Site Crit (redesign)
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- digdre0
remove the splatters and you are fine
- air_yourself0
you'll have to let us know when you've redesigned it
- set0
- i dunno, some spatters might do it a bit of good. i love the yellow but gosh, it's retina searing.kona
- "through an ARRAY of GRAPHICAL MEDIUMS" - nothing worse than a dumb ass trying to sound smart.SeriousFreelancing
- air_yourself0
- you are a prick?set
- air_yourself you knobPoochie
- tooSeriousFreelancing
- needs more blackvitamins
- are there black splatters in that?CygnusZero4
- detritus0
You've got four 'fad' types on your site -
- Circle in a logo
- Splatters
- Yellow high contrast design
- Scrunched up, tightly-leaded textEach one of these serves as a distraction from the bulk content.
I'd drop two of them - your call which (personally, I quite like the yellow and the splattering).
Not too sure about the lack of home button in the main menu - usually doesn't matter so much, but you have quite a distance between your nav and your logo.
"No chefs equal no cookie cutter designs" doesn't read well to me.
Is your font web-ready? Seems to be quite a lot of artefacts with it - with top and bottom pixels looking squished or cut off entirely, depending upon size.
Can't help but feel you could cut the site down by a few pages - seems like a lot of redundancy/overlap between "home / about / clients / portfolio".
I'm by no means a shit-hot designer, especially in comparison with a few of the bods here - but your site reminds me of my earlier efforts, when I struggled to think of a way to differentiate myself, to make myself seem like I had my finger on the pulse. I'd rely upon graphical gimmicks and pad things out to try and create the illusion of scale and competence.
What I try and do these days is take all that shit out and make a site work with the bare minimum. Seems like the designery thing to do - though perhaps this is just a further pretense from a failed designer, a decade down the line...
- Frosty_spl0
That direct TV Gamelounge logo was submitted through one of the spec logo websites wasn't it? I at least remember seeing some there.
- But I like the splatters, just not the huge text on the left.Frosty_spl
- epigraph0
I like the paperclip and naming force logos
- That paper clip leaning to the left is killing me.SeriousFreelancing
- paperclip = borrowed interest, which pretty much speaks for more than 50% of the work.SeriousFreelancing
- hellojeehae0
makes me think of watchmen
- SeriousFreelancing0
Saying "epicenter" doesn't make you sound smart. "Epicenter" is normally used in conjunction with a natural disaster, in this case I'd say a shit storm.
If using a stereotypical nerd white rapper is considered the end-all of creativity....phew then the world is fucked.
Hire a copy writer and... you'll be fine.
- Mr_Right0
"The epicenter of creative ideas, concepts and solutions." This might be a bit of an overstatement.
- set0
lol @ the use of epicenter
- bumdrizzle0
almost as embarrassing as putting apple, adobe and mt logos at the bottom of your website isn't it serious freelancer?
- SeriousFreelancing0
Almost!
- raf0
The use of word "creative" earns anyone a wake-up slap in the back of their skull. Even calling yourself an artist brings less of a chuckle.
- vitamins0
Needs more blinding yellow.
- irrelevant0
thanks for all the comments. Posting here is a great litmus test on what other designers think. Some comments are the usual smut, but others come with a little consideration. thanks again
Chris
- ModernZombie0
Personally its too "bloggy" for my taste. I like the splatter effects but will agree with Detritus that there are too many fads fighting for attention. I would try to lessen the distractions and allow the content to speak for itself. If the work is good you don't have to over design the portfolio. Just my opinion.