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Here are select links to websites I’ve worked on, as well as an overview of my involvement on each project.


Mary and Sara — Cooking Thymes Two
MaryAndSara.comAuthors of 8 cookbooks, with over a million books sold, identical twins Mary Corpening Barber and Sara Corpening Whiteford share their passion for cooking healthy foods, entertaining, recipes and tips, as well as scrumptious excerpts from their best selling books on their new blog and site. I designed and developed everything from the ground up, including the WordPress blog and its coordinating YouTube channel, Facebook fan page, and Twitter account.


McRoskey Mattress Company
McRoskey.comHaving celebrated its 110th anniversary of handcrafting mattresses and box springs in San Francisco, it was time for McRoskey Mattress Company to freshen their website to better reflect the quality and history that goes into every McRoskey mattress. At Placemaking Group, I designed and developed the site’s new look and created its coordinating YouTube channel and Twitter account, as well as an upgraded email newsletter design.


Yollege.com
Yollege.comNoted by Business Week’s Best of the Web in its Top 5 Newcomers of 2008 and winner of a 2009 Horizon Interactive Award (Silver), Yollege is a social networking and reviewing site for college students. I acted as Art Director during the production of the site, designing its logo, page layouts, coordinating with contractors and implementing the design in Drupal. Here is its review on Mashable.

Note: the site has since been redesigned; best to see screenshots in my portfolio to get a sense of the design-rich site I worked on.


Brachman Group
BrachmanGroup.comBetty Brachman’s Sotheby’s International real estate group specializes in San Francisco’s luxury pied-à-terre market. Her new logo and website needed to project the sophistication of the most exclusive neighborhoods, and it needed to cleanly display multimillon dollar properties using an existing PHP database.


At Home with Malcolm and Nora
antespencer.com/home Winner of a 2008 Bronze Horizon Interactive Award, this family photo blog utilizes Flickr’s image hosting and Blogger’s tools to update the site. RSS subscriptions may be received as an email blast.


Streetside Stories
Streetside.orgThis design, created pro bono for the Taproot Foundation, won a Bronze Horizon Interactive Award in 2007. The site includes a blog with an RSS feed, social bookmarking and blog-roll features, an online store, embedded video anthology previews, and more.


How to Be Like Colin Greenwood
— in Ten Easy Steps

colin-greenwood.blogspot.comHailed by Q Magazine as a “terrific on-line tribute” and by Pitchfork.com as “an appropriately classy fansite,” this Radiohead fan site won a Silver Horizon Interactive Award in 2007, and has twice been voted into the BT Digital Music Awards People’s Choice for Best Music Blog Top 50. It utilizes social bookmarking as a means of promotion, as well as Flickr’s image hosting and blogging tools for maintenance.


More web links

JAK Designs — B2B wholesale website
Oakland City Center — Twitter page
Exhale counselling hotline — website and supportive e-cards
JoAnn Smith Ainsworth — promotional website for an author
Ballpark Travel — travel planning website
Candice Hern — promotional site for a New York Times Bestselling author
CompAnalysis — corporate site for consulting company
Base Performance — TypePad blog for triathlete Chris Lieto
Visit Suisun City — tourism website

 

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