Richard O' Neill

Mr. Pixel - Concept

By Richard O' Neill

   on May 04, 2010
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  • Amy Feger

    Amy Feger

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    Hi Mr. Pixel, I like your logo and your pull quote.

    As you may be looking for just a rough outlook at your set up here, I just thought I would share a few things that you may want to look at further along. The first sentence under "About Mr. Pixel" seems a bit long. Maybe it could be split into two?

    Then when it comes to the title "Portfolio" on p1.jpg and p2.jpg. If it is possible, to maybe bring the "po" part closer to the "rtfolio" and the "portfo" closer to the "lio" in the word "portfolio"?

    To then maybe bring in the word "next" closer to the arrow so it is the same space away as the word "previous" to the arrow on p2.jpg.

    Then on p1.jpg I noticed that you have aligned your subtitles of each pic to the white frame around the pictures. Since this white frame choice is hard to see. Maybe consider aligning these subtitles to the edge of the picture itself. For I believe that would be your strongest alignment point. "OTC voices" looks a bit off as is, just even compared to "Whale Music" under the first pic. I notice that your example on p2.jpg that the text is aligned neatly to that above pic and it makes a nice difference. ( It looks a bit hard to align considering the text is italic.)

    All are just suggestions for when you get further along. Your site thus far does keep my interest as a viewer.

    • Richard O' Neill
      Richard O' Neill commented:
      Posted: on May 05, 2010 at 10:38 AM

      Hi Amy, thanks for the feedback have made soome minor ammends to layout and text styling based on comments so far, cheers. rich

  • Haider Ali

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    nice work!

    Posted on May 05, 2010 at 1:35 AM

    This loos elegant, nice and simple. Only one thing I would suggest is try a bit more darker shade underneath your logo ;)

  • Michael Gunner

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    Alignment, margins, etc.

    Posted on May 05, 2010 at 3:17 AM

    Nice idea, though highly unoriginal. My main gripe is the alignment of elements. I've attached a picture to demonstrate. I feel you should be doing something more interesting with the layout, this isn't hugely creative to me, but very standard.

    Good luck!

    • mrpixel.jpg
  • Spyros Livathinos

    Spyros Livathinos

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    Vertical alignment of the page titles

    Posted on May 05, 2010 at 3:22 AM

    Hi Richard,

    I like your minimalistic design and the structure of your concept. I especially like the logo, it caught my attention instantly, with its humorously serious mr.Pixel character.

    Like my title says, if i would like to see one thing changed that would be the page title (in your examples the word "portfolio") to be vertically aligned with the rest of the main body grid below it. So in my mind, the leftmost part of the word portfolio would be at the same x-axis length as the leftmost part of the main content div. The same thing goes for the "subtitle" of the main page.

    Keep going, i would really love to see the final outcome of your site!

    • Richard O' Neill
      Richard O' Neill commented:
      Posted: on May 05, 2010 at 10:40 AM

      Hi Spyros, have implemented the alignment change to concept defo a bit better, thanks for feeback

  • Nathan Powell

    Nathan Powell

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    Lack of depth

    Posted on May 05, 2010 at 3:28 AM

    Hi RIchard

    After a quick peek I would say that barring some of the alignment issues my main gripe would be a lack of depth. Maybe a very subtle background would really lift the design.

    I like the simplicity and functionality of the web, easy to navigate.

    Not sure about the double pixel line at the bottome of the page.

    The white border around your projects is very hard to appreciate due to the background colour.

    Good Luck and I look forward to any updates.

    • Richard O' Neill
      Richard O' Neill commented:
      Posted: on May 05, 2010 at 10:43 AM

      hi nathan, thanks for feedback, the double pixel line suddenly stood as being bit odd when you mentioned it so have removed in concept presentation where I have made couple of other minor tweaks including adding slight shadow to portfolio ims to lift em slightly. considerin ading some bg elements to help with depth, cheers, rich

  • Alan Horne

    Alan Horne

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    inject some colour and font

    Posted on May 05, 2010 at 3:32 AM

    I like the clean design, its very nice, but i still have a few issues.

    I'm not a huge fan of the font your using, and there is too much italics going on.

    I would also look to inject one other colour, just for links or somthing like that, as it would make it pop more.

    • Richard O' Neill
      Richard O' Neill commented:
      Posted: on May 05, 2010 at 10:45 AM

      hi Alan thanks for your comments, on reviewing agree with your assement on italics and have since reduced them down to just page title and links within text area

  • Andrew Champ

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    Too plain.

    Posted on May 05, 2010 at 3:10 PM

    You used the white space well, but it just leaves me wanting more. Possibly making the logo bigger or horizontal may improve on it.

  • Euan Ross

    Euan Ross

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    Logo

    Posted on May 11, 2010 at 7:56 AM

    Nice layout. I don't like the logo, whilst I can understand the reason it's nice an pixely I think it detracts from the otherwise simple, slick, polished edge you've given the rest of the site.

    Some colour would be nice and probably complement the existing colour scheme.

    Maybe something more in the navigation - some colour? a simple hover over?