retired designs

A list of web designs that are no longer online.

NT300E& NT500E Product Launch

Stanley Security Solutions—Europe

Brief:This microsite launched in conjunction with a magazine insert for the release of new Access Control software. The Product Manager wanted the site to look as close to the printed piece as possible. It needed to be basic, fast-loading, and take up minimal desktop real estate. Accessibility was important as was a design that would degrade gracefully on older browsers.

Result:A simple site, built with compliant XHTML and CSS, delivers the information in a succinct, easy to read fashion. Minimal graphics and streamlined code mean quick page loads and easy-to-follow navigation and links mean better click-throughs and increased sales.

Alfia Website Redesign

Stanley Security Solutions—Europe

Brief:The requirement was to create a template for multiple branded websites that were in line with corporate standards and pre-established design elements. In addition, the site needed to comply with the latest accessibility requirements and be easy to update. The Alfia site was to be the first to be adapted to this new template.

Result:Standard earth-tones were used for backgrounds to create a neutral pallete base for multiple brands. Standards compliant XHTML and CSS made for a slimmer, faster-loading page and also facilitated accessibility features and simplified navigation/content editing. The aesthetic design of the site was restricted to specific elements and layouts.

All In The Family

DC's Cafe, Dallas

Brief:DC's Cafe is a unique type of eating experience in the heart of Dallas, Texas. Authentic, down-home southern cooking made from scratch each day with a peppering of familal love. It required a home-made feel and simplistic attitude.

Result:The restaurant's menu, an old well-worn chalkboard, was used as the backdrop for all of the sites graphic elements. The titling, headers, straplines, and borders were all drawn by hand in chalk and photographed digitally. The photos used in the story were "taped" onto the page. The hand-tooled look of the site merged well with the story of this incredible family and their restaurant.

 

The Girls Room Tour

Warner Brothers Music

Brief:Capitol Records set up The Girls Room Tour to showcase 4 up and coming young female musicians while searching for undiscovered talent across the United States. We wanted a sexy but bold presence to portray these musicians as the powerful talents that they are.

Result:Warm colors and distressed type treatment created a powerful site while the imagery allowed it to keep that soft edge.

 

The Offbeat Arena

BroadbandNow! Inc.

Brief:The site would feature 15 unusual sports that most people had likely never heard of. The brief required a dynamic nature that would grow as a new sport was added each week. Each story used Flash animation and live video.

Result:Flash was used to give a continuous sense of motion in the piece. The navigation and template for each sport's story was built out in entirety and the stories done as modules that could be dropped into the flash as they were added each week.

 

Chasing the Dream

Meredith Louise Miller

Brief:Meredith Miller's music portrays a dark, brooding aesthetic with lyrics about love, friendship, and flannel shirts. Her quirkiness and unusual song writing was always portrayed in a lighthearted way. We wanted to show her as a matured and serious musician.

Result:Dark Colors and a duotone palate provided a suitable backdrop for the story of her career and audio and videos of her music and an interview on her love of palindromes.