A few months ago, when Creative Improv was in it’s infancy, the Parallax View project came our way at just the right time. I had wanted to work on this project since high school. I knew Ben & Seth in high school and thought it would be cool to do a website for them back […]
10 Great WordPress Plugins
1. NextGEN Gallery NextGEN is a great plugin that provides a simple and easy administration back end to handle multiple photos, galleries and albums. It allows for multiple slideshow transitions since it’s based on the JW Image Rotator 2. Akismet This provides great spam comment protection and comes already installed on every WordPress install. The […]
What makes a website great?
I recently read this on CSS-Tricks: There are websites that we visit because we have to, but we wouldn’t get an account with. There are websites that we have accounts with that we would never participate in. There are websites we participate in that we don’t enjoy. There are websites that we enjoy but don’t […]
Finding my work in a few cool places
I was recently browsing a few of my past Visual Communication professor’s websites. I found my work highlighted in their ‘student work’ section. Check them out here. http://bethsteffel.com/html/studentweb5.html (live site here) http://bethsteffel.com/html/studentweb6.html (live site here) Beth now teaches in San Bernardino, CA at California State University I also found my ‘yes we can’ Obama video on Gary’s […]
Branding, Design Concept/Ideas, Jobs, Print Design, The Design Process, This Week in Design, Typography, Website Design
This Week in Design
MEADOW HEIGHTS CHURCH ‘REMEMBER’ MESSAGE SERIES Another message series! I’ll have another one to post in two weeks. This one was a borrowed set of graphics from LifeChurch.tv. What is borrowed is the glass image and ‘remember’ logo. The rest is a unique design that fits the Meadow Heights ‘style’. It’s funny that Meadow Heights […]
Branding, Creative Improv, Design Concept/Ideas, Inspiration, My Life, The Design Process, Website Design
Creative Improv’ing
I’ve spent the last four months working on starting my own freelance business known as Creative Improv. It is a unique collaboration between myself and Michael, but also might include more folks in the future depending on the specific project (photographers & programmers). Michael and I would always tell each other, “you know we should start a design business”. Well […]
Branding, Clients, Creative Improv, Design Concept/Ideas, Illustration, The Design Process, Website Design
unique artist. unique art. unique ink.
I would never have guessed that of all places, Fredericktown, MO would be home to a really awesome illustrator like Tim at Unique Ink. Michael Goldsmith and I teamed up to create a truly ‘unique’ website for Unique Ink. They offer screen printing/poster design/vinyl lettering and a bunch of other stuff. His artistic style is […]
Politics & Effectively Using the Web (part six)
In part six, I simply have a list of reasons why Obama won this election. When McCain took the low road with trivial negativity, Obama never slung mud back, he simply continued on the high road – very under control The negative ads by Obama that were run, were about the issues not about someone […]
Politics & Effectively Using the Web (part five)
In part five, I take a look how Obama is getting out the vote and viral advertising. I’ve decided to change this post slightly from what I described earlier. I’d like to focus purely on Obama and his various websites and viral advertising. YesWeCanSong.com The first time I had ever heard of the term ‘viral advertising’ […]
Bad design by design, Branding, Design Concept/Ideas, Politics, Redesign, Usability, Viral Advertising, Website Design
Politics & Effectively Using the Web (part four)
In part four, I take a look at the recent website redesign by John McCain and compare it to his previously all black website. Beautiful Design I believe I’ve said this on my blog before. This presidential campaign has largely been about change. Most significantly, a change from really horrible design in political campaigns to truly […]