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Creating Merchandises

18:55 | Labels: designing, process, website

For merchandises, I created my own logo/design that's recognisable throughout all her merchandise. I incorporated the idea of roses in the design from the graffiti wall we filmed at in Kingston. I personally created the roses on Illustrator using the same colours from the graffiti.

I then used the design and placed them on images of white shoes, t-shirts, phone cases and others that I found on the internet with Photoshop.

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Website Backgrounds

18:03 | Labels: designing, process, website

Here are some of the backgrounds I've edited. For some of the pages I had to play around with the image to get it to fit well with the things I have placed on the page.

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Website Backgrounds Editing

18:00 | Labels: designing, editing, process, website

To make the website even more like an artist's website I needed to personalise the background to suit the theme and genre with the artist face. I used Photoshop to edit my photos and I found that all my photos are too bright to have the words on the website to show up so I had to make it seem washed out by painting a very light/transparent layer of white over the photos.

Here is an example of the process on how I edited my backgrounds.

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Beginning My Website

17:00 | Labels: designing, website

I have started on my website for our artist. After looking at some templates on wix, I have decided to stick with having a series of photos on the front page rather than having one main image of the artist so it makes it more interesting - especially when each image links to a page.

I did most of my photos and backgrounds on Photoshop so they look professional and I made sure everything fits on the page.

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Website Initial Sketches/Ideas

09:28 | Labels: designing, planning, process, sketches, website

After researching about websites I have came up with a rough idea of how I want my website to look like. Here are some rough sketches of how some of the pages will look like.

For the home page, I would like the artist's name 'Matilda Childs' to be at the top in a bold san serif font so it stands out. This will also be like a 'title' that shows up on every single page acting as a logo for the artist. Instead of using one image of the artist I wanted to use a series of images and for each one of those images I would like it to link to a page.

These are more sketches of what the other pages will roughly look like - e.g. how things are laid out and what kind of features will be on each pages like the music page includes a Youtube video/music player or the store page having a cart and options for each merchandises displayed.

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Website Ideas

21:31 | Labels: designing, ideas, websites

Here are some ideas that I could incorporate into my website design...

I like the use of combination of images on the front page and I could use this by switching these images into my artist's photos.

This inspired me to create my background with balloons and have the text be on a faded box on top so the text is visible.

I like the use of graphics for this website and I think this could fit well with my website because I could use illustration drawing to represent the graphics that we used in our music video.

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Website Research - Meghan Trainor

20:48 | Labels: analysis, research, website

Meghan Trainor's website is quite similar to Jessie J's website in terms of content and navigation. She has a banner at the top with her name, her social media sites and the different pages' tab. The tabs include music, events, videos, news, social, bio, photos and store. It work on the same concept of having an website that can link the audience and artist together with unique photos, videos that are not available elsewhere along with the focus of boosting her sales as high as possible with the use of cross-media marketing.

The colour scheme of her website is bright with pastel colours which also match with her music videos style. The choice of colour is good because pop songs are meant to be very upbeat and colourful to allow the feeling of happiness to show. It also suits her star image of a cheerful, fun artist. I think this is a good inspirational website for my song which is also working with a similar theme.

One of the interesting things about her website is that as you scroll, the images changes to a different one just like Katy Perry's website making it very fascinating visually.