We’re in the process of updating the Loud Dog portfolio, so check there soon for a beautiful presentation. In the meantime, here are some Flash invitations I made back during the dot com days, and a few PDFs that show some of my thought process when it comes to design.
Flash fun
During the late nineties and first aughts, some friends and I threw a few large parties, and I made some pretty involved invitations. I haven’t had eighty hours to spend on something like this since then, but hey, here they are. I know these will make some of you inordinately happy.
Halloween ‘99 Post Party Website (Click through the site to see the invitation)
Design Analyses
- Panscopic Recommendations (PDF)
- I just looked at Panscopic’s website, and apparently it’s now “JasperSoft.” Wow, they need a new website.
- MESVision Update (PDF)
- We’ve been working with MESVision since 2003. I recently got my eyes checked and asked the doctor how he liked the various insurance company websites without revealing that we had worked with MES. He told me that MES had the easiest website of any. Eventually I revealed that I had worked on it and asked him how we could make it better. He paused before saying, “I don’t know.” Obviously we’re continually improving it to make their customers’ experience even better than they could imagine, but that really made my week.
- Pachamama Recommendations (PDF)
- The Pachamama Alliance is a non-profit located in San Francisco. We created an awesome new design for them that really brought their website in line with their strategic goals. The website was designed to be completely run from a MovableType installation. Unfortunately, their goals shifted toward the end of the project and staffing and resources were dedicated to other endevours. Oh well. This remains one of my favorite designs.
- InsideWork Redesign (PDF)
- InsideWork is based on the idea that many people experience a disconnect between how they feel they should live as Christians (”Biblically”) and how they actually act at work. I think this observation is right-on. InsideWork offers a very non-demoninational (they aren’t religiously affiliated) message and set of materials addressing this disconnect. We worked with InsideWork in 2000, when they first launched and gave them a facelift and redesign in 2004.