Creative Design

GRAPHIC DESIGN

In my work, graphic design and web design are very intertwined. Most of what I design lives on the web these days, but there is still a great need for well designed print items. I strive for clean, modern, easy to assimilate visual communication. I am happy to produce for either web or print projects. I can also photograph as needed for clients.

Print Design Services: Print advertising, Newsletters, Annual reports, Tri-folds and Marketing brochures, Posters, Business logos, Stationary and Business cards, Book cover design and layout, and more.

Digital Design Services: Business and non-profit digital communications such as HTML (email) or PDF Newsletters, Web graphics, Web advertising, Photography and more.

Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

WEB DESIGN

Web design seems to revolutionize at least every two years. If your current web site is more than two years old, it is likely out dated, whether by the specific architecture that it relies on or by the overall design aesthetics. With the plethora of well designed, cost efficient, easy-to-use cloud based web technologies these days, I urge most of my clients to update their sites to a Content Management System (CMS) such as WordPress.

Web Design Services: Primarily I focus on front end web design and WordPress based CMS web sites and theme design. WordPress is a wonderful software tool and serves the purposes of most of my customers extremely well. The overall look/feel/design of a WordPress based Web Site can be changed by installing different themes, or easily customized by CSS code.

Tools: Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator; WordPress, Hand Coding

Code: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), XHTML

CYCLING JERSEY DESIGN

I ride bike. It doesn’t take one too long to notice that there are a lot of really ugly cycling jerseys out there. A buddy of mine at Orange Peel Bikes in Steamboat Springs, CO wanted some new jersey designs a few years back. I told him I could do it. He has sold out of jerseys every season since. That’s how I started.

I really enjoy designing things that people wear. Thanks to the Minnesota Ironman Bicycle Ride, most anytime I go for a bike ride in the Twin Cities I can see a jersey which I designed. It’s fun.

Process: I can take your cycling jersey design idea (however rough or vague it may be) from start to finish, or you can just tell me to “do something cool” and I can run with it. Sponsor logos? No problem. Let me know what you need and I can take care of it. I design for clubs, teams, bike shops and anyone in between. I have worked with many of the top cycling jersey producers in the U.S. (and a couple in Europe) and I can serve as your intermediary, from delivering the final files on time to checking the proofs and making sure the sweet new jersey you get in the mail is the one you want.