On Dec 22, 2009, at 8:01 PM, Alan Gresley wrote: > Theresa Mesa wrote: >> Everything has such a delicate, feminine look to it, except for >> the image outlines. Big chunky charcoal gray image outlines. Big >> chunkyHRs (or border-top, or border-bottom). In juxtaposition to >> Zapfino, with very thin thins, and thicks that aren't nearly as >> thick as the outlines. >> Theresa > > > And why wouldn't this be? I can understand this since I also have an > artistic past. It's that combined left and right brain hemisphere > development thing. David's style remind my of Russell Drysdale's work. > > <http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=russell+drysdale> >
I dunno...the site is causing some cognitive dissonance for me. I'm also a fine artist, a commissioned portraitist, and textile artist, in addition to being a graphic designer and web designer. Looking at Russell Drysdale's work, there's an organic flow and logic to the thick and thin, a push-pull to the lights and darks, to the tints and the saturated color. Here, there is a dichotomy between the organic flow of the stroke in Zapfino, and the boxy, thick outlines of the images and rules. I don't see a correlation. The logo could go either way, but I don't think it functions as a bridge between the style of the font and the thick outlines of the images to form a cohesive whole. Is the site for a man or a woman? There is a decidedly feminine cast to the site. Zapfino is a very feminine font. <shrug> Not all script fonts are feminine, but this one is. Maybe that's not a problem. But then we are out of the purview of CSS, so I expect our knuckles shall be rapped with the ruler shortly. Theresa Mesa Mesa Design House 909-799-7405 888-676-7640 Fax http://mesadesignhouse.com Fine Art & Illustration http://theresajennings-artwork.com DesignBizBlog http://designbizblog Twitter: @mindsqueezeweb ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
