Leo Utskot

Managing director, project leader and designer at Copyleft Solutions

Speed design - Guerra Jr.

We're doing a redesign of the website for a rally driver from Mexico called Benito Guerra Jr.

I started by talking to Jadiel who is bringing in the project. He showed me the old site to have an idea of the content. Then I went on an rampage of looking at websites linked from my favorite design blogs: PSDTuts, Smashing Magazine, and Abduzeedo. I screenshoted elements I liked and did a quick sketch of the layout on paper. For the colors I used Kuler, an Adobe project that lets you either create a palette from scratch, search for popular palettes and also upload an image and pick colors from it. I upload a picture of the front of the drivers last car. Then it was off to Photoshop, setting up a typical 8px based grid and did a quick mockup, which I like a lot.

Evolution of a design - Teks

I'm redoing the site for Teks.no, a center for electronic art. The style is pretty far from what I'd normally do and it's quite dificult to adapt to such a dark palette and so much content. I find it interesting to see how the design changes as the project goes forward. When I look at the current mockup and compare it to the first one I wonder what the hell I was thinking on the first draft.

Leo Utskot has a Bacon number of 2.

I you don't know XKCD, don't bother. Todays strip is brilliant, no just because of the humor involved, but because my lack of knowledge about famous mathematicians led me down a wonderful wikipedia rabitthole (Paul Erdös > Erdös Number > Kevin Bacon number > Oracle of Bacon). My day has gotten considerably better with the knowledge that I have a Kevin Bacon number of 2.