Online Design
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Title:
Create Digital Media
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About the Project:
I was hired by Create Digital Media to design their marketing site. Create DM are an iOS and Android app development company based in Tunbridge Wells, UK. It was a lovely project to work with loads of room from creativity!
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Responsible for:
Graphic/Web Design, Layout, Illustration, Dev work by Ryan Taylor.
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Client:
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Title:
Kicksend Homepage Design
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About the Project:
I was asked by Kicksend to redesign their homepage page and logo. The typeface used in the logo design is Appetite by Dzianis Serabrakou. I then heavily customised the letter K to create the 'flaming' logo icon. The guys at Kicksend send wanted a design that quickly communicated the benefits of using Kicksend. They also needed a bold design with a strong visual impact. The marketing page is also responsive for the viewing pleasure of those on mobile devices.
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Responsible for:
Logo/Branding, Website marketing page design & illustration. HTML + CSS by Neil Kinnish
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Client:
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Title:
GiftRocket Site Design
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About the Project:
I was asked by San Francisco based GiftRocket to completely redesign their brand/logo, website and mobile site. The aim was to create a fun and enticing website design without compromising the user experieince. With the mobile site I focused on making the user experince as simple as possible. This meant really focusing on the user's journey of buying a gift on their phone. I wrote a post that goes into a bit more detail about the thinking behind this design.
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Responsible for:
Logo/Branding, Website design, Mobile site design & illustration
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Client:
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Title:
Zero – iPhone App
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About the Project:
I was hired by Ian Kono and Benjamin Gilbert to design Zero. Zero is a super simple task management app for the iPhone. When Ian and Ben came to me, we talked at length about what we wanted from a task app. It had to be easy to add tasks, have the ability to add notes, add reminders and sync with iCal. This is exactly what it does and it’s really quick and easy to do.
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Responsible for:
iPhone app design, Logo/Branding, Website design & illustration
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Client:
Functional Delights
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Title:
Amazee Labs
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About the Project:
I was asked by Swiss based web agency Amazee Labs to design their new identity and website. They are a small, friendly and forward thinking agency that specialise in building online community solutions. Amazee supplied me with wireframes for the project but I was given almost total creative control. The design features a number of hand drawn illustrations and typography. It was a brilliant project to work on and I'm really happy with the outcome.
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Responsible for:
Logo/Branding, Website design & illustration
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Client:
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Title:
Future of Web Design/ Apps
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About the Project:
For 2010 I redesigned Carsonified's Future of Web Design and Future of Web Apps event sites. In a radical departure from the last incarnation of the events sites I created this Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odysseyinspired event site.
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Responsible for:
Graphic Design, Layout, HTML & CSS.
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Client:
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Title:
Newsletter Templates
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About the Project:
Designing Email Newsletters can be difficult. Not many all of the modern web technologies we're used to are available when it comes to newsletter design. Needless to say, this results in some pretty uninspiring newletter designs. Campaign Monitor & MailChimp asked myself and a bunch of other designers to design some newsletter templates for them. The templates shown with MailChimp written on them were for MailChimp and the other two for Campaign Monitor.
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Responsible for:
Graphic Design, Layout, Illustration
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Client:
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Title:
Chirp – The Offical Twitter Developer Conference
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About the Project:
Carsonified teamed up with Twitter to produce Chirp, the first official Twitter Developer Conference. The conference was held in San Francisco for developers across the globe. I was lucky enough to get to design the conference website. I basically illustrated the site from top to bottom, which was really fun. I also produced this Chirp t-shirt design for the conference.
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Responsible for:
Graphic Design, Layout, Logo & Branding, Illustration, HTML & CSS.
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Client:
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Title:
Carsonified
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About the Project:
In July 2009 I was tasked with redesigning the Carsonified company site. We wanted to convey the personality and passion of the company but also showcase Carsonified's products. I used bold colour scheme and hand drawn illustrations to create this site. It was a great project to work on.
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Responsible for:
Graphic Design, Layout, Illustration, HTML & CSS.
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Client:
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Title:
Stack Overflow Devdays
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About the Project:
Carsonified teamed up with Joel Spolsky and Stack Overflow to produce the Stack Overflow DevDays world tour. The Stack Overflow DevDays tour visited seven cities across the USA as well as London, Cambridge and Amsterdam. I designed the tour website.
Check out the use of the Parallax scrolling technique I used on the background.
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Responsible for:
Graphic Design, Layout, HTML & CSS.
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Client:
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Title:
Summer Camp
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About the Project:
Summer Camp is a Two day event held at the Carsonified offices in Bath for young start-ups and students. We all participate in the event and it's an amazing couple of days. I created this simple site for the event. Check out this showreel from the last Summer Camp event.
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Responsible for:
Graphic Design, Layout, Illustration, HTML & CSS.
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Client:
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Title:
Olly Hite
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About the Project:
After designing singer songwriter Olly Hite's debut album artwork, I was asked to design and build his website.
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Responsible for:
Graphic Design, Layout, Illustration, Logo Design, HTML & CSS.
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Client:
Olly Hite
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Title:
Our Great Adventure
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About the Project:
This was my first ever website. I was in a band called Our Great Adventure with my brother Tony and decided to have a go at building us a website. This was before I learnt HTML & CSS, hence why it's built using tables. I did some fun stuff using animated gifs. Basic technology, but you can still make it do cool things.
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Responsible for:
Graphic Design, Layout, Dreamweaver stuff.
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Client:
Offline Design
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Title:
Berocca Posters
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About the Project:
I was recently commissioned by The Campaign Palace / Berocca to create these bus stand poster designs for Berocca Twist 'n' Go. The posters have been rolled out across Australia. It was great to have the chance and do some illustration for print. It's weird, even though posters at a bus stand don't have the same reach as the web, there's something strangely satisfying about having your work in print like that. Not sure why but it feels good!
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Responsible for:
Graphic Design & Illustration
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Client:
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Title:
Twitter Posters
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About the Project:
I designed this set of Twitter posters based on extraordinary tweets. The A1 posters feature tweets from the likes of @barackobama & @marsphoenix. There's also poster for the first ever tweet. There's more information about the posters on ThinkVitamin.
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Responsible for:
Graphic Design & Illustration
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Client:
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Title:
Chirp T-Shirt
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About the Project:
As well as designing the Chirp Website for Twitter I designed this T-shirt for the Chirp attendees.
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Responsible for:
Graphic Design, Illustration, Chirp Logo & Branding
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Client:
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Title:
Future of Web Design T-Shirt
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About the Project:
I also designed these t-shirts for the Future of Web Design Conference in London 2010. The design is loosely based on the Future of Web Design Website I designed.
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Responsible for:
Graphic Design & Illustration
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Client:
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Title:
Graphic Design: The Forgotten Web Standard
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About the Project:
I gave a talk at The Future of Web Design in London 2009 called "Graphic Design: The Forgotten Web Standard". I designed this poster to give to the attendees. You can watch my talk here. I also made a 3 minute time laspe movie of me making my slides in photoshop which you can watch below.
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Responsible for:
Graphic Design, Illustration
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Title:
Microsoft Exhibition Graphics
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About the Project:
I put together an exhibition stand for Microsoft to promote their products Sketchflow, Expression Blend & Visual Studio. As part of the stand I designed and illustrated these 2 metre high printed banner graphics.
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Responsible for:
Graphic Design, Illustration
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Client:
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Title:
The Carsonified Journal
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About the Project:
We wanted to make something special for the attendees of Future of Web Apps Conference, so I designed and illustrated this journal. The Journal is a completely bespoke product and came boxed with a pencil and sharpener.
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Responsible for:
Journal Design, Graphic Design, Illustration
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Client:
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Title:
Olly Hite - In Everyone
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About the Project:
Olly Hite asked me to design his debut album sleeve. The design was inspired by a dusty old book of fairytales you might find in your loft. The book texture used on the outer sleeve was created by scanning in a 103 years old copy of The Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens. I also designed and built Olly's website.
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Responsible for:
Graphic Design, Illustration, Logo & Branding
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Client:
Olly Hite
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Title:
Urbanswallow - Alive
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About the Project:
This is an album sleeve I designed and illustrated for South Coast indie band Urbanswallow.
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Responsible for:
Graphic Design, Illustration
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Client:
Urbanswallow
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Title:
Wasted Audio
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About the Project:
Wasted Audio was a Breakbeat club night hosted at various venues on the South Coast of England. I designed these promo flyers for the events. It was a great chance to do something both creative and illustrative.
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Responsible for:
Graphic Design & Illustration.
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Client:
Wasted Audio
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