First of all, I think the stroke knockout made a HUGE difference to the overal look ok the logo. The "cure" text doesn't look awkward at all know. Here are a few items to work on though:

1. The first image of the people broken up into places, the looks little strange. Kind of like he is wearing a diaper. I like everything else about the broken up version though. Try breaking him apart where you might expect to see his pant line.
2. The crutch looks a little like it is floating in mid air. Not sure you need that in order to get the idea of "cure" across.
3. Have you thought about placing the people in front of the word cure at all? Right now the people feel a bit random and not part of the logo. Somehow you need to incorporate them into the logo more and make it appear as if the whole thing is one consistant piece.
4. Lastly, the word below cure is looking a little our of place. Maybe try reducing the kerning on the work and centering it below cure instead of stretching it the entire width of cure.

Overal this is looking a lot better, this was always the one thing that I didn't like about some of your designs for this organization, though I know you can do little about it. This is making great strides toward where the logo needs to go. Keep tweaking it and make the logo look like one piece instead of three pieces pulled together. Hope that helps, let me know if you are left with any questions. Good Luck!

Hey Joel - this is a solid design here. The colors, textures and structure all work really well together. I'm going to be pretty picky here and tell you a few things that I think could be better, but just remember that as is, this is a fantastic design here. Take a look at my notes and you'll see all my thoughts.

Great work, overall I think the site is consistent, easy to follow, has great typography and attention to detail. Just a few details to sure up and I think you're there. Very well done my friend!

I could be on board with that. Though honestly I wish we could go back to the days when money didn't exchange hands on this site. I wouldn't make enough on the website to make it worth my time, and I'm not willing to pay to use it. I miss the days when fellow designers were willing to review my work because it made them a better designer, rather than they want to earn a couple of bucks off me (It starts to influence the reviews I think). I would much rather you try to get advertisers on the site to cover your costs then to look to your users. Mint.com has a great setup where they organically bring advertisers into the process and it works well for them. The user is happy because they can use the software for free and they are happy because they are covering their bills. I use to love all of the reviews, content and projects up on this site but I fear it may be going down hill. Sorry to be so negative, just wanted to get that off my shoulders :). Just my two cents, don't feel like you have to take my thoughts too seriously.

Sorry I missed your previous post of this new concept. This is a great design, I think you hit the mark on this one! Here are just a couple of suggestions:

1. Remove the learn more button, it looks really out of place and I think most people wont even see it
2. Put an extra line of space under your headings in the content area before the bullet points, it's looking a bit crowded
3. Left align all of your links within the drop down on the navigation. I also don't know if I like the green underscore on both the navigation and the drop down.

Overall, you need to give your designer a pat on the back. This is fantastic work. It has kept the same spirit of the original design while giving it an amazing creative twist. Very well done!

I know that you are trying to portray all the magazines that this particular press company has, but I think it is overwhelming the design. I would get rid of the two magazine covers in the header, extend the header image to the edges of the design and then only put one row of magazines below the header and make a carousel that you can click through to see all of the magazines. Then I think you need to add some sort of feature article of the month below that. Lastly, I think you need to tighten up some of the areas. In some places it feels like you have a lot of unused space. I like your first color scheme the best. Keep working with this design, it will get there.

This is a good start but I think you still have some work to do on this concept yet. Here are some of my thoughts:

1. Your logo header, doesn't stand out enough from the design. Using the same color as the header image makes the top look entirely too heavy. Try changing the top area to a different color.
2. Your logo is interesting, The compass and the text part of the logo look like two separate logos. I think you need to revise the logo to really look like one confined logo.
3. The navigation doesn't stand out enough. You need to draw more attention to this area.
4. The phone number is pretty randomly placed and doesn't feel right.
5. The content area is pretty segmented. I would try and rework this area so that it is not so chopped up.
6. I know that you tried to go with the three column format for the footer but it look more like 5 columns. So the alignment looks a little off there.
7. Finally, your colors. You chose very bright colors, I would maybe thing about choosing colors that are slightly more muted.

This is an excellent start and with a little bit of elbow grease I think you'll get this to where you want it.

I think I remember seeing an earlier version of this concept that I liked better. Overall I like the keyhole in the o. However there are some things that I just don't think are working on this logo:

1. Colors: The colors that you chose look more like a construction company then security company.
2. The stroke. The stroke is too thick and doesn't match the stroke on the key hole.
3. I might think about centering systems and making it all caps.

Out of the 3 the last concept is your strongest. I don't think you are done here, keep working on it!

This looks really old school and template'ish. Everything could be made a lot more interesting by simplifying the design and adding some small details like gradients, shadows and strokes. Keep working on this one.

This is a first good step but I think it could be taken a long way.

1. Try putting the mountain over the type
2. Is the small "di" a spanish thing or are you trying to be creative...if it is the latter I would just use a regulare di
3. Make the tagline smaller, align it to the right and make it a light gray.

This site is designed of a lot simplistic shapes, gradients and images. I think you need to work on making this much more interesting, elegant and creative. I just don't think the design is there yet.

This is a good concept, however the 7 doesn't look like a 7 enough. You need to straighten out the stem on the 7 and shrink it a bit. i like the colors and the overall idea, you just need to keep working on it.

Where is your navigation? You need some sort of navigation unless this is going to be a one pager. Also, the footer feels a little forgotten. I would try and incorporate your sponsor links more into the footer.

None of these pages look like the other. You need to make the look more similar from one page to the other. I also think that you over simplified and therefore lack engagement and interest. Keep working on this, I don't think it's quite there yet.

This is too complicated with too many color variations. I would simplify your colors and then shrink the circular imagery.

This is much closer, good work. I would make the translucent black box have some space between it and the top of the gray content area. I would also add some sort of image to the right of the content paragraph. Finally, remove the home icon and divider at the bottom. This is great progress, keep moving in this direction.

1 is really close. I think the only thing you need to do is tip the black balloon to the left more. Right now it is too straight. Other than that, I think this design really works quite well.

Your biggest problem here is the readability. The other problem is that I don't think this ad really explains what the product is quickly enough. It looks like an amplifier but then you are talking about lumens and high yields. This is fine for someone who knows what they are looking for but what about people that don't know something like this exist. The other problem is that I think you over designed this a bit. You have star-burst, trendy backgrounds and cool effects, but I am not sure your target market cares about that stuff. For me I don't think these are really working.

Overall I think the layout of this site is fairly good but there is an awful lot of blue. I would try to cut back on the amount of blue.

The site here doesn't match the quality of the photography. I would start with the background image of the black and white woman and just start the design from there. Make an ultra simplistic design that puts the photos front and center. The actual page design just doesn't work for me, the only thing that does work is the background image.

This is a really nice design so far. I think you need to left align your headers and links below the paragraphs. Also, add a border above the centered paragraph at the bottom of your content area. Lastly, the gray background color doesn't quite work, try more of an off tan color.

Try some different backgrounds and find a new picture for you page. This may be getting closer, you just need to do some detail work here.

Very nice site. I really like the first option that you have, some of the other images are a bit awkward. The other thing I questions is how your content pages are going to work. The only thing that needs to be fixed on this design is the footer. The footer is ultra simple and looks like you forgot to style the footer. Try some different styling to the footer. Job well done here though, I really like this so far!

There are too many styles within this design. You have a very simple logo header and navigation, image background, and a hand crafted header image. You need to choose one style and go with it. Right now this just isn't working very well.

I like your start here, however I think you have a decent amount of work ahead of you:

1. Don't make the background of the page transparent
2. Alignment - Some of the headings are indented, make sure they are aligned to the left
3. Your logo needs to be aligned to the left and shrunk. I think you could also improve the look of the logo.
4. Some of your content areas look pretty bland and boring. Make it more interesting
5. The footer is far too simple and needs a lot of work.

Unfortunately I think this design has a lot consistency problems.You have lots or rounded corners, squared off corners, dark colors, light colors, gradients, solid colors, icons and no icons. You really need to create a completely consistent design that has the same colors, textures, gradients and fonts all the way through. Right now the different parts of the site look nothing like the home page. There's a lot of work to be done on this unfortunately.