The Drawing Center is a dedicated online art gallery that blends historical and contemporary art. This website can be a good resource for all creative artists.
Home Page
The front page invites the user to venture into the neat and clean website. The colors used in the site is very calming, consisting of red and grey. The logo is text based and eye soothing as well. Navigating the site is a pleasure which can be simplified to match with the overall theme of the site. However, I realized that the page alignment could be more effective in higher screen resolution.
Inner Pages
- Simple and multi facilitated menu on top of the page for easy navigation.
- Vivid fonts with excellent color combination for titles, sub titles, links etc goes well with the theme.- Consistent standard footer.
Content
The site is very informational. From exhibitions, publications to membership details, it basically covers everything that an artist would like to know. The intelligent use of images and photographs on different categories breaks the monotony of the site and gives extra value to the text. Though the contents are well presented, I would like to see abit of variation in terms of color or layout because after spending 15 mins reading the text, I felt abit bored.
The name of the web designer or design company at the footer could have been avoided. Let the work speak.
Conclusion
This website has succeeded in the artistic representation of the subject, giving full justice and launching pad to prevailing art in the ancient backdrop. However, more design elements could be used to spice up the site. I really hope to see more surprises.
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