This was one of my initial brainstorming ideas for this site. Ultimately, I decided to go for a more streamlined design, but I liked this one and I’ll probably implement this as an alternate style sometime in the future. The logo, however, is the direct ancestor of the one I did end up going with.
My friend Aly Condon has opened her own acupuncture clinic. If you’re considering it, I definitely recommend her!
Laughing Buddha Acupuncture
And here’s a link to the illustrator who did her logo:
Jake Mix: Illustrator for Hire
This is a design I did a couple years ago but couldn’t post because there’d been a delay in the site itself. Now it looks like they’ve finally got the site up and running, though some of the design implementation is different (notably in the left navigation treatment).
However, 99% of the design elements are retained and I’m really happy with how it turned out. I also did the two main logos; I did not do the banner ads on this site, unlike most of the other sites I’ve posted/will post.
Keyclothes.com by Workhorse Outfitters — Outerwear for Work or Sport
Here’s a screenshot I took of my prototype:
This one is dear to my heart. I designed and maintain the website for my World of Warcraft guild:
It’s gone through two iterations of design now, marked mainly by the difference in the tools that were available to me for personal use. The old one was done entirely with gimp, the new after I bought my own copy of Photoshop.
Old Keepers of Stromgarde site
New Keepers of Stromgarde Site as of July 2009
This one might just be the best design I’ve ever done. It’s certainly one of the top ones. And they made it really easy to make the site for them. They do amazing work and gave me excellent photos to work from. If I was building a house, I’d want them to do it. And I’m not just saying that because they were clients. Go take a look at some of the gorgeous woodwork in the gallery.
Website: Custom Homes and Condos – Schroeder Bros. Construction, Inc of Pewaukee, WI
Details: Fixed width site with repeating background. All of the textures used in the site are sampled from client-supplied photos from their homes, including the background /bracketing texture. Summer of ’2007.
Banners:
I’ve done a lot of industrial and manufacturing sites. Most of them are very cut and dried, get it done as fast as you can, we want it to look as plain as you can and still get our information across. That’s not a value judgment, just a constraint that you usually have to work under with certain industries.
Precision Screw Thread stands out from their industry for their recognition that “functional” does not have to equal “ugly”. I had a lot of fun putting this one together.
The initial landing page for the site was conceived as an abstracted display panel from one of the threading machines and evolved into what you see on the page now. We wanted to showcase the short movie but avoid the typical “trash splash” intro that trips up a lot of sites. This display panel instead brings together the site’s navigation and news from the company blog to make it easy for users to get where they want to go on the site (I was outvoted on making the movie start playing immediately. Sorry visitors, you’ll have to hit stop instead of start).
The internal pages carry through the theme and the navigation from the intro page. We wanted to add a little motion so I animated the starburst behind the logo in the upper left so that it glows and rotates on mouseover.
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