I discovered that the most difficult part of making my website was going to be bending the grid so it looked good and as if the grid was actually bending in relation to the mass of the planet. My original plan was to draw the lines straight on InDesign and then bend them using the ‘convert direction point tool’. This turned out to be way more difficult than I thought it would be.

Although it worked, I don’t think that it looked as good as it could be and looks quite messy and unprofessional. It also made it difficult to do the same thing to the planet next to it and all the bends crashed into each other. I also feel that the grid doesn’t look like it bends underneath the planet from its mass and so I tried to come up with another idea.

My second idea for bending the grid was to draw a circle around the planet as a guide and create and circle shaped grid around it and then draw the rest of the lines off from that. This worked to start with until it came to deleting the guide circle and drawing the rest of the warped grid and straight lines. When I came to drawing the straight lines out from the bent ones I got confused and none of them lined up correctly so I decided to scrap this idea.

I then became fairly stuck for ideas and decided to move and create my poster and app.