Trying to jumble a website together
My background is obviously in architectural design, not web design. I do have a minor in art studio, which I switched to after I had trouble getting the classes for a digital art minor. In hindsight, the art studio was obviously the better choice. I am better with painting and drawing than photoshop or Lightroom.
In my drawing class we had to draw fabric. My professor wanted us to be challenged more, so she put it on a table, wrinkled the fabric, folded it over each other, and put a cow skull on top.
The last few days have been more digitally focused than normal though. Although there is a lot I haven’t done on my website, I have been thinking about it a lot. It is unlikely that anyone is reading this within the very near future for me, so for context, I have the coming soon page, the contact us page, and the post before this visible on the website.
I have started some other sections. Currently I am expecting to break up commercial and residential work and I am trying to decide if I should include renderings there or as their own separate section. I have a list that’s probably 6 months or more old where I have been trying to plan what projects to show. I think I have a slightly trickier than normal task with setting this all up since I do not own the rights to a lot of the drawings I would like to use. Nearly all my work has been for architects and interior designers. I have gotten approval in the past to use floor plans from Rios Designs as long as the project isn’t identifiable. I think that is pretty much what I will be going with for any of the images I use, make them unidentifiable. This is especially important on cannabis projects, as I have an extra layer of legal red tape with an NDA for at least one of the architects.
But, as with any project, there are challenges and little oddities that can make things more difficult, but also more interesting. I need to really set more clear goals for myself to encourage actually finishing the website. Deadlines are really important, because without them most people, including me, will put things off and not finish them. Even if you are working on things, it is easy to put them off to make them more perfect. I think dealing with that was one of the most valuable things I learned in college. The deadlines in architecture school really push the limit of your ability to make a complete and perfect project. It teaches prioritization skills and I have been able to apply it to other areas of my life. “God is in the details” as Mies van der Rohe said, but you have to make sure to clearly convey the overall goals and concepts before you can get into the details. The challenge is finding the balance and knowing how to balance the time on the overall with the time on the details.
