Thinking of a website/trading name -- need help!

Post by **Gambit37** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:00 pm

Funny that, I carried on with the one I liked best (not #7) and finallycame up with this. Here's the same design with the key colour changed. I'm liking the pink or the orange best and am pretty close to using this as the final template -- once chosen, I'll have to design all the other screens (portoflio, contact, etc) and then use this as a base for the wordpress theme for the blog, though I may leave that until after the site is up and running. Oh yeah, I have to code it up and build it all too!

Post by **ChristopheF** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:00 pm

frisk_06 is my preferred one to this point, it is quite nice and sleek.
To me it doesn't look corporate at all, it is refreshing

Post by **Gambit37** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:39 pm

OK, so this is almost certainly the design I'm going with, I can't waste any more time on it -- gotta get it out there! I removed the gradients, I think cleaner is better.

Only thing is the logo -- the name suggests 'speed' somehow, so I think a flowing script is better. Which of these do you think I should go with?

http://resonantedge.com/images/frisk_11a.png
http://resonantedge.com/images/frisk_11b.png

EDIT: Oh my God! I have just had a horrible panic... I am wondering if people will always initially think of 'being frisked' rather than the verb 'frisk' (to leap and skip about playfully) and whether this will affect their perception of me? I liked the name cos it was a little bit fun but maybe this is actually a problem. Shit.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:36 pm

It's an americanism, so for any british based work it owuld not be a problem, and I cannot comment on our transatlantic cousins!

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:42 pm

I prefer the normal design of a to the slanted italics of b by the way!

Post by **Gambit37** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:10 pm

OK, last few variaitons! I wondered what a completely clean one would look like, plus some logo variations:

http://resonantedge.com/images/frisk_13a.png
http://resonantedge.com/images/frisk_13b.png
http://resonantedge.com/images/frisk_13c.png
http://resonantedge.com/images/frisk_13d.png

EDIT: added this one -- think logo works better in black

http://resonantedge.com/images/frisk_13e.png

EDIT: Oh go on,lets have one last variation -- changed the type in the logo and added some subtle gradients back in but removed the dotted lines.

http://resonantedge.com/images/frisk_13f.png

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:28 pm

a is the better colour, d is also doable as not to over the top italics and both words - in that case, orange design again?

Post by **Gambit37** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:39 pm

I edited the post and added E and F -- any improvements there do you think?

Do you prefer this completely white, clean look, or the previous two banded design?

TheMormegil · Post by **TheMormegil** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:02 pm

My fave was this one http://resonantedge.com/images/frisk02.jpg
I like the name Frisk too.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:42 pm

I already saw e, and prefer it to f - but prefer my nominations above either!

Post by **ChristopheF** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:14 pm

frisk_11a is my preferred one.
I don't like the italics and I find the 13x series has too much "white".

Post by **Gambit37** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:54 am

OK, for completeness, I had to try something else. Will tweak the colours a bit, but what do you thinkof this? The reasoning is to make the blog work better (which I haven't designed yet) --articles are easier to read on white -- these will be on the left, the tools and categories will be reversed on the right hand dark panel.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:39 am

I think it looks good - you should go with that!

Adamo · Post by **Adamo** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:50 pm

maybe you should change that orange colour to something else.. green, red? I don`t know. Orange doesn`t fit well to the grey IMHO. But the whole site looks good!!

Post by **ChristopheF** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 8:15 pm

Yes, this is nice!

Post by **Gambit37** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:54 pm

Thanks all -- I'm pretty much there. I have made two final variaitons. The grey is now slightly blue which I think is better and I made a slightly different logotype, minus the tagline. I think it works better without the tagline: much cleaner -- and the first line of the body copy says what I do anyway.

http://resonantedge.com/images/frisk_15a.png
http://resonantedge.com/images/frisk_15b.png

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:53 pm

I would vote a)

Adamo · Post by **Adamo** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:21 pm

they`re both identical!

Post by **Gambit37** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:23 pm

You're clearly not a visual person! The logo is totally different in B.

Post by **linflas** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:14 am

they`re both identical!

Post by **Zyx** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:31 pm

there isn't a B!

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 1:31 pm

I suspect zyx is trying to make us go mad now

I can see the B...it's right in the middle of the elephant in the middle of 'desigh'

You have to want to see the elephant though...YOU have to WANT to see it

Post by **Gambit37** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:15 am

The logo wasn't "frisky" enough. What about these?

sucinum · Post by **sucinum** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:24 am

frisky