[Project Complete] Design for Industrial/Tech - $200

[michaelk]

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Greetings, Designers.

BSC is a industrial machine shop company.
They don't make machines, but rather specialize in creating custom-ordered high-tech machine PARTS for larger-end instrument used in industry, military, defense, etc.

Company name: BSC Corporation

What is the scope of this project?: New site

Who is the intended audience?: Technology and Industry professionals

Mood or tone?: Professional, sharp.

Color/Design psychology?: Strong colors - blues, metallic.
Also, you should use of industry type images - gears, metal. (I'll try to get images from them, but use similar in the interim..)
Conservative kind of look, but needs to reflect high-tech modern concept.

Any dynamic elements?: We'll be creating them

Who are your main competitors?:
Similar websites for this industry are
http://www.bechdon.com
http://www.ridgeeng.com

What resources can you provide?: Please use this logo.


Deadline: We would like to show the client some of your ideas by March 5th, but the deadline will be the 12th, after they have reviewed and given us their comments

Links will be:
Home Page
About BSC
Machines
Custom Ordering
Contact Us

Thanks.

[evened]

hi! do you have images of your products or anything..also can I change a little the color of the logo? what other features doy ou want on the principal page. like news, search, etc etc.

Im going to start working on this.

thanks

evened

[michaelk]

Ed,
The logo will remain pretty much as is (that's basically what's on their letterhead and such) But, you can use different background colors for it, and under it use the phrase "Precision Manufacturing"

I'm going to make a zipped file of some possible images, which I'll post in the next 30 minutes.

I don't know if there will be many additional features, b/c they site won't be 'dynamic', programming-wise.

[michaelk]

Forgot to add -
I don't know what the content will be (text-wise) on the front page, but put in some gobbledy-gook text as a place holder.

Here are some zipped pics, just as a starting point. Feel free to add others which might go well.

http://www.pipeland.com/bsc_images.zip

[evened]

ok here are some entries...

tell me if you like them, if you want me to change anything etc

thanks,

evened

#1

[evened]

number 2

[evened]

number 3

[Artemii]

Hello!
Just saying that I'm going to participate.
You'll see my sample soon.
Till soon!
All the best!

[michaelk]

EvenEd,
Nice first try.

Here are some thoughts -

Nice use of blue and the metallic idea.

Instead of 3 columns under the 'big top', let's just use 2 at about a 75% - 25% split.
Also, let's use a white bg for that area, and a softer gray for the text itself.
I'm worried that TOO MUCH blue might look a bit too "Terminator"-ish, which we're trying to avoid.

[DesignGeneral]

I'll post my entry soon

[Anne]

Here is my entry.
Looking forward to your feedback.

- Anne

[zing]

please provide some feedback on my entry: http://www.logogod.com/tom/sample.html

[evened]

hi here are the changes, I also made a new option, because I kind of had the feeling you didnt like the previous design

thanks!

waiting for feedback,

evened

[evened]

this is the second

[evened]

the 3rd one

[michaelk]

Interesting stuff so far. We're seeing the client Friday.

We're taking all designs in, and we'll get comments then.

[JeremeDavid]

Here is my entry. I figured since it is precision manufacturing, it should have clean lines.

[michaelk]

Jereme,

Try This:

Move the 'BSC' text on the top bar to either left or right side, and on the bottom, include the usual email/phone contact space

Thanks

[JeremeDavid]

I added the contact info and made a couple of other changes as well. I would like to see a photo of the facility where the picture in the contact area is.

[DesignGeneral]

My entry will come tomorrow morning B)

[michaelk]

Folks,
We met this AM with the client, who gave us some sites in their industry that they like, etc.
I'll post soon, to help you all along.

Thanks
MK
B)

[DesignGeneral]

I still working at it.

I'll wait to see the links so I can customize my template to the requested style

[Anne]

[zing]

did they not comment on any of the designs specifically?

[michaelk]

Comments/Feedback

Here were some sites/designs the client mentioned that he liked:

Overall, they want a simple understated site (Not in a flashy industry)

http://spcmfg.com/dmmain.html (same industry but would want something a little more creative than this)

Another similar type of industry is http://www.ultratoolmfg.com/ultrawebpages/special.htm (however, BSC does not sell parts this way or make anything this simple)

[michaelk]

Here's another they like:


http://www.timken.com/

[Anne]

Here is a new design from me.

Feedback appriciated.

[michaelk]

Thanks, Anne.

I think that's closer where we need to be.
Can you make the middle text area a different color ?

[Anne]

Changes made

[Anne]

and in blue