Paiko - Design Exercise 12

This is a German designers porfolio. I really like the layout and colour scheme of this website. The background looks proffessional and tidy keeping the same design throughout the website on all five pages. The font colour is constant throughout the design but has varied his font style when necessary making titles much bolder and larger.


The portfolio page is clearly layed out and labeled. The different design projects have been separated into differnet sections making it easy for people to find what they are looking for. I like the image gallery options - the user has the option to view more information on the images that they like keeping the page tidy.

The navigation is in English but that is all. Quite difficult for me to understand what the designer is describing on each page but the text seems to be the right amount for the user and there is more available in the content link if people are more interested in the designs.

I like the spacing that this designer has used on his webpages as he has included a good amount of images with text without making the user feel overwhelmed with too much to look at. I would use this sort of layout in one of my designs in the future.

http://paiko.de/index.php

Pretty Loaded

Today I went on bigspaceship.com after being advised to have a look at the website if i was thinking of going onto online environments, I then went on to look at prettyloaded.com which was produced by bigspaceship, I found pretty loaded really usefull to find websites to look at, it was a little easier to follow than the FWA as you got a really quick taste for loads of websites at once. However, i did find that everything was going so fast that i found myself having to keep restarting it to find which websites I liked and disliked the look of.

Logo Research

This is a sheet that i quickly put together of existing logo's that are well known. Not necessarily aesthetically pleasing but, well known all over the world. My idea of a successful logo is one that the customer will automatically know the name of the company when looking at their brand logo. For example when seeing the windows logo, everyone knows what it is for although there is no text on it. 

On my logo I think I would like a tiny bit of text, perhaps just my initals. I want the logo to mainly be an image, Too much text and image will make the logo too busy and confusing to look at. I've noticed how most logos don't really have any text at all, some perhaps a caption but at the most about 4/5 words.