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Nextron Web Services

admin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:25:47 +0000

In all honesty, I can’t remember exactly what “Nextron Web Services” was, but I do remember using this logo in brochures and on collateral folders so I know it was real, whatever it was. As you can tell by the numerous brands I developed during my tenure at Nextron, we were launching new businesses and brands at a fairly frenetic pace.

Global Impressions Logo

admin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:16:50 +0000

As part the service element of Nextron’s core business of mass producing small business web sites for yellow page publishers, the company employed a sizable staff of junior web designers and developers. Between that team and a few of us more experienced creative types plus a few programmers, we figured we could build high-end custom web sites too.

My friend Brian Ikeya and I from PCMCIA had at one point played around with the idea of starting a web development shop. We had come up with the name Global Impressions and secured the .com domain name, but never did anything with it. So when we started talking about a high-end web team at Nextron I proposed we take advantage of the unused name/domain and everybody loved it.

The logo I designed for this team, shown here, was a stylized capital G, with the end of the bottom curve forming a lowercase “i” dotted with a globe. The clean curves and gold metallic gradient were meant to convey a sleek, sexy, high-end feeling.

AccuHost Logo

admin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:08:05 +0000

At some point during my time at Nextron, we decided to augment the Dev-Com business with a higher-end offering of dedicated server web hosting. We named the business AccuHost and I designed the logo shown here. It’s one of my favorites from back in the day.

Nextron Web Site

admin — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:03:48 +0000

Another blast from the past, this is the site I designed for Nextron in 1997. No real relevance to modern design or web technology whatsoever, just another example of my work from “back in the day.”

Nextron Logo

admin — Fri, 12 Jan 1996 00:07:19 +0000

I oversaw the development and implementation of a new brand identity when IMV Internet became Nextron Communications.