Author: Obadiah
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April 2010 Poster Design for Harley’s Lounge
For the April poster design, I kept it fairly simple with a focus on readability. I used a dark gray to black gradient for the background, then added a very faint but highly warped version of the text for a little bit of attitude. Finally, I chose white, and a couple shades of vibrant blue…
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March 2010 Poster Design for Harley’s Lounge
For the March poster design, I returned to the idea of doing a text based design that I had last month. The layout is loosely structured around the sacred geometry of a golden spiral that sweeps out from the bottom right corner and curves around from the upper left to the upper right corner where…
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2010 Poster Design for Terracotta half-life
I just finished a new poster design for Terracotta half-life. The poster lists gig dates for the first half of 2010 as well as the band’s website. I based this design on some ancient Egyptian art. It has a gritty feel due to the use of subtle textures and shades of dark gray. This darkness…
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February 2010 Poster Design for Harley’s Lounge
I felt like doing something different for February. At first I was thinking about doing a completely text based design, until I had a vision of a zipper. I’ll save the text idea for next month.
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Terracotta half-life gets a new look for 2010
Terracotta half-life is a tropical funk band from Marquette Michigan that I founded over five years ago. I created the first website for the band in 2005. It was a static site built with HTML and formatted the “old” way with lots of nested tables and inline styles. It was a real pain to update.…
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January 2010 Poster Design for Harley’s Lounge
The year has just begun, so it’s back to work for me. The first poster of 2010 for Harley’s Lounge has just been finished. Harley’s Lounge is one of the few venues in Marquette, Michigan that supports local music and I am proud to design their monthly posters.
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Dynamic Content: Why it’s Essential
There are many reasons to have dynamic content on your website, but the two most important are to increase traffic and to increase sales. Dynamic content will drive traffic to your site by helping give you a better ranking in search engine results. It can drive sales (assuming you’re selling something) or conversions by giving…
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December 2009 Poster Design for Harley’s Lounge
December is upon us. I just completed a design for the last Harley’s Lounge poster of the year. Harley’s Lounge is one of the few venues in Marquette, Michigan that supports local music and I am proud to design their monthly posters.
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Google PageRank Update
I was pleased to notice that the Google PageRank for my site (middleearmedia.com) recently jumped up from 3 to 4. According to Google, PageRank reflects their view of how important a web page is. Or, in other words, it’s the relative value of any single page on the internet in relation to every page on…
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Audio Restoration and CD Cover Design
Music is a beautiful thing. I’ve been working on an audio restoration project lately. The group was called the Calypsonians and they played authentic Calypso. The recordings were made with a portable cassette recorder in the early sixties. My job was to transfer the audio from the original cassettes to a digital form (ultimately a…
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November 2009 Poster Design for Harley’s Lounge
October is nearly over and November is looming. I’ve just finished the design of the November Poster for Harley’s Lounge. Harley’s Lounge is one of the few venues in Marquette, Michigan that supports local music and I am proud to design their monthly posters.