Michael Myers Website
March 2025
As part of my final project for my Graphic Design 2 class, I created a designed website cataloguing the history of a topic of my choice.
I chose to present the lore of Michael Myers, the iconic slasher from John Carpenter's Halloween franchise. This design acts as an in-universe "investigation" into the different versions of Michael Myers, where each version comes from a different timeline in the Halloween movies.
This is the link to the interactive Figma prototype, which can also be accessed at the start of the page.
From the start, I knew I wanted to make this design an in-universe investigation. The website would end with a manila folder that had clickable tabs, with each tab describing a storyline from the franchise. This sketch shows that.
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I started off simple, incorporating scans of real paper and folders so I could give it that investigatory feel. I included a short bio towards the end that explained the lore of the original Michael Myers.
However, I felt it didn't fit the vision I was going for. I edited the scans in Photoshop to look darker. I also wanted to include the red string web that's seen in investigations on TV, so I connected the major figures in the Halloween franchise with red thread.
Following critique, I knew I needed the website to have a better storyline and to darken the overall aesthetic. So I compiled more scans, incorporated more investigative or Halloween-y elements, and made sure everything looked more grimy.
This was my final design. Here are some of the changes I made:
Changed the website name from "Versions" to "Evolution." Evolution made more sense if I was treating the website like an in-universe investigation, since Myers would just be one constantly changing entity.
I redid the first newspaper element to be part of a full article I wrote myself.
Made all photo scans look older and dirtier.
I made all the images look like polaroids.
Introduced the Strode's key to the Michael Myers house, a bag of evidence and a bloody knife, and had more paper logs on Myers' behavior.
Labeled the tabs on the manila folder so it'd be more obvious they were clickable.
