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Tilley Painting website redesign

Lawrence Siulagi — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 02:17:01 +0000

This is a redesign I created for Tilley Painting.

Photos of Bend signage

Lawrence Siulagi — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:13:44 +0000

Here they are. Thanks to Angie at Redside for sending me these wonderful shots.

Window signs for Bend property

Lawrence Siulagi — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:57:26 +0000

Created these mockups for window clings for a property in Bend.

Redesigned One Sheet for Redside

Lawrence Siulagi — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:50:01 +0000

Redside wanted to try something different and put all their properties on page in a grid format with a strong push to the new website.

New one-sheets

Lawrence Siulagi — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:49:42 +0000

A sample of updated one-sheets I designed for Redside. The feature photo employs a “diptic” style for the buildings.

Launch of Redsidecre.com

Lawrence Siulagi — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:31:03 +0000

A new website is (re)born. This website is pretty deep in content and has a client section where file sharing happens.

Design: Tilley Enterprises

Lawrence Siulagi — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:05:43 +0000

This website went through a recent redesign

This is a website I designed for an environmentally-friendly painting service based here in Portland. I bartered for some interior painting – which is a good thing in these economic times.

I designed the site using WordPress and a modified K2 theme. The slow panning banner images use javascript and panoramas of the client’s work shot by the client.

For the animated image above, I used ScreenFlow to record a .mov file which I imported into Adobe ImageReady and exported as an animated GIF.

Sweet 16

Lawrence Siulagi — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:29:41 +0000

Honest Abe was inaugurated as the sixteenth President on this day in history. “So, how does time off from work affect the recently laid-off,” you ask?

Trivia. Lots and lots of trivia. This fills in the time between applying for jobs, updating a post, reading e-mail, scanning news and general screen-staring.

I like to think of the looking up of trivial information as a palate cleanser for the brain.

Anyhow, tall hats off to you Mr. 16th President.

I spent 10% of yesterday looking for a job online and 90% in web design bliss. Me, a blank document, a keyboard and a screen. Hmm, sounds like a new geek version of A Chorus Line.

I was planning on having WordPress serve as a blog page but its tools and plug-ins have gone ballistic. So much so that I moved it to my root directory as my home page. This is mainly for organizing purposes.

I can’t wait to trick it out some. Add some new plug-ins or develop my own. We’ll see.

Reactivated my Twitter account and had a laugh when I read Jeff Jarvis’ interview on Metromix

…the Internet is a magnificent vehicle for individual expression. That said, my 16-year-old son Jake recently complained that the problem with Twitter is all people Twitter about is Twitter. But that’ll change in time.

A few technical setbacks: DandyID crapped out on me and WordPress wouldn’t let me link using the Visual form. Safari 4 Beta version is the most likely. Will revisit.

The hills. They are alive.

Lawrence Siulagi — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:13:54 +0000

On this day 44 years ago, Julie Andrews belted out The Sound of Music on the big screen.

It’s time to design my website. So far I’ve made a list in my head of what I don’t want but not a lot in the I Do Want column.

It is time to make Do. A deer. A female deer… okay, stop.

After reviewing a lot of websites yesterday – from flash-heavy to german minimalists – I woke up this morning with these thoughts.

While the Flash sites were – and I hate to use this term – cool, they were geared toward entertainment and not quite appropriate.

The German minimalists were nice with an overabundance of impact white, but they screamed minimalist, as in, “Look at me! I’m hardly wearing anything!”

What was great about both styles was the high usability factor. And while I lean toward minimalism, I don’t mind a little clutter – as long as the clutter is functional.

By functional I mean just that: serving a purpose. That purpose could be as dry as a menu flyout but it could also be an art form for an aesthetic enjoyment of space.

Picture a white couch on a wood floor with a white area rug, a coffee table and a lamp. While the elements and setting are functional and even pleasing to the eye, there needs to be a surprise. And I don’t mean a large Miro painting on the wall, but something that belongs, but altered in an organic way.

Huh? Let me explain.

Good quilters know that a good quilt design incorporates a single, cloth swatch which is different in pattern and/or color from the the other swatches. And not so completely that it distracts and not so subtle that it disappears entirely.

Which brings me back to TSOM. Remember that fly-in shot of Julie Andrews singing about those Bavarian hills? The song melody is the pattern, but the hills – or nature – are full of surprises: verdant greens, dandelion yellows, and lily blues.

So here it is. The first item in my I Do Want column is: I want a surprise on every page which is functional and in plain sight.