The goal of this site was to attract a younger audience with a new design as well as to make it as easy to update as possible. Lots of SSI include files and CSS styles were created to prevent administrators from breaking the design and to maintain consistency site wide. In order to appeal to a younger audience I applied a brighter treatment to their existing color scheme of yellow and green, widened the layout and added more upbeat photos.

This intranet site was designed to create brand awareness of the web services that eSystems offered. Features include a Flash gallery of web site designs, a project request application anda dynamic team event calendar. The dynamic portions of the site were assisted by .NET developers and I was responsible for the UI design, HTML, CSS and JavaScript that accompanied it.

Since system wide school administrators use this site, it had to be as simple as possible to use. Working with very little text on each page and lots of graphical/iconic buttons was the challenge for this site. Icons designed had to make sense to all users and the pages had to be very straight forward with almost no scrolling, it had a step-by-step or "wizard" like feel to it. Working with feedback fromtest users who never seen the site became an integral part of its launch.

The challenge with this project was that it was very text heavy. To overcome this, I decided to design a flexible three column layout that could allow for both horizontal and vertical scaling. Balancing the colors also became an important issue as well. To create aesthetic appeal, I treated the banner area with vibrant colors and added a small motion graphics flash piece. I chose a very muted color scheme in the text heavy area to ease the users eyes from all of the text.

I decided to apply a clean, modern look to this wine bottle holder site so I would let the pictures do most of the talking. To further this, it was key to show pictures of these holders in the bars and banquet halls of the exact target audience. Since the site was going to be so picture heavy, I varied the way they were displayed to make for a more visually interesting layout. Some were masked out, some had one type of border treatment and others had another style.

Logo for the Bureau of Safety and Security

Created in Illustrator

Logo for Quick Silver Cat web design studios

Created in Illustrator

Various icons for both desktop and web

Created in Illustrator and Photoshop

Fictional logo for All American Bar and Grill

Created in Illustrator and Photoshop

Magazine advertisement for Hideout Block Party

Created in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign

Digital illustration of Michael Jordan

Created in Photoshop with a Wacom 4x5 Drawing Tablet

Digital illustration of Bowser from Mario Bros.

Created in Photoshop with a Wacom 8x6 Drawing Tablet

Digital illustrations of different outdoor scenes designed on stamps

Created in Photoshop