S. Preston

Concept: KEHAN Contractors Website

I think the brown is to dominant. I like that blue in the logo. You should use it more for accent and to help draw you're eye.

• Design: 3
• Purpose: 4
• Originality: 2
• Engagement: 3

Concept: Web Designer Portfolio

Nicely done with the purple. Hard to pull off that color well.

Love the cleanliness and the clear content section. Extra points for the retro apple logo!

• Design: 4
• Purpose: 3
• Originality: 3
• Engagement: 4

Concept: Event Planner Website & Blog

Just great. The wave is really nice. Icons are great.

You've clearly done this before ;)

Cheers

• Design: 5
• Purpose: 4
• Originality: 4
• Engagement: 4

Concept: Logo for SEO and Webdesign Company

I actually like the first one, but the stars are quite nice too.

It might be just me, but the bottom make the name read "norths park" for some reason. The spark image takes away from the two font colors. Pretty minor optical issue though...splitting hairs.

• Design: 5
• Purpose: 4
• Originality: 5
• Engagement: 5

Concept: Logo design for Super Mum Life Coaching

Ditto on everyone elses comments.

Maybe try a perspective with block font. Give it that "Superman" look. Typography doesn't seem to be your strength. My suggestion is do not use a fun, comic book style font. Your target market is adults. Something bold, strong, yet feminine would better.

Lastly, I think pink is a better color for SuperMom. Light blue is a masculine and non-action color.

Good Luck

• Design: 1
• Purpose: 2
• Originality: 4
• Engagement: 2

Concept: candy candy

candycandy look nice. Great gradient, great border. Very fun.

The "clothes & accessories: is where you fall apart. The paint spray doesn't have meaning, and makes the words un-readable.

My personal preference when I use tilted words, to not use a serif font... the askew text should give it randomness and the font should reflect that... either with distress or font style.

Love the colors!

• Design: 3
• Purpose: 3
• Originality: 2
• Engagement: 4

Concept: personal website

I agree with most of the other comments, so I won't reiterate

Your landing page is a little "texty". Users should be able to 'see' what you do, not 'read' what you do. Especially as a designer.

Always to the walkby test. Look away, and look quickly at your design. What impression do you get? I don't get designer... I actually see hearts...

Keep at it. I think you're on to something ...

• Design: 2
• Purpose: 3
• Originality: 4
• Engagement: 2

Concept: Snow Riders Website

Love it. Way cool! Totally engaging. Totally unique. Not sure you plan on CSS all the opaques on this site though ;P

Also curious how you plan on attacking a page with a lot of content (the one-pager).

Good job.

• Design: 5
• Purpose: 5
• Originality: 4
• Engagement: 5

Concept: Website Redesign

Great colors. I like the light blue. Makes a good sky color.

I really like the layout. very intuitive.

• Design: 4
• Purpose: 4
• Originality: 4
• Engagement: 4

Concept: Logo design for train transport company

If you stand back and glance, I saw an artist palette and read ARTS. I don't know if that matters.

On a closer look, I really like it. It doesn't say 'train' but it does say environment. If it's on a train, it's a strong logo!

Plus it passes the grey scale test too.

Cheers

• Design: 4
• Purpose: 3
• Originality: 4
• Engagement: 4

Concept: Website redesigned

Very corporate indeed. The design is fine, but there's absolutely no catchiness at all. The message is that the webdev agency can only make plain corporate sites.

Part of the reason for this is that the 'autumn' colors you use emotes passiveness.

• Design: 3
• Purpose: 2
• Originality: 2
• Engagement: 3

Concept: Online store landing page

I get it. But here's the issues that need to be addressed in the header:

1. To many elements that don't support each other... grass/sky/rainbow, hearts, flower, clouds. Pick just a couple and run with it.

2. Use Kuler.com! Pick your red color, and find complimenting colors that work. RIght now, light blue+green+blood red doesn't work.

3. My suggestion, is to kill the hearts, and kill the red background. Maybe just use white/off-white with a texture with hearts in it. The kids kissing is enough for emotion; the hearts are just way to on-the-nose.

Cheers.

• Design: 1
• Purpose: 2
• Originality: 1
• Engagement: 1

Concept: Rethinking Code

Great choices on fonts. Great mood. Love the birds to add balance and foreground texture.

Not a big fan of the face. If that represents you, then it doens't represent you well. Remember that it's the only human element on the page, so people tend to connect with the human and it's emotions. Your website is dark, but not depressive, which is what your face emotes.

All and all really love it.

• Design: 5
• Purpose: 4
• Originality: 4
• Engagement: 4

Concept: website design

Over all I like the design. No need to be edgy, and crazy! Like you said, it's corporate.

Couple quick suggestions. The rainbow colors in the top nav is a little 'fruity'. Especially for a steel company.

Logo is somewhat small. I always have problems wiht images that are anchored into a photo, cause if the photo changes, do you have to PS the image into the new photo? Will it look good in the other photos?

• Design: 3
• Purpose: 4
• Originality: 3
• Engagement: 4

Concept: Portfolio Website

Not much to add. Clearly u hit a home run here.

• Design: 5
• Purpose: 5
• Originality: 5
• Engagement: 5

Concept: personal portfolio

Nice. you've created a sweet looking website.

Pros: Colors are great, very simple and clean/ Decoration is all the right places.

Cons: Not much. You might want to reduce the number of featured pages. Remember pre-scoll (or in the industry called above-the-fold). User has to scroll a long way to get to your skills, and about, which is important too!

Cheers

• Design: 4
• Purpose: 5
• Originality: 2
• Engagement: 4

Concept: Logo design

As to previous points, shrink and you'll see it disappear.

Your color tones are not complimentary. Yellow bordering light grey are close in luminance so they blend.

• Design: 2
• Purpose: 1
• Originality: 1
• Engagement: 2

Concept: Site design

Generally I don't like monochromatic sites like this, but in your case it works pretty well. Love the logo!

• Design: 4
• Purpose: 3
• Originality: 3
• Engagement: 3

Concept: My Business Cards

Hot.

Ignore everyone and listen to me. Don't change anything.

LOL

Great job.

• Design: 4
• Purpose: 5
• Originality: 5
• Engagement: 4

Concept: Logo for Personal Trainer

Looks good right up to the fitness-solutions-wellness. Not a big fan of the random silhouettes.

Ever think about cleaning up the font, and putting it inline with the rounded border?

Another idea is to incorporate the silhouettes into the logo? (replace an 'i' with a muscle-girl).

Keep going...

• Design: 1
• Purpose: 2
• Originality: 1
• Engagement: 1

Concept: Blog Theme Concept for Maverick Conceptions

I like all the angles! It makes for something very unique. You accomplished 'clean and simple'!!!

Yes, log must be on top. I think you have print media in mind when you put the logo so low.

• Design: 5
• Purpose: 4
• Originality: 5
• Engagement: 5

Concept: A Garage and body shop

Nice and clean.

My only suggestion is to alter the gloss from the logo. I think the angle and the opacity makes it hard to read. And that's the main brand on the site. Use a standard web 2.0 gloss (there's a million tutorials online).

• Design: 3
• Purpose: 3
• Originality: 2
• Engagement: 3

Concept: Medication Reminder Service

I always believed medical sites need a human element. If you look at all the sites involving Rx they always have a smiling face, or family, or happy couples. Pictures are worth a thousand words. I won't beat on the light color tones. I think that's been critiqued already. A human face, will help you with the color tones.

Keep it up.

• Design: 2
• Purpose: 4
• Originality: 2
• Engagement: 3

Concept: Fantasy ePages design

I think you need one more color, becuase off the bat, the purple on purple is not that compelling. Especially in the header, where the white on light purple (outerglow doesn't help).

Suggestion, is go to Adobe Kuler, and try finding another color that's not monocromatic.

One last thing. If ePages lets you, apply a gradient from top to bottom (maybe purple to blackish). It'll give it a more rich tone against the lighter colors.

keep working on it!

• Design: 3
• Purpose: 2
• Originality: 3
• Engagement: 3

Concept: Client Logo

Pros: Nice colors, gloss translates well. The message is clear (love the name btw).

Cons: You might want to choose a car to model, rather then a generic car. Which btw, looks very generic. Play with the vectors a bit.

Nice job.

• Design: 5
• Purpose: 3
• Originality: 4
• Engagement: 5