Tuesday 4 May 2010
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My Work
Snailbites – Design & Craft
I’ve been slacking on finishing this page for some time. This project got onto one of those timelines where I did 80% in 5 days, then the last 20% in 5 weeks. All you designers know how that goes.
For now, there are still some kinks to work out, and some more portfolio pieces to put up. But I think we’re good to go with what I have up as is. Hope you enjoy. Please leave me some feedback – I like to know how my work looks to the general public.
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2010-05-04 ::
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Tuesday 20 April 2010
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General + My Work
Well, it’s warming up to the Summer of 2010, and what looks to be one of the greatest sports summers in recent memory. Not just because of the NBA’s ridiculous free agency, or the Reinvention of Tiger, but moreso because of all the action happening in one particular sport: soccer. For those that don’t know, the World Cup is coming to South Africa this summer. Also at the same time, most of the leagues are finishing up their seasons.
At my job, we’re pretty good with Photoshop. We’ve also just recently become pretty big fans of professional football (not soccer, because that would mean being fans of MLS, which we’re not). So in our downtime, we don’t send dumb email forwards to our coworkers like other companies. We actually combine our mastery of Adobe products with a bit of clever trash talk to produce ridiculously hilarious pieces.
There are 4 of us EPL fans. I, the web developer, am an Arsenal fan. Our graphic designer, Truz, is the Man U fan (typical). Our video guy, is a Tottenham loser. And our manager is a long time Chelsea purist. And before anyone comments that I have too much time on my hands, let me just add the note that these little photoshops take about 2-3 mins each. (Super defensive!)
There’s so many of them, I don’t think I could fit them all on one page. But here’s a few to whet your appetite. More to come upon popular request!
This is what started it all.
Countered with this.
“Gotta love that cajun hotspur!”
Re-countered with this.
In case you’re wondering, it means Arsenal is washed up.
Eventually, Man U got in on the act…
…and was promptly crapped on.
Here’s where things just got a little ridiculous.
And there was no topping this, so we put it to rest at this point.
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2010-04-20 ::
Snail
Monday 5 April 2010
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2010-04-05 ::
Snail
Sunday 28 March 2010
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Man Toys
(Please excuse the corny title.)
How cool are these watches. I recently stumbled upon Toy Watch USA. They have a set of watches that they call The Jelly Shop. Here is a sample of one of their products.
The price tag is kind of a killer, but hey if you got the extra dough then I’d definitely go for it. Check out the link at the top and it’ll take you to the shop, where you can customize your watch before buying it. There’s a ton of different strap colors that you can match up with different watch faces. I’d love to have one, but unless one of you hires me sometime soon, sadly it won’t be in the budget
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2010-03-28 ::
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Friday 19 March 2010
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My Work
Been working really hard on the redesign for the homepage. It’s taking way longer than I though, but the time spent is very much worth it. I’m trying to use every bit of what I’ve learned in the web development world and make it all work together. Today’s sample is taken from the new navigation.
In keeping with my whole whitespace movement, I wanted to leave things as simple as possible. So everything is real clean with a focus on the typography. The little snail on the left is the icon for the homepage. Since I decided to not go with a traditional layout (branding logo on the upper right, navigation to the left and underneath), the little snail functions as a sort of branding and link back home. That will help on the following pages when we get further and further away from the front page.
Hope to have the finished product for you all by next week. Don’t want to give you anything less than that, though.
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2010-03-19 ::
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