Eros Tea and Coffee Garden

We had a group project to create a website mock-up and the branding for an imaginary Tea-house called Eros. As a client they wanted a site that focused on their booming teas and had a Telus or Apple type feel to it.

My initial idea for the design was along the lines of this:

The problem was that, although the picture in the background was nice, the site was becoming far too busy and cluttered when the client was looking for clean and simple.

Not to be discouraged, I took the design concept that my super awesome partner, Enoch, had been working with and started modifying that.

This was my final design for the site. I like it because it represents what a group collaboration should be - by working together we came up with a design that neither of us would have reached as quickly on our own and neither of us felt hindered by the other during the process. It's nice to have someone next to you while working that has the honesty and interest to look at the hideous green line your about to apply to an object and say "... you do know how tacky that looks, right?".