I just finished a web portfolio project for my talented photographer friend, Stefanie Villeneuve. I designed and developed an html5 website that showcases her photography in a minimalist direction, letting her work speak for itself.
One of the lasting influences of Swiss design on contemporary graphic design is the grid. It’s only been the past year that I’ve really appreciated the use of grid for interactive design projects, and how it really brings a design together cohesively and structurally, just as it does for print.
Here’s a great book lent to me by my friend, Richard, called “Universal Principles of Design” by William Lidwell, Kritrina Holden + Jill Butler. The book covers ideas and concepts that apply to different fields of design, from graphic design, industrial design, interactive design, to architecture.
I just finished a very short project for a new creative group called Senior Creative People. This group consists of ex-copywriters and art directors who worked for DDB in the 60s. The project was to design and develop a simple “Under Construction” page with provided copy and photography. The very cool thing with this project is [...]
For the past week I’ve been reading this really great book, “Responsive Web Design”, by Ethan Marcotte. It outlines the reasons for and strategies used in building responsive web designs.
Here’s an illustrated web banner and some icons I designed while I worked at Mob4Hire this summer. They’re for a page that promotes Mob4Hire’s software platform to NAVTEQ’s developer base. You can check out the actual webpage here.