Help me choose a design

Hi everyone.

I have three versions of a design for a new site, and need help on this. My customer can't choose between the three versions, and I'm unsure between the two simplest ones. I had an idea using Rubik's cube, but it doesn't work as expected, but I'm showing you anyway. Please have a look at following screenshots and tell me wich one would you choose:







Thanks a lot

I would choose the first one, then youve got clean space for any banner. But really the difference between 1 and 2 is very small.

I like the top 2 (actually I can't see any difference between them?). The cube is a bit 'in your face'. Perhaps if it were in the top left (instead of the four colour square?)

I'm enjoying 2.

Thanks everyone for your opinions.

Kurak_bu: i don't need banner space, such small congresses never have banners (although I see you have a business mind).

I'm getting Zaphod idea, have a look at this:

I would go with #1 with the new cube in the top left.

You really didn't say whether you wanted this to be a fixed width deign or not, but if you want it to be scalable the eyes are going to be invasive. I love the splatter (c4d?) graphic behind the company name, a very nice touch though I think I would enjoy it more if it was not overlapping the black at the top.

Anyway, if you dropped the eyes you could easily make this thing flex nicely.

As far as your cube, it s a bit flat for my taste, so I have attached a few from my collection. 1 solved (which may actually go better with the original logo?), and 1 not solved.

Great design otherwise. I would be interested to see what you have in mind for your right column and that gradient over there. Can't wait to see the finished product.

Thanks, Mr. Theme. This is the plan:

1 - Fixed with for 1024 px wide monitors. People is starting to buy 19, 21 and even 27 inches monitors, so liquid layout would be too big for them. As you probably know, IE6 ignores CSS max-width and min-width (it also ignores bottom, opacity, position: fixed and many others, you know), and I don't want to use a javascript hack to fix it.

(Maybe I should reconsider the javascript solution, but it sounds bad to me)

The site will only be functional until the congress + six months., that is, end of 2009.

2 - The rubik is actually my own, photographed. Perhaps I illuminated it too much, that's why it looks boring. But it must be half-resolved, as Synaesthesia is a half-resolved subject. The customer liked idea of a half-resolved cube as metaphor of the synaesthesia. I'd like to show it a bit more resolved, but I couldn't solve it more than this, and I was losing my patience (i know there are methods, but where's the fun if you use them?)

BTW, if you search Google for synaesthesia, you'll find lots of horrible designs spinning around multi-colored letters, the n. 1 Synaesthesia cliché. I wanted to avoid that while using colors.

3 - The right column will contain latest news (automatically driven by News block) and a random partner. The sponsors are a tricky problem, as most of them are public and want to appear before this or this other for political reasons, not related to the amount of money given to the congress. now that they are not listening: they totally suck.

Option 1, but not very different version 2.

Thanks Giba.

News on this subject. The customer talks about some leaflets that are being designed by them (not by pro, but by them themselves!!!) and I'm supposed to consider their design and be consistent with this.

WTF!!!

More on this later.

I have customers like this as well sometimes... you have my sympathy!

Finally I did the trick, accepted my criteria (i'm a sort of Parker lewis, I have horrible shirts and I can't lose). Now the site is open to the public (, although there's some work to do yet. I'm not too happy with the left block design, and some promotional stuff (the congress has public sponsors) must be added in the right column.

The ego of the public sponsors is incredibly big.

If IE7 users could check the site, it would be very much appreciated.

www.sinestesia2009.info

Really nice! And looks fine on internet exploder 6 here...