Tag: Website Design

  • Blas-TT from the past

    TTfone Star TT300

    Recently I ordered an ‘easy to use’* phone from an online retailer…

    I didn’t really pay much attention to what I’d ordered beyond the features and the reviews. When the phone arrived I switched it on to be greeted by a logo that looked familiar.

    It seems I designed the logo for the company behind the phone that I’d just bought sometime around 2006/07. While the company has rebranded slightly, from TT Sims to TT fone, they kept kept the sim card design created as a part of their original website from way back then.

    TT Sims website circa 2007

    (I should add whoever converted is has squished it down and lost the slight bevel to card had, 3D was big in design back then you know! Call me biased but I’d say it looked a little better unsquished and beveled 🙂 )

    Not the most exciting post perhaps but when you do work for the web you find there isn’t much that stays around all that long, let alone ten years or more. Even though this isn’t perhaps my finest design moment, it was great to see… Though I now also feel old.

    *Not for myself I am now fully smartphone equipped, though admittedly it did take me quite a while to come around to them.

  • New Website

    Three year old ‘new’ website launch…

    Hathway Creative Logo

    While I have owned the domain for about five years now, and been working solely under that banner for over three, it took me until last month to finally launch a new, wholly work based, website for Hathway Creative.

    I saw a local website design company employ a third party to build their site a while ago and admit I kind of scoffed at it at the time. Given the time its taken me to get to this stage, perhaps that might not have been a completely bad idea after all.

    The combination of wanting to get things completely and absolutely right along with regular interruptions from more urgent (paid) work and also the fact I wanted to cover both the Illustration side of the work I do, and the Website Design side while also outlining some of the other creative services and solutions projects have called upon in a way that, hopefully, makes sense and is easy to navigate just took a little time to work out.

    Website Design Services

    Graphic Design Services

    Comic Strip Illustration

    Poster and Website Banner Design

    Comic Book/Graphic Novel Artwork

    It is a relatively simple and straightforward website still, with several featured projects on the home page and pages detailing the illustration and web work I do – Do please take a look at the all new Hathway Creative website and if you’d like to hire me for something, please do get in touch.

  • The Long Ryders dot com

    “Majestic four-disc anthology of studio recordings and rarities…”

    I have spent a good portion of the past month over at Hathway Creative working on creating a new website to support the release of the career spanning four CD box set for the band The Long Ryders, which was released last month to much fanfare by Cherry Red Records.

    Its been a hugely enjoyable and pretty wide encompassing project and my work has included the creation and launch of a new website, product photography of the box set, some work promoting the site and set on social media and also I’ve had a part in designing and editing some videos.

    Its been good fun too and its always interesting working on a project in a new area. In working on this I think I’ve mostly learned more than I would have liked on the convoluted and somewhat messy issues of music licensing and YouTube and Facebook.

    Take a look at the new website at thelongryders.com which will also tell you all you might need to know on the Final Wild Songs box set.

    And check out one of the videos here…

    The Long Ryders will be touring Europe and the USA later in the year.

  • Update

    nope, not a site update, just updated to the latest version of the site software.

    I didn’t like the new style admin of version 2.5 so after installing it I spent about three hours rolling my site back. however you can’t fight progress and luckily the admin has changed again, and while I’m not sure if I prefer it to how things use to be, I’ll just have to get on with it.

    At least the site still seems to be here so thats all good…

  • A return to the web

    janettelouden.com
    after a couple of months offline due to what could well be described as ‘circumstances beyond our control’ its great to welcome back online the website of childrens illustrator Janette Louden.

    Soon to be updated with some new images. Happy belated birthday mate.

  • Trendster Clothing

    i‘ve spent a fair bit of time over the past month or so helping to get the Trendster Clothing website online, The site was created to give consumers with a conscience about the environment, a choice of trendier ethical garments. They specialise in clothing that is either sweatshop free, organic or commercial and printable.

    trendsterclothing.com Site no longer live.