Web Design
Getting bored with only doing print design, this is what I decided to go back to school for some formal education in. Thus far, I'm self-taught, learning HTML, CSS, search-engine optimization, and standards-based web design on my own.
Hallie & Jon
Site layout to announce and provide lodging information for the wedding of a couple of Boston-based lawyers. Like the McDonnell site, I incorporated a CMS back-end that allows for WYSIWYG updating of page content.
McDonnell Building Materials
Site layout for an agricultural supply company based in Keller, Texas. They needed a facelift on their website, and to make updating their product listings easier on the office staff, I incorporated a CMS back-end that runs on PHP and provides a WYSIWYG interface for updating page content.
Jennifer Lee Johnson Photography
This site was done for a very good friend of mine, a talented photographer from North Carolina. One of the things I wanted to convey was the way she approached her craft, giving a hand-made feel to all her photographs that really help them stand out on their own in a world of shiny, over-processed images. She eventually became my wife.
Covenant Health Learning & Leadership Development
This is a splash page done for the intranet site of an internal department at the company I work for. They wanted a single place that every employee could come to and use as a jumping-off point to other places on the intranet that house their various educational tools and services.
Biotech Organic Art
Site concept developed for a tatoo shop owned by some friends of mine. They've since parted ways and the shop has closed down; but I think the concept was pretty successful in showcasing the portfolios of the artists in a way that runs counter to how people usually think of tattoo shops by showing them in a clean, orderly method using lots of big colors.
Covenant Health Graphic Services
The department I work in needed the intranet site overhauled so that our internal clients would have a place to come get logos and learn about our services.
To say that something is designed means that it has intentions that go beyond it's function. Otherwise it's just planning.
—Ayse Birsel