Christoph Brueckner

Concept: Amplifier icon

Awesome work.

But when I look at the size of the amplifier's feet, the buttons or the fabric texture in front of the speaker, I imagine it to be quite a big amplifier. This does not fit 100% with the size of the leather texture making up the border of the amplifier - this texture should be a little finer.

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

Concept: Logo for graphic design studio

This is excpetional work in every way.

I especially love the fact that the coloured backdrop of the word studio goes in different directions instead of being just a correctly placed shadow in a different colour.

The only thing that I would probably change is the top cyan spot on the d - it looks like a mistake and like it shouldn't be there. You should either erase it or make it a little bigger (like the one on the dot of the i) and give it a shape more resembling the letter that it comes from.

Apart from this, nothing I could think of.

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

Concept: Grin Party Website Layout (updated)

I think the front page is perfect, there is not a single thing I could think of that should be changed there. Just make sure to use sifr or cufon when creating the site, because else you won't really have any html text and that will give you an SEO problem.

On the gallery page however - I just don't think the photos look good in the context of this site. Each photo is beautiful per se, but especially b/w photographs need a darker background to really look good. Maybe you should just put links to different galleries on the page and let the actual photos open in one of those jquery lightbox apps.

I also don't think that b/w and color photographs should be mixed, they both look below optimum this way.

Still I gave it top ratings because the rest of the site is just so close to perfection for its purpose. Also dig the interim page you have online.

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

Concept: Website redesign for TestLab²

Now that robot is sure to become a star with your customers! I think this is such a great idea, it makes a somewhat boring service like software testing very charismatic while still staying close enough to its roots in technology.

So full marks for purpose and originality! I just love it.

Design-wise, I think it's perfect except for the main content text flow. Try having a bigger line height there or another headline in between. Also, I would not float the text below the picture but rather keep it in it's column.

Engagement-wise, I think you could show that robot in different poses on different pages of your site to make it even more interesting.

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

Concept: UPDATED: Logo for web designer to be branded via web/print

Are you sure the tagline font will be legible when the logo is resized to a proper size for a website (like 150px wide)?

Also, I would find it more consistent that if you use a small d in the logo, that you should use a small d at the beginning of your tagline.

• Design: 2
• Purpose: 4
• Originality: 3
• Engagement: 1

Concept: Racer Narain Karthikeyan - Website design

While I don't particularly like this type of design, I have to admit it very is solid work and really well done.

If I could change one thing, I would maybe distribute the sponsor logos in another way. Try putting the two wider ones (Amaron and JKTyre) in one column and the less wide ones (Tata and Speed) in another. Might look better, because this way they look a little unordered.

• Design: 3
• Purpose: 5
• Originality: 2
• Engagement: 3

Concept: UTEC logo, first iteration

I think the wall tower element is a great choice, since it makes this logo unique. The first 2 versions look kind of generic. I would choose the first version's font though to go along with the wall tower sketch, since that third font is just a little to playful.

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

Concept: Sales Page for an eBook

Try making it more glossy, glow, emboss the text there - right now it looks really boring.

Also, the text paragraphs could use a little more space between each other.

• Design: 2
• Purpose: 4
• Originality: 1
• Engagement: 3

Concept: Website Design

Looking pretty good already and also very original. Are you sure though this will be engaging for kids? It seems like it will be a pretty text heavy site.

Anyway, if you're in an early stage, I would suggest you plan for more whitespace, I feel there could be more.

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

Concept: New Logo & Brand For Client

will have to give highest ratings here. extremely professional and engaging. I like the 3rd version best.

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

Concept: Website Design - http://www.WebThirsty.com

The only thing I would change is the topmost texture line. Not that I have a better idea for those social media icons right now, but I think you could maybe do something that would fit the water theme better.

Apart from that, it's great work. Envying your logo a lot ;-)

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

Concept: Logo for my own ad firm (lemon milk)

You also chose a great font for the logo, congrats!

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

Concept: Logo design for train transport company

It's not a piece of work that will stand out, but it's very solid graphic design that will serve its purpose well.

Green as a color is also a great choice for transport companies right now.

Was there no slogan to go along with the logo?

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

Concept: Online store landing page

This has to be some kind of joke. Did you produce this in the 90s and put it up only now?

Sorry but there is so much wrong about this design that I can't really be specific. It would take ages.

I think the biggest tip is for you to install Joomla or Wordpress and buy a proper shop template for it instead of trying to make this design work.

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

Concept: New interactive clean web design for trinetrawireless.com

The only weak point - but I guess it is out of your control - is the logo. It looks like it is from the 90s - not modern enough but also not old enough to be retro.

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

Concept: New website design

If I could change one thing, I would make the words "baby authority" smaller since I think there is too little whitespace between those words and its parentheses

• Design: 4
• Purpose: 5
• Originality: 2
• Engagement: 3

Concept: 'Beard Brothers' Logo

It's definitely a great idea and well executed! I'm not sure if this will work, but you could try it: - use the normal holes in the b's to create more of an "eye" look - use italics on the b's to give their lines a bit of an eyebrow look Just so that the logo looks a little more like a face.

And maybe there should be a more recognizable size difference between the beard-iconography and the beard brothers typo. But it really is alreafy great like it is!

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

Concept: New Design of Company Website

Hi, your companies logo is great, but I'm sorry to say the rest can't really keep up with the level of quality set there. The colors are very dull and dirty. If you are set on them, try adding slight gradients (like 10%) to them so that they come to life at least a little bit. Also try to play around with the typography - like increasing line height, trying out justify as text alignment and increasing the size difference between normal text and headlines.

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

Concept: Mobile Beta Design Studio

It's hard to review this design if it is supposed to be for the iPhone - the minimum resolution of the website URL you gave is 910x560 - way too high for the Iphone's 320x480 half VGA resolution.

Also, you chose icons that are extremely detailed - when you size down icons as intricate as these, they tend to look blurry... icons for low resolutions need to be designed with the exact target size in mind, you cannot just take a bigger icon and make it smaller. Same goes for the serif font you use for the quotation.

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

Concept: Website for Copywriter

Ok, this is a really good concept - but in order to be "100 procent professional", it needs some tweaking.

First, the typography: you only have 4 lines, and they effectively use 4 different type shapes... that's too much friction there. Of course headline, slogan, links and footer need to be formatted in different ways... so I think the only way to get around it is to... add more content!

The different spaces between the four links are also a little bit distracting - try to think of a different wording to solve that.

Second, the lemons - they look a little "imposed" on the site - try adding a slight shadow or manually rework the anti-aliasing where it doesn't look smooth, so that it integrates better.

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

Concept: Panabee Search Portal (Pls rate functionality, not design)

I guess you wanted this design to look flat, which is a fine direction for an "information first" search site like this. However, you either need great typography to make it more interesting, or - my preference - just a some effects. Like using a shadow on the two boxes, or an inner bevel - very slightly of course, like at 10% opacity.

Also, the panda/bee is nicely drawn, but it looks sad... and if you look at the symbolism of it, it evokes one thought: "This cannot fly." - which is surely not what you want people to think ;-)

• Design: 1
• Purpose: 3
• Originality: 2
• Engagement: 3