egg zisting sites.

Scoured the world wibe web for the websites and the digital presence of other studios and art spaces, as well as a few music festivals, and other outlets of expression or showcases.

Most studio's stay faithful to white space, similar to tourism websites (cheers design for the invisible second weddersday for a top up on colour theory) allowing the content and artwork to do the talking. Whites simple, pure and universal. Wasp have gone mad and gone for a slightly warmer toned site, but theirs is more of a community studios so thats the sorta buzz they need to promote.

Feature colours and blog like formats are trends and themes running through pretty much every site I've stumbled across.

This is pretty much what I was hoping to go for anyway, but now I've spotted a multitude of different variations I wanna avoid that intensely. Already got a nice concept cooked up, I'ma explore more tomorrow the visual side of stuff (todays a catch up on contextual market scouring and informed ideas and decision making).

Neither of the two sites above are responsive or mobilised  Switch said they werent at all bothered about a responsive site, as long as you could view in a desktop format on a smart phone, which again seems to be another trend across the industry. I've found alot of studios seem to be big on twitter and facebook, but not so much with the websites, they're all pretty basic, and empty, which I suppose is because they house a plethora of different art styles and artists. With Switch having its stable residents, I'm hoping I can use what I already know about the guys, and other information from their sites, social media accounts and whatnot, to do a website that represents their work in a collection and illustrates a joint personality with individual identities without being bland as fuck. Although I understand and appreciate why studios websites are as they ar,e I feel I'm pretty lucky in knowing who the regualrs are and doing work to reflect that, rather than having to house strangers and design a shell, i can create a bespoke cottage for em.

IM SO TIRED. i hope this reads like I want it to.

I mentioned the lack of a digital presence, or an undeveloped one, kitch-en gallery houses the works of some incredible artists, but their site is weirdly old looking, the sort of thing you'd expect from a middle aged pottery fanatic. It's such a strange contrast from the site to the work of Phlegm (displayed in the screen shot) and just makes the place look drab and uninteresting when theres all kinds of weirdly wonderful works in thur.

So Rarekind and Racket studios have opted for the 100% background, it looks nice, but what I found was it lives so far away from what you'd expect from a studio website it was hard to identify. The second more so than the first; there was no works or paintings or art about the site, just pictures of the actual space. off putting.

Rarekind is obviously something to do with art, and the other pages are really nice. alot of white space which contrasts with the landing page something treaty. been established for about 11 years and i think knowledge of the industry and the folks theyve worked with comes through really nice here, its an interesting twist on a classic 'type' of site.

I want to do something that's a happy medium, i want it to be identifiable as a studio site, staying true Switch's use of white space and contrasting black content to allow their work to speak, but i want to introduce colour, that changes and grows and progresses through the pages and navigation of the site. not one overly trendy shade of green, but a few bright colours, that still allows their work to shine through, but brings a real nice quirk to the site.

Ima give the game away, concept ima thinkin of is infection. haha and germs. next post will opefully clarify. wanna use contrasting grimey colours to bring it to life.