[{"_1":2,"_31":-5,"_32":-5},"loaderData",{"_3":4},"routes/__layout/tag.$name",{"_5":6,"_7":8},"tagName","visual design","posts",[9],{"_10":11,"_12":13,"_14":15,"_16":17,"_18":19,"_20":21,"_22":23,"_24":25,"_26":-5,"_27":28,"_29":30},"id",321,"title","New adventures in Deco","excerpt","Working on a new Art Deco front page design. It's more refined than previous sketches, wastes less space, and shows comments inline. Still very baroque, with some fun rotating decorative elements I'm calling \"bedknobs.\" Worried it looks too much like every other MovableType blog out there.","body","\r\n

\r\nHere's another idea for the design of the front page, which I liked a lot more before I uploaded it. Points to note:\r\n

Unlike the previous scans, this one is based on a much larger drawing, so the details are a lot finer (and I drew the lines with a ruler!) However, widths and heights are still very changeable, especially the size of the decorative fader bars on the extreme right and left.\r\n
It wastes less space than the original design [thanks Ed], and the important elements are not surrounded by too much clutter. There's still lots of white space towards the bottom, but that's a lot more acceptable than wasting space above the fold. And I'm sure I can think of things to put in all those boxes anyway...\r\n
Comments are visible on the front page [thanks Ben] although this will make for some fun security issues that I'll have to defensively code around...\r\n
The design is generally still very baroque. At the bottom of the two smaller columns are two elements (I'm internally calling them bedknobs -- what else would you call them?) whose design I'm not very happy with. I got a bit carried away coming up with other possibilities for them, so now they may become a constantly-changing element -- every 5 minutes, the bedknobs change :-)\r\n
I'm conscious that this design makes it look very similar to, oh, say, every MovableType blog ever, which I'm not very happy about. Surely I can come up with a better way to present these elements?\r\n
One of those AB elements is supposed to be PX. You choose which one.\r\n

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\r\nThis design is supposed to float over a very ornate deco background. Instead of trying to place it in the background as I have previously, here it is roughly as I imagined it. I'm not sure what size this will be relative to the page elements; it may become huge, as I don't want it to stop suddenly in either direction.","updated",["D",1077830602000],"created",["D",1077830602000],"codename","new_adventures_in_deco","legacy_id","2960","thumbnailUrl","published",["D",1077830602000],"draft",false,"actionData","errors"]

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