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Online Product Catalog & Site for The Composing Room

The Composing Room’s web site has historically not only functioned as a catalog for the general public, but as a sales tool for their representatives as well. The clean content organization and sales-oriented approach of this new site design created at Big Wheel serves to benefit both parties. Light-hearted page graphics and the leverage of existing technologies (ex. using the Flickr API as a photo gallery management tool) bring this site into the the more savvy world of the designers & marketers that are their primary clientele.

Home page

Product Page

Product Order Form & File Upload

J.Crawford Apothecary Identity & Website

J.Crawford Apothecary is the entrepreneurial vision of one woman with the desire to share her passion for the benefits of essential oils as a supplement to modern medicine. While warmth, tradition, and calm are a focus of this identity created at Big Wheel, the client also stressed the need to differentiate J.Crawford Apothecary from the multitudes of earthy and eccentric essential oils vendors currently in the market. This new identity and site balances warmth and sophistication with soft hues, vibrant photos, clean typography, and plentiful white space. These essential oils look inviting not just to the ‘alternative’ crowd, but to the modern bourgeoisie as well.

Horizontal & vertical logo versions

Business card concept

Home Page

Essential Oils description page

Essential Oils page interactive detail

Product detail page

Delicious HTML & CSS for Julia Usher

Julia Usher, pastry chef and author of books about desserts & more that are as beautiful as they are mouth-watering, needed a site up quickly before starting a book tour. Efficient, standards-compliant HTML & CSS brought this design by Marcella Hawley to life as an elegant static site.

Home Page

Home Page

Library

Library

Friends Page

Friends Page

www.juliausher.com

Site, Gallery, and Store for Flourishes Papercrafts

Flourishes LLC, a papercraft, cardmaking, and stamp retailer, needed a crafty new e-commerce site to better connect with their customers and fans. Under the direction of Marcella Hawley, I contributed to the design and development of a full-featured site with a shopping cart, blog, CMS, and photo gallery to share their creations and generate discussion. The shopping cart software used is Volusion, and the main site, blog, and gallery are managed through a custom WordPress setup.

Flourishes Home

Site Home

Store Front

Store Front

Gallery Home

Gallery Home

Gallery Image View

Gallery Image View

www.flourishes.org