Bournemouth Web Development

With things the way they are in the world, it leaves you feeling very uncreative sometimes. One of my aims this year is to get better at general design using things like Photoshop and Illustrator. It’s a skill I’ve not paid enough attention to and due to my slight issue with colour blindness, like every challenge in life, I wanted to punch it in the face (metophorically of course).

I’m starting to take on some tutorials in my own time and have done recently. I knew I wanted to create something to promote HTML to the masses, hopefully making it a little educational for those who want to look closely.

Typography struck me as an area I wanted to explore as it is a powerful medium on the web. I like things to have an informative element to them as well as look great.

Heres what I came up with:

HTML Poster

It uses a variety of textures, typography, brushes and some painstaking typing/sizing, placement, and filtering. I hold my hands up and say that I was inspired by one particular tutorial. I’ll let you trawl google to find it. There is an element of that in every design project if you ask me and I’m really pleased with the result. I might even hang it above my desk!

So what did I do?

Well, the process started off with me wanting to do it. I then looked through lots of tutorials, googling things like ‘Typography posters’, ‘Photoshop tutorials’ & ‘Poster tutorials’ plus a combination of those terms. I’m always getting waylaid during these little wimsical searches but I don’t think you can be creative without doing things like this. I’m often inspired to do something completely different to what I set out to do. This is where some of the best ideas come from and no one should feel ashamed of doing things like this, even if you don’t produce something at the end.

Anyway, I settled on one tutorial and absorbed every detail of it. I didn’t really learn any Photoshop techniques I didn’t already know but going through the example, using the sample backgrounds, playing around with colour settings, building up the text within the HTML background text and adjusting things my way was really good fun, as was adapting the end result into something I was proud of.