September 12th, 2008
I have completed the production and implementation of a new site design for Matt Wreford, which can now be viewed on the website at http://www.mattwreford.com/, with only a few significant changes to my initial idea.
I have based the site on Wordpress, using it as a Content Management System allowing for the quick adding of portfolio entries and amendments.
Essentially the pages have been used for each section with their own templates, and posts can be categorised so that they will fall into each of the three portfolio sections and with a bit of PHP will display in the right portfolio page.
Read the rest of this entry »
July 25th, 2008
I thought I would try and make some category images for the main shop categories for the Ocean Addict site, and here are some of the first ones:
I felt vector images better suited the general style of the site, since previous graphics like the SAS Beach Cleanup image looked so good the moment it was planted in the sidebar.
June 28th, 2008
I have started work on a new design for http://www.mattwreford.com/, the owner of which felt that his existing site wasn’t really up to scratch. Knowing only that the client likes very simple and minimal designs, here is a screenshot of my initial layout and general concept for the site.
It will be quite a simple structure of 5 pages (four plus a link to a CV download) as requested, tabbed, and with two main content columns that serve different purposes on each page. For the CSS aspect of this design I have experimented with fluid column widths on both sides, where the content is grouped clearly in two blocks but they centre and expand within their columns with the resizing of the page.
Read the rest of this entry »
June 7th, 2008
I completed this design a while back, but the original design concept image I posted up still seems to get a fair amount of interest so here is a finished (but not the final agreed) version of the logo for the site as well.
Read the rest of this entry »
May 23rd, 2008
Here are some new buttons to replace the horrific GIF images that came with the clean install of oscommerce on Ocean Addict. In order, they are Accounts, Shopping Cart and Checkout.
Read the rest of this entry »
April 7th, 2008
So here is the latest logo design project, to create a graphic for the new Snugglebums Website we shall be working on in the near future.
Read the rest of this entry »
January 20th, 2008
Yet more logo design work it seems, this time for Plymouth’s Trevi House. The task is to basically produce a modern looking logo to replace their old one (Old Trevi House logo).
Here I have used their original image of a woman and child as a basis for the central focus of the logo, except that this image is perhaps more aesthetically dynamic.
January 11th, 2008
I have been studying lately the art of creating ambigrams out of words and names with the purpose of using them within my logo design work. Here is one I created from the company name APCues:
Sketches
Information
http://www.johnlangdon.net/index.html - John Langdon
http://www.stepinsidedesign.com/STEP/Article/28765
After doing a number myself, I wondered if there was anywhere I could find examples of any two letters that have been mixed together. Instead I found an ‘ambigram generator’ here http://ambigram.matic.com/ambigram.htm, which is ok for getting a little bit of inspiration.
The flash actionscript behind this is flexible enough to allow for any size
puzzle to be created and jumbled as many times as I like. In addition to this,
the difficulty of rotating pieces is also a feature.
