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Almaden Cabana Club Logo

admin — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 07:36:06 +0000

Logo I designed for the Almaden Cabana Club, designed to invoke the impression of water and the sun.

Accentz by Alicia Web Site

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:49:15 +0000

Alicia wasn’t happy with her presence at Etsy, and asked me to build her a custom site complete with shopping cart and online purchase. So I did! Here’s the home page.

And here’s an interior page, where you can see a product listing that ties into the shopping cart.

MJ Painting

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:45:51 +0000

MJ Painting was frustrated with the time and money they’d spent trying to establish a simple web presence that they could be proud of. I took care of business in just a few days, and gave them some ideas for ways to take the site to another level.

Logo for Holly Barr, Realtor

admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:02:13 +0000

When she started her real estate business in 2002, Holly was apprehensive about incorporating holly leaves into her logo. She was afraid it would seem “christmasy” all year ’round. I made the case that she frequently introduced herself as “Holly…you know, like Christmas” so it was pretty unavoidable. Furthermore, I believed that the simple mark of green holly leaves with red berries would be attractive, distinctive, and easy to apply to all of her materials and signage. She agreed, and today her logo is recognized throughought Willow Glen and the South Bay.

Callidus TrueConnect Community Site

admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:46:51 +0000

Callidus Software hired me to refresh the brand identify and site design of their TrueConnect community site, where customers can interact with one another and company experts to learn the basics and best practices of using their software. The site was build on Leverage Software’s community-building platform, which introduced the complexity of mapping a design I developed to the system’s back-end deployment interface and templates.

2009 Holly Barr Web Site

admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:27:51 +0000

Redesigned Holly’s web siteto better feature her increasing number of listings with an interactive and dynamic panel on the home page, as well as her blog and weekly video updates.

LeadWrangler Logo

admin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:46:37 +0000

Logo for a service designed to get leads for local businesses, called LeadWrangler, and shown in context of a graphic explaining the service’s value proposition.

Domain Methods Logo

admin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:42:18 +0000

Logo for an Internet startup specializing in search engine marketing for local businesses.

Holly Barr 4th of July “Popper Drop” Campaign

admin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:02:18 +0000

For the 4th of July in 2006, Holly distributed small “poppers” to the neighborhood she was focused on. I designed this simple card to which she affixed the poppers — that’s the root of the word choice, and the reason there’s the large white space under the lilne “Pick a Realtor with POP!!!”

Holly Barr Direct Mail Pieces

admin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:18:37 +0000

First things first, I designed a shell/template that we could use to give pieces a consistent look over time. We decided to include a paragraph about her so every piece introduced her to the reader in case it’s their first time seeing any of her materials. The back included her contact information in the form of a return address, along with blank spaces for mailing requisites such as address and indicia.

Then whenever she wanted to do a campaign, I just developed copy around the idea, added some visuals, and dropped it in. I set things up with a print-and-fulfillment shop that I know in such a way that he could print them and get them out the door within days of me providing artwork.