Design Musings

The Quarryman wanted us to design them a website to reflect their food, drink and accommodation. Set in between Padstow and Wadebridge, The Quarryman serves freshly prepared food which we were keen to portray - of course, we had to go there to sample it first..! We thoroughly enjoyed the desserts and feel our photographs give a good glimpse of the quality on offer. We wanted to represent this pub in a friendly manner reflecting all their features including the spectacular view of the Estuary from their apartment. To do this, and to maximise the use of the pictures from the photoshoot, we used buttons to illustrate each section in the toolbar which remains visible throughout the site. We have incorporated Facebook and Twitter feeds so that the website is always current and helps the viewer get a feel for the people and the place.

Twitter Background This week we have been pleased to have someone on work experience with us. It has been a good week and she has been a great presence in the studio. This is what she has had to say: Hello my name is Ruth, and I have just spent a week at Pickle Design on my work experience. At the beginning of the week, Emma showed me how to use Illustrator (part of the Adobe design package), I Googled frogs, found one that I liked and traced around it. It pretty much took me the whole day, but I was well chuffed with him when he was finished. This, I have to say, is the best programme in the world!!! I think I have used it everyday this week. Frog Design Anyways, I also learned how to use Photoshop (another Adobe programme), something that we have at home but I've never had the faintest idea how to use it. That's pretty cool too. I was looking through some of the Creative Reviews (the design industry magazine) and there was loads of cool typography, (my new word of the week) s

Bambino Art is a company run by a photographer that specialises in artistic childhood photography, she approached us wanting her images to be shown clearly in a relevant setting. We worked with her to create a logo which described her subject matter using the "B" to symbolise the profile of a pregnant woman. We created a playful toolbar, complimented by the movement of dandelion seeds. This animation on the homepage consists of an illustrated dandelion whose seeds drift off across the page to take their final place on the logo. On the other pages the dandelion gently sways in the wind, and a few seeds float off the page. We designed a flash animated gallery with black and white thumbnail images to navigate though it, and added some extra touches by using hand-drawn frame corners and scroll bars. The gallery consisted of four categories which were displayed by a secondary toolbar. The client is able to upload her own images to the gallery and rearrange them as her new ph