Crystal Coast's Ghosts of the Coast

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  PROJECT BY:

  Skyler Vander Molen

  
  

  
  
  Client: Crystal Coast
  Agency: The Zimmerman Agency
  Role: Creative Direction, Art Direction, Design, Illustration
  Description: This is something that's been finished for awhile, I just kept forgetting to post. Each year North Carolina's Crystal Coast does a promotion called Ghosts of the Coast. Not many people know about a lot of the crazy history the place has, so it's a good chance to highlight things like the capture of Blackbeard, wild shipwreck surviving horses that roam the area and a little girl buried in a rum barrel.

  
  The site was inspired by old newspapers that would've been in circulation at the time and could have possibly reported some of these events. Thick, heavy type... etchings... messy, less than perfect letters... all inspiration for the overall look and feel.
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  Home page.
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  History page. 
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  Partners. This page was used to display the logos of partners in the area sponsoring the event.
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  Sweepstakes entry form and ajax error checking.
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  Form submission error checking.
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  Successful form submission.
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  Get ghouled. Users would upload a photo and ghosts would be inserted into the background making it look as if a ghost had snuck into the photo.