Mockup for an interview.

[mindless_moder]

I have an interview at my university for a webdesign position tomorrow and i thought i'd bring along a small mockup of a banner for the site. Heres what i came up with.

I know its not much but i think the colours really flow well and its definitely an improvement over the current banner.

I'd appreciate any suggestions of how to place the text "Centre for Dance Performance" in there. Typography definitely isn't my thing.

 

[CptStern]

carefull how you re-design banners featuring logos. universities/companies tend to be very strict when it comes to

I did a banner redesign for Queen's university and they had a 16 page pdf on rules around their logo usage. things like permissible colour combos, fonts, background colours. also as was the case with Queen's; they often subcontract that sort of work out to a designer. are you applying for the position of a designer or a coder? if it's the latter, you should probably mock up some code/website functionality

 

[No Limit]

It looks very nice, love the colors. But I also get the impression that most of that was taken from istockphoto. My apologies if I'm wrong.

 

[CptStern]

some guy with auto-trace/adobe streamline makes a killing on istockphoto. the same guy is responsible for all the silouettes at istock

 

[Barnz]

working for university = sucks (they pay good tho)

 

[mindless_moder]

It looks very nice, love the colors. But I also get the impression that most of that was taken from istockphoto. My apologies if I'm wrong.

All the dancers and the university logo were taken from stock photo, the rest was created by me. I only had about 3 hours to make something up for the interview.

The position is a Web design position so i will be responsible for both designing and programming but its mostly markup.

 

[Kadayi]

some guy with auto-trace/adobe streamline makes a killing on istockphoto. the same guy is responsible for all the silouettes at istock

He spotted a market and jumped in there, good for him.

 

[Krynn72]

Seems like the colors would be too distracting for a banner. Desaturated colors push things into the background more, and while you want the banner to look clean and memorable, you dont really want it to be an attention whore on your website so desaturated colors work better usually.