Archive for the ‘All Things Design’ category

PRINT: Did You Think to Pray

June 9th, 2009

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Susan and I recently teamed up once again to create a new “Church Print”. For the this print we saved up our pennies and purchased the font Carmen and Carmen Fiesta from Type Republic in Barcelona (as a designer getting a new font is pretty exciting, and it’s tough when you actually do buy one because they’re not a small purchase—I’ve book marked plenty of fonts in my days and many fonts I’m sure I’ll never own because they can add up pretty fast, but they’re worth it).

We both thought the Carmen typeface looked smart and would work perfect for the phrase “Did you think to pray”. The print comes in loads of colors and both Susan and I have discussed doing a limited edition larger print (think poster size), but first I guess we’ll see how is sells.

If you’re looking to bring a little “holy spirit” into your home head over to Susan’s store.

2010 Mustang—Sweet Ride (or at least the website is)

June 5th, 2009

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I think just about every guy has a thing for a mustang once in his life. Mine happened after that show with Nicolas Cage and Angie Pit (Gone in 60 Secs), but it lasted only for a fleeting moment. Well the team over at FirstBorn Multimedia have come up with a pretty amazing site to help sell the 2010 Ford Mustang.

One of the nice things about the site is the size. As people’s computer screens get bigger and wider it’s a tough call as a web designer—how do you create a website that looks good on a laptop and also on a 24 inch screen? Most websites today are built at 960 pixels wide, and even though the Mustang site is the same width it feels much bigger than that thanks to it’s large graphics and the great use of background images.

Did I also mention the site’s a 100% Flash? You can checkout the site yourself by clicking here.

Backyard Office

May 14th, 2009

We have a pretty small home. Built in 1936 it has 3 bedrooms and for the most part is plenty big for us. The biggest space concern we have with our house though is both Susan and I work from home. She quilts, crafts, and designs in the second family room space (sharing with all the kids toys and our treadmill), and I use the third bedroom as the world-wide-head-quarters of Marcfolio.

Long story short a while back I was outside in our yard and started to dream up a plan to build a backyard office space, and since then have been searching for a perfect solution. When I saw this one I thought it was pretty close. I love the sunken space and with the glass bulb top it’s pretty futuristic. I could totally see myself walking out back to work every morning, and in winter it’d be pretty sweet covered in snow (snow cave).

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Found the photos here: iwan.com.

LAUNCHED: VitaBrevisFilms

April 17th, 2009

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Just wrapped this project. VitaBrevisFilms is the video/ motion studio of Skylar Nielsen photography. They do some pretty fancy video work and I have to admit that it was really nice to work with everybody there. See it live on the WWW here.

FWAphoto

March 23rd, 2009

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The people behind theFWA (website dedicated to showcasing the newest and best flash websites) have now brought us a new site to showcase photography. Like “one website” a day the FWA photo is “one photo a day”. The website is very well done, and whether you like photography or not it’s worth taking a look just for the site.