Eyesbound Portfolio Website by Julia Hell is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2016 Silver A' Design Award in Website and Web Design Competition Category.
SilverWeb· 2016
Eyesbound Portfolio Website
by Julia Hell
Client: Eyesbound
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Web Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #45698The Design
About Eyesbound Portfolio Website
Eyesbound is a portfolio website designed for a photographer. Full screen images form the main element of each page. The navigation elements are kept simple and can be hidden, so the photographs are not covered. The typographic logo is also shown in full screen mode, where it scales down and becomes transparent. Only black and white are used, from the logo to the backgrounds and the typography, so the emphasis stays on the imagery. The website is responsive and can be operated with a mouse or with the arrow keys.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Eyesbound Portfolio Website is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Eyesbound Portfolio Website is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Eyesbound Portfolio Website is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The Design aims for monochromatic simplicity to support the content.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
I wanted to set a strong emphasis on the imagery and the design to be timeless and adaptive to the content.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
Step by step developing it with some more features as well as developing more print solutions, like authenticity cards for buyers of the artworks and a catalogue.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The design focuses on the strong imagery of the photographer and emphasizes this by using full screen images as a main detail. The navigation elements are kept simple and it is possible to hide them, so the images will not be covered by them. The typographic logo is displayed in full screen mode as well but scales down and transparentizes. In order to set the focus on the images, the only used colors are black and white.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Responsive web page with always-fullscreen imagery and fullscreen mode in supported browsers.
- Tags
- Clean, Easy-to-use, Photography, Simple, Website, Web Design, Portfolio
- Production Technology
- The web design was created in Adobe Photoshop, Realization Tools: Drupal 7, CSS 3, HTML 5, jQuery
- Design Challenge
- The challenge was to find a way to display photography online in a new and unseen way. To do so I needed the full screen mode. The technical realization happened to be difficult, since the website is responsive. It does not work on every browser, older browsers do not support the fullscreen mode.
- Research
- I browsed several photographers portfolio websites, both, of famous and not yet discovered photographers and filtered design and layout wise for similarities and differences. Many portfolio pages do not have full screen options. I started to focus on the works. My client does not use his own name to publish his photos, we created sort of a brand for the photos. Then I started to look at fashion, furniture and lifestyle brands. They all put the emphasis on the product. In our case the photography becomes the product, at least presentation wise.
- Inspiration
- The main inspiration came through the photographers imagery. He focuses on architecture and nature motifs with a unique point of view. In preparation for the design, I had a look at several portfolio websites to get a best practice overview. I realized, that the information about the photographer often seems more important than the images. So I focused on the images as a key element.
- Project Duration
- The project started in May 2014 in Berlin and went live in August 2014. Since then minor iterations are still in progress to present day.
- Operation Flow
- The website can be operated by mouse and keyboard, using arrow keys inside modern browsers. The navigation structure is kept simple, without too many sub pages to the flow flat and the user interested.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer: Jannis Hell, Zirkuszelt, 2014.
Image #2: Photographer: Jannis Hell, Ibsens Hotel, 2014.
Image #3: Photographer: Jannis Hell, Shuttered, 2013.
Image #4: Photographer: Jannis Hell, Trockenraum, 2013.
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