6 Inspiring Websites in the Automation Industry

The purpose of this project is to design a website using Photoshop/Illustrator. As a last project for the Digital design class, this final post will show what I have learned and accomplished this past semester.

This time I went with something new not using any of the previous projects.
I decided to re-design my company's website. I will make a template and then using this concept an entire website and can be designed in the future.
This is an Industrial Automation Integrator company that provides control systems integration and process instrumentation.

In order to have a better understanding of how I will design the web page, I chose 6 websites that are a part of the same domain as my company's.

1) My Automation Systems Integrator Company's website (ISI)
"http://www.isicontrols.com/"
This is the actual website and it looks really old.

Schneider Electric
"http://www.schneider-electric.ca/"
This was the first website that inspired me to re-design my company's site. After a couple of tries I found that there was too much information on 1 page like Schneider's and I went with GE's example.

A-B (Allen-Bradley)
"http://www.ab.rockwellautomation.com/"

GE (General Electric)
"http://www.ge.com/ca/en/"
I chose GE's website as the perfect example to design my template. Nice, simple, and professional.

Siemens
"http://www.siemens.com/answers/ca/en/"

Weidmuller
"http://www.weidmuller.com/"

Andrea's Constructivist poster

The purpose of this poster and the main idea is to show the Greek people of Greece and elsewhere how "Now it is Time" to get up!

Do not give up hope with all capitalist problems and governmental failures and misdirections of the country. The people have to get up now so that they do not lose most of the country's property to the IMF that has taken control of Greece's monetary problems.

After thousands and thousands of years of history, democracy, culture,religion, wars, battles for freedom under slavery and finally getting the country free at last almost 200 years ago, Greeks do not want to get enslaved again.
The politics reigning have been horrible and brought the country to bankruptcy.
Many people are running away from these problems and moving out of the country, losing many kids and the future Greek occupants.

The poster that I came up with shows at once the political problems that have been happening with the fire on the background and the kid running. But then I included the Acropolis, a monument very rich in history and worldwide know showing hope to the Greek people that after so many problems the country still exists.
I used the waving Greek flag blending in with the Acropolis as a sign of relief.
Finally, I put a soldier conveying his courage and expressing to all Greeks "How Now is Time" to get up and fight back for the Greece's independance once again.
I included a Greek saying that comes back alot of years and has a really important meaning.
"Eleutheria i Thanatos" = "Freedom or death".
This is the motto of Greece.It arose during the Greek War of Independence in the 1820s, where it was a war cry for the Greeks who rebelled against Ottoman rule. It was adopted after the Greek War of Independence. It is still in use today, and is a popular theory regarding the use of 9 stripes (for the nine syllables of the motto) in the Greek flag. The motto symbolized and still symbolizes the resolve of the people of Greece against tyranny and oppression.

All the images where gathered and worked on Photoshop.

Andreas

Images used for my Poster

The first image shows the destruction and protest that have been happening in Greece. This pictures also shows a kid running away from the fire and all problems.

Second picture is the Acropolis, a monument that has been through so many years and many wars and still hasn't crumbled.

Another example used was a man shouting to express his rights. Showing his shout going in 3 directions to make his point understood.

Then a flag of Greece was used on the final poster.

Final is a picture of a soldier getting up and showing an emotion of courage and pride in letting know his people not to give up and how they should get up and fight for their freedom.

Step 2 Examples of Constructivist posters

These are the 4 main Constructivist posters that inspired me to create my own ideology of a similar poster. Meaning war protesting and liberty.

Step 1 of the Constructivist poster

Looking at different constructivist arts and posters made in the past, they inspired me of revolution, liberty and freedom. I noticed how the Russians had a lot of inspirations to assemble their country and fight for their independence. A lot of pictures have dark-red colors catching the eye and showing anger. The posters don't need to be simple, clean, but all over the place and attracting the viewers.

I decided to take the situation Greece is in this past year; problems with money, politics and capitalism taking advantage of a great country. By creating a poster i want to show viewers and Greeks to be confident, revolt and don't let go. How after so many years of history and wars, they cannot forget about the country's heroes how with pride and belief they fought until death.
They shouldn't let politics reign their own values,liberty and free will.

This poster will show optimism,power, confidence and all this to overcome social and economic problems.

My Final Logo ( Greek Youth Group)

This is my final logo.
I corrected the previous logo by increasing the font on the title JPC to focus the importance of the group.
Then I spiced the logo by adding the letter P and X signifying that the group is located in P-X (park-extension) which has a great significance to the kids.
Finally I wanted to put my very own design. I scanned a drawing of a sword i drew in the thumbnail sketch and placed 2 swords under the initial logo showing dominance.