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Walking With Nathaniel

This month Cindy and I have been helping a family coping with the loss of their son as the Father hikes along the Northeast Corridor to raise awareness and donations for the disorder that shortened his son’s life. We helped set up a CMS site through WordPress for the Father and Mother to keep a running blog of his travel along his path. Using WordPress as a CMS, the parents have been able to connect to so many other families that have suffered similar tragedies.

Walking With Nathaniel

Logos and
More Logos

I’ve also found myself making a lot of logos as the Summer approaches. From creating icons for pharmaceutical companies to type treatments for events, everyone is really into honing a look this Spring. Three of my favorites so far have been for the Awakening to Divine Mind seminar logo, the Senior Living Consult logo, and the InstaMessenger iPhone Icon. I had the pleasure of working with my friend Pankaj again of Light of Love to help him with a new logo for his latest incarnation on helping others transcend. Senior Living Consult is a new senior consulting group started by Marguerite of the Presence Care Project. Working with Marguerite was a pleasure again as we created a logo and branding scheme with her team as they help those with dementia and similar, and we are preparing their site for launch soon!

And when my friend David from Easy Pickins (with whom we just finished a major overhaul of their site) gave me a call about helping him set-up the visuals for his new iPhone app, I was happy to help. Merging the popular Instagram with an Instant Messenger feature, we created a logo that will help catapult David to the top!

Coming Up
Other than helping the folks at Senior Living Consult get their site together, Cindy and I at incompra have been very busy helping Dr. Ted Eisenberg get his very first book together, which has been a great experience. We have also been helping the Melmark School prepare for it’s Annual DreamMakers Ball, with logo development, invites, Save the Dates, Wish Books, materials, and all kinds of media!

Happy New Year Everyone! January and February have become an early Spring for many of my clients as the seeds we planted in the Winter have begun to fruit. Three news sites for three great clients are now live and helping bring connection and communication to the world to their talents and services.

Waterdog Computer Works

While I have my personal practice here in San Diego, I enjoy a working relationship with my Philadelphia-based business partner Cindy as we continue to develop our design studio Incompra Design. One of our new clients this season is Waterdog Computer Works in Wayne, PA. They have re-named, re-branded, and re-located their business and I was happy to help them get their online interactions with their clients together. Cindy and I worked with Fred and his team at Waterdog to understand their goals and audience, and we created a content managed system that allowed them to update and interface with their clients remotely through their hosted online support service.

Waterdog Computer Works


Easy Pickins

Having worked with the folks at Easy Pickins for a long time, when they told me they wanted to go back in and revamp their website, but this time as a ecommerce solution, I knew we were in for a very successful venture. I had the pleasure of working with the team at EP and their technology team to co-create a beautiful Magento-powered ecommerce site that the client is able to manage content and sales, upload products, and edit pages and the program interacts with billing and shipping and other features. Taking on an Art Direction role, I have been involved in the design of the site, its various banners, and it’s constant evolution of features and edits.

Easy Pickins

Gerry Tuten

Gerry Tuten is one of the most impressve and prolific large scale Abstract Expressionists to come out of the very fertile artistic community in the Philadelphia-region. With a decade of work celebrated throughout the NorthEastern artistic gallery arc to show to the rest of the world, Gerry contacted me to help her encapsulate all of her different visual experiments and compositions online, and somehow display them faithfully to retain how their presence is part of the message. I worked with her to create a gallery-like layout that allowed visitors to zoom in to each artistic period and look deeply at the work. Simple and dark was the best contrast for her vibrant and organic works.

Gerry Tuten

I’ve been so with such a variety of amazing projects—from new clients, to site revamps, to upgrades—I’m just going to have to lump them all together into Fall and Winter posts. Here’s the Fall post, circa November 2011 to Jan 2012!

Presence Care Project

Although I have been simultaneously working on a reworking a lot of sites, I have been happy to help new clients get their new projects and online spaces underway! This Fall I was honored to work with mindfulness-based psychotherapist and dementia care counselor Marguerite Manteu-Rao to bring her newest practice, the Presence Care Project, to life. Focusing on creating a mental/emotional/spiritual holistic bridge for all members involved with dementia care, Marguerite and her partner are working to help those in need, and those helping those in need, get the help they need. Starting with branding and logo development, we evolved the online site with a WordPress-powered CMS for ease of editing on the clients part.

Presence Care Project

Buddha For You Upgrade

Buddha For You is an amazing Buddhist and Hindu statuary and antique store near SDSU in San Diego that is connected with a variety of amazing institutions downtown such as the Meditation Initiative and The Dharma Bum Temple. Over the last year or so we have been perfecting the site to incorporate all sorts of features from a news section, social media hook-ups, customizable gallery, and content management to such a degree they were able to install a Facebook Shop all by themselves! Check out version 2.0 of Buddha For You, now live!

Buddha For You

Rhonda Sacks

Also this season I helped interior designer Rhonda Sacks get a simple yet sophisticated site to help her get started on the internet as she arranged to have some more of her latest and greatest projects photographed. The present shots were photographed by Barry Halkin Photography and Rhonda and I endeavored to create a site that spoke both to her esthetic but also complimented her work.

Rhonda Sacks Interiors

Upgrades and Revamps

Some of the projects that have been keeping me up at night aren’t going to be ready yet, but I am happy to mention that very soon there will be an updated and suped-up new website for a popular northeast women’s clothing store , a brand new type of online gallery installation for a prolific Philadelphia artist, and a new way to get some great computer service in Delaware…

Stay Tuned…