kartooner

Walt Dis­ney once said “Our her­itage and ideals, our codes and stan­dards — the things we live by and teach our chil­dren — are pre­served or dimin­ished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.”

A few days ago I men­tioned that kartooner.com would be under­go­ing an extreme design makeover. Phase One of this process includes:

Choos­ing a lay­out and style.

• For this process I’ve decided to incor­po­rate my fas­ci­na­tion for 1950s seri­als, the movies that would always end with a cliffhanger some­where along the lines of “To be con­tin­ued…” or “Will Frank flee the run­away train?” or the infa­mous 60s Bat­man end­ing; “Will Bat­man and Robin escape the evil mas­ter­mind. Stay tuned. Same Bat time, same Bat chan­nel.” I will be research­ing what­ever mate­r­ial I can get my hands on (noir pub­li­ca­tions, web­sites, etc.) to flesh out this idea.
• I’ve also decided on a three-column lay­out. Granted, I real­ize there are a vari­ety of blogs using this lay­out but my doing so is because I’d like to dis­play more than just Cat­e­gories, Recent Entries and Links. Two columns is just not cut­ting it. My plan is to also show­case my own design work in addi­tion to oth­ers. Again, I’m not try­ing to rein­vent the wheel but uti­liz­ing tech­niques that oth­ers have used and have proved to be suc­cess­ful is not cop­ping out.
• I’ve decided on earth tones (light browns, etc.) and a sprin­kle of red which will pro­vide con­trast. I’ll be hon­est, I’m par­tial to blues but I’m attempt­ing to break my usual habits in design and work with some­thing different.

Wish me luck.