Comments on: wilson miner

By: Dan Lane

Dan Lane — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:04:25 +0000

Love the front page and the execution is very well done indeed.

I also don’t take issue with the mustard colour, in fact I think it emphasises the style from which the design has been derived.

What i dont like is the mixing of colours and various typefaces on the other pages, this is where it all falls apart for me.

The beauty of that homepage is in it’s simplicity, with the flood of colour, one typeface and a well considered structure.

As soon as you introduce the tonal banding of colours and different typefaces it no longer holds together as a coherent design.

I was really excited on seeing the first page and then felt let down with the others

By: Yuuzaa

Yuuzaa — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:01:44 +0000

This site looks very structured, very nice and clean.

By: brent lagerman

brent lagerman — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:24:38 +0000

oops just read some other comments, looks like the color thing has already been touched upon …

Awesome work, I hope you can read this comment (the type is SO SMALL…)

brent
@
mimoYmima.com

By: brent lagerman

brent lagerman — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:17:55 +0000

love the logo, love the layout, the colors are kind of institutional though…

brent
@
mimoymima.com

By: Kevin Crawford

Kevin Crawford — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:22:01 +0000

The green was sooooo much better. But I love it regardless. Very inspirational.

And his logo? Awesome.

By: Wilson Miner

Wilson Miner — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:27:28 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, Joey and everybody.

About the color - I’ve used that same green that I launched with for a long time, and I love it. I designed this site so that I could easily adapt the content different colors or backgrounds, but I still hesitated when I switched it over. The current orange isn’t as popular as the green was, but I like that it’s a little bit challenging, and if you don’t like it, it’ll be gone soon anyway.

As for the note about using Akzidenz, I usually steer away from Flash text-replacement. I like playing with the limitations of the basic building blocks on the Web and seeing what I can do with those. Also, I think a lot of the unique character that Akzidenz has in print actually wouldn’t translate that well on screen. The fact that Helvetica is so uniform makes it less interesting, but it also doesn’t lose as much in translation.

Thanks again for all the kind words!

By: Richard Saling

Richard Saling — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:43:19 +0000

I really like the fresh design. The layout is innovative yet clean. The colors are a good choice as well. It’s easy on the eyes and attractive.

By: Jason Newlin

Jason Newlin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:21:04 +0000

Sorry for the double comment, I forgot to respond.

@jim - I am sorry, but if you think @wilsonminer logo ‘looks nearly identical to Waste Management’s’ you are missing something. I am not trying to be a jerk or anything, but they are nothing alike - except they have ‘W’ and ‘M’ in them. It’s all about refinement and the little details. Kinda makes me a little ill to compare the two logos, they are worlds apart. Just my $0.02.

By: Jason Newlin

Jason Newlin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:16:20 +0000

A great designer and good friend Matt Gist (@mattgist) pointed @wilsonminer site out to me when he first launched it. We spend a good amount of time looking at everything with our mouths wide open in awe.

It is a beautiful site, not much to say after that. It inspires greatness.

By: James Broad

James Broad — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:15:06 +0000

Dislike the colour palette as mentioned by others already, however, this is just a preference; the said previous lime green version was stunning!

The look of the homepage feels somewhat similar to some of the Flash work that comes out of design agencies, I was half expecting some animation on hover/click interaction, pleasantly surprised it was static.

Very daring design, what with the minimalism and garish colours but the result pays off, it’s a spectacle of a site, much like yours Joey