Archive for the ‘Graphic Design’ Category
BlueBird Strategies
Advanced marketing and lead generation firm BlueBird Strategies and VectorDefector have joined forces to establish some new marketing initiatives for a variety of clients! First up is BlueBird Strategies themselves with a brand new site.
With both design and development completed by me, this site focuses on highlighting BlueBird Strategies’ unique approach to assisting clients in developing new marketing plans and establishing new clientele through leads. Built on the WordPress platform, this site features a new unique slideshow written in jQuery and a variety of easy-to-update options for keeping content fresh.
Lookin’ sharp guys – cheers to new business!
Doug Miller
Well, back from my week-long Mexico extravaganza and back in the saddle at full speed this week. Boo!
Launched today, in coloaboration with my associates at Mindflint Media, is a revamp of Dougs Foggiest Ideas – the personal blog of Doug Miller, a local preacher for Plum Creek Community Church here in Colorado. Plum Creek was developed and launched earlier this year.
Doug’s new blog features sharper photos and imagery and some more concise branding to match the Plum Creek look and feel. Word!
Kimberly Jonas.com
Part of a slew of web launches this week, KimberlyJonas.com is finally unveiled! Kimberly Jonas is an entrepreneur, yoga instructor, and writer who focuses on personal growth.
Kimberly Jonas.com was developed to market Kimberly’s unique style, expertise and focus on personal growth. Working with an existing unique Illustrator design from Kimberly’s designer, a custom theme for the WordPress platform was developed to enable her to have a large amount of control over her content while simultaneously getting the exact branded look and feel she desired.
This theme utilizes her unique brand, provided designs and features a number of custom plugins to accomplish the final product.
Lookin’ sharp!
Whew! Things have really picked up here over the last few weeks. It seems like quarter 3 ran a bit slow for everyone this year, but now as year end approaches, the frantic fury of new work is spilling in. I’ve started several new business initiatives and company collaborations with lots of great local folks and businesses- one with my father that I think is really going to blow everyone’s socks off.
So far to the end of the year, I’ve booked: 5-6 website designs and layouts, 2-3 branding projects, 2-3 Flash-specific items and maybe a media player or two. Yay, busy!
That being said if you’re looking to start a web initiative, book it soon! Contact me today for great home-spun company branding, affordable and easy to update websites, animated Flash pieces or any of my other services!
Plum Creek Church
Whew- this week I’ve completed a whole bundle of work with my associates at Mindflint Media. Specialists in non-profits and churches, Mindflint and I have been developing a number of cleanly designed data driven websites this year and the latest group of three is no exception!
This month we’ve completed work on two non-profit ministries: Blessman Ministries.org and Journey117.org (who are still working on integrating our theme into their software) and one church: Plum Creek Community Church of Castle Rock. Plum Creek also features some great work on a Flash animated children’s site by my friend Douglas Koke.
While not a religious person myself, I have much respect for all three organizations’ progressive take on tolerance, understanding and giving and for their great taste in web design!
Well done all.
Dark Music Theme
My buddy Doug Koke and I joined forces in late July to come up with series of web designs for the purpose of fitting them to existing content-management driven websites for an associate I met online. I must say, we rock some socks in the design department. I was surprised that after years of doing pure development work, I still have some chops.
Each of us picked from a set of 12 possible layouts (6 each) with a wide range of styles: Dark Music (featured left), Sports, News Portals and Design Portfolios to name a few. It sure is nice to be able to come up with ideas and not have to actually implement them sometimes! Its a different workflow to just keep cranking out concepts and not have to break the cycle to write lines and lines of code.
Check out the full series here in its full-sized glory or via my portfolio at www.vectordefector.com!
I’m proud to say business is booming this summer! I know I’ve addressed this topic before, but now is the time to be a freelancer. Its nice to have that “busy but not overworked” feeling again. Moreover, its even nicer to be busy and not have the general stress that goes along with working in an office (even though I miss the water-cooler talk).
I’m collaborating with a number of friends and agencies over the next couple of months and, quite honestly, they all kick butt! I’m working with my associates CustomChannels.net to establish some rockin’ home-grown Flash-based radio stations, my buddies at Mindflint and I are cookin’ up some fun and creative web projects, the folks at GraphikCreative and I knocked out some simple quizzes for Sleep Center of the Rockies, the crew at Barnaby and Associates and I are about to produce one of my most ambitious WordPress sites, B-Squared Design and I are collaborating on a nice new portfolio site, and my buddy Doug Koke and I have landed some team design projects.
Whew! I’ll have specific updates on each of these projects as soon as they’re to go. Stay tuned!
Also, if you’re looking to contact me for work, I’m probably going to be busy until the middle of July at least- but that doesn’t mean we can’t chat about a future project!
While I normally don’t favor doing animation work, I was offered a well planned Flash job this week, and I have to say it turned out better than most. Project:Whitespace is a side project from some associates of mine at Ando Media. I used some of Ando’s ad-delivery toolsets back when I was doing internet radio and was very impressed!
Project:Whitespace
This new product is a method for allowing bands to promote themselves using the unpaid filler space thats common on many online radio stations. As they’re not necessary allowed to play the same ads online as they are on terrestrial, there’s often a need for different audio “overlays”, so why not use a band promotion? This animated demo explains it all.
Earlier last week, I completed and launched Smile-Radio, a marketing site developed for my associates at CustomChannels to pitch their new product: streaming radio targeted at dentists.
SmileRadio.com
Dubbed “Music for the Modern Dental Practice”, Smile Radio is a very “Web 2.0″ looking custom-themed CSS site running off the WordPress platform (along with a few strategically placed custom plug-ins) and will soon have an automated ordering and tracking system for e-commerce payment traction.
In addition to the layout and tracking system, I also developed the accompanying Flash streaming media player and hand-crafted the branding. Lookin’ sharp! CustomChannels and I will be doing more work in the future including a new Flash radio player with unique statistical tracking. Look out, web!
My client, Mortgage Training Institute recently launched our latest collaboration: a new pure CSS site marketing their new product LivePresenter, a top-of-line yet inexpensive product that streamlines online video presentations.
MTI: LivePresenter
Designed and developed by yours truly, the LivePresenter site was built for marketing and search engine efficiency. Along with creating a series of hand-crafted logos and icons, I also developed a media player in Silverlight 2.0 to showcase customer testimonials. I also designed layouts for their nifty back-end toolset that allows users to manage their online presentations.
Great product + great collaboration = great results! Congrats, guys.