Linking Communities Project

Several months ago, we posted about a possible project for the Great Salt Lake Bird Festival. We took a risk and did a pre-mockup hoping to catch them with something spiffy before they even had talked with us. Initially it looked good and we had a verbal go-ahead. Unfortunately, things didn't pan out for several reasons, and we were left scratching our heads. Perhaps the only good to come of the whole ordeal was another client, with a new project, Linking Communites, Wetlands and Migratory Birds. We hopped at the chance to work with the group, and after several months working out the details we have our first mockup ready to go. Take a look:


We went ultra clean, mostly on a grid layout sticking to a simple sans-serif font set. The colors are derived from a sky blue and the rust off the head of a bird called an American Avocet. We even worked out a simple logo. Not sure if they have one at this point, but we like our vision:


We added a light version of grass green, pulling in the 3 colors that best represent the planet, and linking them via a bird silhouette breaking up a simple box.

Hopefully, the client will be pleased with this work, and we can move on to designing the page layouts. We will be using the jquery library for most of the interactive portions of the site, and Coppermine Photo Gallery, along with Blogger for the blog. And of course, we will try to push the use of Twitter for quick updates any time from anywhere. Check back soon to see what other new projects we are working on!