Biola Undergrad

Biola Undergrad

Current rating: 4.9 (246 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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