Still in testing, the redesigned Goner Records site boasts a Drupal backend for nearly-unlimited flexibility and expandability. 
The Drupal backend also makes it much easier for the Goner staff to keep the site updated without having to resort to basic updates on a static HTML page.
Design improvements include a custom typeface, displayed in modern browsers through the use of @font-face CSS; a fully-integrated navigational scheme, to make exploring the site easier for visitors; and a design that, despite an intensively improved organizational structure, retains the charm of the current site’s do-it-yourself aesthetic.
Redesign of ILoveMemphisBlog.com and design of the blog’s annual report.
The blog’s design has successfully encouraged an increase in pageviews while making content easier to find.
My job with the redesign consisted largely of ensuring a consistent experience with a lightly-tweaked preexisting theme and incorporating the blog logo throughout.
I designed the annual report from scratch, with the intention of making a dry document easy to read, filled with the vitality of Kerry’s writing and overall personality. You can view a PDF of the I Love Memphis Annual Report here.
Disclosure: Kerry Crawford Trisler and I are married, she being the Crawford in the Crawford Trisler.
August, 2010
I was commissioned by LunaWeb to design a t-shirt for their TribeCamp event.
The logotype with the hive was one of the last designs I had worked on as an employee of the design shop, and they wanted a shirt design for the event that would expand on the idea behind the beehive imagery used as an asterisk in the logotype.
The idea was that people of divergent skillsets and specialties (tribes) would be brought together to make something bigger. After a few revisions featuring interlocking hexagons, we settled on this design.
All icons were designed from scratch, and in clockwise order represent:
- phone: mobile development
- camera: photography and visual design
- pencil: copywriting
- HTML code: web development
- Facebook: social media marketing/maintenance
- tie: business/financial managers
The bold black-and-white design was intended to allow for easy reversal in a single-color screenprint.
Spring 2010.
A series of broadsides printed for a class on “manifesto poetry” by writers and artists working between the world wars. The goal of my manifesto was to find a way to tie design, typography and poetry together without resorting to the literalistic methods of concrete poetry.
These designs were screenprinted onto heavy stock and signed in extremely limited quantity. All known extant copies are in my possession.
“Times New Roman” was never printed, as the serifs of the typeface proved difficult to capture in the process of making the screens.
Fall and winter, 2007.
