Oliver Martin

However I like simple and minimalistic style designs. So good job. The only thing that is not great out of all the posted image examples of your logo in practical use is the 3rd and last image.

The 3rd image I take is a flyer and the last is the website for the business owner, I would make the flyer more colourful in better in touch with the business card theme and the website could be less all over the place, and still bring across that artistic feel well.

Very bland and overly grey has to be my criticism. I like the right sidebar content spacer/separators (the decorative central image with lines either side).

The telephone is smaller than the envelope in the header contact area, match the sizes better. Make the navigation take up the whole width of the nav bar, or center it so that it doesn't have that awkward bit at the far right.

I like the featured area and faint opacity background covering the fab blue band. Plus the increase/decrease and change colour options are a nice feature and are well placed out of the way but within reach.

Touch ups are needed but your getting there.

Going to be quite negative as it isn't really my style. It seems you have gone very minimalist in the presentation value of this design and haven't really put much thought into the spacing of navigation elements.

Obviously you have your style and if that works for you then great but I'm not sure its going to work well with the vast majority of people, and I'm afraid that is what gets you work.

However good luck!

The only thing that can be edited on this design is the bottom left MFAA logo, which doesn't fit into the design because of the vast contrast of colours (orange and blues).

The second image is perfect, nice use of spacing, playful yet business like (because of males suit) imagery and fabulous PEOPLEFIRST logo with awesome use of oranges.

Very well done with tis, the client will be appreciative I'm sure.

I'm not sure whether the client wants a dark book but if that's the case then that is fine for them but as a designer you should probably do a few concepts that are lighter or contrasted differently.

I'm not sure about the ribbon. Somehow I think it wont fit "perfectly" against the shape of the book. Good luck though dude.

The design is good so far, like you said its an early piece of work. I'm getting that this is a music style website/event from the decks, perhaps its a "whats all the buzz about" style site or event.

Apart from that I'm not sure what it is designed FOR. Explain it a bit better to me. Also my first thoughts may be wrong so if you explain in more detail I can make a better judgement on the designs relevance to the purpose.

What software did you use to create the design? Did you hand draw the first mockup or use a program?

The whole upper half is uber cool but the bit with the deer and the grassy footer needs changing. Doesn't fit the retro upper-left corner theme.

I think you have a different concept with the whole horizontal navigation thing. However, even though I like rough style illustration (when you don't mind as an artist whether elements look slick and neat) this is too like a "school playground" drawing.

I don't know if that's what it is supposed to be like but if you like it thats all that matters I guess :)

You could do with more space filling content as there isn't much happening. In fact some content could be put together on one page rather than spread over many.

The background has very little substance to it. You need to improve it by changing it or editing it in some form of image editor.

The people look better in second shot but out of focus. The green blazer guy in bottom image is a great person for being in the middle because his top is much different compared to others. There isn't much width to these images nor height so you can't really extend the image because all you can fit in is a mugshot of their faces and chests.

Keep working on it and you'll get a good balance.

Both these designs and the site itself are very good. Brilliant quality imagery here (are they watercolours?)

The site needs more content and a bit of Mac Safari adjustments as the text boxes and a view bits are out of line or sync.

Apart from that website is coming brilliantly dude.

I'm not too impressed but that is personal preference really.

The out of sync placement of text beside images and other content (on the left side of the page layout) is too over the top. It's hard to really know which paragraph goes with which image, and it's even harder to know when one section ends and one begins (if you know what I mean).

Perhaps keep the out of sync appeal but make it more subtle. Create some white-space between sections of the site to give yourself the chance to go for the weird placement of content, whilst keeping people in-the-know about where they are within the layout and site.

In addition the background is too domineering and draws the eyes to the back too much (i.e. The biker).

The ONLY thing that needs work is how bright and dominant the foreground is compared to the background.

Perhaps combat this by making the top and bottom edges of the white foreground grungy and decaying, this would keep the theme but allow you to have a clean white colour for the typo so that it still stands out.

Hi Nicole. Your design is good in concept all that is neeed is fine tuning. As Brian said the letters will need to be worked on. Not to copy Brian but they wont scale when enlarged and decreased in size as they seem kinda scratchy rather than smooth and scalable.

So mainly work on the quality of the letters and the design will become at least 3 x better if not more.

The monster IS fun and will let people know your great to work with and take things in your stride so definately keep it. Although make it "suck" on the O and perhaps have a small bit of monster slime come down over the O, that would be pretty neet.

Much respect

• Oliver

There's isn't really anything wrong with it but it is a tad bit busy for my liking. Although the slogan is quick and straight to the point. I'm guessing it tells people your approach to the services you offer.

Look forward to seeing more. Good overall job with it!

One thing is the logo, perhaps improve it by making it look like the logo on your business card. Also intro page is the best page, others seem a little forgotten.

Updates are needed but not much work, just improve upon the work already done.

I'm sorry but what is that? Is this supposed to be art?

The design is like something from the very early days of the web. I'm probably the worst person to review this site as I like new design themes but you could have done better. Maybe even mix new with old, giving it some of the quirky feel you are going for but without giving the user a badly graphical experience.

In addition Apple prides itself in making rich graphical elements for all of its products and this website isn't reflecting that image of Apple at all.

Maybe make the content area bigger aswell, I'm getting the sense the image is one big background and you have margin'd the entire content area downward??

Not the greatest message but hey! Anyway the design for the logo needs to just be red rather than a gradient of two colours, which DONT work well together.

Everything else is good. Make the reflections less prominent by adding a layer mask and dragging the colour black (only) as a gradient across the reflection layer, thus fading the reflection better and quicker.

This has to be one of the best illustrated websites I have ever seen. Great job.

Apart from it feeling a little bit cluttered it isn't a bad design, in fact its great. Nice and bright design, good background graphics enclosing the various elements of the page.

I don't care for the textured material effect background of the footer section. I appreciate you seem to be going for a sky at the top of the page and ground (mud, earth) at the bottom.

Waste of time springs to mind.

No I think this is spot on. Not often said but you have a good business card there.

You know I think the layout is perfectly respectable, it looks tidy and clean. Everything is easy to read, due to font colour choices and typography (except for logo).

With the logo I think the font type is a bit off putting, perhaps make it look MORE like a comic book font like the ones one the front of the magazines (i.e. superman).

Apart from that everything is well coded as far as I can see. Overall well done! Tweeks needed but good design.

The shape is ok for the whole purpose of "talking" to your audience but they probably wont have a clue that this is the reason you went for a speech shape.

Padding is not used and text overflows the edges which is nice and arty but I find it plain annoying and almost badly conceived.

Bad quality and terrible use of space making everything suffer because of it.