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XD Visuals HTML website

chop — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:10:54 +0000

Just finished a website for Job Wallis at xD Visuals. Comes complete with a customised CMS that is styled as the main website. Built in HTML (no Flash) I used webfonts which are very cool and a billion times more reliable than flash… ;~

This shows the projects administration page….

Typoart website launch

chop — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:04:23 +0000

Recently I have just launched typoart.com.au a HTML/CSS/jQuery based website. Focusing on customised typographical based art, this relatively small e-commerce based website is something I haven’t done for a long time which is a complete website with no flash. One of the main reasons behind this is small budget, quick turnaround and low and behold it work on iOS!!!! So I’ve had a dabble now in jQuery which I find rather cool. However don’t get me wrong flash is not dead…. but it has it’s place and for somthing like this website, there is no need. My CSS is also improving, and I think one of the most important featrue in CSS is display:

Instead of handling the transaction internally, again I have opted for Paypal. I find it extremely annoying developing for paypal using there sandbox, it so non user friendly… well the whole paypal website is good example of frustration! Next e-commerce solution I would like to try something like eWAY.

I also designed the logotype and am about to start designing all the stationary ect….

‘Love projects are called love projects for one reason, they send you broke!’
Leon Wilson

AIAM100 Launch Party

chop — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:10:56 +0000

After a year and a half of telling people I’ve been building this site, we finally had the AIAM100.com website and exhibtion launch party on Friday night at Cooee Art Gallery in Lamrock Ave. Bondi.

Australian Indienous Art Market top 100 (AIAM100) is a website show casing the top Australian indigenous artists based on their market performance in the secondary art market. Over 130 profiles compiled by Adrian Newstead give the user a detailed view of each artist. Market Performance results are supplied by Australian Art Sales Digest (AASD), these results allow the AIAM100 to calculate the AIAM100 index and rank each artist accordingly. It also provides the overall health of the industry, for example the peak in 2007.

Adrian Newstead at the opening of the AIAM100 website and exhibiton

Ruth Hessey & Adrian Newstead

Being completely built in Flash I see this website as being a RIA rather than just a website. I know I know, it’s not the normal site to be completely built in Flash, and it raised numerous challenges along the way, especially regarding text layout, formatting and resizing (which are basic things we take for granted in developing an html based site). 50% of the site is it’s cutom built php based CMS, along with an extensive database, allowing AIAM administrators to easily publish new artists profiles.

Although i’ll still be working on adding a few more features it’s a great feeling to get AIAM100.com site live into the public.

Wireless Alarm Logo

chop — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:08:53 +0000

Logo Design I created for a friend in London.

Canopy Logo

chop — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:57:41 +0000

Recently desgined a logo for Canopy Artspace up in cairns, tropical North Queensland. Canopy is devoted to contemporary indigenous art and encompasses three organisations under its umbrella. The logo symbolises a ‘mosquito coil’ with the smoke from the coil forming the lettering, the 3 rings of the coil represent the 3 different organisations, this concept was orgianlly created by Theo Tremblay who runs Editions Tremblay Print Workshop housed at Canopy Arts.

Lighting Hospital UK – Logo Design

chop — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:07:23 +0000

Just completed a Logo Design for a good friend over at ‘The Lighting Hospital‘ in Bath, UK. Specialising in fixing industrial lighting electronics, my logo tries to emulate/REPRAZENT lights/electronics in a fix in kind of way. My preferred chioce is the cross shape, currentlty being referred to as the ‘Cheese’ it meant to be a light beam shining over a cross, connected to it is circuitry which forms the conneting to the name. The font used is orator, a classic monospace face designed font.

The client finally decided on the ‘H’ design rather than the cross.

Which one do you prefer?

Wealth Achievers Logo

chop — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:08:06 +0000

Redesign of old logo I came up with these ideas, No.1 is the closest to the original and is the one which was selected and considering the subject (Finance company…. yawn) it’s the one I prefer.

Chob, Blog, Gob, Knob….

chop — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:10:30 +0000

To give my blog a tiny bit of personality I decided I would create a ‘portmanteau‘ word and join ‘Chop’ and ‘Blog’ together creating ‘Chob’. I think it works in a number of ways anyway, I am trying to impress my brother as he is a linguist.

Next I decided to create a logo, realistically I didn’t want to think to much about it.. It’s JUST a blog. So I punched out this. I chose ‘a’, as it’s a little easier to work with being more ‘Web 2′ orientated. Do I sound like a knob?