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HPESC Brochure
HPESC Brochure
Project: To create a brochure, as part of a series of brochures which help answer pet owners' questions about home pet euthanasia.
This is a very sensitive subject for pet owners, so it was important that the look and feel be soothing, caring, warm and friendly, while informative. I've really enjoyed working with this client, Dr. Annie Forslund. I've gotten to work with her on newsletters, brochures and her website, to help create a uniform brand identity. And hopefully lots more to come.
Matt Hyde Website
Matt Hyde Website
Project: Create a dark, clean website for music producer, Matt Hyde.
This was a really fun website to do. I wanted to include elements of music production somehow. So I created the logo to resemble an EQ, and added a texture closeup of the black leather on a speaker or amplifier to the header.
Matt Hyde is an amazing music producer, He's produced so many famous artists' albums it's almost ridiculous, from Slayer to Cyprus Hill, Deftones to No Doubt. As I write this, he's in the studio with Soulfly, working on their new album. So as you can imagine, it's been quite an honor for me to have the opportunity to create his website for him.
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Ranch Road Recording Logo
Ranch Road Recording Logo
Ranch Road Recording is the brainchild of Trace Ritter, a writer, producer and musician who's worked at Sound City Studios with Joe Barresi (Queens of the Stone Age, Tool, Pennywise, Bad Religion, etc.), Rick Rubin (Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Johnny Cash), as well as Nirvana, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Petty, pretty much EVERYONE.
So it was quite an honor to get to create the logo for his brand new music studio in Montana, Ranch Road Recording.
The idea was to create a brand which was edgy and cool, but also had that gritty ranch feel. It would have to look good as a sticker on a guitar case or the side of an amp, as well as branded onto the ranch sign itself. I tried to incorporate a moose in the logo, because...Montana...mooses...you know..., but it didn't work. I REALLY tried! In any case, this is the logo.
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Connect Effect Logo
Connect Effect Logo
Project: To create a logo for a yoga and dance festival in Las Vegas.
The idea was that this event would repeat and the logo would be something memorable that would be recognizable whenever this particular festival would occur. It was to communicate yoga AND dance, not just one or the other. It should be interesting enough that it could be made into a banner or flier and nothing else would be needed to attract interest.
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Seeds of Peace Logo
Seeds of Peace Logo
Project: To create a logo for a corporation which could serve as an umbrella for yoga studios, social programs, festivals, dance, etc. It was to be bright and happy and colorful, incorporate a clean, healthy feeling which could be representative of all the types of businesses which would be branded with that logo, and also ideally would incorporate a lotus flower.
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Pittock Mansion Mockup
Pittock Mansion Mockup
Project: To create a web design mockup which is classic but still edgy and cool, which would reflect the aesthetic and tradition of this historical landmark and museum of Portland, OR.
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Nomic Newsletter
Nomic Newsletter
This is a custom newsletter I created for Nomic, the Las Vegas job network for food and drink professionals.
Project was to create a newsletter that followed the brand to the letter, and which contained editable fields. So anyone could add new text and titles and images without having to know a lot of code.
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Is This What You Want?
Is This What You Want?
Chalk Preschool
Chalk Preschool
Responsive Website
Home page color coded for each school. Dots in header also link to the schools.
Animated slider for each school, with animated dots that also link to the color coded school.
The Lakeview slider has animated rockets and dots.
I went a little crazy on this one. All the little sketches are animated, and the dots.
The big, sketchy balls are animated in this one and the dots.
Contact form uses same preschool colors but a different design.
This is just what one of the subpages for each school looks like. I made a template for each school, including its animated slider as well as the sidebar navigation for that specific school. (There are 5 total.) So later on when people want to update, add a page to a particular school etc. it’s easy and they don’t have to know any html or anything to make a page that matches that school’s design.
Project Details
Billy Sheehan
Billy Sheehan
Responsive Website
News page with Facebook feed, Twitter feed sidebar and upcoming tour dates in sidebar.
Newest album on the discography page with tracklist and iTunes and Amazon links.
Some of the discography items like this one have players so you can listen to the album from the page. Also purchase links for iTunes and Amazon and some other stuff…release date, record label etc.
Tour dates page with recent music vids in the sidebar. For upcoming shows there are links to the show’s fb page as well as to purchase tickets. I like that feature.
Project Details
Redesign of Billy Sheehan's website, to include images, tour dates, discography, news, Facebook and Twitter feeds, links and contact. This one was definitely an honor for me to do. Billy Sheehan is awesome! <3
Other Projects
Sense of Wonder
Sense of Wonder
Artist Bios
Project Details
Energy One Landing Page
Energy One
Landing PageProject Details
Client wanted a corporate landing page in brown and orange, which was interesting to look at, easy to read, easy to sign up to, just simple. *Note: In this screenshot you can see the logo from the stock photo site I used in the coffee cup. Client did eventually purchase stock photo so we could remove that. 🙂