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SITE LAUNCH // onecitymortgage.com

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:00:55 +0000

Our latest project is now live. OneCity Mortgage are a mortgage company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. We have been working with them for the last couple of months to create their branding and online presence. The project has been great fun from start to finish. Courtney over at OneCity Mortgage gave us carte [...]

3 more things to keep in mind when building a website

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:13:14 +0000

Just like the previous post this has been done many times before. That doesn’t mean it isn’t a good process to repeat. Always analyze what you do and by making lists you can analyze in a concise and easy way that can be helpful in the future. The first list was a general overview of the [...]

SITE LAUNCH // dianathorneycroft.com

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:26:16 +0000

With art as bold and beautiful as Diana Thorneycroft’s, Grow Media’s challenge was to create a website that enhanced her artwork without getting in the way. Our approach was one of simplicity and style – streamlining information and focusing on her collective galleries. As always, functionality was a main priority, but we also wanted to [...]

Stylish photo gallery using jQuery, jCarousel and Galleria

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:40:04 +0000

The technique we are going to discuss isn’t groundbreaking and it certainly isn’t new. What we hope to achieve with this post is to show how simple it is to create a stylish but simple photo gallery with jQuery. There are no bells and whistles on this one, but the two jQuery plugins we use [...]

Adobe Photoshop VS Illustrator // when designing for the web

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:31:27 +0000

Disclaimer: I have a feeling this is a bit of a touchy subject, so let me start by saying they’re both Adobe programs, use the tool that works for you. I come from a print background and so when I entered into the web design world, I thought Illustrator was the King of all programs. Seriously, [...]

4 tips for unclogging your creative block

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:31:44 +0000

The ironic part of today’s blog post is, currently, I am creatively blocked. So much so I wish there were mental laxatives I could take! Right now I can’t find any of these on the open market so instead of continuing a fruitless search I decided to do a bit of research on the problem. [...]

6 things to keep in mind when building a website

admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:01:13 +0000

I know this has been done a thousand times before, but it is an important process for every web designer/developer to go through. It doesn’t matter if you publish the list to a blog or if you just write the list for yourself. Analyzing processes is an invaluable part of life. It is impossible to [...]

6 ways to webify your designs

admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:56:53 +0000

The transition from print design to web design can be a frustrating one, but as we make the shift from paper to web, it is an essential one for all graphic designers to make. Truthfully speaking, the thing that initially made it difficult was the very thing that I thought would help – design experience… [...]

Resizable full-browser background image with jQuery (preserving aspect ratio)

admin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:01:43 +0000

We had decided that the new Grow Media site would be designed with a full-browser background image. We didn’t want a repeating image and we didn’t want a solid colour. We wanted the page to impact on first view. We had no idea how hard it would be to both design and then implement. The first [...]

How to draw a Thanksgiving turkey in Adobe Illustrator CS4

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:48:53 +0000

The title for this post is pretty self-explanatory so I am just going to let you watch our first screencast. Happy Thanksgiving.