Right now, I’m in the process of designing the Pendulum Journal website. If you click that link, you’ll get a dummy site that includes our mission and submission information, but not much in the way of a layout. One thing we have decided as a group is to keep the site warm looking with lots of brown tones, a possible red highlight, and a chronology theme (pendulums, clocks, gears etc.). I think it has the possibility of looking very steampunk.
A basic aspect of design we decided on was the use of circles. Makes sense, clocks and pendulums are usually circular. We were inspired in part by the navigation on Coilhouse. So today I set to work making rollover buttons using Photoshop and Fireworks.
In Photoshop, I modified some photos of clocks taken by the fantastic Leo Reynolds. I made two versions. One in color:
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