Design Roughs, or "I really need a design icon"

[shadesofmauve]

Well, I'm still not disgusted by my site design idea, so as promised, here are samples of what it looks like. They're images - I'm still playing around in photoshop. Not willing to build out something I might scrap at any moment.

Please, please, critique away (this goes double for people who don't actually know what they're talking about, cause I figure you're my client-base. :P




Home page (imagine a news/blog space where the lorem text is).


Gallery page - fine art schtuff, vertical orientation.


Gallery page, fun art schtuff, horizontal orientation.



The only operating philosophy here is that the site design is totally secondary to the work on display. Nothing should compete with the portfolio pieces.

Oh, and happy Singles Awareness Day or Happy VD, as you choose!

Comments

[zair99.livejournal.com]

I like it, it's clean, it makes the art stand out very well. One question: Say the user has a large browser window, is it going to be a gray column centered on white, or will it be all gray?

[shadesofmauve]

all grey!

It's a much prettier color when you spell it the British way.

[pyoor_excuse]

I like it, simple, clean, gets the job done :)

And I still love your sheep :)