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Redesigning Styleonyoursubstance.com – Part 5: Another Photoshop Layout

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

site mockup 2

Another layout.  Possibly too busy, but that style navigation is really memorable.  I like the speech bubbles for the frontpage options.  Everything seems nicely readable, too.

Redesigning Styleonyoursubstance.com – Part 4: First Photoshop Layout

Friday, June 19th, 2009

site mockup 1

I’ll be making a series of these as I get closer to the actual future site.  The next one I may go into a little more detail, this is really more about finding the right colours and shapes.

Redesigning Styleonyoursubstance.com – Part 4: Finding A More Refined Logo

Monday, June 15th, 2009

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Two candidates for a logo;  I like the green, but the second option’s fonts are way too much.  I think the first is the better option, so far.  Right now that green is far too saturated for how I want the finished product to look.

Redesigning Styleonyoursubstance.com – Part 3: More Rough Logo Sketches

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

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I think I’ve gone too far past what I actually want in a logo; I don’t really like any of these at all. My favorite is still the coloured logo in this post. That’s the most likely candidate at this point.

Redesigning Styleonyoursubstance.com – Part 2: Less-Rough Logo Sketches

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Here’s two more pages of logo sketches. They’re still very unfinished :

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I’ll mention now that I know my handwriting is absolutely awful.

Having the letters in Substance seperated is really very cool, It’s nice to be able to experiment with layout like this. I’ve been poring over hundreds of millions of images, looking for some inspiration in the logo. I’m enjoying how these are looking, but they’re still unpolished and the finished logo will probably be very different to these. I’ll most likely do a page or two more like this before starting to refine it at all. Colours are beginning to emerge, too.

Redesigning Styleonyoursubstance.com – Part 1: Rough Logo Sketches

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

I’ve been tempted, for a while now, to add a logo to my business.  It seems like a glaring omission now.   The problems is coming up with something that doesn’t look awful next to the current ID I have.

So, I’m likely to replace everything.  This is about the sixth total design refresh this site has been through.  One day I’ll dig them all up and show the world.

I’m still really happy with how the page looks, but It still doesn’t scream “finished” – at least not to me.

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