A Review of My Freelance Webdesigner Portfolio by Mester Catalin

a little originality

  • Mester Catalin

    Mester Catalin

    Rank: 4 Master

    1055

    • Design: 4
    • Purpose: 5
    • Originality: 1
    • Engagement: 4
    2 Votes
    a little originality

    Posted on Oct 05, 2009 at 12:31 PM

    Your goal "showing your works" is definitely achieved in a clean and to the point way.

    One thing that kinda bothered me when I 1-st looked at this site is the typography used in the logo .... just doesn't do it for me.

    The other thing is the lack of any original element that would make people say ..."That's a Vincent"

    Other then that ... white space ...lovin it. Color choice ...lovin it.

    Hope this helps.

    MEster.

    • Vincent
      Vincent commented:
      Posted: on Oct 05, 2009 at 12:39 PM

      Thanks for your feedback. What you said about the logo typography is interesting for me cause i spent so much time choosing it , can you tell me more about what you don't like in it ? Thanks for your time

    • Sean Larkin
      Sean Larkin commented:
      Posted: on Oct 05, 2009 at 12:47 PM

      I don't like the letter S in that font. They just don't match. Almost looks like the name is vincent de font, with some symbol before and after "font". The font also creates an issue with the i, as it is crushed in between the V and N.

      I like that you left the dot off the i, and shortened the t. Can't say that it's right or wrong, I just like it because I do that a lot too. :)

    • Mester Catalin
      Mester Catalin commented:
      Posted: on Oct 05, 2009 at 1:31 PM

      Well it's very hard to read and " heavy " on my eyes ..half way along reading it I give up ..and I say something like .." vincent whatever " let's see the works....just doesn't make sense to me.

    • Vincent
      Vincent commented:
      Posted: on Oct 05, 2009 at 2:03 PM

      Yeah. The problem is my last name is a bit too french and complicated to spell even for french people. May be "vincent whatever" could be a great name :)

    • Mester Catalin
      Mester Catalin commented:
      Posted: on Oct 05, 2009 at 2:09 PM

      Depends on what you want your logo to represent ...you need a purpose and a philosophy behind it.... but the way it is it's hard to even remeber.

      That's just me ...

    • Vincent
      Vincent commented:
      Posted: on Oct 05, 2009 at 2:24 PM

      When they look at my logo i would like people to think : he looks friendly and cool but he seems to do serious work. That's what i'm trying to get. quite hard...

    • Mester Catalin
      Mester Catalin commented:
      Posted: on Oct 05, 2009 at 2:39 PM

      Well in all honesty I don't think this is what this logo is saying ..at list not to me ... the word "cool" is nowhere to be found in the way your logo is presented (then again my definition of cool might be wrong )... the " serious " part of the logo I can give it a 50% ....as for friendly (none)

    • Mester Catalin
      Mester Catalin commented:
      Posted: on Oct 05, 2009 at 2:41 PM

      I know it's hard to accept someone else s opinion especially after the amount of brain storming and Identity project requests.... all I can do is a fair review...the rest it's totally up 2 you.

    • Vincent
      Vincent commented:
      Posted: on Oct 05, 2009 at 2:47 PM

      Not at all i swear. I know that i should change something. I got no problem with it. I will try to find something. I have time. I will think about it.

    • Stas Zlobinski
      Stas Zlobinski commented:
      Posted: on Oct 07, 2009 at 9:13 PM

      I agree, the logo doesn't seem to work. I gave up trying to read it just by glancing at it. It looks like you're trying too hard. May be try something simpler. The rest of your site is clean, simple and elegant. Logo is not. I'm a minimalist, you should know, so take my feedback accordingly.