Teddy Bears

For Project 3 in my web class, I was asked to create a site based on an animal. So I created a silly site on Teddy bears.  Two of the fun parts for me were creating the teddy bears and the TeddyLibs/Madlibs game.  The site is not much, it was mainly focused on JavaScript coding and learning. (read more)

blogcatalog email campaign

This week we continued our Integrated Marketing Campaign by working on an email.  The email was to carry the same aesthetics and feel of the ads, and continue where they left off.  For this email campaign, I decided to give the company a little bit of a personality.  Based of my experience of brands like (read more)

blogcatalog Ads

For Photoshop class this week we were tasked with making 5 ads for a brand of our choosing. I decided to choose blogcatalog, a brand belonging to a new friend. I chose it because the product they sell is a digital service, and thus seemed like a challenge.  Of course it should be noted that (read more)

Increase your ROI with Social Data

Business for me is about two things, ROI and Family.  I want to increase my ROI so I can spend more time with family, and less time worrying about, well, ROI.  And I imagine that something that you would like to do as well.  One possible technique is to look at social data and see (read more)

Louis Lunch Redesign: Wireframes

This week for Photoshop class, we had a choice of restaurants to make a website redesign.  I chose Louis Lunch one of the claimants to the original hamburger. If you’re a Yank, it is the oldest; if a Texan, not so much.  But in either case it’s a bit of living culinary history located in New (read more)

Us Women Infographic

For my Photoshop class,we were asked to make an infographic from one of two webpages. Either The US Falls Behind Nicaragua, Rwanda, And The Philippines On Women’s Equality or 8 Food Myths You Probably Believe.  I chose the women’s equality article as it had more statistics. This project was for class and I’m not affiliated with the article’s authors. For this (read more)

Usability testing

It’s critical to determine if your website or app does, in fact, make sense to your customers. Which is why usability testing is a critical design check prior to “going live”.  However, usability testing can be used in any phase of the design process to ensure that the product is on track. In the initial (read more)

H2Angeles

For my Photoshop class this week we were asked to create a logo for a non-profit, “deal[ing] in green initiatives in Los Angeles” and which seeks to “aquir[e] local business partners [and] overall awareness of green intiatives.” I decided to focus on one of the greatest environmental threats to L.A.: water. I thus created a (read more)

Crowdsourcing and you

An independent project raises 5,549% of it’s goal, $1000 dollar stock photos are now going for $1, businesses are spending $25,000 for R&D instead of “several times that amount”, and most articles on businesses in Wikipedia have some inaccuracy in them. These are just some examples of how crowdsourcing is changing the face of our (read more)

Integrated Marketing Campaign-Lowe’s Hello Fall

This week in Photoshop we were discussing Integrated Marketing Campaigns (IMC), and for our assignment we were to make an image in keeping with the IMC style. My brand choice was one that I use regularly and would love to use more, Lowe’s! (Note: this is for class and I am not affiliated with Lowe’s). (read more)