One out of several comps for Baltimore Technologies. The approach was to develope a homepage that is easily navigatable and was comparable to a portal site. Several Photoshop collages were created for the banner to emphasize Baltimore as a multinational company.

The Buffalo Gals are a fun-loving, light-hearted folk group that plays mostly for their own entertainment. In this case, a Web site wouldn't be a vital need for promotion, but the group wanted a web presence for themselves and for their fans. I was allowed to have some recreation in originating a fresh new look and identity that was never truly established. The design is my own visual interpretation of the group's musical style and personality.

Celox Networks was a challenging web site. Since I felt the company was a more state-of-the-art technical company, my challenge was to create a sort of unorthodox and somewhat experimental site that broke through the barriers of the conventional grid. The solution I used was to enlarge the "arc" of the Celox logo, giving the look to the site a subtle 3-dimensional impression. Furthermore, the arc was treated with a drop shadow in order to give a "layered" look over the horizontal rows.

As a volunteer designer, it was one of my responsibilities to create a functional Web site for artists, volunteers, sponsors and patrons to use. Our web presence made a huge impact on the success of the festival. In our 3rd year, the festival web site received on the average of a 1,000 visitors a month which was a successful selling tool for the event as well as a functional tool for those involved in the organization.

Lester and Cindy Grace, co-owners of Castle Awards, are very optimistic about the possibilities of new technologies and desired a Web site that is both, visually pleasing and highly functional. The site was designed with the ability to expand and eventually evolve into a sophisticated
e-commerce site. The site's pinnacle will evolve to when customers will eventually place orders, read the orders' status, customize products and pay for their orders solely through their Web site.

Although this site was never produced, It was challenging to design a homepage that was very information heavy. The homepage was very important in which it was meant to serve many different functions. The solution depicted in the homepage was the ability to change "modes' depending on the audience.

Since this was an invention of a fellow designer and myself, we let ourselves loose by having fun designing in "retro". Both of us are huge fans of graphic design from the 1950's and appreciate the irony of selling a rather new technology by making it look nostalgic. My favorite part of the site is the bios page, where we displayed our experience and skills in the form of baseball cards.

Growing Stronger is the creation of Tufts University researcher and award- winning writer Miriam Nelson. Marketed towards older adults, Miriam needed an interactive Web site that was warm and bright, inviting, and easy to use.

The approach to Michael Troy's Website was to develop a visually pleasing and "navigational friendly" site that is constructed in a simple and expandable table structure. This allows the manager, a novice to HTML coding, to easily update information, and the user to find specific information with two clicks of the mouse or less. The subtle organic textures and a limited color palette in the design parallels Michael's traditional marketing materials.

A very simple design and small web site for a new local company. With no time to loose, this site was done within two days in order for the company to have an immediate presence on the web.

The Narrows Center for the Arts is a non-profit organization for local visual and performing artists. Its mission is to nourish local talent and enrich the surrounding community with culture. Since the Narrow's Web site was used often and updated frequently, the organization needed, not only a visual presence that reflects their personality, but also an easy to use and informative homepage. Information needed to be effortlessly accessible and displayed in categories of importance.

NASPE represents the North American Society of Pacing and electrophysiology dedicated to the study of cardiac rhythm disorders. The design needed to be uncomplicated since it was purely functional and contained a colossal amount of information. A simple structure and subtle colors were used not to compete with the critical information people were searching for.

A financial service company approached ReadyAbout for a round of designs of their future Web site. Similar to large structure organizations, much of the design fell into accord to the company's strict visual guidelines. Elements like the globe and several universal money symbols were used to emphasize Thomson as a multi-national enterprise.

The New England Historic Genealogical Society was a rather ambitious project for Readyabout. Since the site was to be extremely large and multi-purposed depending on the user, my approach was to organize the site into six main divisions noted on the top menu. Web pages were then color-coded on the left column to indicate to the user which category they were in. In addition, six main collages were used in the banner for each main category.

WSMU, an affiliation to the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, is a non-profit college radio station. The station's desire was to implement a site that was playful, trendy and fun. The solution was to adopt a retro style, which I thought, was loosely associated to the classic rock n roll era. Despite its entertaining appearance, WSMU's Web site also succeeds for its capacity to provide current information to its devoted listeners.