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…I’ve added a print design section to the site. As the summer creeps in, regular clients, as usual, are creeping out. When you work with a lot of educational clients and health-related clients, summer can be a slow period. This can be a double-edged aspect of my field, because that means soon checks will be dwindling, but it also means that time will open up for me and my business partner to regroup and give some much needed attention to future business endeavors. Portfolio polishing, website updating, social networking, and just plain getting a chance to relax, all of these things are a welcome trade-off for having to flex the old frugality muscle for a month or two during the summer stretch.

In celebration of this down-time, I’ve spent the last few days planting the seeds for future work by taking a hard look at the latest and greatest print designs, marketing endeavors, and advertising campaigns I’ve worked on over the years and collected them all into a javascript-enabled gallery logically grouped by goal and prospective client interest.

So, have a look at the newest section of the site and get an idea of what I do offline to make ends meet. From the long lineage of logos I’ve created over the last decade to my more recent capital campaign, advertising, and identity work I’ve done with Sara and others, I have to say there is something therapeutic about collecting the brighter stars of your body of work to date and projecting it into cyberspace for all to see.

I’ve been busy, as usual. In the last few months I’ve been doing a variety of things… mostly waking my dog, Lou. In between walkings, however I was able to pull together a site for my business partner’s wedding, 2 women’s clothing and accessory line CMS sites, and an asian food restaurant site.
First off, Cindy and Barry are getting married! Hoorays! And to celebrate, we made a little website. Chock full of experimental javascript and crazy swirly patterns, it’s aim is to get the word out about these two and their celebration.

Now, oddly enough I’ve been finding myself in an interesting predicament: I’ve been creating a lot of pseudo-cms sites a la Wordpress… in fact, this site itself is just that! This month has been a true bender as I created a whole CMS setup for Easy Pickins and Pop Trash. Not in that order.

From customized logins and dashboards, to my clients being able to fully manage their online stores, blogs, analytics and catalogs, this has been a few months of turning Wordpress modification into a business. Interestingly enough, each of my clients wanted to be able to modify their images in-house and have been taking a crack at it with Photoshop Express. And they’re doing a bang up job!

Finally, I just recently whipped up a quick and easy solution for a Wilmington, Delaware Area Asian Food Restaurant called Soybean Asian Grille. They wanted something sweet and simple that matched their restaurant, and we did just that.

Other than that I have become a big user of a number of 2.0’s as of late…netvibes, twitter, meetup, linkedin, yelp, upcoming, and songbird… go me! I suggest them, in that order, to everyone. 

PS - I also just posted my first personal blog, have a look at it at anoki2.net!