Rashid Zakat

Finally. I’ve been working on this design for about 3 weeks now…and it’s only 2 pages!

Ok, lemme back up. For those that don’t know, Kep and I used to host this really dope event called Soul Aquatics. We gather a bunch of really talented people, throw them in a room…and see what happens. We did our last event about a year and a half ago and since then, a lot of stuff has changed.

Fast forward to today, and I’m working on getting the Soul Aquatics Sessions started again, so to promote it to venues and eventally to people, I’ve been building the site, which I decided to try a couple of different new processes out in my design.

For one, I planned everything meticulously. Now there are still a few key elements missing from the design that I want, theres still not a lot of pop, but thats coming. One of my favorite things about being a designer and working on your own projects is that you can grow things a bit more organically. I like to build what I need for the time being, and add on as I go on. There are a lot people that don’t agree with this process, but I personally like it.  I think for small fries like me, I don’t need all of the bells and whitles to start with. There are somethings that I can integrate before I need them, and other things that I’ll let the demand force me to adapt to.
Well, and I’m not gonna do this very often, I’m gonna reveal the comps for the new Soul Aquatics site. Bear in mind a lot of things are gonna get upgraded as we need them, but this is to show venues and possible sponsors what we’re about. Yay!

This is the homepage. The idea is that you land here, you get a bit of context about what Soul Aquatics is, and you can click to see a video pop out in a lightbox for that particular performance.

This is the about section, which has a brief history of the event and some links to people who have helped us out/been a part of the event along the way. I know I can’t get everyone in here, so maybe it’ll change or we’ll have a more thing that loads in the same section.

As you guys can see I’m really excited about it, and maybe I’ll do a whole blog about the design of the site. Even though it’s incomplete in terms of full functionality and very minimalistic (even for me) I’m happy with it and would appreciate ANY and ALL feedback on the design.