MERU New site!!
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- Garus
We just launched our new site and I thought that I would share it with everyone. If you are interested in any of the projects or think you would like to work on something with us send a note because we are always looking for like minded people and inspiring projects.
Check it out!
www.meru.ca
- pressplay0
I think you weren‘t asking for a crit but... site looks interesting and to the point and I like the dynamic logo, but fuck, when I read the copy, I cringe... create insipired business solutions... what about something more original and personal and less corporate bullshitspeak?
- GeorgesII0
- That's an interesting coincidence. Our logo was designed to reflect Meru’s dynamic working environment and our desire to tinker and explore. We represented this with an undefined and continuously evolving shape.Garus
- don't worry mate,
I wasn't implying you copied it :)GeorgesII - i have a logo concept IDENTICAL to your meru one. its a pretty common look these dayssofakingbanned
- DRIFTMONKEY0
Why is your logo under work? This makes no sense. Especially, since I just saw it on the home page.
- This also caught my eye -this revealed to me that you're a solo-effort... even though you use the term 'we'PonyBoy
- That's a great psychological insight. We are actual a team of eight.Garus
- sorry... I meant it makes you look like a solo effort... I can't see 2 people saying 'yes' to putting their own logo up-front :)PonyBoy
- detritus0
You're very proud of the blobby animation, aren't you? How many different places need it be shown?
'we hope it inspires you to connect with us' sounds insipid and self-congratulatory to my ears.
It also represents the second of three redundant pages, before I get to the meat of your content. For such a minimal site, there's a lot in the way.
Also, for a minimal site the navigation is surprisingly unintuitive in places... you give room to bloody social networking icons, then throw other (unexplained ones) alongside here.. but not there, but over there.
Why do you have a 'refresh page' icon for the handle on your text scroller?
Actually, I have to stop. This just gets messier the more I look.
- I missed a line about 'breadcrumbs or something' in that fourth paragraph.detritus
- sigg0
main nav is horrible
when in the internal pages the logo doesn't show up, then i click something (i really don't know how i do it) and the animated logo magically appears
i like the minimal site but the nav is seriously bad. i'd almost do away with the reversed out text for the main nav, and ditch the circles and just go with the cleaner icons down with the arrows below
the work is ok but the way you chose to show it doesn't do it any justice at all
- detritus0
Actually, one more thing.
Why is the rendering of the type in your logo, the single-only consistent aspect of your brand, so shoddy?
The aliasation is apparent on the landing page version, and is grotesque in its evidence when rendered wee, up top in your primary/secondary/whatever navigation.
- Dude, I could read a whole thread of your crit comments. It's like the Shakespeare of site crits.stoplying
- jon_d0
interesting experimental stuff. a lot of forward functionality.
- 'Forward functionality'? Huh? Did you just learn how to speak Corporate Buzzword, or something?Continuity
- utopian0
nice logo & animation, howver as soon as you dive into the main section of the website everything is off-center, difficult to see & read the menu navigation and the portfolio are as small as thumbnails. Also too many click throughs...
- detritus0
Oh, and please poison whoever it is that writes your copy.
- "Our company is of course an especially dynamic entity"?
*cobalt bomb*detritus - lol - you stayed on long enough to read it ?WeLoveNoise
- You know me, WeloveNoise—
I love to hate.detritus
- "Our company is of course an especially dynamic entity"?
- Continuity0
Nifty logo animation aside, this site leaves remarkably indifferent, visually. To stark, too white, too bog-standard carousel implementation for me to get excited about anything.
And I agree with detritus: the copy is lamentably trite.
- Fax_Benson0
Ooof. Good job you didn't ask for a crit.
- cannonball19780
Inelegant use of white space.
- cannonball19780
Why is "connect with us" written everywhere? Are you afraid the future will happen too fast and the elimination of phones will render your website obsolete?
- lvl_130
crashed my browser, so i only saw a little piece.
- Mishga0
Hate the flash preloader!!!
ooopss sorry, html5 preloader...;)- what's a html 5 preloader? i dont think real kylobites preloader already exist in htmljadrian_uk
- rounce0
First thing I did is 'view source'.
My. Fucking. Word.
- jadrian_uk0
it's not that bad , this is a new era, flash is dead.it's the typical flash like site: Js, Js history. but it's cool
- sigg0
I think overall people are a bit pissy about your site because I'm sure they, like I, thought this was a new website about that cute little cat Maru.
- < valid & plausibleregiste
- Ooooh. Well-spotted.Continuity
- cannonball19780
I TAKE A DUMP on your site
- instrmntl0
I like it. One thing I'd change, when viewing work, have the close button on the upper right of the image instead of below with the other icons. It took awhile to find as it gets lost really easily down there.