The first designer I have looked at was Lucienne Day. It is not a personal website for Lucienne Day, but it is a website shows textiles designs from different artists. This website called' Classic Textiles' includes four designers' work which has a similar style. This website shows these designers name clearly on the left-hand side of the HOME PAGE and it illustrates them all with buttons that is the way I used in my Gallery. Botton is a convenient tool that allows the viewers to click on and it links to the page what they want to go for.
Lucienne Day was one of the most influential textiles designers in Britain. Her work still famous and use for interior decoration because of the freshness and originality. She was inspired by other artists to create a new style of her designs which is 'Contemporary' design. Her works combined with abstract repeat patterns and certain colours. Moreover, these design often used for interior decoration such as wallpaper. Also, she interested in ceramics and carpets.
This website combines Lucienne Day's work and Bio on one page. The advantage of this method is that the page is simple and unambiguous. The viewers can see the introduction of her and look at her work style at the same time if they do not understand some word in the text. For example, if I am the first time to see the word 'Contemporary', I might not know what it means, even the website explains Lucienne Day works with abstract art. In this website, the viewers can look at the pictures on the right-hand side that they can know what style of design the artist has.
However, one significant problem of the website is it does not provide enough information. For instances, I think it can include more text to describe the artist. It can add pages of writing about how this artist created a particular work, what influenced her, what are the inspirations, etc. That can let the viewers know about this artist better and they can actually learn something meaningful that can use as inspiration.
Also, Sue Timney was another designer I searched for. She has a similar style of Lucienne Day's work that works in Contemporary design style. Totally different from the last website, it is a personal webpage only for Sue Timney. It looks more organised which list all content on the top of the page. Compared to the 'Classic Textiles', it includes more information about Sue Timney. As we can see the screenshot I added below, the website shows a menu under the designer's name. It includes social media, Home page, About me, Project, etc. I think it is better than the Home page of 'Classic Textiles'. It looks modern and fashionable. I can see the website designers spent time on the page creation. Obviously, they have considered a specific text pattern and let it combines well with the images of social media. Besides, I like a mini gallery put on the front page. It became a sign of this designer. As we can see, a portrait of Sue Timne in the mini gallery shows her custom style and it matches the background. This picture lets viewers know what kind of style she likes and work on.
Here is a screenshot of her gallery. Sue Timney became the most famous British textiles designer and interior in 1980 for her black and white graphic imagery designs. The major colour of her project in the gallery links back to the Home page. Besides, there is another gallery at the bottom. It directly links to the Project page. I think it is a good way that if viewers find it's difficult to find a specific series of her work.
Also, the same picture on the Home page used for About page. It shows the copyright at the corner of this photograph which viewer know this picture shot by Paul Murphy.
Further, I don't like her contact page. I think it is not convenient for customers who want to email them or ask questions. Some website page, also what I did for my webpages, always make a form for the customers that they can provide their email address and the text might automatically send to the service. But her website just provides the company website address and the company address, it brings inconveniences to people that they need to create an additional email, but not allow to send messages through this website.
However, the best thing I like about this website is it has a Blog page which I think I might include on my website. The benefit is people can see what work Sue Timney updates when they are looking at this website. They do not need to go to another website or her blog to find the news. I think it is a very clever way and it helps to promote.
References: DAY.L(1917-2010), [online] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucienne_Day.
DAY.L(1917-2010), Classic Textiles, [online] https://www.classictextiles.com/lucienne-day/
TIMNEY.S(1950)[online] http://www.suetimney.com/
Good considered work here on what works and what does not work for you as a user looking at these websites - well done
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