Meritage Website
packaging company website concept for the wine, spirits and high value packaging market. They are looking for a west coast feel, high end... yet affordable (they are not looking to chase the little clients away).
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Love it!
I absolutely love the look and feel. You have a great sense of space, typography, color and balance. It's nice to see you back and I really enjoy your work.
Love the site!
Love the site!
2 things: No packaging image anywhere on home page? Maybe this could be tastefully done? Can't appeal to both high and low end at the same time. :)
[edit: nevermind on the packaging image--you have links to packaging samples. Good enough!]
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Clean and crisp, nice work
Clean and crisp, nice work
I love the image - do you
I love the image - do you have a coded version? :)
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Perfectly Lost Designs
"…the Web design community is hopelessly distracted by technical fetish." ~Andy Rutledge
No Code yet
No code yet, waiting to present it to the client. Once I have it completed I'll send a link.
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I look forward to it. One
I look forward to it. One of the things I like about the image is that it focuses more on the presentation and design rather than techy trends that are going around. My only worry is that it will lose some of that in coding. I won't speak too soon, though - I'll wait and see. :)
My only real complaints are that the bottom navigation seems a little off - not sure how, actually, but it's bothering me a little. Maybe it's the leading? And if you have the room below the thumbnails on the right, maybe give the title a little more breathing space (more specifically, below the title.)
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Perfectly Lost Designs
"…the Web design community is hopelessly distracted by technical fetish." ~Andy Rutledge
To be honest, the bottom
To be honest, the bottom navigation is my least favorite part of the site. It feels like it was an after thought and I worry that the client will not think it's 'present' enough on the site. I will focus more on it and see what else i can come up with. Thanks!
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Thanks! I did think twice,
Thanks! I did think twice, and then again about putting packaging on the homepage, and could always incorporate it into the body of the site. For now i'll leave it up to the client and see if they come back with the same comments. Thanks again, I'll let you know how the client likes it.
You're right, producing something that is both high and low end is difficult (or impossible). I tried to stay away from dark rich colours, lighten it up yet keep it clean... it kind of worked.
www.shiftmedia.ca
At last!
Something we can all go happy-skippy over! This is truly gorgeous. If it navigates as pretty as it looks, you've got yourself a serious winner.
I love the muted palette and generous use of white space. If your client doesn't go bonkers over this, the boys in the white coats need to come calling on them.
The black bar saves it from being too soft. That was a good choice. A wimpy designer might have opted for brown, which would have ruined the whole thing.
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Mara
layout looks very similar to
layout looks very similar to a draft i've just done for a client [not saying you copied, no-one has even seen mine yet] with the hovering-shadowed-bar over on the right. my header is smaller, and i dont have a footer navigation like you do.
Also, yours looks a lot more polished than mine does at the moment.
anyway, it looks gorgeous. you've got the white space almost perfect, your images aren't too heavy, it's all nicely balanced.
the only thing i'd suggest is justifying the text in the overlay bar on the right, everything else in there is nice and centred with clear margins, but the text looks a bit out of whack.
Also, I'm not certain, but I was always taught that if you are going to break up a sentence for layout purposes, you should break it up into clauses - for the phrase "A True Revolution in Packaging Technology" you have it broken up as "A True Revolution in / PackagingTechnology" whereas I would put "A True Revolution / in Packaging Technology"
Excellent work for a design draft. My only other question is what are you going to do with the hovering bar when the page content is longer? will it always run 100% of the viewport height?
andrew harrison
http://andrew.harrison.org
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You are 100% correct with moving the 'in' below (that's a glaring typography mistake, or ragging mistake if you'd like). It was finished the wee-hours of the night and i missed that.
The hovering bar will always run 100% of the page. I thought about ending it at 600px with a shadow but not confident it will have the effect I'm looking for. Although for a website with less content and scrolling I think that approach would work better.
Thanks for the comments! all of this is mush appreciated.
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Good catches, Andrew (nfm)
Mara
Good... but
It's a great looking site. Good work. But the only comment I have is that it doesn't speak to packaging. I feel like its more "zen" then packaging. It's probably the waterfall image. Maybe highlighting the packaging would solve this issue.
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Yeah, I have to agree
Don't get me wrong: it looks great and after reflecting on it a bit it's a good feel for wine packaging but I did not think it was for packaging when I first looked at it. I though it was for spa treatments.