However, right now it seems like there are two different things going on. That left side is bothering me right now, its so clean and just kinda runs right into the more urban right hand side. But I think you can make it work. Maybe cut a little off the left side and make it look more like those straight lines are forming the artwork on the right maybe a more gradual fade into the artwork.

I like the little dancing characters as well and you treatment of them fading in the background conveys motion almost like a congo line in a simple and unique way without having to animate it. Right now very nice, but could use a couple nips and tucks overall. Very nice start, very street art and urban. I'll be interested to see this site flushed out.

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Charlie, I understand your point of the top elements not being in harmony with each other. While the fact remains that I DO want to convey the fusion of the modern 'clean finish' with the abstract (well, I won't like to say grunge here). Anyway, Will take a different approach and make it fuse.

The best thing that I liked is the word 'urban'; never tried it earlier; that's what makes it interesting. Thanks for the comments; it really pushes the project further; lots of things to work on and bells and whistles a.k.a motion design to be injected... updates on http://kratudesign.blogspot.com

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Done some changes in response to the above critique > http://www.kratu.com

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Gotta love the bike. :) Looking great.

I think the :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: are overdone.

Also, you may want to work more on the typography. Right now everything just looks the same size.

Haha ... people love it more because of the bike ... makes it real "street" art

Yeah got to drop that double lines ... by typography do you mean the content part? ... yep that was just an initial take, kept as placeholders; I need to add lot of elements over there including the navigation.

Thanks man!

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Typography is the art, form and fusion of letters, words, paragraphs, etc with themselves and with other elements around them. It's crucial to good design and shouldnt be overlooked. 90% of everyday design you see around you has bad typography - well at least to me it does.

As for critique, I like the design but, while white space is a great thing, I think it's not being used properly here. Maybe it's my eye isn't lead in any direction and/or the white space on the left looks too "blank". An idea, maybe if there were a path coming from the bottom left up to the dancers. This could lead your eyes toward the dancers and that general area.

The image is really cool and interesting and I like how you did the pixel stretch on the left side of it.

Yeah, I agree with you, typography is vital in design ...

It isn't a poster Ross; in web design terms it's meant to be the header of a page which is not finished yet; I just posted that with some sprinkling of content to give an idea as a whole. I still need to put the navigation on the middle-left and pictorial stuff on the right;

This morning I was thinking of making the content with only the visuals and call it 'The Art of India'; with different sections exploring the typography in signage over the streets here, may be, another on colour diversity, rythm, symbolism, etc.

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Pretty busy design you have here eh? Quite nicely executed, though I feel that the colors clash a little bit. But that's just my opinion.

The only part which I don't really like is the text part. Maybe you could use something else, say indian style bullets and stuff like that. Also, the :::::: looks weird, so maybe you could change it to something else..

Just my two cent's worth here.

... it seems I got to do the rest of the page pretty quick now ... yeah need to add some Indian symbolism

Just incase you are still looking at the first verion ...

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