Portfolio Samples
Coolidge Photography
Portrait and fine art photographer Courteney Coolidge collaborated with her designer to come up with a photo-book layout for her portrait portfolio. Courteney then approached me to develop the concept. We worked to make the interface inviting and usable while also allowing it to be flexible enough for her to easily add new photos herself in the future. The final version uses simple javascript and CSS techniques to bring the focus onto her beautiful portraits.
www.coolidgephotography.com
The Swell Season
When The Swell Season's song "Falling Slowly" won the 2008 Oscar for Best Original Song, they suddenly needed a better way to connect with their followers and the general public than just pointing to their MySpace page. Their new website, designed by Hazen Creative, allows current fans to follow the band while providing new visitors with streaming music and photos to interest them in the duo. The website uses the WordPress publishing platform, so band members and management can easily update tour information, website content and news articles from the road.
www.theswellseason.com
Greater Than Green (>Green)
Greater Than Green's designer came up with a modern, fresh design for their company's website. I took this design and built out the site to be modular and easy to update, allowing the company to use the site architecture to demonstrate their company's environmentally-friendly monitoring services and products.
www.greaterthangreen.com
Samara Lectures
Beth Martin Quittman's lecture agency started with just a handful of clients. Her website needed to be flexible enough to scale as her speaker roster grew, while still allowing certain speakers to be featured throughout the site, and enabling notification of upcoming events. Each speaker has a page dedicated to their biography, with quotes about the speaker and their work(s), and includes various multimedia presentations such as movies or slideshows.
www.samaralectures.com
Earthen Feast (Alyssa Cox)
When personal chef Alyssa Cox started marketing her catering services, she realized that many potential customers, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, were doing their research online before contacting caterers. In order to build her business, she needed a website that would capture the imaginations (and appetites!) of customers looking for delicious, healthy food. I created a site which helps future catering customers get a feel for Alyssa's cooking by spotlighting photos and recipes for her great dishes.
www.earthenfeast.com
SelfDefenseResource.com
Lyman Yip had a vision: to provide articles and other information about self defense, so that people could learn how to defend themselves and their families. We decided on a design that put the information front and center for his visitors. We then implemented several features to help connect visitors with his information, such as adding a site-wide search engine, discussion forums, and syndicating news articles with RSS.
www.selfdefenseresource.com