After a whole month of brainstorming, sketching and coding, I’ve finally finished the layout! To be honest, this wasn’t what I had in mind when I first decided to redesign Sunshined.org. I was planning to make it the complete opposite of the previous version: clean, white and bright. I was also going to make it entirely on Adobe Illustrator. But as you can see, some things don’t always go according to plan. And I’m fine with that!

Here is one of the prototypes I made:

I was so so sure I was going to use this one. But after a few days of looking at it, I ended up scrapping the whole thing. I thought it looked a bit too plain and that wasn’t what I wanted. I was aiming for unique not bland. All I took from the original design was the logo, the navigation and the overall color palette:

After I scrapped the previous plan, I had to start brainstorming an entirely new one. I tried sketching out some stuff and vectoring on Illustrator, but it didn’t work out. Then, one day, I spotted my Dad’s pad of yellow lined paper lying on the coffee table. I really liked the worn-out look of it, so I scanned it.

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