Designeat

Designeat Website

http://www.designeat.com/

Probably the coolest site I've come across since I started this blog a few months ago for class. this site has a very nice color scheme an is visually interesting. The Images throughout the site give it nice congruency and tie the site together from beginning to end. I love how the imagery has a gritty texture/feel to them. I also really like how the images in the portfolio section move with viewer interaction. A great balance of subtle movements and viewer interaction throughout the site to keep you interested and not get too annoying.

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Names for Change Website

Names for Change

https://www.namesforchange.org/

I really liked the interaction of the website. It was a nice morphing transition from a square to a circle when an item was clicked on. I also liked the color scheme of orange, teal and purple throughout the site. I also thought it had a nice way of displaying information with the screens scrolling from the sides on each of the product pages.

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Leoneck Hotel Website

Leoneck Hotel

http://www.leoneck.ch

This site starts off very active with a lot of graphics moving which looked nice from the start. After further navigation all the moving graphics began to annoy as I tried to navigate through the pages. The site was confusing to move through, the navigation wasn't clear. The cursor was also a cartoon cow head which I wasn't fond of.

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The Tea Factory Website

The Tea Factory

http://www.theteafactory.ca

This site has a nice earthy color scheme that relates to the products on the site. Its an easily navigated site that is neat and orderly. I also like the use of illustrated graphics and vector images throughout the site. The product shots on the site are professional and colorful.

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Headcase Design Website

 Headcase Design

http://www.headcasedesign.com/

 

This site was build entirely in flash. I had a few minor issues with the site. I did not like its square window format an felt that it should have been bigger to accommodate the screen size. On the other hand, I did like the playful design, layout, color scheme and interaction of the site. It starts off with a fun advertisement for the company. The interaction with the viewer made it an experience and it felt as and it also had a clever underlying concept. This was very different from any of the sites I've seen which made it unique.

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Jeremy Holmes Studio Website

Jeremy Holmes Studio

 

http://www.muttink.com/ 

Old sites Splash page & link to new site

New Site

 

http://www.jeremyholmesstudio.com/ 

This site was very unique. The logo was clever and communicated the efforts of the company. I like the splash page from the old site linking to the new site. The new site's design layout was interesting and kept with the theme of a typed document as the header with all the contact information displayed as an old school document which really sets the stage for the unique illustrations of the portfolio. The layout allows the site to be informative but not to cluttered. Also, the illustrations in the portfolio are fun to look at. As subtle as it is I think my favorite feature of the site was how the logo in the top left corner continued to change colors all the way around the color wheel like it was fiber optic.

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The Escape Committee Website

The Escape Committee

 

http://www.escapecommittee.com 

This site had a cool design layout. I like the homepage design of large pictures that were links to the actual portfolio projects. Also the subtle touch of having an illustrated icon appear while hovering over the large red information squares was a nice touch. The site had a consistent feel from page to page due in part to both layout and the subtle color scheme and red to keep the eye moving along from page to page. Portfolio pictures were high end shots and nice work. I also enjoyed reading the notes on some of the design direction. this was a very professional looking page.

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Fixate Website

Fixate

 

http://fixate.it/ 

I like this site for its simple design. The site header on each page is a line drawn illustration of doodle objects surrounding a different animal head on each page. I thought this design concept was simple and interesting. Everything from the doodles to the heading type had the same line drawn illustrated feel.  All the necessary information was there and navigation was clear. I liked the heading fonts used on the pages and also enjoyed their online portfolio. It was diverse and had moments of nice color and illustration.

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a_collective Website

a_collective

http://acollective.com.sg/#

This site is organized, clean, visually interesting and interactive. The home page uses four pictures to represent different categories. These simple pictures act as nice textures and juxtapose one another nicely. Each category opens with  java script or something similar to add movement with the picture boxes which was very cool was to display and organize the information and pictures. The pictures on the sight were professional, clear, crisp and nice compositions.

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Spectrum Powderworks Website

Spectrum Powderworks

 

http://www.spectrumpowderworks.com

I felt this sites home page was interesting with the movement of the pictures but I did not like the logo. As I navigated through the pages I found not all pages had a navigation bar or a way back to the home page. I found that some of the pages were difficult to read black type on a dark grey background. I also think that the navigation bar could have a bit more flare along with links other than having a blue link on a dark grey background. This also made the links difficult to read. I felt the site was not very visually interesting.

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Studio MPLS Website

Studio MPLS

http://studiompls.com

This site was easily navigated and was visually interesting from colorful artwork and pictures to scrolling banners. They had some nice logo design and some fairly large clients' work on their site. I especially liked the feature in the section that displayed their work where the viewer could choose a category of work like illustrations or product design and the selections that were not included in the refined search would grey out. A nice site for a design firm.

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