Webpage artist influence-Simone Legno, KAWS, Takashi Murakami & Andy Titus

A few other artists Ive found useful for the project.
Simone Legno- Use's bright bold colours, and japanese style art, similar to that used for Kanyes previous album cover
KAWS- Who will be creating a special edition album cover, I found this image works really well, and was one of the reasons why i wanted to use illustrations for my website.
Takashi Murakami - Did all the art woerk for the previous album, uses a Japanese style art as some of the previous artists.
Andy Titus, i found this MTV webpage on the 'FWA' site and thought it would work well as a layout for my work.

Webpage artist influence-Eduardo Bertone

An artist Ive used as my inspiration for this project. Bertone is a Spanish graffiti artist and illustrator, these are a couple of images he illustrated for a magazine, and caught my eye for this project. Ive not seen any hip-hop webpages use an artistic influence like this in thier webpages. Kanye is much more of a unique musican in his genre and I thought a differnt style of layout and imagery would suit my theme well.

Webpage flash banner ideas

Here are my ideas for Flash banners. After looking at a few hip-hop artist's webpages I found that the best banners used large, bold imagery and text. So Ive tried to use both in my ideas. The first few ideas were influenced by Kanyes official album art, which use lots of grey and very simple text. I found this a bit too simple and unappealing so I began using my own artist style on the other ideas, which use more colour.

Webpage layout ideas cont..

I then began to put the layout's into context of my theme. Ive tried to make it as easy as possible for the user to know what the site is about, by using large imagery and 'Kanye West's' name a lot.

Webpage layout ideas

Here are the sketches i drew for my website layout, they all use i simple idea, which i thought would work so the site is easy to navigata around.