TG Construction in Las Vegas, Nevada needed a simple, clean, easy to view and read site. With the help of some Cufon font replacement and a little different take on the sliding header, I believe we got what we were after.

Maslen Entertainment are “Storytellers, Dreamers, Producers and Creators for Stage, Screen, and Page” so flexibility in their web site was absolutely essential. It has the ability to easily add videos, photos, and even comic books.

MAKE-PARTS.com gave me the opportunity to shoot a little video that would showcase some of the capabilities of their CNC laser machine. I took the opportunity to shoot the entire thing with my Nikon D90. I stuck exclusively with the Nikkor 50mm 1:1.8 D lens for it’s sharpness and ability to gather as much available light as possible. I was able to sneak in a little GlideTrack to get the opening dolly shot along with a few others mixed in there. I learned a lot and hope to get another crack at it soon.

Just a little something for your Friday. Yeah, it’s a dog with a pipe in its mouth and it seems somehow appropriate.

The great people (Casey Myers and Joseph Hughes) at Northcoast Zeitgeist were kind enough to send me an awesome calendar. In exchange, I sent them a couple of pictures of the calendar “in action”. Casey and Joseph do some amazing stuff and their approach to life/work is an inspiration. In fact, I may even change the entire look and function of this site to better match my personal aesthetic taste… more on that later. Done!

I was hoping to get more creative with the photos, but actual work seemed to keep getting in the way. That’s exactly the point though, so back to WORK!

A beautiful collection of photos from Paris in 1962. The entire collection can be viewed here.

“Images from Paris cafés and nightlife in 1962, the same week Yves St. Laurent’s runway show vaulted Dior to new heights. Many scenes around Les Halles (which no longer exists as it did then).”

Update: According to Wikipedia, that show went down in 1958. So are these photos from 1962 or 1958? Not sure, but now I guess a tag for “1958″ should be added. [via Kottke]

A few slides from an IBM presentation in 1975 have surfaced. I first came across them at ISO50.

If only the lame PowerPoint presentations that so many of us are forced to sit through were this cool. I wish I could track down more information to go along with the slides, but at least we have these.

Square America has a large collection of the slides.

SH Architecture specializes in the sustainable and modern, so it was a natural fit for me. Their existing site was Flash-based which seemed to contradict their client-centered approach. They needed a site that was more approachable and interactive in way that did not involve just animations, but was not a huge departure from the look of the Flash-based site. With a firm grasp of how they wanted the new site to look, it was up to me to decide the best implementation of that design.

Many of the team members have active Twitter accounts and they regularly upload progress videos to YouTube. They also create a monthly newsletter in-house that is very well designed. It seemed obvious that the new site should take advantage of this. An integrated “News” section was introduced that would carry all of their press releases, newsletters, and project updates.

In addition, they had a large portfolio of projects separated into a fair number of categories, making navigation a challenge. Rather than struggling with a complicated system, sub-system, and sub-sub-system of drop-down menus, a simple breadcrumb style of navigation is used to navigate through the portfolio.