Life is Art, for Studio Mathewes
And work is art. No client is more fun for a designer/developer than one whose work nearly speaks for itself in creativity and talent. Studio Mathewes has been a wonderful client for me over the last few years, and in 2011 requested an updated site design from a site I originally built and designed a few years ago. I recommended moving the blog from the Movable Type platform to a full WordPress-as-CMS build, which would make it much easier to manage content, and in my experience has also been very amiable to maintenance and future updates. The gallery, which is built in flash for fullscreen performance, switches gracefully to an html/javascript experience on mobile devices. Clean typography, a fullscreen gallery, subtle interactive flourishes and improved content strategy let the work of this talented photography studio become the focal point.
See the work and read more on the blog at studiomathewes.com!
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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.
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www.flourishes.org
WordPress Photography Portfolio for Lynn Terry
Lynn Terry, a photographer whose services we often use at Big Wheel, was in need of a refreshed photography portfolio that she could update easily herself. Big Wheel took on the project, and decided to create a site using the fabulous WordPress platform (have I ever mentioned how much I love WordPress?). Photos are added just like blog posts, sortable into featured photos and different categories. In addition to the site, I also redesigned the logo and created business cards to go with. The new look of the site and identity is professional but playful, and captures some of the edgy style that characterizes Lynn’s work. Lynn Terry’s name fills the frame of the logo in an interesting composition, the same as a photographer does with their subject. The business cards (and the logo) have the same aspect ratio of a 35mm photo, providing Lynn a unique & memorable way to leave behind her contact info.
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www.lynnterry.com
