In this feature I try to shed some light on the development process and/or elements of a selected design. By deconstructing the design into layout, typeface, colours & use of images we will hopefully develop a better understand of how the final result was achieved. I feel that this degree of awareness is crucial to a graphic designers development; being able to not only identify the design elements but the rationale behind them.
In this edition of Design Deconstructed (DD) I am going to be highlighting and discussing some of the design issues of WP Remix (http://www.wpremix.com/). Then Hopefully offer some adjustments I would make.
Rbhavesh of WP Remix contacted me a few days ago about deconstructing his design. So here it goes.
WP Remix is a theme for Wordpress which allows the client to use the wordpress dashboard as a website as well as a blog. You’ll see what I mean if you view the demo. The design looks functional and the coding seems robust. Ok onto the design of WPRemix.com.
When you load http://wpremix.com/ you see red, black and white. It’s a solid colour palette that works nicely. The main navigation is at the top and the the content is centered; there are plenty of images and works nicely on a range of resolutions. The first thing I noticed is that the red area is a bit large, it’s quite thick perhaps a rearrangement of images and text could adjust this.
