MTV Staying-Alive: MySpace Designs

Last week I created two MySpace designs for new ventures by MTV's Staying Alive Foundation, which as you'll know, I've had chance to work with on a number of occasions now. As you'd expect for a MySpace page, the emphasis is on user interaction. I'm just showing the page headers here, but needless to say, the style follows through the templates.

For 'The Big Question', visitors are invited to voice their opinion on an important issue, encouraged by slebs doing the same thing. It's also about whether it's possible for people to change their opinions. The visual idea here is just that, with arrows (and a question mark) changing direction and overlapping, representing the diversity in opinion that significant matters can generate. A simple idea perhaps, but I think it works well in terms of providing a striking backdrop and setting the scene.


The second design was for 'Untold Stories', where a sleb tells half a story in a video blog. It's then up to the visitors to finish the story, whether it's in video or written form. One of the stories mentions pavements and crying, and somewhere out of that developed this concept. A heart split in two and turned upside down becomes a tear. Plus it makes a pretty pattern too!


Both projects have yet to 'go live', but they've been used here with kind permission.