For my Project 3 I am doing the James Bond Museum's website. You can see the original website here.
http://www.007museum.com/
For this redesign I really wanted to focus on giving them a cleaner and more organized layout. In the original website they have a single page that scrolls endlessly and is littered with various images and text of the things that are on display at the museum. I decided to scrap the long scroll and am going to create pages for the various eras of bonds, and then placing the displays and corresponding text from the original website on those newly organized pages. In addition I will be creating a hamburger menu overlay to navigate, as well as putting the contact and location info they have up front on it's own page.
For my first version I decide to go simple and use imagery I found on a lot of James Bond posters. This is of the opening credits scene where you are looking down the barrel of a gun and a silhouette of bond. I felt this created a visually interesting background that made the subject of the website extremely apparent. I also went and found some font styles, and colors that mimics the font style and colors used in the marketing of the most recent bond films. The color scheme I ended up choosing was gold and black, I felt that this represented the material as well as give my website great contrast.
For my second version I wanted to use live action imagery from the movies, and marketing itself. For the home page I decided to use the image of Daniel Craig's Bond looking out over the highlands of Scotland. I felt this image created great depth as well as is an iconic still from the movies. To further the depth of the piece I created a frame of two diagonal black bars, this was also a reference to the marketing of the most recent bond films. This diagonal framing was something that came up often within James Bond posters and add.
Finally here are the two websites that I found inspiring for this project.
https://www.metmuseum.org/
https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en
- Cedar
