When this project first began, I knew I wanted to create something that had to do with being uncomfortable. When you think of zen, most of the time people think of something calming and relaxing. For my “zen,” I thought of the idea of using needles as the whole idea of being uncomfortable. Needles are usually filled with some sort of medicine or vaccine, but I’m filled my needles with paint. Creating the idea that art is my zen, and can be anyone else’s zen. Sticking with that idea of uncomfortable and art as a zen, I decided to make this web page to mainly focus on vibrant colors. I tried to keep an interesting color palette using somewhat of neon colors such as pink, orange, blue, red, and purple. I wanted to make sure that the colors popped, and wanted to make this page as interesting and intriguing as possible for my target audience of teens to enjoy even more. I wanted it to be easy for the viewer to comprehend, and understand what was the point of the page. This project was very stressful and time consuming, but overall, I thoroughly enjoyed creating this web page mock up. I enjoyed the process of trying to mentally figure out how a link will look at different stages, and how to make needles become of “zen” of some sort. I feel like the idea of making people uncomfortable and thinking outside of the box about zen makes this design even stronger and it comes across with a deeper meaning.
