ecBook Website

Swe­den, India & Ice­land
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The ecBook web­site was designed to pro­mote the ecBook online cat­a­logue sys­tem, it´s uhhm quite tech­ni­cal. I based this design on the ecSoft­ware cor­po­rate web­site for brand­ing pur­poses but also to speed up devel­op­ment time.

ecBook is a very dif­fer­ent approach to view­ing and dis­play­ing pdf´s online. It´s more organic and has a dif­fer­ent feel to it, it´s not nearly as tech­ni­cal, more like view­ing a real brochure. Allthough it´s still on a com­puter screen with a mouse.

To cap­ture some of this organic stuff in the design I wanted hand drawn ele­ments to make up most of the graphic ele­ments. There are some squigly bits here and there but the main thing is the head­line font and icons.

Patra Tawat­pol is very deer friend and an incred­i­bly accom­plished illus­tra­tor and she drew these amaz­ing icons by hand. We then scanned them in and I did some post proc­cess­ing on the scans.

The head­line font is Lucida Hand­writ­ing dis­played with Sifr. For the para­graphs and other text I chose Tre­buchet, a nice soft, rounded fem­i­nin font to my brain.