Web design studio Review- 2D-arts.com

2-D Arts Studio offers clients web applications and graphic services, and as the name implies, the whole website reveals artistic and creative feelings.

Review of the design

In the header, it shows images which combines traditional arts symbols(pencil and pen) with more modern ones associated with digital technology. The background in shades of gray combine with a bold, lime green square for a similar impression of balance and symmetry.

Also, the website has a color palette that pops and a simple landing page that directs users wherever they need to go. There is a carefully constructed sense of balance between traditional arts and digital technology, which can be a difficult balance to create.

Through the design of the website, it tells the viewer the messages that this company is as contemporary as it can be.

Review of the usability

One of the benefits of this website is that it easy to use.

On one hand, every part of it can be easily found and accessed from the front page.

On the other hand, the website pages are full of details but load quickly. It is easy to access the portfolio and to perform basic tasks such as getting contact information and making a quote.

Having a well organized and easy to use website is definitely a plus for a company that claims to design them.

Online Store Website Analysis - AMAZON.com

Amazon’s success is the direct result of a strong user shopping experience.

The design of Amazon.com is simple and distinct. The layout is stright-forward, the color scheme is clean and fresh. The whole design reveals a feeling of secure and reliable.

When the user scan the Amazon home page, a few clean, distinct elements immediately catch the user’s eye: the navigation section in the upper-left, and the search/shopping cart controls near the top.

With these elements highlighted, Amazon achieved:

1,The user is able to quickly find and purchase products

2,The seller is able to quickly process online purchases and make a profit

Also, Amazon keep a user logged in, and that user's shopping habits are tracked and stored server-side. It dynamically customizes the user's experience based on their prior searches, page views, wish-list additions and purchases. This is a really good enhancement too.

Online Newspaper Review - ATPWorldTour.com

ATP Tennis website is a website where clearly presents all the latest tennis news and player information you could want.

The main color of the website is light blue, which gives the viewer a sense of peace and freedom. The layout is simple and each section clearly present to the viewer. Viewers can easily access to the section they want.

The homepage gives the viewer the latest up to date news, results and the main rankings. There is also a full news and results section, player profiles and full rankings information for the men's singles & doubles.

Live Scores is the highlight of the website, giving the viewer scores as they happen, organised by location. This live web feed is a great way to keep up to speed, especially for those people who are in the office and not happened to have a television. Minute by minute action can be followed via the updates on the live system.

The player of the week is another nice section with plenty of great clips of the top players justifying their selections in the archives. Finally if the viewer really want to get interactive there is the Fantasy Tennis game, which is free to play. ATPWorldTour.com does a good job of covering all the bases, easy to dip into for some latest scores or real time action, and with deeper content for the real tennis enthusiast.

ATPWorldTour.com also links out to a Pro Shop and Player's Gear shop so the viewer can buy all the latest gear to help improve your own game.

Musician Website Review - Chrisamott.com

This is one of my favorite websites. If you are going to make a living as a musician, designer, or any type of artist, you must be a master of marketing and branding. The design of this website creates a professional and interesting brand for the musician( Christopher Amott)indeed.

Christopher Amott’s website uses CSS to begin to build a personal brand that will benefit each of his many pursuits. A simple however modern black and white photograph takes up most attentions of the landing page, with flecks of light to create a somewhat dreamlike and abstract feeling. The photograph of Chris Amott, as a signature below verifies. From here, people who are interested in the musician can visit the homepage of his band, several different social networking websites, and vendors selling his music.

The Twitter and Myspace pages use the same background as well as other visual elements, helping to create a well-rounded sense of branding. Even through this is not possible with iTunes and Facebook, but effort is still made to be consistent with the musician’s brand in the wording and the pictures displayed. This continuity is an essential part of building the Christopher Amott brand.

The website is simple and appropriate to the musician. It offers links to all of the right places. However, it does very little to introduce us to the musical brand being represented. A page of biography or discography will give us more information about the musician.

Generally, the most successful part of this website is creativity. I especially enjoy the play of the light against the black and white photograph - it suggests an older photograph of a musician from the past. Also, placing everything on the landing page certainly makes it easy to locate!

Review of film promotion website - Kungfupanda.com

This website is definitely a engaging promotion website for Kung Fu Panda and Kung Fu Panda 2 movie lovers.

When the website finish loading, the main character of the movie - "Po" shows up immediately. Entering the site, all the characters(3D) from the movie are the only focus attention of the whole page. By clicking on each one, the viewer can view all the detail informations.

The style of the website is just like what it looks like in the movie - same color scheme, both in 3D style and using the same soundtrack. Viewers can learn the style of the movie through the design of the website and get excited about the movie.

This website provide viewers all the informations of the movie, including movie showtimes, trailer, information of the characters, cast, filmmakers and even some games for the viewer to play. It also links to those websites where the viewer can buy their tickets from. These informations are useful enough for the viewer to get interested and walks into cinema.

Final look of "Crossing" exhibition

I create a 3D modle to see how exactly it works.

Flowing is the look of my exhibition:) (plz click the image to view full size)

"Crossing" - Moving image design

To enable the glass to have reflections, both of my moving images have black tone.

The darkness allows a reflection to be seen more clearly.

There will be 2 moving images play on each wall, one is the video I took at night and the other is the animation of skeleton.

The dark videos do not allow the viewer to know where exactly the footage was taken. This enabled the viewer to think more freely about the space and interpret it in their own way.

The skeleton is like the reflection of us.

As we are walking through the exhibition space, we see the animation of the skeleton and we can also see the reflection of us on the glass --- this makes us fell that we are walking with the skeleton, an it seems to be one of the viewers.

This also refers to the dark videos. If the viewer ltry to position themselves to get some images from the glass, they will easily notice that this animation can actually combine with the dark videos to become a complete story.

If the viewer look at glass, the moving image of one wall will be reflected on the glass; and the reflection combine with the moving image which they see on the other wall, they will get a new moving image like tihs: