March 11th, 2010
I love reading Smashing Magazine as it is extremely helpful for an aspiring graphic designer slash web developer. When they were advertising the release of their book Smashing Book, I pre-ordered right away. I had great hopes and they sure delivered a book chock full of ideas, concepts and smashing content.
The Good
As always from the writers, content is key. This book touches upon most topics that are relevant for any designer focused on the web as its medium. The topics range from taking full advantage of CSS for layouts to typography options as well as color theory. It covers on the fundamentals of user interface design and usability concerns that may not be something we may care as much as typical graphic artists.
Besides the graphical topics it covers, the book also covers the... Continue Reading...
Tags: smashing book, smashing magazine, web design
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October 24th, 2009
Last time I worked on a quick header banner for my friend for his auto parts website. Since then, the company is taking a different direction on their focus as opposed to just selling auto parts. Truth be told, I believe this is much better because selling auto parts pulled from dismantled autos is hard to maintain a live inventory and selling on eBay just eats away your margins.
The above is a mock up and concept derived on the fact that they are in fact recyclers. Scrapping all parts of an automobile that is no longer operational from usable parts to straight scrap metal.
Originally, I always felt that when you think of auto dismantling or junkyards you associate to those car compactor machines, a baler. Unfortunately, I could not find many images out there of such device and it... Continue Reading...
Tags: auto dismantling, logo design, lpd auto, recycling
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October 9th, 2009
One of my first projects was to help a friend who wanted to start an ecommerce site to sell auto parts. He wanted a simple shopping cart with low maintenance so I recommended Yahoo! Small Business Merchant (SBM) shopping cart solution. I really did not help set up the website as much since Yahoo SBM is a user-friendly way of getting an online ecommerce site going without too much configuration.
My contribution is the header image and the lettering. I used Photoshop to crop a stock image of an NSX. Then used Illustrator to paint it two color to keep the style simple and clean. Also was the lettering for the store name. The letters LPD are actually initials of the owners but they do not run together as well. I made several attempts but in the end, felt having the letters kerned... Continue Reading...
Tags: ecommerce, lpd auto parts, yahoo business solutions
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October 9th, 2009
BodyKore already had an ecommerce store online and was looking for a way to market the company’s products. They approached us recently to help them set up a blog and the project took off a bit more ambitious than originally thought.
The end result is a blog platform powered by WordPress with a custom theme developed by me. Some of the custom features were to use WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS) so they are able to showcase product reviews, have an event schedule, feature profiles of team members or fighters and introduce gyms that are partnered with BodyKore.
The original mock-up in Photoshop involved a three column layout with recent articles on the inner sidebar and advertisement on the outside sidebar. It became apparent that the spacing required would make the... Continue Reading...
Tags: bodykore, fitness apparel, mma website
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