Gift Card Design Contest Rating Options

[Medi]

For Citibank members..

I saw the contest about an hour ago, and worked on it straight through for about an hour. It probably won't win, but it was fun designing it.

[Mikeplyts]

Wow, that looks very real and good, Murat! It's nice and clean too. I like it! I think it'll at least get runner-up or somethin', lol. :)

[schizo]

I envy fast designers. Even though it's simple, something like that probably would have taken me a day.

Anyway, it looks really good. What does it represent?

[Gigi]

Looks very clean and professional, like the colours a lot too. Initial idea is nice I'd have to say.

However, I'd probably suggest you to tweak with the composition a bit because everything looks just a bit too big and a bit too centred. I would probably take the topmost...leaf thing and either make it either wider or narrower, since right now it ends just at the border of the card, making it a bit abrupt. I think it would look better if the leaf either stopped short of the edge or went well over it. I hope that made sense.

Also, the white space in the design looks a little cramped, like you tried to get rid of as much white space as possible by making the leaf-things as large and as centred as possible. Maybe try displacing the entire leaf-thing to one of the corners or make it smaller so there's more white space and a bit more visual interest.

(I keep referring to those things as "leaves" so I'd really appreciate it if you elaborated on your design concept so I can call them by a proper name lol. Thanks)

I hope you know that I wouldn't go through that much trouble of constructively criticizing if I didn't acknowledge that your design is nice to begin with.

[Medi]

Thanks everyone. Yes, they're leaves, or something like that, petals.

Gabi and others asking: The design is just a simple on going pattern of "3's" You have three leaves (or petals), made up of three parts, behind the leaves are 3 skinny white lines, and one thick line, to not make it stand out more, the four lines together, make three "invisible" lines. The colors are shades of Orange, which is the Thank You program's trademark color.

Gigi, I did understand what you mean about the top leaf being too close to the border of the card, and it would look better if it stopped just short, or went completely over. The only thing, I wanted everything to remain proportionate, if I increased the size of that top one, I'd have to do the same to the rest of them. :/ that could take up more of the white space, that you were referring to. I wanted a design that took up at least 90% of the card. I probably could have added more detail to the actual design, maybe one more instance for a pattern of three.

[Gigi]

^ Yeah I figured that it was because you had a dilemma with the proportions. Maybe instead of keeping the same size for all three of them, have them vary in size? Like go from large to small or vice versa. I dunno, though. Your call.

Keep us posted on how this goes. :)

[manny-the-dino]

Wow this is really cool. I could never pull off something like this. You're very talented, Murat.

And the leaves remind me of mango slices Good luck with the contest!