Through the month of January, I had a chance to work with one of my favorite clients, BrightArch, once again. This time, I got a crack at their web site. Nick Peters, BrightArch’s CMO, contacted me around the holiday season … Continue reading
Category Archives: My Work
Risk Retention Services redesign
Risk Retention Services is a national product liability service who I had done some work for in the past. They recently wanted to have their web site redesigned. This was a complete overhaul in terms of content and design. Their … Continue reading
Freelance update: Brightarch & Organization Weaver
In early 2009, I did some pro-bono identity work for a startup named “The Daily Blank,” a satire news site for the Chicago area. The founder, Nick Peters, is a young entrepreneur who turned out to be a great contact. … Continue reading
Freelance update: LGBT
To round out my final semester of undergraduate school, my web design class required a final multimedia project. The project needed to be journalistic in nature with a story about something that had impact on the community. What resulted was … Continue reading
Freelance update: Journalism Brochure
Before I graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a B.A. in Journalism, I had the opportunity to create a departmental brochure for prospective students. This project started out as an assignment, but I quickly took it seriously enough to be … Continue reading
New website coming
It’s been a while. I’ve since graduated and began my life as a freelancer. You’ll see the fruits of the past 4 months pretty soon. I’ve had about a project per month and I’m just finishing up two of them. … Continue reading
Practicing what I preach
After having gone on numerous rants about how awesome European news design is and having confirmed my love by actually visiting Europe this summer (and therefor seeing these papers in my hands), I have finally made the plunge. After seeing … Continue reading
New project
New project from Rock Valley. No theme this time, so I had a (mostly) wide-open brief. Summoning a similar feel to the original Student Life marketing while giving it a little unique twist, I think this is shaping up nicely.
Completion
This spring semester has nearly come to a close. Two finals left and I am off to the Netherlands for a month. What a great feeling of relief. Since my semester is complete, this blog is no longer a requirement. … Continue reading
Fame and Fortune
Earlier this morning I was mentioned on the Charles Apple blog. Charles must be an early riser because I was unaware of this until 9:30 a.m. when my Communications Law professor, Dr. James Tidwell, congratulated me. So caught off guard, … Continue reading