NOAA Coastal Services Center Redux

29 Sep 2008 | no comments »

Might look vaguely familiar, as it is an upgrade of the previous NOAA CSC design, which itself was a redesign. This one definitely takes a more modern feel than the previous. What is interesting - for me at least - is to see how my style has changed just over the course of one year. Two similar yet different designs of the exact same website really illustrate that for me.

Big things for this site is that it is the first one where I really designed on a grid from the very beginning, with a full understanding of what that actually means. I was educated by the “Grids are Good” presentation. If you haven’t seen it, and you are aspiring to do any sort of work in the web world, stop what you are doing and go through it. It will definitely be time well spent.

  • Programs Used: Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Flash, Adobe Illustrator

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Tori Ryan Photography Website

29 Sep 2008 | no comments »

Website designed for my wife’s part-time photography business in Charleston. This was my first dip in to Flash CS3, and I have to say that it was well worth it. Actionscript 3 is mind blowing in terms of its power, and while it took me a bit to learn the new conventions, I believe I ended up with a better site than I could have ever accomplished with “old school” Flash.

  • Programs Used: Adobe Flash

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Tori Ryan Photography Logo

29 Sep 2008 | no comments »

Logo for my wife’s photography business. She specializes in child photography, so we both agreed that we wanted something fairly playful. At the same time, she did not want the “typical photography logo” which seems to consist of the photographer’s name in a script fot with decorative swirls all around it.

I got the root of the idea from a set of wooden alphabet blocks my wife purchased as a prop. I knew I wanted blue and pink, so I ended up picking their compliments (more or less) for the other two colors. Overall, very happy with it and its execution (so far) in print and web.

  • Programs Used: Adobe Illustrator

Filed under: Logo Design,

KinderCheer Logo

29 Sep 2008 | no comments »

Logo for a company that teaches cheerleading at daycares. Tried to keep it playful and simple. One of my more favorite logos I have made.

  • Programs Used: Adobe Illustrator

Filed under: Logo Design,

NOAA Shoreline

04 Jul 2008 | no comments »

My latest, greatest design. The team was great. We went from nothing to launch in around seven months, which is wicked fast in our organization. We worked in a lot of cool features that really work to help the audience understand the material, as opposed to being there just to be flashy. Easily my favorite design to date.

  • Programs Used: Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Flash

Filed under: Web Design,