Here we have two different designs I did for Orkan, a low-cost oil company. I thought it would be fun to include the first layout proposal to give you a glimpse of where the project might have headed had it not been for the compromise reached by the famous “design by committee” method of design. Some would argue however that the end result wasn’t all that bad.
What do you think?
First layout proposal
Second layout proposal (the compromise).
I’ve designed the last two websites for VR, the Icelandic commercial workers union. What we’ve got here are the original layouts I did for the current site. It’s a grid based design with soft creamy color scheme that has a hint of brown in it. “Warm and inviting” they said and I duly delivered.
Front page view with tabbed feature content
Content page view
Content page view
I’ve always had a soft spot for creating grunge style artwork. It’s a style that gives you maximum creative freedom an allows you to bend and break all rules of both typography and composition. Plus, it just looks so damn cool!
Don’t ya think?
These are the original layouts I did for the Reykjavík University a while back with my good friend Hrafn Áki. The university wanted content heavy pages both for the front page and each department page. Each department page also had it’s own color scheme. I think we did OK.
Front page view
Department page view
I worked for Eskill as lead webdesigner for close to four years. One of the most challenging and fun projects I worked on while there was the company website. As any designer knows, creating your own or your companies website is one of the hardest challenges one faces. Add to that the overwhelming red color of the site and you have a lethal combination. Thankfully, I managed to pull it off and created what I consider one of the most interesting corporate websites any web design firm has had in Iceland…ever!
Front page view
Project gallery view
Staff detail view
Single blog post view with comments and sidebar
DataMarket is a data aggregator, helping companies to fulfill their data needs. I designed their logo and website some months back. The logo may just have been the toughest one I’ve had to design to date. My brief was to design a logo that showed “blocks of information falling into a data grid”. How ’bout them apples?
I think I did a pretty good job of it. What do you think?
Datamarket logo and basic branding guidelines
Front page layout
Content page layout
These are the original design layouts I did for Borgun, a company that provides services to merchants and processing services to issuers of credit and debet cards on the Icelandic market. My mission for this project was to create a detailed rich interface based on a simple grid. The outcome resulted in one of the juiciest website designs I’ve done, methinks.
Front page layout
Content page layout with secondary navigation
Content page layout with price tables
Here’s the original layouts I did for ÍMARK (The Association of Icelandic Marketers) last year. This is a grid based design with neatly defined call to action features on the front page and a content heavy footer. I was pleased with the outcome and especially the use of typography and warm and inviting color scheme.
Please note that Seth Godin has nothing to do with ÍMARK or any events held by the association.
Frontpage view
Single news page view
Single event page view
Yeah, so…the blog is back up after a little downtime. My domain expired and for some reason my renewal kept getting rejected.
This whole thing kinda made me lose my momentum but hopefully I’ll get back to full force blogging mode over the holiday’s. Expect some quality music, more yummy design showcase’s and some thoughtful musings on social media.
Until then I’ll leave with this picture of my youngest, Veigar Lár.
2007 seems like a long time ago. That year will probably be forever know in Iceland as the year capitalism went berserk and drove the country into medieval recession. One of the companies, who’s star shone the brightest that year, was the infamous FL Group.
I was lucky enough to get to design the company’s site. It was a fun and ambitious project and the result is one of my best designs. Sadly, the site’s presence online was short as, soon after going live, FL Group changed it’s name to Stoðir and published a new corporate website in the process.
Front page view
Investor landing page
Media center landing page
Organizational chart
