Michigan Peace Team Design
Saturday, April 28th, 2007 | Apple, Design, Macbook Pro, Michigan Peace Team, Photoshop, Projects, Web Development, Websites
I’ve begun another side project for Michigan Peace Team of Lansing, MI. MPT empowers people to engage in active nonviolent peacemaking. This is a worldwide effort, and they have teams in Palestine and the US-Mexico border. I’m deeply moved by their presentations and had to help in one of the best ways I know how: web development!
So without further ado, here’s the beginning draft:
I know it looks like this site’s layout so far. Good artists create, and great artists copy. I feel like right now, their site is very dark and cold. My goal here was to warm up the site and brighten it with more orange, soft green, and soft yellow, to make the site feel, well, more peaceful. Also writing out “peace” in several different languages helps, too.
I used the green leaves pattern in the background as a symbol of growth, and the idea that MPT plants seeds of peace(also a non profit org in the US) around the globe. The frame color is a softer brownish/very suftle green, for a soft and peaceful appeal. The logo I made warmer with the sun rise feeling, like a new day rising, and I straightened out the typography. I used the blue for the header, but I’m not sure if I’ll make it stick. It’s a relaxing color, but not as harsh and cold as the extremes on the current site.
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