Mark/Balson/Website






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/// Web Design Selection 02

A lot of variety here. WOLFEworks looks better in motion. Some of this work is not even approved yet… shhh.

www.wolfeworks.ca
secure.inorbital.com/greenroof
(Web Design, CSS, html, Flash, Inorbital)

Posted 304 days ago
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/// K-G Packaging Designs

This project started off with some pretty boring designs on my part. I’ll not be posting them here. Once the environmental angle was approved I went a little crazy with variations as seen above.

www.kgpackaging.com
(Web Design, CSS, html, Inorbital)

Posted 304 days ago
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/// Tire Shopping Centre Logo & Website

This turned out to be one of the easiest and ultimately one of my favourite designs to date. Both the logo and the web design came to me suspiciously fast.

After creating the initial designs I moved on to another project and Lori was left to design revisions, mockup content pages and construct the templates.

(Logo/Web Design, Inorbital)

Posted 304 days ago
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/// T-Shirt Monster Logo & Website

The T-Shirt Monster logo is something I feel a little protective of. Most of my work does not involve me creating anything freehand. However, the little monster for this was created late one night while I was just doodling around in Flash. At first I thought it was too silly to use, but everyone seemed to really like it, so it stuck.

You can download a pdf of my very first concepts here.

This project has been under development for over a year and when I looked back on the original mockups I wasn’t surprised to see that they looked nothing like the current site. Also, a huge amount of supporting design has been done in parallel with the development by Michael Kinkaid.

www.tshirtmonster.ca
(Logo/Web Design, CSS, html, Inorbital)

Posted 305 days ago
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/// Slash Shirts part 2

Some new shirts made using T-Shirt Monster. Two are previous designs revised. We placed some orders recently. I of course ordered my slash shirt number 4. It’s pretty exciting to think that these designs could end up on a real shirt.

I’ll post about T-Shirt Monster logo and web design soon.

Posted 312 days ago
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/// St. Joseph's Logo & Website

It’s taken a little too long to get this up. The need to use the old ST shape was quite a challenge. I originally felt that the logo needed a much more modern feel but quickly understood that the scope of it’s use and the people that were making the decisions were not going to go for it. I also created a style guide (download pdf)

Design on this website was a bit odd. We knew going in that the site was going to need to accommodate a large amount of content. All navigational elements also would need to expand to almost unlimited proportions. In the end this effected the design negatively, but I think there are quality components.

www.stjoes.ca
(Logo/Web Design, CSS, html, Inorbital)

Posted 312 days ago
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/// Summer Music

A short list of albums that are playing a large part in my summer.
(Track highlights listed after each)

1) Panda Bear – Person Pitch
-Comfy in Nautica -Bros(Incredible track) -Take Pills

2) Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
-Space Junk -Gut Feeling (Slap Your Mammy) -Mongoloid

3) Bowerbirds – Hymns for a Dark Horse
-Hooves -In Our Talons -Human Hands

4) Digitalism – Idealism
-I Want I Want -Pogo -Anything New -Idealistic

5) Chris Garneau – Music For Tourists
-Black & Blue -Relief -Saturday -Not Nice

6) The Field – From Here We Go Sublime
-A Paw In My Face -Everyday

7) Patrick Wolf – The Magic Position
-Accident & Emergency -The Magic Position -Augustine

8) Marissa Nadler – Songs III: Bird on the Water
-Diamond Heart -Dying Breed

9) Leonard Cohen – Songs Of Love And Hate
-Avalanche -Last Year’s Man -Famous Blue Raincoat

10) Brian Eno – Another Green World
-The Big Ship -St. Elmo’s Fire -Another Green World -Sombre Reptiles

Posted 440 days ago
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/// Slash Shirts

These are my first shirt creations using T-Shirt Monster. All of which will be available to order as soon as the site goes live. In many ways the limitations of the design application are very liberating! Check em out.

Posted 512 days ago
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/// Bortolotto Website

This project went through a lot of changes. The designs here are presented chronologically from most recent to least. The two most recent ones are similar, but the first is my chosen work and the second is the edited version. I’ll post work for St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and T-Shirt Monster as soon as they’re live.

www.bortolotto.com
(Web Design, CSS, html, Flash, Inorbital)

Posted 545 days ago
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/// Lots of Sprint Work

Much of this work needs to be completed within no more than a couple hours and I’ve chosen these ones because despite the time constraint they’re alright. Most of these consist of an email invite, a registration micro-site and sometimes a PDF flyer style invite. I do maybe 2-5 of these every couple of weeks.

(Web Design, CSS, html, Inorbital)

Posted 545 days ago
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/// Web Design Selection 01

Some of these designs were created after many many variations. Others I was given a couple hours to figure out. Most of these are at least 6 months to a year old. I’m saving some of the very recent projects until they are live. They’re top secret ye know. Also, I think some deserve a full post of their own.

www.andlogistix.com
www.invisually.com
(Web Design, CSS, html, Flash, Inorbital)

Posted 546 days ago
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/// Some Random Photos

A few more pictures to clean out my current stock pile before I get to some more recent ones. I’ve added the ability to sort site sections by category via the small links under my name.

Posted 557 days ago
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/// Holgas From the Past

Me

These are all the same old retreads from past sites… but I have to pad this site out with old shit before I get to some more recent stuff! I swear it’s impossible to take an uninteresting photo with a Holga.

Posted 558 days ago
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/// Old Design Work


Looking back over some of my freelance work it’s amazing how little I want to put up here now…

Posted 560 days ago
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/// This Site is Not Broken

In addition to all i’ve mentioned about the structure of this site, I want visitors to know that the site’s design is not broken. At least not unintentionally so.

The differently sized chunks combined with your monitor resolution and the number of posts will produce a slightly random effect, hopefully leading to something visually interesting. Filtering the site using the links at the top will regroup the chunks into more irregular arrangements.

I could fix all the box heights, which would emphasize the grid, but what fun would that be? Feel free to leave comments. Even if they’re stupid.

Posted 561 days ago
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/// New Layout & Structure

This is my attempt at making this thing more content based and easier to update.

The layout is based on the idea that equally sized content blocks will be allowed to stack endlessly onto one large page. Each post or block will be sorted chronologically, but will not be grouped or separated from others based on it’s purpose or theme. Also the site expands and contracts to almost any resolution. I’ve yet to test it on anything wider than 1700px, but it should fill whatever horizontal space it’s given. Personally I think it looks great resized down to one column.

I’m still working out some bugs and style issues and of course it looks empty right now. I’ll try to spend some more time on it soon.

Posted 562 days ago
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