Ethan Dorta ⬤⬤ ITIS3135

Pitchfork is a music journalism website that runs articles about music along with reviews of new albums. The website often focuses on more experimental and alternative music as opposed to their mainstream contemporaries at places such as Rolling Stone. Album ratings are done on a 0.0 - 10.0 scale in increments of 0.1, and each rating is accompanied by a short-to-medium length review of the album in question. Articles about the music industry and alternative music also appear on Pitchfork to accompany album reviews and supply news relating to artists.

• Contrast - There is clear separation of elements throughout the website, with new track titles being in a large black font, the indicator of a review being in a bright red smaller font, and various other information below in a normal font. Reviews are organized into cards that clearly indicate the space between them and emphasize it with shadows to show separation.
• Repetition - The use of the same formatting for each album review shows consistency and also indicates where one review stops and the next continues. The uniformity provides a strong sense of professionalism to the page as each item can be clearly indicated from a glance.
• Alignment - The page is aligned in a way where music news is in a card at the top of the page, below the navigation bar, and the list of album reviews are below it. The important information about album reviews are near the top of each card, indicating their important, while the summaries, author information, and album genre are below.
• Proximity - Articles relating to music news are distant on the page from album reviews and each category has its own area on the page where they are contained. Album reviews are grouped together into an element and are stacked in a different way from the articles to indicate the type of content is different.

Men Without Hats was a Canadian new wave and synth-pop band formed in 1977. They had two major hits throughout the 80's: "Safety Dance" released off their Rhythm of Youth album in 1982, and "Pop Goes The World" from the album of the same name in 1987. The band disbanded in 1993 but temporarily reunited in the mid 2000's, accompanied by a custom website to advertise that they were back on tour. This website contained an essay about the history of the band, a form to contact the webmasters and band, and a page that contains advertisements and various information about the band not contained within their history.

• Contrast - Contrast is use nonsensically, with elements that are of a similar type being styled strangely and dissimilar elements being grouped together with similar styling. In particular, the quotes section of the webpage having each quote in a different color uses contrast in an unappealing way.
• Repetition - Not a lot of repetition in the webpage; each new element appears to be styled independently from the previous one and there is no consistency nor uniformity in the stylings. Images are scattered and do not have any kind of size relations nor captions or even a general format for their insertion.
• Alignment - Essentially none. Each element is thrown into the flow of the webpage and wherever it lands is where it sticks. There is a navigation bar on the side that is seperated from the rest of the webpage, however it is on the right which is unnatural as people in Western cultures often read from left to right.
• Proximity - Proximity is not used in any meaningful way in the website, with whatever the bandmates could think of thrown in as they were mentioned. The page ends with a collage of images that are thrown out of alignment by interspersed quotes. There is also a chord chart and lyrics for a song that is unrelated to the image collage below the nav bar and to the right of the collage.

NOTE: Some of the links in the navbar appear to have been squatted and now redirect to unsafe websites.