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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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.
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I needed a business card that was going to stand.
This piece comes from talking to a local design studio being open to me coming back in with a portfolio if I was ever looking for work.
The idea starts from Massimo Vignelli talking about Lella being the brakes to his work and Michael Bierut talking about how that took a long time to understand why it was as important, so somehow that became a fire extinguisher as I have always liked design with everyday objects being used out of context as long as they still mean something.
The quote is adapted from the Rolling Stones “Play with Fire” the studio I was talking as many others do have an affinity for music so I wanted something to reflect that.
If any of that context got through I don’t know but they seemed to like it so hopefully I’m working with them more in the future.
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I have had a few opportunities to shoot with the local newspaper, Moonshine Ink on photo and video projects.
I had a few shots in the 2019 summers edition of Northstar Living magazine from Northstar Day last where a group of locals and workers from the community come together to help pull invasive species of weeds. Page 8. http://www.npoa.info/tahoe/332/site/graphics/northstarliving/northstarliving_summer19.pdf
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In the last couple of years my dog has aged a whole lot so it was nice to see this image of him from two summers ago make the cover of one of the local newspaper magazine.
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I’ve been thinking about this for a while since reading Atomic Design, I’m pretty sure it’s not running right as I have to run a separate
It’s currently running up on https://github.com/rileybathurst/riley-pattern
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I spent some time over the Memorial day weekend playing with some paint, I hadn’t painted a skate deck in a couple years so it was good to start messing around with this kind of thing again.
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I worked with Amanda from Authentic Alignment Wellness to create a website for her health and wellness coaching business.
We worked to create a flexible site with plenty of strong images surrounded by white space to let the content breathe using a two column layout.
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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.
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.
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