Proposed Platzner & Co. Website
This is the first project I have done that takes design cues from a specific style of design; Art Deco. Platzner and Co. was a small marketing consultancy that requested a website design that incorporated Art Deco style. The client declared that the resulting design looked too "techy" and chose to go in a different direction after paying for services rendered.
The Design
This desktop only design featured three different layouts including the homepage, a content page with a left sidebar, and a blog post page with a right sidebar. The project also required branding design in the form of the logo, and some custom visual elements for horizontal and vertical rules, and list bullets.
Other Art Deco elements included patterns and elements typical of the style like the tiled background that resembles wallpaper. The masthead features a sun-burst pattern repeated horizontally. A stylized typeface was used for top-level headers. Even the shape of the logo is consitent with the style.
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The Homepage
The complete view of the homepage
Blog Index Page
Example of the blog index page layout
Art Deco Wallpaper
Detail of the tiled wallpaper used as the background for the site
Art Deco Widgets
Detail of the custom elements for bullets, and the vertical and horizontal rules.
Homepage Detail
Detail of the homepage including the masthead and logo
Content Page Detail
Example of the content page layout