Gear Desk Logo Design

A project I’ve wrapped up recently also has the distinction of being the first job I’ve gotten from a blog reader, P.K. I was asked to design a logo for Gear Desk, a (beta) directory for high-end build-it-yourself audio gear (updated 8/24 – sorry, P.K.!).
P.K. had some specific ideas initially and asked for some sketches [...]

Blog under construction

Last night I did a quick-and-dirty switch to the WordPress Sandbox theme and copied, tweaked, and hacked at my CSS to get it into a rough working condition. I think it took about an hour and a half, in between watching kittens play and selling off a chair to a Craigslist person, so I’m talking [...]

corriehaffly.com redesign

Previous rounds: v1, v2, v2.1
As I mentioned in my August goals review, I was going to try to carve out time on 8/13 to work on getting my new web site design up.
And I did!
www.corriehaffly.com
The rest of this week, I’m going to try to commit an hour each day to clean things up.

The older HTML [...]

Custom Shadow Box business cards

One thing checked off my monthly goal tracker sheet! I finally designed business cards and placed an order for 250. I paid extra money for printing on the back side and for glossy paper; I’m excited to see how they turn out.

The next time I wake up and can’t go back to sleep, I’m designing [...]

Announcing Custom Shadow Box

I am very very very excited to announce that my new “side business” is finally opening its virtual doors. VERY.
Introducing Custom Shadow Box at www.customshadowbox.com!

Business plan? What business plan?
The [rather uncreatively named] business is meant to be a side project for me. I enjoy working with my hands, and this is an opportunity to try [...]

Creating custom Outlook stationery

I made some custom Outlook stationery with my new logo:

Making your own custom Outlook stationery is pretty easy if you know some basic HTML and CSS. All you have to do is make a really simple web page and move the .html and graphic files into a specific Documents and Settings folder. Here’s what I [...]

My new business cards

They came!

Web site design v2.1 colors

Previous rounds: v1, v2
I started out with similar color choices as v1…
Green:

Blue:

Purple:

Teal:

Then I started thinking about a seasonal design…
Summer:

Fall:

Winter:

Spring:

I think I could come up with the scripting to add the proper stylesheet for my normal web site, but I’m not completely sure yet how I’d do it for the blog (currently hosted at wordpress.com). In [...]

Slightly new web site layout idea

Second round… (see round 1)
I started with this new idea:
v2.0

The new speech bubble text reads: “I whip web sites into submission, but I’m nice to everyone else.”
I moved the Featured Work down and tried adding little comics. I liked this a little bit better; having the Featured Work on top made the design feel too [...]

Web site v1 – Experiments in color

Now that I’ve picked a logo and have a business card order placed, it’s on to revamping my current web site. I’m going to treat myself like a client and come up with at least one other design idea — but here’s a peek at the first one and my experiments with five different colors…

Note [...]