Finished Matt Wreford Site

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.

Matt Wreford website

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.


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Shop Product Category Images

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:

Category Icons for the Ocean Addict shop

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.

Personal CV Website

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.


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Finished Snugglebums Logo

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.

Teddy Bear Logo


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e-Commerce Buttons

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.

Website Icons


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Snugglebums Teddy Bear Logo Idea

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.

Snugglebums Teddy Bear logo idea


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Trevi House Logo

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.

Trevi House logo idea

Ambigram Art

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:

AMBIGRAM APCues

Sketches

ambigram attempts

ambigram attempts

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.

About Me

I am a web designer/digital artist currently studying BSc Digital Art and Technology in Plymouth University. I have returned for my fourth and final year of the course following my year in an industrial placement with the web design company Neovirtua and my own freelance work.

So far I have developed a wide range of skills, from producing videos using 3D software to gaining an aptitude for learning numerous programming languages. This is all on top of my original enthusiasm for art and HTML.

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Featured Work

Puzzle Flash

Based on a couple of puzzles I received a long time ago, this flash generates a random puzzle and then jumbles the pieces up for the player to solve.

Puzzle Flash game mini screenshot 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.

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