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Everything I post up from the staples, design, photo and video to plenty of smaller projects and ideas that won’t make the main pages of the portfolio or other things I’m trying out.

skier turning in powder at Alpine Meadows

As the winter is starting to ramp up I got out at Alpine Meadows to shoot a weekly piece they do know as the shred report, it often focuses on new terrain so this week we got on Roundhouse with a few buddies and we lapped around with a GoPro.

The new shipment of cameras hasn’t come in yet so it’ll be interesting to see how the 8 do against shooting this on the 7 with the karma grip but we have plans to do a few more of these as the season progresses.


Explore Squaw Shred Report

A very long time ago I was helping Ben out to build a snowboard site, so between 2010 and 2014 it was a functional site but it’s been left to hang out and languish, so we threw together something a little more exciting for a landing page. It’s really just a fun little usage of the CurtainJS tech but maybe someday we will continue to build on this and do something exciting.

The screenshot really does no justice of what this is so check it out over at BenComber.com


Explore Ben Comber Landing Page
new zealand tour guide website running on a laptop

I have been hosting the NZ Tour Guide website for a number of years, it’s a pretty simple one-page site that to save costs we had grabbed a theme from Woo Themes and let it free into the world, except that was built on some code that just isn’t doing too hot on the lighthouse scores, 57 / 100 performance, in particular, was concerning to me.

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Explore NZ Tour Guide Propsal​

Now

After traveling the Western US during the first part of 2019 I’m back n Tahoe City, CA where I jumped in on a studio with a couple of other creatives. Spending most of my days working web development and building on the intersection of the technologies available and the design background I have as I keep seeing work that is not pushing both. I see a lot of good graphic designers stuck in the box model of sites from five years ago so even if the developers are using the new tech they are not doing all it can because they are give box model designs.


Explore Now
riley bathurst design priest sheetmetal website update for mid 2019

I have just finished working on an update to the www.priestsheetmetal.co.nz website. The original site was relatively simple, for a company that has been operating sixty plus years in an industry that isn’t hugely technical as the sheetmetal industry is, the fax number is important on the footer, the analytics show more people using the site on desktop than phones but they needed a presence without a large budget and now we are just slowly moving towards something more exciting.

priest 2016 website
Website before the update

The content has slightly updated and we have moved away from a bunch of the text for the site being tied up in the video where it was moving and less readable. Adding more background colors adds hierarchy to the elements of the page in a logical order.

With a relatively small update the site still has elements from foundation running the backend but most of the new elements have been built on CSS grid giving a flexibility with the scaling of the site between phone and desktops.


Explore Priest 2019