House of Jackie Brown
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- caspar_v
http://houseofjackiebrown.com/
we just finished this fairly retro site for a swimwear fashion line. see what you guys think.
- Mau0
I can throw a melon through the holes.
not my taste.
- kgvs720
What is this website about? Fashion?
- Machuse0
I can see what you were going for.
But it doesn't quite make it all the way through.I think this is a great start tho - some of the effects need to be toned WAY down. All that stuff on the lower right needs to be toned down. - it needs more simple transitions. and things can be a bit smaller.
- very good effort tho. dont get me wrong - great conceptMachuse
- CALLES0
i'm friends with jackie... i was at her fashion show here in the gansevoort
- kgvs720
House of Jackie Brown, I was associating it with the 70s, but the design looks like the 80s.
- caspar_v0
thanks for the very fast, informative & honest feedback, guys. always good to know there's a place you can rely on to have designers actually bother to tell you what they think, thick & fast.
it is a wild site, to be sure. for what it's worth, the size of things was very intentional. basically we wanted to create a sorta dream world where 80s / 90s magazine clippings, nintendo / sega video game boxes, big glowing digital watch / clock displays, arcade machine grid graphics, old comics, stickers, science fiction landscapes and hot girls all come together.
thanks again for the feedback. we're always up for evolving and improving our work, even sites that are already live. so you've given us some food for thought, no question.
all further comments are of course welcome too - if anyone feels the urge to add anything else!
- ********0
why'd they have to bring back the ugliness of the 80s?
- attentionspan0
That font on menu is not that readable, Lookbook i read Cookbook, and when i was a bit further away from the screen "press" could easily pass for puss. Maybe you should have stick to two fonts
- caspar_v0
Yeah, we thought a lot about the amount of / style of fonts used. It certainly goes against the grain in terms of typographic lore. Less is definitely more in that realm, but given the collage nature of this site and the eclectic nature of the 10 different styles within the swimwear line itself, we felt the number of fonts used was necessary. You know, in the way they might be on a photocopied punk-rock flyer from that era. We also felt the synergy between the brand font & the neon font was a good one & toned down that concern a little more, to boot.
The more you look around the site the more I think it starts to make sense. Each typeface has its own place & none none could have done an adequate job of replacing the next.