Just completed a simple portfolio website for my friend Anna who is a musician and needed a site to help her promote her skill set to prospective employers.
The theme is a modification of the free ‘Minimahl’ WordPress theme and features integration with Facebook, Google Calendars and Soundcloud – a perfect solution to web design on a budget.
Site is live at annathomasdrums.co.uk
I’ve just completed a small promotional website for Author Sean Kerrigan’s new book, Corporatocracy.
In addition to promoting the new book in a content managed and custom branded manner to follow the book’s cover design, the site also allows visitors to order a digital copy which is emailed to them automatically upon clearing a payment. A physical copy of the book is also available via lulu.com and possibly Amazon in the near future.
Site is live at corporatocracybook.com
Hey, why don’t I post 2 vector pictures I made just for the crack of it.
I challenged myself to draw a vector portrait from a grainy source photo.
and a Jewish Dalek. Actually, this is a (72×72) twitter icon for somebody, hence the lack of detail.
This is a bit late for the blogging but a while back I was involved in creating this design and html/css template for a client who is selling defunct bank notes online for the novelty value. After all, where else can you get a trillion dollar bill?
The design revamped the online store’s looks from an old design and introduced a new filter menu element to help people get to the type of notes they want to buy.
It’s always nice to work with people who are web savvy (this client will go on to develop his shop around my template), I even got wire frame diagrams to work with!
update: site is live now at zimbabwedollars.net
I’ve been playing with my new Bamboo tablet and Art Rage 3.
1280×800 (wide) – Download / 1280×1024 (more square) – Download
To coincide with the recent album cover design I made, I have also been involved in making a new website for The Boxcar Boys.
The design was essentially a custom theme built around the blogging CMS ‘Typepad’ and echoes the same style and aesthetic of the CD packaging.
The initial design below was proposed but scrapped largely for it’s complexity.
View the live site, which is slowly building in content over at theboxcarboys.ca
I’ve been lazy to update my blog, but I have been busy, honest.
Let’s update it with this logo I did for a chiptune/breakcore DJ by the name of NovaLion.
This bold logo took influences from the 8-bit / Atari graphics era with it’s pixelations and lines.
I really feel I have a tight command of Illustrator now, and my logo work has improved as a result. I hope to get a few more logo gigs soon.
In other news, I have also finished a Boxcar Boys website to coincide with their debut CD design. But more on that soon (yes, really).
My geisha mascot which I use as a logo has been bothering me for some time so I decided to redraw her in Illustrator.
She started life as a 3d model in Maya back in 2006, the image of the model was then ‘live traced’ in Illustrator and, except for a few clean ups here and there, was left like that, a little bit scrappy.
So here she is in her 2011 glory!
I’ve been working on icons again with this set of 32×32 Icons which will be used for a web page for use with mobile devices. They were created in Illustrator and assembled in Photoshop.
The set includes 7 icons in both ‘active’ and ‘inactive’ states.
Well it’s been busy,
My clients seem to be going crazy over WordPress, I have spent a lot of time converting old sites (either static or under a different cms) over to the platform. I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t my bread and butter as a freelance web designer at the moment.
Speaking of WordPress, I’ve just finished a custom theme for a real estate agent in Miami. I was told to produce something which reflected the ‘Miami Vice’ aesthetic for this blog which will serve as a gateway to the agent in question’s main site.
Turn your speakers on! (not too loudly though, music starts at 0:05)
I have set my first paid foot into the scary (no second chances!) world of print with an album cover design for Toronto based band ‘The Boxcar Boys’.
The design incorporates high resolution texture and colour as well as several personally uncharted Photoshop techniques, and was assembled into a printer’s template and spec along with the texts in Adobe Illustrator.
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The Original Source Photo on which the design was based
A Travel Blog with Class
I have just put the finishing touches on what may be one of the most complex projects I have completed to date.
logo shown within the design not produced by me, but by a third party.
Flashpackering Guy is a travel blog aimed at travellers with a larger budget, whereas backpacking is traditionally associated with budget travel and destinations that are relatively cheap, flashpacking has an association of more disposable income while traveling and has been defined simply as backpacking with a bigger budget. “Flashpacking” is a neologism used to refer to an affluent backpacker.
The aim was to create a design that reflected this through a classy, stylised travel theme which managed to retain an element of humour.
Part of the brief required me to work with the Thesis framework for developing the theme. I found it very similar to my regular framework of choice, Thematic. I would describe Thesis as basically the same but with more user interface customizability for the end user. It also costs something but I found the level of support for developers very good.
There was a fairly major restructuring of the site markup. Multiple navigation menus, customised menu graphics, jQuery, a ‘Current Location’ status update-able through the dashboard, a home page slider and the usual social media and newsletter integration.
The site is currently being populated with content by the site owner, but for now, check out the screenshot above.
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