count down timer to give a "anticipating" feel.
-Interactive map for direction and seeing what's around.

Website vs Mobile App

Colour Exploration 

Restricting our colour pallets so the website doesn't appear too chaotic. (3-4 would be ideal I think).

Decided to use the eyedropper tool to pick out prominent colours from photos. I tried to incorporate darker and lighter colours to form a contrast. I still need to keep in mind that we have to pick colours that allow text to be readable. It was said that white text on black background is harder to read than if reversed. So I decided to stray from using too much black as a base colour. Instead I went to choose something that is still relatively dark and still gives the essence of a night festival e.g. navy blue and dark purple. 

-Rebecca