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One of my favorite clients is wetnoz.com. Their designer pet bowls are works of art, and the classy style of their marketing is clean and contemporary. I am currently doing a complete site redesign to improve their shopping cart system. I have also included images of some print catalogs that I put together for them.

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I have been working with Q-Cinema, Fort Worth’s only gay and lesbian film festival for about a year now, and really enjoy it. Their organization presents monthly film screenings and a very successful annual festival. While I didn’t create the lovely flash banner on their main site, I redesigned and recoded the page, created the banners on the site, and created the 2008 Festival site that is shown below.

This is an outreach program that I started, in conjunction with a couple of other local service organizations, to provide a digital photography class for homeless veterans in Fort Worth. Each of our seven students was given a digital camera which they kept at the end of the 12 week program. We met weekly in a computer lab, and many of the students had essentially never used a computer before. The project culminated in a gallery show at the public library downtown, and this is the poster for the event. I used one of the student’s photos and then put together some typography to communicate both the challenges that the homeless veterans face and the pride of the students in completing the program.

Out of seven students that started the program, three were able to finish, and another one sadly passed away before the show. The event was a big success, and many people came out to show their support, including the mayor. All proceeds from the art sales went to the vets.

Links to the artists’ work can be found at www.unseenfw.org.

This is a quick trifold brochure I put together for a local veteran’s service organization.

Here is the initial site comp for a site I built for a local postmodern church.

Here is an initial design for a local investment firm that never made it into production.

This is my local neighborhood bar. The service there is amazing, the people that frequent the place generally play good music on the jukebox, and developing a site for them was a lot of fun. I really like how this site uses flickr, so that patrons can post their images to the gallery. The links are managed with del.icio.us, and the calendar is handled through upcoming.org. I think this site is a good example of new trends in centrally displaying feeds from a number of different best of breed web applications.

Another site I built, this one is still on the web with a few changes from this original comp, but I stopped hearing from the owner and so the internal content was never written. Just as well, as this isn’t one I was really happy about working on.

HealthMarkets is a large insurance company with a couple of different carriers. I should have known what I was getting into when as an employee we had Aetna for our health plan, and not one of our own products. I worked there for a little more than three years in the marketing department and created a number of different marketing websites, print materials for trade shows and recruiting, and logo designs for the seemingly endless number of different departments within the organization.

I also designed the corporate intranet portal, where thousands of employees would read daily updates about the company, share files and documents, check their HR benefits, and more. I actually designed two different versions, but I only have images of the second iteration and it was much better anyway.

Everyone at the company was very nice, but all of these designs are kind of boring, and they wanted them that way. I also wouldn’t recommend the insurance, which was spotlighted in Michael Moore’s Sicko.

Here are a few of the designs I was responsible for while I was there.

Another site and logo that never made it past the design phase. I used to turn out spec comps when I was bored at HealthMarkets, and ended up with quite a few designs that were never used because the client wasn’t ready to spend the money on a custom site.