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Biola Undergrad
Current rating: 4.8 (261 votes)
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- Added: 09 December 2007
- Designer: Dave Lowe and others.
- Submitter: --
Review:
Time and again I find Biola Undergrad (BU), in the various other Css galleries.
It has a wonderful illustrative style, combined with photo elements to create a mixed media jubilee. Somebody surely has a Wacom tablet or a steadfast scanner to capture all of the fantasy-doodle elements, They would be awfully hard to create with just a mouse, and it doesn't appear to be vector illustration.
Another plus, that I just love about BU are the PNG foreground elements on the pages where they are positioned over the left-sidebar and right main-content areas to unify the foreground and background, creative background usage seems to be going by the wayside as of late. The casual style, loose grid and variety of layouts on this site make it a one-of-a-kind designer's gem.
There's plenty to explore on this site overall, I always enjoy taking another visit when Biola/Undergrad shows up on that next Css Gallery. For more info about the site project there's an excellent write-up at www.davejlowe.com. To go directly to the Project summary click the Designer's name at the top of this review, just below the "rate this site", and oh yeah rate the site also.
My apologies to all of the Stylegala fans out there for nothing being posted to the gallery pages in November, we will try and do better.
Reviewed by Tyler Gossman
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From selection of colors to typography, from content architecture to css effects.. everything is superb.
I wonder why this site has not been here in the gallery of SG? A worthwhile piece after a long time in here.
Nice pick Ty. I like this site a lot!
Simon
I've seen this site around quite a bit but this is probably the first time I've really studied it. My first question is "what is this site about?" and I'm not sure the design helps answer that question at all, it certainly doesn't shout "an exemplary Christian university". The code is clean despite some slight extraneous divs.
But all the above is and has been secondary in regards to my own feelings and other people's commentary regarding this site because the design, specifically the illustration is excellent.
Nice.Thanks for picture.
Nice pick!
Thx
Some seriously nice design on this one... great typography too. Awesome pick.
Like the header (mix of foto and illustration) and the excellent typo. Colorsheme is nice, too... really nice pick Tyler!
yes it is very attractive ! the design of that reddish header is excellent. superb
Thanks for very interesting article. btw. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… makes you think more.