Stina Willett

Stina.co.uk is an online portfolio, for Interior Designer, Stina Willett. It is a basic portfolio website which uses WordPress to speed up production/management.

Background

The original design for stina.co.uk featured a very dark palette which I really liked. However, the client (who also happens to be my girlfriend) admitted she hated it and so I starting to think of concepts that reflected her personality more and made it more obvious she was as an interior designer. One Friday night, whilst eating a curry in Manchester city centre curry house we both noticed the restaurant’s feature wall which was covered in a large flock wallpaper and the idea hit – why not just use a large flock wallpaper for the background.

The idea further developed into the making the website’s design capable of supporting different wallpapers styles. Perhaps there would be a wallpaper or a texture that Stina had used in a recent commercial interior that she wanted to feature. The wallpaper would be linked in the footer of the site allowing people to find it and buy it if they wished.

The site

This simple is as simple as they come. It has a homepage, about page, portfolio, contact page, and a blog. The idea is to keep the site simple and to showcase the work whilst simultaneously ensuring it is obvious to visitors who Stina is and what she does.

CSS3, HTML5, etc

With more browsers supporting CSS3 features it felt like the right thing to do to use CSS3 to layer semi-transparent black and white boxes on top of the colourful background using rgba colours. This way the design would work if the background image was any colour (to an extent anyway).

The design also features the usage of @fontface via Google web fonts and a nicely formatted iPhone version too.