We’re still looking at color schemes this week, but instead of a single hue it’s several, and actually the foundations at that.
Designs of the Week
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Cool spiral and dots pattern on the background that re-renders when you load or resize the page—it’s just a side-effect of using canvas, but the way it animates is a welcome touch. The large top left logo switches to a small one and move to the right when the viewport gets smaller, along with the navigation becoming affixed to the top. I like the play between the bright colors and the elegant serifs, swashes, and blacks.
It’s nice how the faces get less detailed and more muted as you go farther from the center of the page. Pretty much everything else is a flat interface, and stays in neutral shades with bright accents for headings and icons.
I’m enjoying the concept of seeing multiple pages of a site stacked on top of the other, sliding the previous content away when you click on the next one. It gives you a feeling that you’re browsing horizontally and vertically, like flipping through real paper, but there’s really no sideways scrolling involved.
A sprinkling of parallax, plus irregular four-sided shapes as both decor, charts, and photo frames. The shape of the buttons is also quite interesting. Clicking on Contact when you’re viewing a project doesn’t seem to work though—you have to go back to the home to let it scroll down to that area.
I think I get where the red, green, and blue choices come from: when you combine it with a horizontal line pattern you know it has to mean the scan lines and projections from film and television screens. This one operates completely on the horizontal plane. Like the other RGB sites here the color usage comes off a bit strong but the look definitely stands out and the concept is enjoyable.
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“Love thy user as thyself: treat people well. Do things that you would like to have done to you.”
