Client
Little, Brown and Company is an American publisher founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and his partner, James Brown, and for close to two centuries has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors. Little, Brown and Company is one of the country’s oldest and most distinguished publishing houses. Led by publisher Reagan Arthur, Little, Brown brings out fiction and nonfiction by many of America’s finest writers in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audio formats. To this day, Little, Brown remains committed to publishing fiction of the highest quality and nonfiction of lasting significance. The company’s bestselling novelists include J.D. Salinger, Herman Wouk, James Patterson, Anita Shreve, Michael Connelly, Alice Sebold, Janet Fitch, Pete Hamill, Emma Donoghue, David Foster Wallace, Kate Atkinson, Stephenie Meyer and Elin Hilderbrand.
OPPORTUNITY
Proposed promotional website for upcoming book tour. Spaceman of Bohemia is written by Jaroslav Kalfar. Jakub Prochazka, the Czech hero of Jaroslav Kalfar’s zany first novel, “Spaceman of Bohemia,” is an astronaut who has left a lot of baggage back on Earth. He is the shining hope of an entire nation, the biggest celebrity in his home country. The reason the Czech Republic is launching a manned spacecraft is the arrival of a strange comet that has “swept our solar system with a sandstorm of intergalactic cosmic dust.”
Moodboard for Jaroslav Kalfar's book, Spaceman of Bohemia.
Solution
Update the current website of Spaceman of Bohemia to fit the feel of the book better and encourage readers to purchase the book and visit the author on his upcoming book tour. This site will scroll and the information will all be on one page. It will also include a YouTube video of an interview with the publisher. The site will feature a spaceman lost in space to set the tone of the site. The site will tell readers information about the author, the book, reviews and book tour as well. It has three breakpoints to be viewed on multiple size screens for maximum viewing needs. The new website will attract a younger audience with the updated layout and functioning mobile version. The tone is friendly and inviting, The layout will be clean and structured and less chaotic from the current design. Create a character of the spaceman that gives the website a more humanistic feel. The spaceman character will also act as symbol for the book and function like a logo.
SITE MAP & Desktop Prototype
Mobile Prototype
