This project is still a work in progress. I am working with David Cohn and Erik Sundelof to launch a brand new design for the community-funded journalism site, Spot.us. Stay tuned to hear more about a launch date in early February.
Read more about it here.
UPDATE: Since writing this post this morning, Daniel Bachhuber has created and released a WinerLinks WordPress plugin that adds permalinks to each paragraph of a post. See it in action on my blog.
A few weeks ago, I got a Twitter direct message from Jay Rosen.
Lauren: got a question for you; would you email me?
DMing with Jay isn’t part of my everyday life. So, naturally, I was intrigued. I responded. And the three-week saga of redesigning PressThink began.
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I designed the campaign materials for Ellen Dickson, a member of the City Council in Summit, New Jersey, who recently filed to run in the 2010 fall election for Union County Freeholder.
Design of her campaign included:
When I joined Publish2 as a product designer, one of my first big projects was a branding overhaul. I wanted to bring Publish2′s homepage into the 21st century to better convey the purpose of the web app while making it more aesthetically interesting.
In addition to creating the new homepage, I created all the static marketing pages on the website:
In winter 2009, I helped Dave Cohn’s team with the redesign of Spot.Us, a San Francisco-based, non-profit journalism project.
This project was a portfolio site for a photography agency in Southern California. This photography agency specializes in beautiful, ’30s-inspired black and white portraits. They wanted a site that would complement their photography style and replicate the feeling of a vintage photography set.
Because the agency is located in Southern California and its founders have New Mexico roots, they wanted the California and New Mexico flags incorporated into the logo design. The following is the logo I designed for California Zia Photography to both match the site and capture the founders’ heritage (with a fun, modern spin):
As online editor for the Mustang Daily at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, I helped the site transition from proprietary to open-source software. Working off a base template from Woo Themes, I redesigned the site with a fresh, clean design that is more modern and intuitive to our readers.
The site is run on WordPress blogging software, but used as a content management system more than a blog. Along with the entire site redesign came a restucturing of the staff workflow to allow reporters, editors and photographers to all participate in posting content online.
This project was designed as a specialty site for a dentistry institute in San Diego, California. The agency specializes in porcelain veneers and wanted more traffic for the service, so I designed a site and helped increase their SEO. The site includes before/after photo galleries, videos and a “Dear Judy” blog.
As the multimedia chair for the Technical Association of the Graphic Arts for a few quarters at Cal Poly, I was in charge of revamping the site. Working off an existing web site, I updated a few stylistic elements to keep the site up-to-date. The site was designed in Dreamweaver.