RIVING AND BREATHING
As part of a course at Ringling, we were given an array of briefs to choose and work on with tight deadlines. The first of those I selected called for a Rive project to be implemented into our portfolio website. This was an opportunity to bring my site to Rife- er, life. Life is what I meant.
Branding Redux
As it was, my site couldn't handle Rive files without coding knowledge I didn't have the time to learn. In order to prepare my site for interactivity, all of its contents would need to be shifted over to a new host. I saw this as an opportunity to renovate my branding and layout, which helped to alleviate the excruciating pain and anguish of recreating a whopping 5 case studies from scratch.
Outdated branding(boooooo!)
New logo sketches!
Version 4
Version 3
Version 2
Version 1
Final Version! I guess you probably knew that from the banner though
Rive Development
After settling on a new logo to design around, Rive work could begin. My peers and professors selected a direction to take, and the approach focused on bubbles was most popular. If you found it annoying that you cannot click the bubbles themselves to navigate, you're in good company. Rive has a function in order to make its elements link to web pages, however that feature does not transfer to the hosting site I spent hundreds of dollars on specifically for its Rive integration. Buttons block the Rive elements, so the best compromise that could be reached was allowing the text to link to pages.
TRY IT!
Though the banner is obviously how you got here, this is a good chance to take some time to play with the bubbles.
You know you want to. Nobody's judging. Except maybe me, but I won't say anything.
