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Inspiration👏
Daft Punk: Get Lucky is Dangerous
Daft Punk’s new single is dangerously catchy.
Huffington Post Books posted a shout out for one of my larger web projects LemonySnicketLibrary.com/QuestionMark.html.
They described the content I created/curated with words like “random”, “oddness” and “strangeness”… But, like, in a good way… I assume. They used lots of exclamation points. And no word that precedes an exclamation point can be bad.
Read the not-so-much-a-review-more-of-a-tweet-sized-mention here. Or save yourself a click and read it here:
My latest mission: Create a tumblr to promote the launch of Gail Carriger’s new steampunk book series for Young Adults: Finishing School.
Content will consist of the lessons, tips and tricks as learned by the victorian ladies-in-training in the book, who attend a finishing school that teaches them not just the finer arts, but fun stuff like deceit and espionage and assassination. The Victorian setting means design of content will be fun! It’s marketing, yes, but digital storytelling in a way, and I live for this stuff.
The first book, Etiquette & Espionage hits stores on Tuesday, but I soft launched last week with a little teaser campaign consisting mostly of “coming soon posters” indicating this steampunky adventure comes loaded with vampires and werewolves and airships and mechanical robots. The later few were not nearly as well received as the “School Supplies” poster I came up with (nor were as clever), but the design process for all has been really fun. I can’t wait to get to the actual lessons!
TASK: (direct quote) “Build a basic, single-page site for Chris Colfer’s debut novel. Just something we can link ads to”.
DESIGN:
I don’t like to do “basic”, especially when I’m designing something myself, and I certainly don’t like to build things “just to link to”. What’s the point of doing all that work if no one sticks around? But I’m not paid to give lessons on the purpose of websites, so the whole task aside, I knew the author’s notoriety would bring it a lot of teenage traffic, and if high school taught me anything, it’s that I care A LOT about what teenagers think.
The whole parallax scrolling trend in web design was juuust starting to peek, and since I always like to show up late to a trend, I took a stab at it.
(Falling kids + moving clouds) x scrolling effect = STICKINESS
Proof via Twitter:
Then I slapped on an animated intro using Adobe Edge Animate (known as just Edge Preview before it was cool) and I aimed for awesomeness…
Not entirely sure I reached it, but someone with the word “pervert” in their username thought so….
Hear that webby awards?!
RESULT: As with most parallax sites, it’s a bit of a slow load, but I think all of his fans were happy. Who am I kidding though? Chris Colfer’s fans adore him so much they could have linked to his wikipedia page and they’d gush…
But CLEARLY it didn’t stop me from trolling through twitter to seek approval from teenagers.
“So much win.” Putting that one on the cover of my portfolio.
Check out the site here.
