Updated website? How does it look?

What is the purpose of your site? If its just a site to show of your work without context (like an online scrapbook) its so so. if its to attract and convert business leads into clients it is a failure in design, usability, context, content, and marketing/sales.

Can you define what you mean by " the quality of my work has already gained a sizable amount of recognition."?

Have you received some sort of awards or honors for your work that others in your field recognize you for? Are your logos featured on some syndicated regional or national commercial or slogan? Is your work featured on some new line of frosted flakes or local foods or products that people use every day and those service providers recognize you as the go to guy for this type of logo design and product quality? What type of recognition has your work received and which of your portfolio pieces best exemplifies this bold statement that you have made? What do you mean by 'sizeable'? and from whom? other designers? some sort of critics? company leaders? customers? media partners? book publishers?

I don't know but as someone with "sizeable" (20+) years of corporate & consulting experience, I call bullshit! (at last since I don't see anything on your site as a reference to back up these claims).

Also your examples don't seem to show use of "negative space" despite your claim that this is your emphasis, niche, or what you are best known for. Shouldn't most of your examples show work that predominently uses negative space then? (I thought that claim was pretty funny too).

Here are examples of negative space in case you need a refresher: https://www.google.com/search?q=negative+space+logos&biw=1536&bih=748&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj34K-4ivzMAhVJ2GMKHeFgDIEQ_AUIBigB

Why do people feel the need to bullshit so much?

Your call to action is on the wrong page.

Your form is way too long and in the wrong part of the process. That form is something you would send to a client after you booked the gig, or these would be the questions you would ask the client during your requirements gathering and/or discovery stage and not up front. You haven't goten the gig so why ask all these questions? You need a simple form that just allows someone to ask some questions or something that makes a person just email you and say "sounds good when do we start?".

In your form you seem to ask the right questions (I understand what you are trying to get out of a client) but you ask them the wrong way wihout giving the client a way to provide the answers in an easy and fast manner.

Actually since you already have a contact form this other logo submission form is unnecessary at least where its at in terms of its existance on the site/menu etc.

Your tesemonials are in the wrong place and again without context and therefore from a marketing and sales standpoint completely useless. (i.e. they do not link to the work you did or to the company you claim the testimonial is from or explain what you provided that made them so happy and more importantly why I as a potential client would want you to solve my problem. If your site is not meant to attract clients then just disregard all this).

On your contact form....why would anyone want to follow you on instagram? Are you some media personality or artist who produces art for the sake of art and not a pursuit of profit? How is this related to your logo business and you solving a business problem?

You logo "Thompson Graphic Designer" doesn't really make sense from both a design standpoint and common sense messaging standpoint and I find this very odd since you call yourself a graphic designer.

It would make more sense for your branding to be Zach Thompson and have graphic designer as a footer or sub section of your logo. If you want to just use Thompson it should just be Thompson without the graphic designer part or be something like Thompson graphic desgin studio or Thompson Productions or Thompson Services or Thompson Graphics or just Thompson and nothing else.

Since you are using Squarespace why not use a more interesting template? I don't use them but I know they have quite a bit more available in terms of showing something more interesting then just so much grey and such a basic layout that completely underutilizes what you should be marketing on the front page. (also you front page isn't designed with the right dimensions/grid in mind).

Fyi...this might seem harsher then others but if I take the time to critique anything on a whim, I'm not going to blow any sunshine up anyone's butt and tell them how wonderful they are when their work they want critiqued needs well allot of work. Don't fret...just go and start working on version #3 and come back for another go.

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