About this new design
I feel like a bit of a wanker talking about My New Website Design since the point for me is to be self-explanatory (I already talked about this stuff by posting the design). But I do like talking about design in regular words too, so here goes.
- The monster’s name is Pearl. That takes some pressure off.
- Mouthful of words.
- Guts out.
- Memento mori in general, and in specific.
- These colours make me want to work.
- The monster is modelled after the radiator that faces our toilet.
- There are more hiding throughout the apartment.
- I thought a lot about Dark Daughta’s confrontational visual design, and mainly I came up with this badly drawn, blurry, lo-fi business. Trying to draw makes me happy. Goofy pixellation makes me happy. Siding with purposeful low quality makes me happy.
- This is about the best drawing I can currently do, which is embarrassing for somebody who makes a living doing design. Working on it. Bad drawing does no harm to mother earth.
- The title font is AUdimat by The Smeltery. I like the f.
Hi Sarah!
I like this website design and content, in lots of ways! Yay you!
— Robin · 5 December 2007, 12:22