We’re back with another WDW. The past two weeks we’ve featured OkapiStudio and Watermelon Ministries. Since then, we’ve posted a blog about <link> screen resolution and canvas size</link> for designers, so it’s only appropriate to have this weeks WDW speak to that as well. With that said, it’s a pleasure to introduce 53 Mondays‘ design of Lesly Garreau’s all-inclusive portfolio. The tricky part about this WDW is that Lesly Garreau is the cofounder of 53 Mondays, so he gets a double shout out here. Let’s dive in.
A rising 2010-2011 web trend is the single page website, and LeslyG.com fits the bill. The first thing that attracted me to LeslyG.com was the heavy graphical build of the site. He’s using his website to showcase his design work, why not make it extravagant? As you scroll down the page you enter into different segments of LeslyG’s portfolio, what would ordinarily be individual pages of a website.
To start, we’ll begin in the header, where you’ll find an interactive facebook link in the cloud – get it? Keep scrolling and you’ll hit a java slideshow of Lesly’s current work, each screen expandable through a lightbox click, followed by a recent tweet. Presumably, you’ve just passed through the typical homepage.
Continuing down the page we enter into the “Portfolio” page, of which Lesly slapped the title, “Some Cool Stuff” above a few lightboxes and called it a day. Each lightbox enlarges to a quite substantial viewing of his work, which I really enjoy. I’m not a big fan when designers show their work in 200x200px blocks and expect to sell their stuff. If you’re a designer, show me your work large and in charge (and lookin for chickies). Each thumbnail of the lightbox’d is graphically scotch-taped to the site. It’s the small details like this I enjoy in a website.
Flying south we’re brought to the about section, which Lesly feels three sentences and a headshot are enough for me. He’s right. Let’s keep going.
Annnnd suddenly we’ve hit the footer…and a chunk of earth. Passing over a banner linking to his blog and a contact form, we’re at the bottom of the page. Site credits and social icons line the footer…after the chunk of earth.
Looking back on this review – WDW3 is the most bizarre so far. I was sucked in at the beginning for the strong graphical elements, but now I’m at the footer and I’m realizing I started by looking at clouds, consumed Lesly’s portfolio, bio and contact information without hesitation, suddenly landed on a floating chunk of earth, and now am redirected back to real life: facebook, twitter, and all other forms of virtual friendships and fake personalities. Was this a website or an artistic revelation of truth? Let me know in the comments…