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  • Miller Beach Arts and Creative District

    Miller Beach Arts and Creative District

    When I started redesigning this site, the MBACD already had about a decade of content. I wrote a great deal of custom code to power their events engine, and dramatically reorganized their data. The site uses the artists’ work as the most important graphical elements. See for yourself.

  • Proper Dermatology

    Proper Dermatology

    I designed this site for a dermatologist in Florida. This photo-driven site uses a number of custom-built elements, like before/after sliders and popup galleries. Visit the site to see more.

  • Creative Die Mold

    Creative Die Mold

    When I redeveloped Creative Die Mold‘s website, I also updated their original logo.

  • Plant Based Collection

    Plant Based Collection

    The Plant Based Collection brand promotes a vegan, plant-based lifestyle.

  • Loon Brothers

    Loon Brothers

    Loon Brothers is a travel company that organizes trips for fly fishers.

  • DJ Rosanova

    DJ Rosanova

    DJ Rosanova spins 70s grooves with a Brazilian flavor.

  • Creative Die Mold Corp.

    Creative Die Mold Corp.

    I designed and developed this site for a tool and die shop in Chicagoland, along with their sister company, Target Plastics. I also upgraded the branding for both companies with custom logos. Visit their site to see for yourself.

  • Primal Artifice

    Primal Artifice

    Chicago-based photographer Chris Carrollo needed a site to show off his extensive portfolio. The resulting design is driven primarily by the images themselves, with little distraction. This site is fully Responsive for tablets and mobile devices, and HiDPI optimized for high-definition screens. Check out his portfolio.

  • Illinois Business Immigration Coalition

    Illinois Business Immigration Coalition

    I designed and built a framework for the American Business Immigration coalition to integrate its member chapters as it grows to other states. The first site is for their Illinois chapter.

  • Montenegro Tours

    Montenegro Tours

    This site encompasses a number of rental villas in Montenegro, with multiple domains mapped to one site. The header and landing page change based on the domain. I did all the design, as well as the implementation.

    This site features a wealth of information on Montenegro and an integrated booking system that connects to PayPal. Take a look for yourself.

  • Poverty Scorecard

    Poverty Scorecard

    I developed this site for the Sargeant Shriver National Center on Poverty Law. Built on the Drupal platform, It uses a highly customized Google Maps API, and draws heavily from an external data portal, drawing in data on Congress and on congressional legislation, and ranking each congressperson on their efforts to combat poverty.

  • Wyvern, LLC

    Wyvern, LLC

    Wyvern, LLC is a holding company for Chicago.com, Associated Cities and other companies.

  • Chicago.org

    Chicago.org

    Chicago.org was a website centered around event planning in the city of Chicago.

  • DQ Luxury Spa

    DQ Luxury Spa

    This Michigan Avenue spa is Chinese-owned and operated. They wanted a site that would appeal to an American audience, with content that articulated reflexology in a way English-speaking Americans would understand, along with custom infographics to explain the technical aspect of the practice.

    I designed and developed the site, and wrote all the copy as well.

  • JMJ Holdings

    JMJ Holdings

    JMJ Holdings is a real estate financial security firm.

  • McLean County Diversity Project

    McLean County Diversity Project

    The McLean County Diversity Project teaches kids in rural Illinois about issues surrounding diversity, tolerance and acceptance.

  • Organization of the Northeast

    Organization of the Northeast

    Organization of the Northeast advocates for mental health justice, affordable housing, reformation of the juvenile justice system and and an end to violence in Chicago’s Uptown, Edgewater and Rogers Park neighborhoods.

  • El Gallo Bravo #5

    El Gallo Bravo #5

    This site is basically an interactive menu system for a Mexican restaurant. You place your order from the menu on the left and your selections update the ticket on the right, which calculates the total automatically.

    I designed the logo, took all the photos, designed and coded the site. In the couple years followung its launch, this website generated thousands of orders. Try a demo to see the site in action.

  • US Labor Education in the Americas Project

    US Labor Education in the Americas Project

    USLEAP already had a site but felt that they needed to revamp the design. I designed a static front-end and then integrated it into a Drupal framework.

    The live site is USLEAP.org but it has changed since I designed it. You can view my original implementation on this site.

  • Alexis Fenton

    Alexis Fenton

    Alexis Fenton is Formula 1 racer, one of the few female drivers in the sport.

  • Associated Cities

    Associated Cities

    Associated Cities is a network of city .com companies, like NewYorkCity.com, LosAngeles.com, and many others.

  • Chicago DJ Summit

    Chicago DJ Summit

    Chicago DJ Summit was a forum for DJs and club and party promoters. The logo is designed to read clearly on a variety of merchandise.

  • Motorola

    Motorola

    When Motorola developed their Silvr mobile phone, they asked me to design a series of scale-able, custom icons for users to personalize their phones—icons that would appeal to both Japanese and American audiences. I submitted Hawaiian orchids, sneakers, a space shuttle, and a cross between a teddy bear and a maneki neko, or lucky cat.

  • How to Stock the Fridge

    How to Stock the Fridge

    This is a diagram for Stone Soup Cooperative on how to stock the refrigerator.

  • Loon Brothers

    Loon Brothers

    Loon Brothers is a travel company that organizes trips for fly fishers.

  • Equadent

    Equadent

    This Polish dental supply company is multilingual, based on your geographic location. Built on a Joomla framework, the client is able to grow and organize their inventory on-the-fly.

    After this redesign, Equadent’s revenue increased by 300 percent.

    You can view the Polish version of the site, which is the most up-to-date version.

  • Bayview Villa

    Bayview Villa

    Bayview Villa is a country manor in Morinj, Montenegro, which is available to book for summer vacations. Because the manor attracts foreign visitors, the site includes the villa’s weekly rates in a number of different currencies, adjusted to current-day exchange rates, and an interactive map of Morinj.

    Bayview’s site is built on WordPress, like most of my newer projects. The proprietors of the villa have control over the content and can add their own photos.

    Visit BayviewManor.me to see more.

  • Midwest Business

    Midwest Business

    This online business journal approached me to design an eMail newsletter that would look good on multiple platforms.

    For security reasons, most eMail clients prevent images from downloading by default. For this reason, I created a template that would display well, with or without images. The template includes a header, a bar graph and even advertisements styled entirely in CSS. View the demo to see the newsletter with or without images.

  • Fly Design

    Fly Design

    Fly Design is a graphic design company that specializes in promotional merchandise.

  • Softwear

    Softwear

    Softwear was a fashion show at Buddy, an art space managed by Lumpen magazine.

  • The Design Can

    The Design Can

    I designed and developed this site for an industrial design partnership, based in Brooklyn. Now defunct, a mirror of the site can be found here.

  • Motorola icons

    Motorola icons

    I helped design and procure these small pixel icons for Motorola to use on their Silvr line of mobile phones.

  • Long and Silverman Publishing

    Long and Silverman Publishing

    Long and Silverman publish self-help and productivity books for business people.

    You can see this site by visiting lsPub.com.

  • Chicago DJ Summit

    Chicago DJ Summit

    The oldest site in my portfolio, the Chicago DJ summit happened back in 2000. This site uses a series of custom technical illustrations in the design. The mirror is available here on my site, but be forewarned that it contains auto-playing audio (it was built before this was universally discouraged). This site also required Flash.

  • Chicago.com

    Chicago.com

    Chicago.com is a portal for booking hotels and buying tickets to Chicago events. I drew this skyline pixel-by-pixel to use in the site’s header.

  • Bosch

    Bosch

    Bosch wanted a series of icons for their testing system. Because it ran on a Windows NT platform, they needed icons that were backwards-compatible.