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I like this very much. There are a few things that strike me though:
- The alignment of your heading. For some reason the alignment of everything at the top bothers me. Technically I think you have it right but still something bothers me and I'm not sure what.
- Not enough emphasis on your logo.
- Confusion of the navigation and offerings
Everything else looks great though!
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I like it! :) Looks really nice and quite original, although you don't use much of the "fancy stuff"... you should just keep in mind, that the narrow letters (very pretty) will be harder to read in smaller sizes, and without some vivid colours, like you have in your header.
So just remember about it if you want to communicate an important message, like "hire me" or something ;) Congratulations!
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Christophe Zlobinski-Furmaniak commented:Hi Ania, and thanx to feedback. Usability is an important point to me, and you're right to focus on it. I already changed the narrow text to a regular one for my stationery, because of readability, and I think I'll do the same for design :)
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Good work so far I would say. One thing I notice is your logo doesn't really fit with the rest of the typography. The font in your logo makes me think of an old western font, something you'd see on a very grungy, distressed design. The rest of the design however, is very clean and minimal. I think your logo should reflect that, or vice versa.
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Christophe Zlobinski-Furmaniak commented:
Hi Joel, and thanks to feedback. The company name is known in France under "Infini-0" (Infinity - 0), and I needed some internationalizable name, that's why I chose So Studio. It's a bit difficult to find a type with a such stretched S, in order to made it as a "Infinity" greek symbol. But you're right, I'll try to fix it. Thanks ;)
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Joel Glovier commented:Yeah, i can understand your dilemma. Have you considered creating the logo from scratch in Illustrator?
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Christophe Zlobinski-Furmaniak commented:
Hi Joel, to answer you, please refer to my comment to Marlyse just below.
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Overall I really like the design, the punch of colors and layout.
The font of the logo strikes alien, not really part of the rest which is much more clean cut, any clean cut font, such as a simple Helvetica Narrow would fit better with the overall feel.
The text is not easy to read, people do also come for content but can get a bit dispersed by the hard to read text, e.g. on the ABOUT page, at first it fizzled my attention and once I concentrated it was okay, but how often will people come and deliberately concentrate to read?
That links can have several different colors appears a bit random. Is the cue rotating or random? The different link colors in the text area - what does it imply, different levels of importance or just plain design?
For the text/link reasons I gave Engagement less stars.
Really like what you do with the REQUEST A QUOTE page, the feedback is nicely styled too.
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Christophe Zlobinski-Furmaniak commented:
Hi Marlyse. Thank you for your comment and feedback. Concerning the logo font and narrow type, please refer to my comments above and below. I would answer about the different colors in the text area actually, as you can see in the blind text of the SERVICES page.
It's neither just a design choice, nor a random one. I tried it to let the most important words light out. For example, I would have 3 keywords for a Service, and they need to stand out from the whole sentence.
Thank you for the REQUEST comment: I totally wasn't sure if it was a good idea...
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Marlyse Comte commented:Thanks Christophe for the explanations, I understand now your point. Good choice about the change of font. I agree with another poster, you might want to draw the logo in Illustrator to get close to the infinity symbol but keep it in line with the rest of the site. It is definitely overall a great looking design.
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Christophe Zlobinski-Furmaniak commented:
Thanks again. Actually, I began with the logo in a first place, in Illustrator, of course. The first one was based on the idea that web is a kind of atom with 2 magnetic poles : infinity and 0. You can watch it in http://web.infini-0.com.
But I very don't like it, and I needed something more efficient. I spend hours, days, and weeks working on it. I tried many ways, and my best shot was the actual logo: it deals in the meantime with Infinity-0 (because of the stretched S) and So Studio. Moreover, the actual shape lets remains of a tribal totem, and then, the notion of identity. Maybe should I post all my design process here. What do you think of?
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Marlyse Comte commented:
Ah, don't we love evolution of an idea :-)
I definitely would be interested in seeing your design process on the logo.
The tricky part of what you are aiming for is combining ultra-modern (your website design) with spiritual (infinity) and tribal (totem) - I'd say, the identity part will be a given with the creation of the unique logo.
A possible question to ponder is: why the totem? Is that an ingredient you could drop? spirituality and ultra-modern does not seem to produce any friction of ideas, but the tribal is such a different and specific item, a physical item versus the more conceptual items and does not seem to fit... except you would want to use that item in the sense of 'from tribal to infinity' - which philosophically does not work as infinity does not have a beginning as it is infinite.
Just some thoughts.
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Christophe Zlobinski-Furmaniak commented:
I'd rather say that totem acts, for me, more as a strong definition of identity (the huge part of my skills), than spirituality. I'll post my logo process soon
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Like it a lot. Very clear organization, nice contrast, punchy colors. A few negatives: fonts too small, actual purpose of site is hard to read on the left... creative treatment but seems a little diconnected from the three word header.
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The main thing that caught my eye is the hard to read text in the first column under Studio.
The sections on the right didn't really strike me as links until after looking more closely. Not sure if its the design or if im just thick!
The logo doesn't stick out too much either. Maybe try changing the grey rectangle to a different color!
Overall i really like it!
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no web layout rules need to be followed. it is original and new.
so no hard rules that missed. wish the good execution. :-)
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I wouldn't change a thing. Amazing type. Gorgeous layout.
Get this website up, ASAP.
You have major skills.
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Christophe Zlobinski-Furmaniak commented:
Thanks a lot ;) I'm building it up into HTML 5 / CSS 3, with a graceful degradation into CSS 2. Let me know if you wanna be in touch ;)
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Nice typography, but i think the content boxes don't really fit with the rest of the design, also the footer is a bit to crowded kinda confuzing:d but after all nice design
pz
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for me the text justification is a big concern in the usability testing, its really hard to read. Otherwise its a very nice design.
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Very nice for a dark design! Love how the address is displayed at the bottom. Here some comments:
- I found the black on gray text at the bottom hard to read, and given the other items there of different brightness, allover a little noisy.
- Nice pictures for the services, well done.
- Also like the project slider idea, awesome.
- Process is very text heavy, you'd probably lose me after 2 lines.
- Quote request also is nice, preview is a sweet touch.
Good luck with this, it's well executed..
