Retail Establishment Website

Design Breif

Design Exercise 10
RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT WEBSITE
Choose a real life local example of a trading retail establishment….restaurant, clothes shop, music venue, bar, dry cleaners, clock shop, pawnbrokers..whatever…
Must be a currently active establishment. Does not have to have a current website operating.
Research then design and build a xhtml/css website to WC3 standards in 14 days!

I have chosen to do the Oriental Rug Gallery on Mansfield Road Nottingham. It was one of the first ideas i had upon receiving the brief, there website is like any other informative site and looks reasonable too.



I would like to change this and make my site more about the rugs and viewing different rugs from different cultures in a different style. I really liked the style of the Designers Republic and hope to design the website in their style of design. I would also like to add a profile to each rug with a list of stats. I'm also thinking if i can make a 3d element with papervison although my skill now with it is none i have done some research into it and if i have enough time would like to add some of this the site.

Website Image

Website Image

Colour Wheel & Colour Combinations

Heres a nice colour wheel


Colour Combinations

Brown & Red



Not the greatest colour combination however it works at christmas.


Blue & sliver



A better colour combination doesn't hurt the eye to look at and has a modern style look to it.

Writing Tasks Part A & B

Writing Task Part A

My creativity in past years has been for college and in my own time My creativity in my own time was generally making films will my mates. However if you ask what my creativity has been for while at college I would say for a qualification.

Who has it been for? College & YouTube

I have done it this way because I prefer it to studying/revision, I would rather be creating something which I would enjoy rather than say revising for a test. I think college wise its mainly been my decision but with out of hours stuff its been a collective decision of what to do.

Future of my creativity I would like to work in the film or television, to apply my talents to the multimedia industry.

Writing Task Part B

In what specific ways can research get me to these new places? Maybe by researching for an essay which is needed to pass the course and get the qualification and then on to a job in the multimedia industry and beyond all though the power of research.

I am probably most drawn to the descriptive research starting point.

I'm sure all the research points have a point therefore none of them seem irrelevant to me.

Colour and The Intangible Exhibition at Djanogly Art Gallery, Lakeside

So Sometime last week, Friday I think went on a cool trip to the Colour and The Intangible Exhibition at Djanogly Art Gallery, Lakeside. Got a few pictures 007 style (they didn't like people taking pictures) so I'm going to write about one picture which I could get a decent picture of, which is the one which looks like its of a old BT advert...

So what was the Artist thinking about when he/she Designed the spinning vortex of colour? Well one possibility is that they had seen a BT commercial from a while back which looks very similar to the Artists work, so that could be one of the things which influenced them. The Artist was trying to make the colours stand out from the background making it a more striking image, attracting the viewer into the picture. The artist has initially only used the 3 primary colours and as the specks of light cross then you see the other colours made by mixing of 2 primary colours. If you were to interpret the image I think a good way to describe it would be to say that if you have these these things were are fine by themselves but then bring them together and mix them up to get something new and maybe even better.