Website Development and Graphical Designs

Devilishly Disabled (By Matt Emo) is a brand which adds humour to everyday situations faced by those with disabilities. We spread a message of inclusion and empowerment. The brand is about spreading a message of inclusion; it’s about removing the barriers and uncertainties surrounding disability. It’s about allowing a disabled person to be seen in a pub, club or out shopping and being able to say “hey this guy/girl clearly has a sense of humour”, I’m going to talk to them.

This was a seriously fun illustrative branding project, one that required lots of sketching! The brief I was given was fairly open and I was given the freedom to explore my own ideas for the style of the character. The only requirement was that the character had to have certain poses and expressions. I was tasked with creating a series of characters, an illustrated brand/logo, poster design and an initiative online website to allow people to buy tshirts.  Seriously fun little illustration project!

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Scott Marshall from Bude Surfing Experience in Cornwall approached me to give his current flyer designs a refresh. The current logo/branding is simple, easy to understand and most of all, memorable. Therefore using the logo, along with some early ideas from Scott, I wanted to inject a strong striking wave into the design to compliment the logo design but not one that would detract or clash, so a fine balance was struck between technical and clean waves.

The end result was one I was really, really pleased with – love producing simple but effective artwork :)

DS Painting in Bude offers you a  professional painting & decorating services for all aspects of the decorating trade from interior to exterior, catering for both domestic & commercial clients.

From the start the website design had to utilise the branding colours from DS Painting and Decorating of black and blue. With this in mind, coupled with the fact I wanted to experiment, I decided to use black and a lot of painting (splat) effects throughout the website. This meant I could achieve a clean, fresh and easy to use website. Whilst also impacting visitors to the website. Tooooo much fun.

Owned by Robert and Sue Wood since 1986, Court Barn Hotel and Restaurant in Holsworthy is a romantic 17th century country house set in five acres, with unspoilt views across Devon countryside, has six individually furnished bedrooms and a multi-award winning restaurant.

The first task involved providing a series of website designs for Court Barn in Holsworthy, and with the help of the client’s research (initial sketches), the overall process was made simple. The website design that was produced was simple, easy to understand and most of all, memorable – exactly as they wanted it. The website itself was built using standard technologies such as jQuery, php and xhtml. Some seamless animations were however embedded to give users a more friendly experience.

The end result was one I was really, really pleased with. If you would like to stay in wonderful peaceful hotel then look no further – Court Barn Hotel and Restaurant in Holsworthy.

The Shack is a modern cafe & takeaway offering fresh & healthy food in Bude, Cornwall.

The brief for this project was to produce an A5 leaflet to advertise the new menu at The Shack. The design follows a drift wood style to match the current branding whilst also giving all the elements custom shadows to them to give the leaflet a realistic feel to it.

The brief for this project was to design and develop an online lingerie shopping website using an e-commerce package called Magento to process the online orders, with automated schedule tasks to update the stock. I acted as the Magneto developer and designer for this project.

To ensure the brief was met, research was undertaken into the current trends within the lingerie industry. As a result, the most common trend is to use large captivating images in the hope that it would make customers have the urge to purchase the products instantly on the site. Therefore, using the images supplied I made sure I used the large sexy images as much as I could, but still ensuring the website remained functionable. After the designs were finalised the website was implemented. One of the requirements was to develop a custom script so that products would automatically be updated in the system via an XML feed. This included automatically downloading the appropriate images, stock level and product options.

It was such a luxury to have experimentation time with such an awesome project, very thankful to KinkyT.co.uk for allowing me the opportunity!

This project was undertaken as part of my employment with MD Web Solutions (www.md-websolutions.co.uk). All images and project information published with permission from MD Web Solutions.

Bude Surf Life Saving Club provides professional lifeguards throughout the summer season on Crooklets Beach in Bude, Cornwall.

From the start the website design had to utilise the branding colours from Surf Life Saving Club. With this in mind, coupled with the fact I wanted to experiment, I decided to use the branding colours as the background colour with silhouettes characters as the focus point to portray an image of professional lifeguards saving life’s on the beach. This meant I could achieve a clean, fresh and easy to use website. Whilst also impacting visitors to the website. Tooooo much fun.

This project was part of a 6 month task where I acted as the graphical designer and website developer. I was required to create initiative responsive wordpress website that worked on all tablets, computers and mobile devices that matched the same layout and style.

To achieve this, I took advantage of CSS3 and HTML5. This allowed me to play subtle animations which can be seen mostly in the background with the clouds moving and every 30 seconds flashing of lightning and the character animating.

This website in particular was a personal favourite, as creating a very unique look and feel to the website in a urban/smoggy theme gets me extra excited! The factories, smog, characters and every other fantasy little detail you could imagine were all required for this one. SOOOO much fun!!

This luxury coastal retreat occupies an area of outstanding natural beauty overlooking a private coastal beach in Widemouth near Bude, Cornwall. It was decided that the website design would use antique ruby as an ancient colour and anti-flash white as a complimentary colour to portray a coastal seaside look and feel.

After several design alterations we finally reached the right look and feel of a coastal seaside cottage. The next step in the website design process were the final touches/composition. This involved making the graphics look more realistic by implementing light sources and as a result designing the shadows in the right place to give them depth.

To make the website functionality slightly different to the typical accommodation website an interactive ajax calendar was developed. This meant the user could use a graphical seaside interface instead of the typical drop-downs you would see when making online bookings.

This project was undertaken as part of my employment with MD Web Solutions (www.md-websolutions.co.uk). All images and project information published with permission from MD Web Solutions.

The Brendon Arms in Bude Cornwall, is a family run Inn and free house near Bude’s beautiful Summerleaze beach and unique sea-lock, offering traditional pub food including fresh fish, vegetarian and gluten free meals, all sourced locally in Bude where possible.

From the beginning they asked if the website could be fully responsive, as they would like the website to be accessible on all devices. They also said they would like the website to be ‘different’ whilst also having traditional style to it.

With the requirements in mind, it was time to give it a look that would really portray the Brendon Arms Pub in Bude, Cornwall…this meant LOTS of contemporary design iterations! This resulted in really make the most out of the photography that was available. To further enhance on the design, a set of custom designed icons were introduced to replace the traditional navigation of text based links to give it that little extra touch.

This project was undertaken as part of my employment with MD Web Solutions (www.md-websolutions.co.uk). All images and project information published with permission from MD Web Solutions.