http://www.mccormackmorrison.com/

Mccormack and Morrison Website Design

Layout and Design

Creative slide layout for entire page.
Up and down to change to another page and left to right to see more information in one particular page.
Highlighted links at four corners catch viewers attention and easy to navigate.
Simple icons helps understanding the navigation fast.
Contrast color. 


Typography

Serif font of the logo feels professional.
Well use in Bold, Italic and Color in About Page


A very clean, well designed website.
It delivered the message for viewer straight and professionally.
Fast loading. Don't have to wait at all.
Large view makes everything clear and attrative

http://www.aquiesdonde.com.ar/

Digital Agency
A company specialize in digital marketing with creativity and technology.

Layout and Design:
- First impress is a very well communicating logo. It appeared in white color on black background very outstanding.
-Header with very simple icons nicely guide viewers eyes to it.
-A scrolling layout with high resolution has a huge impact to viewers.
- Use diagonal line a the cleft corner to guide viewers into the main content in the middle, also separate every page with it.
-Page uses a lot of effect to appear when the cursor move to a particular area.
-The page repeat itself so you'll never be able to stop scrolling.

Navigation:
-Use anchor point for each section of the page. User can scrolling down or click on the icons to get the the section they want. I found this is a very interesting way.

Typography
page uses simple fonts, easy to read, well organized through out page.
Bold and Italic style are used very effective.

http://contrastrebellion.com/

A website talks about low contrast and unreadable texts on websites that could negatively affect web users.

Layout and Design:
-The site reflexes what it's telling. COntrast and the ability to read text. Hight contrast between background, fonts and color.
-Nice illustration moves with the scrolling page up and down very interesting.

Navigation:
Extremely easy and self-explained.
Just simply click and read.

Typography:
BOLD style to emphasize the idea.
Use a many colors and font sizes sometimes confusing viewers. Fortunately, the content is not massive and easy to read, so they are not issues.

http://www.apbaxter.com/

Personal website of Adrian, a web developer.

Layout and Design:
-Impressive illustration and it shifts when moving cursor left and right within the frames.
-Nice background, feels like a space, creating depth for the page.
-Drawing style illustrations in navigation bar and header create personality.
-Project listing appears randomly. Hard to find a particular project.
-A layout of banner with zombie. Project is displayed on the banner. Small and hard to see. Does not fit the the perspective of the banner. UNPROFESSIONAL!


Navigation:
-Easy to navigate.
-A icon at the upper left corner shift from "a" to an "home" when you move the cursor on it. It's very creative for a home button.

Typography:
-Low contrast font color.
-Some text blends into its grungy background

-Fast and easy navigate.
-Colorful and amazing illustrations.
-Ineffective uses of font colors and sizes

http://www.offroadstudios.com/

Website of Offroad Studio, a Digital and Intergrated Marketing Agency

Design and Layout:
-Beautiful, strong layout design.
-Stunning backgrounds.
-Layout guide viewers directly into the most important part of the company. Service!
-Very interesting drag-style navigation for every section. It actually makes user interact with the informations,so those information will be easier for the brain to memorize them.
-Huge footer provides all the information of the company.
-A very clean, well organized website.

Navigation.
-Simply navigation in the header.
-Impressive navigation bar at the middle of the page.
-Easy, simple to use.

Typography:
-Very outstanding and profesional
-Yellow text very easy to read and find what user needs.
-The drag-style navigation with transparency text are hard to read without selection.

An amazing site.
Very profesional and creative.

http://slaveryfootprint.org/

An organization focuses on modern-day slavery.

Design and Layout:
-Sleek, nice layout, with simple step-by-step guides
-Colorful interaction flash
-Minimal design
-Scrolling layout with creative hand putting words while user scrolls down.


Navigation:
-Colorful guide is very effective.
-Simple

Typography:
-Use Grey, Red and Blue colors in text, they are symbolized and emphasized the information.

Very clean, minimal website.
Fast respond.
One thing annoy me is user can't exit ot go back to home from the survey once they enter.

http://davegamache.com/

A personal Blog of Dave Gamache, a graphic designer/ web designer for Twitter.

Layout and Design:
-I got inspired from him using quote.
-Minimal Design,
-Home button on the top left corner. Top right has Article and About, very outstanding on the page.
-As scrolling down, the text disappears slowly.

Navigation:
Not a big website, there's nothing much about navigation other than scrolling down.

Typography:
-Use big, contrast typeface, very easy to read.
-Headers are emphasize in bold.

Very nice design and simple personal blog.
Fast and easy to read.

http://thelingnan.com/

Lingnan Authentic Chinese Cuisine

Layout and design:
-Use Yellow and Red, the two traditional colors of China.
-Scrolling design.
-Photographs are nicely taken. Even though they are not well presented on a nice plate, decrease the professional level of the site.
-Transparency background with actual restaurant photos bring viewers closer to the feeling of being there.
-Family photograph at the end does not fit to the website. It looks like a comedy show.
-Layout is good but there are some details need to be developed more.

Navigation:
Easy and simple.

Typography:
-Phone number has blue color on red background hurt viewer's eyes and hard to read.

The site makes the first impression very strong but can't maintain it through out the page.

http://www.chris-wang.com/

Chris Wang designer portfolio website.

Layout and Design:
-Amazing design
-Every project has an icon.
-Very futuristic design with sliding in text effect and drop down page.
-Proportional slideshow and the entire site. Not too big and too small, readable.

Navigtaion:
-Very simple to navigate.
-Drop down section for every project.
-Amazing slideshow

Typography:
-Very contrast in color grey and white.
-Clean typeface,

One of the most impressive website.
Creative in design,typography and layout

http://encandle.com/#!/home

Encandle website, a membership only group offer creativity from experts.

Design and Layout:
-Beautiful photographs. Self explained images.
-Simple design and well communicating to viewers.
-Drop down menu on the top right corner with a flame icon.
-Corporate the idea of "encandle" into the idea of user move cursor into the flame icon and it drops down the menu. I think ti's very creative.
-Creatively use of negative space of the image background

Navigation:
-Easy to navigate, slide page to page.

Typography:
-Contrast use of text color and background.

Well design website. Very creative.

http://www.denisechandler.com/

Web Designer Denise Chandler

Design and Layout:
-Interesting in a silly way. the website feels like a playground for teenager.
-NIce theme color.
-Lovely illustration.
-Header with a unique navigation bar.
-Has a comic book feeling to it.

Navigation:
-Hearder navigate users easily.
-Also the navigation repeats at the footer of the page. It's connivence.

Typography:
-Unique typefaces.
-Feels more personal with the designer's font.

Very nice design.
Use of color and font very unique.

http://www.h-art.com/

A Creative Company

Design and Layout:
-The page displayed randomly their works.Love it.
-High resolution background display catches viewers eyes.Express a highly creative environment.
-Footer has information about the company.

Navigation:
-Nav bar locates at the top right.
-Easy to navigate.
-Their portfolio display with tag and clients,also it can be filtered to specific tag. Very profesional.

Typography:
-Use font very effective and clean.
-Contrast and easy to read texts.

Stunning website. Express a very creative direction of the company

http://www.modoluce.com/

A Lighting Design Company

Layout and Design:
-Excellence scrolling page design.
-The Text disappears as user scrolls down.
-Nav bar stays the same.This is creative. Users don't have to go up to find nav bar when they need it.

Navigation:
-As user scroll downs, It shifts from page to page as it displays in the nav bar.

Typography:
-Use large size fonts with contrast colors. Temporary art

-The sites appears a little slow due to a lots of images

-Feels overwhelm with large text and a lots of shape without negative space.

http://www.nixoncreative.com/

NIxon Creative, Marketing agency

Layout and Design:
-Minimal layout, header ,body and footer. For some reason they have a very big footer with very little texts
-Home button with logo at the middle of the page.
-Effective slideshow explains to users everything.
-Use beautiful patterns in every pages.

Navigation:
-Simple nav bar,easy to use slide.

Typography:
-Client testimonies,text color and background have low contrast.

-Easy and simple website and very well organized.
-Fast loading time.
-Nothing interesting to hold me looking around.

http://boer.besetzen.ch/

Bognar, Erik Bognár, freelance designer,personal website.


Design and Layout:
-Awesome drawing impressed  at the first look. Strong personality of the designer.
-Scrolling down with all the information is very convenience
-Drawing and illustrations are wonderful. 
-Effective uses of effects on the page
-Gallery layout with Photoshop background is very creative.


Navigation:
-Very well organized in term of self guiding user where to go.

Typography:

-The resume at the end with red text and white stroke are very hard to read.

-Nice Design Portfolio website.

-Very interesting website and has a lot of personalities of the designer in it.

http://blindbarber.com/

Blind Barber shop,a redefined modern manhood in lifestyle.

Layout and Design:

-Has an urban feeling to the design.

-Large and high resolution image.

-Good looking blur color theme. However, something it's blending into the background.

-Loading gif image is nice and creative.

-Too many contents in the homepage.

Navigation:

-Nav bar at the top, easy to see and use

Typography:

-Simple and well planned.

-Font size is small too read and low contrast

Has to wait a little bit to see next page.

Overwhelm with the content .

Imgae background and text conflicts

http://www.caseybritt.com/

POrtfolio website of Casey Britt.

Layout and Design:
-Mysterious image at the frontpage is very interesting.
-Very nice sitemap. Each section is divided very nicely.
-Allow users to navigate with arrow keys on the keyboard

Navigtaion:
-Website has guide to show user to navigate.
-Easy with very small nav bar at the bottom of the page, tiny icons but self explained.

Typography:
-Very nice type face, everything is clean and readable.

Very creative website to take a look.
Still a little delay in loading time.

http://www.saintlukeartists.com/

Saint Luke Artist Management

Layout and Design:
-Attractive homepage with a grid of images.
-Minimal Design.
-Appear effect on very pages..

Navigation:
-Simple navigation, filter bar.

Typography:
-Bold font and very noticeable.
-Good size of font, easy to communicate with readers

Fast and simple page, interesting layout grid

http://krystalrae.com/

Fashion Designer Krystalrae website.

Layout and Design:
-Stunning pattern of her design at the top of the page.
-Footer with a lots of helpful information.

Navigation:
-Scrolling down style.
-Amazing collection effect.Scrolling down and only the cloths changes on the page.

Typography:
-NIce Typography design on the page.
-Nice font and contrat black and whit color.
-Clean and readable. Very attractive.

https://www.shoplocket.com/

Shoplocket, a new online sale website.

Lyaout and Design:
-Nav bar is simple.
-Nice color and background pattern.Self-explained for the idea of the website.
-Has three facebook link at the top,footer and left. It's  unnecessary.

Navigation:
-Scrolling down with different color for each section.

Typography:
-Text in some section with bright orange and pink background are hurtful to the eyes.Hard to read.
-Title of each section is dimmer than the content make it not memorizable

Nice design but not easy to read.

http://www.subsens.com/#

Thierry Alexandre Schmitt Art Director Website.


Layout and Design:
-Stunning layout. Easy to see the content. 
-Amazing idea with filter system in different colors 
-The color are gray and white but designer used many values of gray very effectively. Stil has contrast for user to be able to see everything clearly.


Navigation:
-There is a very simple nav bar with about and filter
-But user can find everything very easily.
-The filter bar is very easy to use, just turn on and off


Typography:
-Large size text and bold. Very easy to read.
-Hight contrast in color and background is very professional.

http://contrivedigital.com/

Contrive Digital, a marketing agency.

Layout and Design:
-Strong Diagonal  lines and shape are very attractive looking.
-Modern design with simple and clean layout.
-Use shapes and lines to create a focal point for the page.
-Header, Nav Bar and Footer are located very nicely and creatively.

Navigation:
-Drop down Menu are nice.Easy to use.

Tyography:
-Contrast font color in the home page,however, there are some place with grey font hard to read in white blackground
-Text sizes sometimes are too small

Very professional design.
Font use are not effective in color and size

SC portrait photographer Nicholas Gore http://www.nicholasgorephotography.com/

What it is?

SC portrait photographer Nicholas Gore 
What is its function?

Portfolio Website 
What attract you to the site?

Sleek Design, I like the welcome page with all the information
Describe the style of the design & typography used.

Very simple design, nice drop down menu. Unique font works well with the simple design and red color theme.
Describe your user experience with the site.

A little bit slow, fast and easy navigation. Catchy and Professional.

Graphic Artist KHUONG NGUYEN

What it is?

Graphic Artist KHUONG NGUYEN website
What is its function?

Provide details about contact information, portfolio, recent works.
What attract you to the site?

Professional simplicity, white color and a lot of useful negative space.

Describe the style of the design & typography used.

The layout very simple, white and gray text. Friendly san serif typeface makes simple and friendly. 

Describe your user experience with the site.

Website runs by flash but fast and easy. Photo loads really fast and well presented compare to other flash-based website

Mail Boxes Etc. 

What it is?

Official Website of Mail Boxes Etc. From UPS 
What is its function?

Provide details about information, service, company background..
What did not attract you to the site?

Simple and boring layout and colors. 

Describe the style of the design & typography used.

The Style seems old and outdated. Icons and logo look unattractive.  

Describe your user experience with the site.

Easy to navigate and look for information. 

Dear Friend Lys Bui

What it is?

My dear friend Lys Bui website. www.lysbui.com

What is its function?

Show her Porfolio, about her, the designer, and contact information.

What attracted you to the site?

Simplistic layout, beautiful artworks.

 Describe the style of the design & typography used.

The style is simple but useful. Typography is interesting as she used her own design for her name. However, the size of the navigation bar is quite small to read and not necessary to put all the project names on it. 

Describe your user experience with the site.

Hard to read navigation bar, but very easy to navigate. 

http://morfus.tv/ website

Website: http://morfus.tv/
What it is?
Brazilian Art Director Portfolio Website
What is its function?
Show his Porfolio, projects that he's working on.
What attracted you to the site?
Unique Illustration, layout, contrast color.
Describe the style of the design & typography used.
This design is very unique and show off the personality of the designer. Typography is bold, simple makes it simple and professional
Describe your user experience with the site.
The illustrations are confusing the navigation. The layout looks complicating. 

Chase Javis Photography Website
What it is?
An Official website of Photographer Chase Javis
What is its function?
Show his Porfolio, blog, projects that he's working on.
What attracted you to the site?
Colorful Thumbnails of his photographs. Simplistic Layout and Navigation Bar 
Describe the style of the design & typography used.
I like the Navigation Bar Bar. It brings a professional and personal at the same time.
Describe your user experience with the site.
IT's simple to navigate. It quite slow because of the flash slideshow I think. 

Peter Hapak Website
What it is?
Photographer Peter Hapak official website
What is its function?
Display his gallery about the assignment that he has been working on
What attracted you to the site?
Simplistic and professional. Wide layout make it easy to view and don't have to scroll down.
Describe the style of the design & typography used.
There's not a lot of typdgraphy is used. But the font show its simple and natural of the website.
Describe your user experience with the site.
Easy to navigate, loading quite slow due to flash slideshow. 

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About the photo:
Camera: Mamiya M645 1000s
Film: Kodak TX400
Developer: Sprint at 7 minutes
Scanner: Epson 4870 Pro at 4800 dpi