Blue Bus Cafe

The Nehemiah Group has a new website!

Bowin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:06:41 +0000

Our friends over at The Nehemiah Group based out of Louisville KY asked us to redesign their website so we said, “Let’s gitter done!” Well, maybe we didn’t say exactly that, but I’m sure it was close. Anyway, The Nehemiah Group is your private Project Management and Real Estate Development Team providing services on a local, national and international landscape. They work with companies like Humana, Norton’s, Anthem and CVS just to name a few. They do great work and we were honored to be asked to build their new site. Check it out at thenehemiahgroup.com

UofLArenaSeats.com is Live!

Bowin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:30:08 +0000

Blue Bus Cafe design the new downtown arena website for the University of Louisville called uoflarenaseats.com It’s done and up and running! The site was built using the Wordpress platform and has a few pretty cool features including a nifty Javascript countdown to completion clock.

Todd Lawson’s Race Car T-shirt. Git-er-done!

Bowin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:46:52 +0000

Todd Lawson came to me wanting a typical race car shirt featuring his car. So, I illustrated his car and added in some obligatory tough stripedy orange things and a shield to tie everything together. He was very pleased with the results. Git er done boys!

The University of Louisville Downtown Arena site designed by Blue Bus Cafe!

Bowin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:48:48 +0000

That’s right. The folks down at the Cardinal Athletic Fund were so happy with the job we did on their site that they’ve asked us to design the website for the new downtown arena. We are so excited about this project and can’t wait to showcase it here.

lighting His world logo

Bowin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:53:12 +0000

Tyler Pelan is one of the best photographers in Louisville so when he asked us to design his logo, I felt pretty special. He wanted it to reflect his style of photography and I think we did that pretty well. Check out lightinghisworld.com to see some of his work.

Some logos we’ve done

Bowin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:14:23 +0000

In looking through our work on the current site, I realized how bad I’ve been at updating the work to show the breadth of services offered. So, I thought I would post of few logos we’ve done in the past and other work but for this particular post I’ll just show you a few logos.

Cardinal Red is the new black!

Bowin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:42:42 +0000

The new website for the Cardinal Athletic Fund is done and up-n-runnin’! Check out cardinalathleticfund.com to take a gander. This site was built to better inform folks interested in how the whole season ticket process works (it can be a little confusing) and guide them toward becoming a donor, which helps them get points, which helps them get better seats, which helps them see the game better, which makes them happy and makes them want to buy tickets next year, which helps the University, which helps Louisville Metro, which…basically makes the world a better place to live. It’s that easy!

Anyway, Lisa Crespo was a pleasure to work with and made the transition from their old site to the new one a breeze. Thanks again Lisa!

We work for the best Orthodontist in Wilsonville, Oregon

Bowin — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:02:48 +0000

We just finished a nice little/not so little site for Dr. Scott Henson of PacificNW Ortho way out in Wilsonville, Oregon. Dr. Henson has been great to work with and if you’re ever in Wilsonville, Oregon, he’d be the man to talk to about straightening those pearly whites of yours.

This is another site that uses Wordpress 2.5.1 as the CMS. It has some great features on the homepage using Javascript that you should check out if you get a chance. My personal favorite feature is the embedded Google map that allows you to get directions to his office without leaving the site. NICE!

Blue Bus Cafe is Seeing Red

Bowin — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:11:32 +0000

OK…lame title I know, but I just couldn’t resist. Blue Bus Cafe has begun work on a project with the University of Louisville: Cardinal Athletics Fund. It’s a pro bono job, so maybe we’ll get some season tickets out of the deal. Hey, I’d be happy just to have time to go to one game.

Anyway, We’ll be working on revamping their current website. Our main focus will be the sites usability and user interface. Can’t wait to see the finished product.

Back to the basics at Blue Bus Cafe

Bowin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:45:38 +0000

It seems like we are are always tweeking and refining this old bus. We kind of lost sight of what made us a success in the first place and that was doing good design work. For a while there, we said, “hey, we’re making more money doing web work so, let’s focus on that.” Well, we all agree that when we did that our designs suffered overall. We were focused on the money and not making beautiful designs that connect with people. We became like a factory, churning out shiny garbage, and for that, I am sorry.

Anyway, we are going back to the basics. Projects might take a little longer, but they’ll be more effective and much more beautiful and that’s the way we like it.