Crystal Odenkirk

This is a site worth visiting. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. The brief for Lithographics included a small book that they print and use for promotions and my task was to keep the website in line with that book while still giving them a dynamic — in both design and technical terms — site that would stand out from the competition and convey the quality of their print work despite being a non-print medium.

I wrote all the code and markup for this site, with the exception of the reference desk, which I heavily modified from an application written in-house by another programmer at the company, and I created all the banner ads using single-frame cel animation techniques in Photoshop and ImageReady. I also converted all the photos from press-ready to web-ready with an eye to making them look the way they looked after coming off the press, rather than just making them look like digital photos. (I was very successful at that, if that tells you anything about the exceptional quality of the print-work that Lithographics does).

Lithographics, Inc. – Quality Printing, Superior Production

When I did the site in 2005 it had a different look for each of the sections; looks like they liked the lightbulb so much they had the agency that hosts the site change all the sections to match that. Here are mockups of two of those other two sections:

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