Project 02 Preliminary

[Cole_Richarrds]

A final and a prelim in a day, busy times. Here is my prelim for project 02, the company I went with is a fake lightsaber sales company, that is selling lightsabers in universe, I want to focus on the lightsabers used in the movies and shows by the jedi and sith. The first set of designs is more simplistic with the navigation, I prefer the second concept, the navigation will be a drop down menu and the different navigation items will be different colors when hovered over. I also created the logo for it. Please let me know what you think and I wish you all good luck!

[qcottel]

Hey Cole!

As an avid Star wars Fan, I'm really excited for your Project 02! I'm with you about the second concept, I think the blend of grey gives the site some visual depth. I also like how you arranged all the elements in Draft 2 also.
Looks good man!

[bdawg11]

Hey Cole,
I like the idea of lightsabers, I was contemplating this too. I also like the pictures you got. Ultrasabers is a good spot for them. Really liking the second design.

[bmeyer]

Hi Cole!
I think both designs are good but I would go with the first one. I like how the name of the company is above the nav bar. I also like the color scheme. However, it is a little hard to read. So I would either make the background lighter, or use a more legible font.

[isaacm03]

Hi Cole!
You got a cool product here! I think I like the black layouts more than the grey, but I do think they need splashes of color more than what is currently there, because this feels very similar to your last concept! I'm excited to see it!

Isaac

[YoAdrian!]

Hi Cole,
These are cool ideas. I think I like your 2nd design better, especially if you can make the rainbow mobile menu icon work (I gave up on mine in the last project). I really like your logo design...maybe you could carry the dashed circle into the background image more? Just as a little texture or extra element behind the products? This will be a fun layout to see in the end.

[Cj9497]

I like the one with a dash rainbow circle around the lightsaber. think that one works well.

[Christopher B]

Hey Cole,
Great creativity and thorough process in the Preliminary stage. While I think that it's hard to not want to use the color black for a light saber event, I think that you could use it more strategically. I really enjoyed the version with the black header and the grey body.

Potential concept: white header and nav w/black letters; black body with white letters. Or vise versa
Keep having fun with it!

[Osmar_Sandoval]

Hey Cole,
I'm loving the design of your logo, I like how it uses the hilt of the saber with multiple colors around it to signify the many colors a lightsaber can be in. Although maybe I would make the color lines a bit thicker to make them easier to see, when its on the smaller side like on your website it can lose the detail of the multiple color effect. I also enjoy the layout of your website quite a bit, although in spaces of pure black maybe you could add some sort of texture. Maybe a sort of dark space image to not make it look as jarring but still more visually interesting to fit in on the whole space saber aesthetic. Great work!

[Instructor]

Cole, great idea of hovering changing colors as well as using sabers we all know, why would I want a generic one anyway right? I would prefer a scaled back/more transparency watermark image.