“Thank you a million times for your invaluable input on Friday. Oli & Jeanne were very impressed and grateful for your expertise and assistance. So am I.” - Catherine Viel, Writecat Communications.
I was asked to evaluate a website and explain the web hosting, domain name, SEO experience.
I’m very excited that I get to re-design Oceanarieinc.com! Oceanaire was acquired by Discovery Practice Management and DPM has been re-branding Oceanaire for several months. Stay tuned for the completed project.
I did a logo and business card for a start up company.
“I am grateful for your years of help. You have been wonderful, and I have enjoyed this opportunity to work with you.”
- Dan Cooperman
I worked with Dan on the Goleta Education Foundation 4-mile run for 4 years.
Just finished a re-design on Creative Services Catering. I changed it from a tables-based to a css-based site (except for the home page). Every photo, logo, bit of code was changed for this re-design.
I have been working on an identity for an eating disorders therapist. She’s moving from the central Valley to San Luis Obispo and needed business cards, letterhead and a website. She’s currently researching what she likes about other websites to know what she wants for her own. 
Every morning I look at my RSS feeds to see what new and cool article was posted on my favorite design blogs. I learn something new all of the time. I love the tutorials. It’s instant gratification. It used to be if I wanted new info, I’d take a class, buy a book, subscribe to design magazines. Now I get everything delivered to me via blogs. Nice.
The envato network had many specialized blogs.
Webdesign Ideas is fun.
The “eezy” sites are good to get snippets of design that I can use in my designs.
I’ve been working 20 hours a week at UCSB in the Associated Students department.
A fun site to design was the Recycling Site
A couple other sites I works on are the Halloween site, Student Financial Crisis , and the Environmental Affairs Board.
I have only performed cosmetic changes to my site since 2003. Standards have changed so it is now time to do a major overhaul to this site. It’s hard to justify the time because I’m busy with my clients’ needs. I rather take care of them than to spend time on my own code.
But it is time. I must begin.
Noozhawk, an online newspaper here in Santa Barbara is doing a series on MVP - most valuable parents. I was nominated by Bob and was chosen to represent my boys’ school. The article is here.
No excuse for new postings other than I’ve been so busy. I haven’t updated my portfolio in a few months either so there are lots of cool new designs that aren’t posted yet. I’ve done
Then I’ve done the usual maintenance on websites and taken care of anything else that was needed. Lots to do!
Momentum 4 Life has a new look. Their theme for the year is “Go Green” so the site was updated with a new color and new graphics.
Here’s the previous site:
And here’s the new theme:
Here’s some news about me: In February, graphic-design.com (a design and publishing site at http://www.graphic-design.com) contacted me to ask if they could spotlight me in their annual “Designing Women” feature in April. I accepted their invitation and the article can be viewed at http://www.graphic-design.com/Gallery/dutcher/index.html. I was thrilled to be chosen by this organization for their article.
For 3 years, I’ve been working with Christy Haynes on her new business, zenpuse inc. She developed a shaving gel and after-shave lotion for women. There was the whole formula phase, the finding the right bottles, the right pumps to pump out the formula. Along with that phase was finalizing the logo, cementing the colors, designing the labels, designing the travel size labels, and the travel size wrappers.
The company itself needed a identity package so I developed the business card, letterhead, envelope, and mailing labels.
For the Point of Purchase display, I created the sales graphics,"razor tips” cards, and retail sheet for wholesalers.
I created the website look-and-feel. Bob developed the product database and made it work with a merchant account and UPS tracking options.
Christy launched the product and website last Friday, March 21, 2008. I created the launch invitation both for mailing and for emailing.
And voila, a product is born.
Here is a fun place - you can put your picture on a magazine cover.
Create Fake Magazine Covers with your own picture at MagMyPic.com
Following on the heels of the Center for Discovery postcard, I did a little web maintenance/massaging of The IAEDP social website. They had the invitation on the web so I added navigation and some articles to the page. I also had to resize and massage the contents to a larger width.
Sent to the printer yesterday is a postcard for the Center for Discovery. They are an adolescent treatment facility with multiple locations in Southern California. They are sponsoring a lecture for professionals who work with clients with eating disorders. They wanted an advertisement in a postcard form which kept the brand from their website. Here is the result:
The flyer turned into an invitation. The cover now looks like this:
I was given the task of making a flyer with the Chinese New Year theme. I have never done this theme before. I am pretty excited about it.
First I read up on traditions and looked for appropriate imagery. I found the symbol for luck and for rat, since this is the year of the rat.
I wanted to draw a clever rat. Well, I’m not sure this guy is clever, but it made my son laugh when he saw it. Works for me.
Next I need to work on the page composition and message.
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