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Archive for November, 2009
Your Corner Office Website
A simple one page brochure style site with a contact form. This site is no longer visible on the web ;-(
Johnny Robinson Website
A portfolio site for an independent film maker and artist
Sara Seed Promotions
A simple brochure website built off of her business card design.
Blogging or Practicing?
As a designer, my job is communication. I am fluent in visual communication because that is what I do — all the time. Someone comes to me and asks me to take their napkin sketch (or less!) and turn it into a professional piece of communication and I can do that fluently. However, when someone asks me to write for them … like copy writing a brochure or website I freeze up. Even finding the words for my own site, describing what I do is, like pulling teeth. So I think I need to begin this journey of a creative design business blog with the perspective of practicing getting my verbal descriptions down on “paper” and learning to be more fluent.
What is Design?
Good design is simple. You hear this from math to painting. In math it means that a shorter proof tends to be a better one. Where axioms are concerned, especially, less is more. It means much the same thing in programming. For architects and designers it means that beauty should depend on a few carefully chosen structural elements rather than a profusion of superficial ornament. (Ornament is not in itself bad, only when it’s camouflage on insipid form.) Similarly, in painting, a still life of a few carefully observed and solidly modeled objects will tend to be more interesting than a stretch of flashy but mindlessly repetitive painting of, say, a lace collar. In writing it means: say what you mean and say it briefly.
Lakeside at Wonderland Website
My most recent site design is for a Low Impact Land developer out of Washington.