I Make Things Pretty
My first big eCommerce site it was done with WordPress. This was done while employed full-time not as a contract. This is how the old site looked. The navigation was all over the place and you never really knew where you were within the site. In addition, the images we tiny and hard to see. […]
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This logo I really just changed some things on. Basically, I tone down the original drop shadow that was on the text of the logo. The drop shadow was far too heavy for the text. Then I added the splashes behind the text. I didn’t change the text because I was unsure if anyone in […]
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Gold social networking buttons made for the Fantasy Guild Tour Site. The gold finish helped promote the luxury feel of the site.
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This banner was made for the Fantasy Guild Tours Website.
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I did this project in the late summer early fall of 2014. Fantasy Guild Tours is a niche travel site, they arrange travel tours around the ballroom dancing competitions around the world.
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My latest project was a huge one. My company requested a new catalog design. They wanted a total overhaul of the catalog they had been passing out.
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I had a lot of things to learn while doing the interactive version of this catalog. Not only was I using InDesign which was entirely new to me. I had never made an interactive “video” or pdf. The biggest problem I found was getting the sound and page animations to work correctly.
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These are the graphics I made for the Designs to Shine website project. As you can see there was very little extra graphics made for the site. Some social networking buttons and 1 decorative piece used for a divider between content on the site. You can see the full site at designstoshine.com I used Photoshop […]
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Designs to Shine is a dance costume design firm, with designs by Maria McGill. When I first meet the Designs to Shine team, they were having a lot of issues with their site. They had paid someone to do a redesign of the site back in March of 2013, that redesign wasn’t working for them […]
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When VSI bought the Burton name and assets they wanted to continue in the Burton tradition of quality products, they also wanted to start selling & producing new items to add to their line of refurbished items they currently sell. One of the new items they are selling and marketing under the Burton name is […]
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The company I work full time for, bought the assets of an older, established brand. They hope to increase their product line and market under the brand. The company, however, had changed hands before, leaving old logo files unavailable. So they needed the old logo recreated for marketing purposes. All work was done using Photoshop […]
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This year Vision Systems Inc. redecorated their booth for road shows. As a result, I did a lot of print work this late summer getting the booth ready. All work was done with Photoshop CS4.
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This is the Ebay site I did for VSI. They wanted the overall look and feel to be the same as their main site pattenless.com.
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These were done for the website project, *Friendly Spa Parts.
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These are doodles really. They were never made for any project. Done in Photoshop CS4.
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These are doodles really. They were never made for any project. I made them in Photoshop CS4.
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These are doodles really. They were never made for any project. I used Photoshop CS4.
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Originally done for a concept for VSI. This, however, ended up on the cutting room floor.
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I call this guy “Little Man”. Originally, he was a concept for a web project. So really, he ended up on the cutting room floor so to speak.
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This was the Facebook cover of Vision Systems. This can no longer be viewed as the banner however, some of the past images are still on the Facebook page
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