Commercial Design

The artist's skill in commercial design rests on being an impeccable listener. This is what makes the job interesting: it is not only your client that you must please, it is his clients, you, the designer must cater.

HERE IS A SMATTERING OF COMMISSIONED WORK

This is an interactive site of an online creative community. It features music sampling of musicians, images and video clips from artists, writers books with their excerpts, poetry, a calendar of upcoming events, concerts, dances and performances. There is an active online store with CDs, art prints, and books offered for sale using PayPal. The site is updated every two weeks. I spend a lot of attention on optimizing our images and meta tags for search engines. We average over 1500 visits per month. People have looked over 86,000 of our pages between January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009.

It has been a pleasure to design this presentation for one of contemporary America's treasured printmakers, Larry Thomas. His vast portfolio includes etchings, paintings, drawings and monumental work. There are nearly 120 images on his site. Larry teaches and travels all over the world and his sophisticated clientele are who we aimed to please. We worked to provide the viewer with the same aesthetic experience he has when he strives for the right choice of print papers to fit one of his images, and the right amount of space surrounding an image on a wall as an image on a page on this site.

The Four Sisters Woodworking is a collective of heirloom quality modern woodworkers, and a fabric historian/weaver. Their issue has been to introduce the public to their masterly woodworking and the seminars they provide for one-on-one instruction. They all are fine teachers and award winning artists who use exotic woods, create fastidious joinery, provide impeccable finishes on beautiful furniture, and beautiful hand woven upholstery. Students and masters use and teach in a state of the art woodworking shop - no sawdust. Wonderful photographs.

Creative work needs simple presentation. Robin Cannell Baker has an impressive resume and work to back it up. This is a huge site: 165 pages, over 350 images. One can lose track of time for all the beauty in the homes Robin presents. We have been working on this site with various re inventions for over four years. She averages between 350 to 500 visits to her site per month.

Alena Guest hypnotized me to get in touch with my own inner healing. This was long after we created another site for her paintings: http://www.alenaguest.com. Our relationship was proven with this site; two artists that highly respect one another working together for one end - providing personal growth and empowerment information for others. Alena is inventive with marketing, she now is using a newsletter to keep people on her mailing list informed of her offerings.

New Pony Productions - Ron Bowman is a writer, producer, animation director whose work has been represented on the National Geographic channel, Nova, Discovery and Learning channels. We have been working together catching up with the technology available on the internet. We now have streaming video clips, samples from over fifteen of his Emmy Award winning films.

One hell of a fine writer, Norma Watkins is an inspiration. Here is a compellation of her essays, recipes, and two online novels to download. She is a southern writer - funny, pointed, so good it hurts to laugh of winding up human. And as a writer myself, I learn from those writers like Norma. We have added to her site over the past few years with new articles she has had published, and she sends along appropriate images for the articles. She works her site, providing reviews and tutoring/teaching by email. Statistics tracking her viewers, and those who return again and again make me quite happy. People like a good read.