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Recent wordmark for BooksCycle.com

BooksCycle Wordmark

Some recent quick mockups that I did towards a rebranding initiative for Owings Patterns from Georgetown, IN. They won’t be used, but was a fun 20-30 minute exercise. Kicked out in Illustrator, all vector.

Bob Owings Logo Concepts

To start of 2011 with a bang, Ear X-Tacy has started a new in-store music series entitled “Ear X-Tacy After Dark”. An extension of their “Live!” show series, the After Dark set wiil feature Louisville’s louder, rougher musical acts ranging from punk to hip-hop. The music will only be after the store closes for the night, will be free*, and all-ages. *Everyone is asked to bring at the least a quality canned good for charity.

To help spread the word, I created two 11×17 posters for the first two shows after Sean Bailey expressed interests in using my photographs of Vaderbomb and Black God to help promote. I will likely do more posters, but for now, here is the artwork for After Dark 1: Vaderbomb vs. Black God and After Dark 2: Hal Dolls and Rude Weirdo.

Vaderbomb vs. Black God

Baptist Milestone.com

I haven’t been in the habit of updating this blog… ever. But I wanted to mark the launch of the new Baptist East Milestone Wellness Center site.

I recently helped Jay Lane Media finish up this project, which had seen several iterations and developers. Due to a heap of varying circumstances, the previous developers were unable to complete the site to the needs of the client. So I stepped in to help wrap everything up and finally launch this site which had been in progress for over a year.

While a considerable amount of code was in place, including versions of the now-live class scheduler, there was still a lot of work to be done. Among which was:

• Speed optimizations
• Transition of many elements such as the homepage from static images to readable, accessible, editable text
• Outline of a upgrade path as well as definition of which CMS utilites would be left accessible to the end client and which would only be accessible to the admin
• Security upgrades
• Rebuild several forms to match updated functionality requirements
• Cross-browser testing
• Provide a client-updatable system for controlling their personal trainer listings and other staff
• Rewrite parts of the class scheduler to allow interface options such as a weekly listing of classes

Some features of the site:

• Event Scheduler – filterable via AJAX, added Weekly tab, updated design to match client’s needs
• Membership Form – input data, receive customized printable trial membership card
• Section-specific collapsed navigation – you don’t need to see all 500 subpages of other child or grandchild pages in the same category. Doesn’t sound like much, but WordPress can make this a little bit of a pain at times.
• Customized backend – thanks to manipulation of theme’s functions.php file
• Security and speed optimizations via minification and .htaccess manipulation

Tech used: Photoshop CS5, Espresso, CSS3, HTML5, Javascript/JQuery/AJAX, MySQL, WordPress, PHP

TL;DR: Redid a bunch of existing work and added increased functionality, working both from designer’s PDFs and my own design elements, for both content pages and dynamic forms and content areas.