Scandalous reasoning and design!!!

As a group we initially decided to write our blog about sports, focusing mainly on the English Soccer Premier League, the NBA and the NRL. However after much discussion we realised that was just too boring a subject and so we decided to spice it up and focus on the scandalous behaviour of our beloved sporting icons instead.

Once the topic was set the design was easy, we all liked the idea of mimicking the style of a newspaper, and especially the style of the tacky tabloid press. Using the English paper “The Sun” as our inspiration we modelled the layout of the page with a banner showing the blog name across the top and a central column with stories accompanied by pictures below just as on the front page of a newspaper. However we decided not to use the column layout of a newspaper as our research of other blogs revealed that this was not effective blog design.

Our logo is simple but hopefully effective, as the words sporting scandal circle the globe just as the news of our sporting icons mishaps do on a daily basis. Using red as the main colour of our blog is meant to indicate danger and naughtiness, which we think is fitting for the content of our stories.