Gangplank

Gangplank is a website that urges people to work toward building a new and better economy. It supports the environment, sustainability, and the community in much the same way as Bill McKibben's book Deep Economy, which is the common theme book at IUPUI for the next two years.


It has a good message. It has great goals. The website is set up to support events, which is a good feature. It is innovative in that it teams up with local artists and musicians to get credit. It works to get people informed and involved in changing the community, the economy, and the environment.


But something about its design just doesn't make sense. It's not the dark look of the website - it's perfectly find to steer away from the typical "green" look. It's not the nautical theme. It's that the main font is cartoonish. And at the same time, the website's logo is a skull. It's all right to go against the typical look, but at least pick just one direction.































Design can break rules and boundaries, but it should not break consistency. It's true that the skull looks cartoonish, like the font, and that the skull matches with the nautical (and possibly pirate-like) theme. But the font looks like something out of a bubble gum ad. I would make the font match with the rest of the site.