Category: Case Studies
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Cedar Tree Institute Gets Upgrade
The Cedar Tree Institute is a nonprofit organization that initiates and provides collaborative services in the areas of mental health, religion and the environment. Years ago, I designed the original cedartreeinstitute.org and have been tending to it ever since. A completely new design was launched today. It features a horizontal drop-down menu for better navigability,…
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Wings and Seeds – The Zaagkii Project protects native plants and pollinators
There is a project I’ve been working on lately that I’d like to share with you called Wings and Seeds – The Zaagkii Project. It is a native plant and pollinator protection initiative that began in 2008. It’s all about recognizing that pollination is an essential ecological function for our survival, and then doing something…
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The 2010 Anthony Line
Although Anthony & Co., Inc. has been producing advertising specialty items for over fifty years, I’ve only been designing their web site for twelve. The last major update was done about three years ago, so I was glad to get a chance to redesign basically from scratch. The idea here was to create a simple,…
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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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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…