New Blog Design

I have been working with this client for some time now, first for a logo redesign, then later on a business card design, label design and lastly on a brand new website using WordPress as the CMS (content management system).

The blog design journey has been fraught with interesting and fun challenges, and the site has had many incarnations,  fascinating exercise, as a designer to leave personal taste out of the equation. After all, if we always insisted on forcing our clients around to our way of thinking, all our work would begin to look the same, and the client would probably  not be as satisfied as they tend to be, when they have been an integral part of the design process, and had a hand in most of the decisions. As a designer, I find that the best role for me is to advise, suggest, provide samples, and then leave the final decision up to the client.

Here is a series of images, showing how this particular blog design developed.

What you will notice is the abrupt departure from the original design about three quarters of the way through. My theory is that when you feel like you’ve been looking at the same design for too long, and made too many changes and tweaks sometimes it helps to throw a brand new design into the mix, keeping those original elements that the client liked initially. What you end up with is a cleaner, less fiddly design, that works all around, and that the client is happy with!

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