[Designer Chosen]-[C1]Due June 26th - Rainmaking - $700 PSD only

[Rainmaking]

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Name of company:
Rainmaking

Company tag line:
Creating companies

Do you have a company logo?
Yes – it is attached

Do you have a corporate visual identity?
No

What is the nature of your business?
Rainmaking is a global partnership of business professionals that creates several new companies every year, and exits these companies after 4-5 years. To put it popularly we are a company-factory specializing in start-up and early growth of companies.

Who is your target market? Who are you hoping to reach with your site?
1) Investors, who will help us with financing for new companies
2) People with ideas, which they want our help turning into companies
3) Potential employees in our underlying companies and potential partners in Rainmaking
4) Other external parties (suppliers etc.)

Do you have an existing website?
No

Please list at least 3 URLs of high quality sites that you like the look of
www.ted.com
www.idealab.com
www.mostwantedrecruiting.dk

What colors or color schemes would you like?
Not set at all. Please be creative

List the Navigation links for your site
About Rainmaking (Name, Concept, Vision, Philosophy, Values, Manifesto, Partners)
Methodology (Ideas, Team, Execution, Capital)
Our Companies (No sub-navigation)
Advisors (Rainmaking Counsil)
Blog & Gallery (Blog, Gallery)
Come Closer (As Partner, As Colleague, As Investor, As Advisor)

What type of look at you trying to receive?
Professional, though young and innovative

Addresses of competitors’ sites
N/A

Do you have any images for use in the design of your site?
No

What is the deadline for your template design?
6/26/2007

Will you require HTML coding?
No

We look forward to seeing your great designs :)

The very best regards
Morten Kristensen

Rainmaking

[clink]

Hi, this looks like an interesting project. Just one question however, would you like the menu as a drop-down menu? It just seems like a lot of info to display otherwise... Thanks.

[Rainmaking]

Hi clink

The navigation shown on the front page should only be:
About Rainmaking
Methodology
Our Companies
Advisors
Blog & Gallery
Come Closer

Whether the sub-navigation is shown as drop down or only displayed when entering the above pages you can suggest in your design. I have no strong oppinions about that.

Best regards
Morten

[carlos(esparza)]

hi, heres a concept for you:
(i'm starting here with the "our companies" page, showing the topmost company in the list of no-name companies.)

http://carlos.errorproductions.com/outpost/rainmakingii.gif

[Rainmaking]

Nobody else wanting to give this a shot?

The deadline is approaching fast... :(

Best regards
Morten

[Fabian]

I'll be posting mine in a day or two:)

[will]

I'll work on a cool concept soon :D

[Fabian]

Hello :)

[belladonna]

Hi :) , just wanted to let you know that Im working on something for you.

[belladonna]

Hi, sorry to bother you, just wondering if you can provide a vector version of the logo? its not a must, but it would help to the design :)

Thanks!
Bella

[belladonna]

Hi, here is one from me :)
http://www.julieta-garcia.com.ar/julieta/do/bella_rainmaking4.jpg

[Aliska]

Hello
Please check concept from me.

[belladonna]

Hi, and here you have a different option for the content layout :)

http://www.julieta-garcia.com.ar/julieta/do/bella_rainmaking5.jpg

[Elena]

Hello,
I'm working on your project too.

Thanks,
Elena

[Anne]

Here is my entry

Anne

[Severner]

Hello there,

I will have something for you in a few days.


Thanks very much,

Sev (:

[Rainmaking]

Dear all

I have had to extend the deadline for this project until Friday June 29th. I hope that gives a little time for some more designs :)

For the designs already posted, here are my comments:

Carlos:
I like the top bar and the way you have incorporated "creating companies" in it. However, I think the navigation is getting too big when showing all subnavigation as well.

The bottom line looks a little square compared to the rest of the page. It would be great to see a design where this is rounded.

Finally it all gets a bit blue. Maybe there is a way to incorporate other colors as well.

Fabian:
I'm sorry, but your design just does not do it for me. It's simply too simple...

Belladonna:
The outline of your second attempt is very interesting. However, the green color and leafs are a bit disturbing as people might mistake us for some kind of environmentalists or green company. And that is not really what we are doing.

If you could have a look at that and maybe change the navigation from underlined text to some kind of buttons, that would be great. I would also love to see the top bar (which currently has this half moon) to be a square and contain the logo.

Aliska:
Your suggestion is extremely square - and actually I like that. However I am in love with buttons to push and I also think that we miss a few pictures. If you could make an example with that I would love it :)

Anne:
I have somewhat the same feeling about your design as with Fabian's. It seems a little simple. And then I'm crazy about the colors. But i would like to see something new from you.

Thank you all for your work so far - I hope you will be interested in giving it another go.

The very best regards
Morten

[Aliska]

Hello
Please check revisions from me. Any other comments or ideas?

[Anne]

Here is a new entry from me

Anne

[matude]

Hi,

I'll post my entry very very soon.

Thanks,
Matude

[Elena]

Hello,

Finaly my concept!

Thanks,
Elena

[carlos(esparza)]

hi, thanks for the comments, i'll post a revision tomorrow.

[belladonna]

Hi, thanks for the feedback, what about something like this? :)

http://www.julieta-garcia.com.ar/julieta/do/bella_rainmaking6.jpg

[Elena]

Some modifications of the same version.

[Elena]

And here.. :)

Hope you'll like one of them.

[LalitB]

Hello,

Here's my entry: ENTRY (http://www.eyeseedesigns.com/do/rainmaking/)

Looking forward to your feedback.

Regards,
Lalit

[matude]

Hi,

Here's my version so far. Still work in progess though.

Thanks
Matude

[carlos(esparza)]

a bit more colourful ;) :

http://carlos.errorproductions.com/outpost/rainmakingii.jpg

[Rainmaking]

Dear all

Thanks for the many suggestions over the past couple of weeks.

I have narrowed the field to 3 designers: Belladonna, Anne and Aliska.

Belladonna
Your version in message #23 looks good. Could you try to place the logo in the left of the page and maybe present a few variations over the color. The orange is not my favourite. Maybe something metallic...?

Anne
I very much like your version in message #19. I would like another version with a different color than the orange and maybe with a bit more simple design (i.e. less text). Would that be possible?

Aliska
I like the style of your version in message #18. However it is still too heavy on text for my taste - maybe your could give it another go?

I will be away on vacation until next weekend. If the three of you could work on having something ready for next Sunday, I would be very happy. Then I will be able to make my choice.

Thanks in advance for your great efforts :)
Morten

[Anne]

Thank you for the feedback

Here are some different color variations and I have removed the news section.

Anne

[Anne]

with less text

[Aliska]

Hello
Please check update from me.

[belladonna]

Hi, here you have some options :D

http://www.julieta-garcia.com.ar/julieta/do/bella_rainmaking7.jpg

[belladonna]

http://www.julieta-garcia.com.ar/julieta/do/bella_rainmaking7_a.jpg

[belladonna]

And a silver version :D

http://www.julieta-garcia.com.ar/julieta/do/bella_rainmaking9_a.jpg

[belladonna]

http://www.julieta-garcia.com.ar/julieta/do/bella_rainmaking9.jpg

[Zoe]

Dear Client,

It has been some time since your last response and all three designers you have narrowed down have provided revisions.

Could you please drop by to provide the designers with further feedback?

Thank you

Zoe

[belladonna]

Hi, just wondering if you have any news from this project.

[Rainmaking]

Dear all

I am sorry that I have not replied earlier to this thread. The winner I have chosen is Anne!

Anne, I will not need anything more from you, however, since we have actually chosen to go with a different solution.

Sorry to keep you all waiting.

Best regards
Morten

[belladonna]

Congrats Anne :)

[Zoe]

This thread has been moved to the Template Archives.

[Anne]

Thank you :o)