Client: Madison Harding

My Role(s): Designer, Developer

Hilary and Barri at Madison Harding decided they wanted to throw the colors into reverse. What was essentially a black on white design was to be turned to white on black. In addition to the color shift, I also made some internal updates to the PHP/XHTML and moved almost all occurrences of Flash off the site, using Javascript instead for any animations.

There was also a new campaign thrown up.

Link: http://www.madisonharding.com

Client: Personal

My Role(s): Designer, Developer

One day when looking at traffic cameras online, I realized that there must be innumerable live image feeds on the internet and the voyeur in me decided to take a sort of survey of what I could find. I eventually found a set of National Parks webcams that gave me a surprising feeling of peace, as if I were actually there. This video shows a series of image sequences obtained through a simple PHP script written to download images from three of those U.S. National Park web-cameras every 30 minutes. The script ran for a few weeks in late June and early July 2010 and captured a sequence of images from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Point Reyes National Seashore. Nights were removed from the sequences along with any damaged images from camera errors (the Point Reyes camera was offline for several days).

I also separated out the audio tracks from the music and used certain tracks to populate actions in the video. The dot and ring in the upper left corner, the lines in the bottom right and the yellow/blue color filters over the whole video all reflect the audio tracks. Frame blending was used to smooth over the jerkiness.

The music is “Venus Moonrise” from Agua Trip’s album “Genetics”. The earth image is from the famous images taken from the Galileo space probe as it sped away from Earth on its way out into the unknown.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNpEq0tGmjU

Client: Jiujitsucalendar

My Role(s): Designer, Developer, Data Architect, Copywriter

This site is a searchable database of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu tournaments. It has numerous fun useful tools including numerous search methods (by promoter, by date and by a radial location search), a manageable calendar for registered users with the option to import the calendar into other ical readers like Google Maps or Apple iCalendar, and a map showing various data (events in a user’s calendar, search results, whole event database).

This site is probably beating the Battery Plant Database as the most useful site I have created so far, and we have several updates to the site’s functionality in the works.

This was a full-fledged design project for me. Apart from help from a couple open-sourced codebases (see below), I designed everything myself from the graphic design through the data architecture to the site’s code.

The visual design went through numerous drafts. The color scheme was based on the floor mats (tatami) used in many American Jiu-jitsu tournaments. Good old red[, white] and blue. The logo is again based on the tatami, namely the way several tatami are placed together to create the larger grappling area. The text section of logo uses Arial Black as the font. I created the banner ad from an image of the site owner in a  tournament, did some effecting and (as a sort of joke) threw in the exciting splattery stuff in the background. I think it came out pretty well.

The site uses a few open source chunks of code for some of its heavy lifting, such as PHPICalendar for the site’s calendar interface and the Google Maps API. I custom-coded the rest (MYSQL, PHP, XHTML, CSS, ICS, XML), creating both a backend CMS and the front-end user  interface, and it was quite a load to get through. I love projects that really make me learn, and this one really pushed me to expand my skill-set even further.

I am glad we finally got something up. Now it’s time for the analysis.

Link: http://www.jiujitsucalendar.com

Client: Personal

My Role(s): Designer

After reacquiring my born name as a domain name, I wasn’t sure what to do with it, seeing that my online output is scattered among a few other sites.

So, I decided to make a simple lifestream using Sweetcron, collecting any creative output I put on the world wide web, categorized by media (like music, writing, design, etc), and showing it all in a constantly updating stream of links on lindseyboise.com. This sort of thing is all very familiar to some of you. The rest of you may find it nifty, neat and efficient.

The design is very simple; white on black, serif typeface, colors at 80% saturation, and a face.

Link: http://www.lindseyboise.com

Client: Personal

My Role(s): Developer, Designer, Writer, Editor

Notasgoodasthebook.com is a pet project of mine. The site was live for a while early in 2009, but I felt that I needed a drastic redesign, so I stopped posting content and spent months tweaking it whenever I could find a moment away from my other work.

In addition to designing and coding the WordPress theme, I also came up with a fun set of flash banners depicting the pleasure of reading a book and the ugly disappointment one finds when reading/seeing/hearing its less-than-worthy adaptations. The logo is a simple type treatment over a bookmark.  The inspiration for the colors/shading/textures of the visual design was a mingling of the favorite hardcover books of my past.

I am the editor and the main contributing author to the site, but hope to see many more public submissions and posts from a group of regular contributing authors as the site grows.

I used numerous great free open-sourced plugins for WordPress to accomplish much of the functionality. The category icons are modified versions of inages from several open-sourced icon sets.

Link: http://www.notasgoodasthebook.com

Client: The Battery Conservancy

My Role(s): Creative Director, Designer, Developer

The Battery Conservancy is responsible for many things, one of which is the design, planting and upkeep of one of the best urban gardens in the nation. It is truly inspiring to walk the gardens at the tip of Manhattan, looking from the harbor and the Statue of Liberty down to the blooming flowers and grasses.

While doing various projects for the conservancy, it became very apparent that there needed to be a centralized location for all the plants and specific information about them. To make a long story short, I created a custom database with a back-end CMS and, after the horticultural staff entered in all the plant data and images, a front-end for users to access all the information.

The project is only in Stage 1, so to speak, and there are plans for extended and improved features and usability, but for the most part, I am very happy with the way this turned out. The database opens up useful information to a large population of urban horticulturalists and gardeners in general.

Users can search through the plants in the gardens of the Battery by either a single quality (name, bloom months, zones, light requirements, families, etc) or by combinations of qualities. They can also simply browse through all the plants. Users can also view visualizations (aka charts) based on the plant data.

This project wouldn’t have been possible without the help of Steve Lagerstrom, Sigrid Gray and Alyssa Siegel of the Battery Conservancy.

Link: http://www.thebattery.org/plants

Client: NoviJovi

My Role(s): Designer, Developer

NoviJovi is an infant apparel company, making fun silk-screened tees. The owner, Jeffrey Novick was referred to me by Madison Harding, and we had a great first meeting.

Jeffrey came prepared with a sketch of how he envisioned the top navigation and main page layout. I came back with ideas for colors and then, after the initial meeting was over, maybe an hour later, we had the whole design and structure more or less mapped out on napkins and spare paper.

The whole site is built on WordPress, with a custom designed theme, using several popular WordPress plugins, including WP-Ecommerce. I also made a simple video, animating the NoviJovi fuzzy character and scrolling through a poem written by Jeffrey.

Link: http://www.novijovi.com

Client: Empesar Showroom

My Role(s): Designer, Developer

Empesar Showroom is a fashion showplace in the Fashion District of New York City. I was referred to them by one of our mutual clients, Madison Harding. They approached me wanting a simple website that not only allowed them to show people who they were currently showing, but also show any press they may have acquired for their designers.

I set up a custom CMS, so they could add and edit their designers as well as show their location in the physical space of the showroom. To make the listing of current designers on display a little more interesting, we created the Designer Index, basically a souped up version of their floor plan, and via CSS, styled it to be used as the current designers list.

Link: http://www.empesar.com

Client: The Battery Conservancy

My Role(s): Designer, Developer

To coincide with the new look of The Battery Conservancy’s Print Newsletter, I set the conservancy up with a WordPress blog so they could supplement the print version with current information about their exciting work. The theme is a revised version of the Titan WordPress theme by Jethro.

Link: http://www.thebattery.org/news/

Client: Madison Harding

My Role(s): Designer, Developer

Madison Harding is one of my longest clients, and one of the most pleasant to work with. They make designer footwear, and are based in New York City.

There have been several stages of their website, which we started from scratch. The version I show here is the latest, the “white version”. As with many of my clients, I built them a custom CMS to manage their press, shops list and text content.

One of the most popular features of the site is the Play page, where users can dress a “paper” doll in different Madison Harding shoes and various clothing items. This sort of thing really makes the site fun and brings people back often. I do not envy the ladies of Madison Harding though, since they had to personally model the shoes and clothing, cut them out in Photoshop and match them to the original model. Long hours.

We never created their own e-commerce solution, but instead they opted for a simple Paypal button system instead. It seems to work great for them.

Link: http://www.madisonharding.com

Client: Jacob Gossett

My Role(s): Developer

Jacob Gossett is a painter/sculptor currently working in New York City. Jacob has collaborated with me in numerous other projects and I was happy to work on his website.

This is the second design. The visual design of the header, navigation and subheaders is by Esther L Kim. I built a custom CMS so that Jacob could easily add gallery items, links and make general edits to the rest of the pages.

Link: http://www.jacobgossett.com

Client: Bobarra

My Role(s): Designer, Developer

This is an example of a website that I didn’t design graphically. The design was supplied by the client. I did, however, do some tweaking to the design as required by the web structure. I have included screenshots of the homepage and a product page in her shopping cart software.

*Note: Once I finished my contract, I wasn’t able to continue on the project and another company was hired and has revised the site and added extra functionality.

Link: http://www.bobarra.com

Client: CONNECT

My Role(s): Designer, Developer

CONNECT is a nonprofit organization in New York City that works to prevent and end domestic violence. I was commissioned to update their website, which they had for several years. I started from scratch, creating some static pages and some dynamic ones, driven by a custom CMS, so they could update their own content. We tried several visual designs and ultimately went with this one.

Link: http://www.connectnyc.org

Client: Agua Trip

My Role(s): Creative Director, Designer, Developer

This is an update to the Agua Trip Website that related to the release of Agua Trip’s album Genetics. For the release, Agua Trip threw a release concert which included an online auction, where users could buy an original work of art from Genetics: A Visual Songbook. We also did a redesign of the homepage, featuring modules for the most important aspects of Agua Trip’s online presence.

*Note: Some of these pages have been removed, because they corresponded with time-specific events.

Link: http://www.aguatrip.com

Client: Frank and Kahn

My Role(s): Designer, Developer

Frank and Kahn are makers of designer head-wear. When designing their site, I found inspiration in their logo, which has a retro, angular, art-deco aspect. I went with a simple grey-to-white color scheme with a slight metallic shine. I used little brackets from the top navigation and footer to delineate the main content area.

The subdued colors of the site navigation allowed the colors of their products to almost explode out of the screen. I loved the colors of their products.

We built an e-commerce solution that would work in sync with the custom CMS I created for their product catalog.

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Client: Jackson Martin

My Role(s): Creative Director, Designer, Developer

Jackson Martin is a long-time friend of mine. He is also an extraordinarily driven and imaginative artist. When he came to me to design his website, I was honored and thrilled.

As with almost all of my web projects, my goal was to create a page navigation that receded into the background as the content came out at the user. The color scheme was based on Jackson’s trend to dress in blue and brown, almost all of the time.

In addition to a custom CMS I developed for the rest of the site’s content, I used WordPress to drive his news page, using a very stripped down theme template, removing comments and other blog features (search, tags, etc).

Jackson is learning HTML and now maintains the site.

Link: http://www.jacksonmartin.com

Client: Ajewelation

My Role(s): Designer, Developer

My mother designs custom jewelry under the business name of Ajewelation. She came to me looking for an open, happy feeling site with a simple structure. I also threw together a custom CMS for her, so she could update her portfolio and text.

Link: http://www.ajewelation.com

Client: The Battery Conservancy

My Role(s): Developer, Designer

When I first started working with The Battery Conservancy, their website was one of the first tasks to tackle. The website had already been visually designed, but I did a lot of tidying up, recoding the entire site to make it valid XHTML and easy to manage. As a result, the graphic design does look somewhat different than before, as you can see in the examples.

There are many pages on the website, I only included a few here.

Link: http://www.thebattery.org

Client: Smucci

My Role(s): Developer

Smucci is a beauty consultant company based in New York City. This project was a site revision, taking a site made up of image maps and converting it to an valid CSS/XHTML site. In addition to a static code revision, I also gave them a custom CMS, so they could keep their site up-to-date with monthly specials, beauty tips and gallery images.

Smucci was referred to me by a colleague and friend, Esther L Kim, who created the visual design for the site.

Link: http://www.smucci.com

Client: Music City Mystique

My Role(s): Designer, Developer

Music City Mystique is a nonprofit organization which brings music (specifically percussion) education and training to youth in the Middle Tennessee area. They are world champions, literally.

This was a site redesign, starting basically from scratch. I used a slimmed-down version of WordPress to drive their news items. We built forums and mailing lists and created areas for video, downloads of music exercises, audition forms and galleries.

We used their color scheme of teal, white and black. I really enjoyed creating the header banner, using the drummers and the stadium seating to give a feeling of power and impact. That year the performers were wearing blood-orange costumes, which really stand out from the teal.

The MCM Productions Page is a subsite for one of their fundraising arms.

*Note: It has been many a year since I touched the code on this site, so I am not sure how much of my original coding is untouched.

Link: http://www.musiccitymystique.org

Client: Agua Trip

My Role(s): Creative Director, Designer, Developer

My friend Bill Carrasco and I began writing, recording and performing music under the name of Agua Trip in 2001. This is the fourth version of the site since then. This version of the site has numerous different subdesigns. A few are shown here.

*Note: This website has since changed and some of these pages are no longer online.

Link: http://www.aguatrip.com

Client: Charlotte Ronson

My Role(s): Designer, Developer

Charlotte Ronson was referred to me by Madison Harding. They needed someone to maintain their site and manage the seasonal updates which corresponded to their new campaigns and collections. The first thing I did when I got my hands on their files was to update the HTML into valid XHTML and CSS. I also created two new features, the Press page and the Diary page, which are both driven by a custom-made MYSQL/PHP CMS and an actionscript-based Flash user-interface.

Link: http://www.charlotteronson.com

Client: The Moveable Feast

My Role(s): Designer, Developer

The Moveable Feast is an art party that some friends of mine and I created and directed in New York City.

In addition to a simple homepage and video and gallery pages, I also designed a project database where artists could post potential projects, list the roles needed (i.e. director, photographer, actor, musician, costume designer, writer, etc) recruit people to the project, etc.

The TMF logo was designed by Esther L Kim.

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