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I had the great pleasure of working with Scott Berkun on his personal branding and website design. He wanted a clean modern look so we went with all white, the most awesome font Atrament Web, and colors that pop just like the cover of his famous book Mindfire
Development by: Shawn Johnston
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I love working on design for incredible organizations with amazing and talented people! This past spring, I was able to collaborate with Kelly Housholder, Cary Norton, and Jordan Sowards on rebranding for Jones Valley Teaching Farm in Birmingham, AL. Under the creative direction of Kelly, we collaborated on the rebranding, logo, and color palette.. which she then worked to produce some incredible messaging copy from Jordan, which is all pulled together by the brilliant photography that Cary took! All of this while working closely with JVTF's executive director, Grant Brigham.
I can't tell you how thrilled I am to be a part of this relaunch, for such a great organization We renamed them from "Jones Valley Urban Farm" to "Jones Valley Teaching Farm" to more accurately portray what their main initiative is in our community: Education.
Continuing from the rebranding I collaborated on with Kelly, we then collaborated on the website structure and design that just launched last Friday with the development by Andrew Norcross. JVTF has so much to say and so much to give back to the community. We started with wire-framing and information architecting and then went onto design. Kelly was extremely meticulous in working in every detail out with Grant and making sure nothing was overlooked. In particular, I really enjoyed working on the blog category structure & icons. Check JonesValleyTeachingFarm.org out for yourself! (shortlink: JVTF.org)
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I was so thrilled to give a talk at WordCamp San Francisco this past weekend! My talk was on "Designing for the Modern Web" - Which in essence was a talk about designing for HiDPI. Check out my Slides & Description:
Devices that consume the web are being created at a never-before heard of rate. They’re getting smaller, lighter, faster, sharper, and sexier. Life is awesome right? But what about us web designers?
Let’s talk about how to get the best possible ratio of speed vs awesome, and what techniques to use for fast and stunning visual experiences.
I'll post the video whenever they have it up. All in all it was a fantastic weekend. I learned a ton from the other fabulous speakers, and the other attendees. Can't wait for next year.
I'm so thrilled to announce that Range just launched Camels & Chocolate - Tales from a travel addict. Thanks to Kristin and Scott for their vision. The Illustrations and design came out perfect - & Aaron Campbell really finessed the destinations post type. What a fun site! Check out Kristin's Post on Camels & Chocolate re-design. I just love the comments!!
I like to make inspiration boards for my clients. Here is Kristin'sTravel Inspiration Board: http://drp.mk/Sjf
I have some exciting news! I've joined into a partnership with Pete Mall and Aaron Campbell to bring you Range - A design and development shop specializing in high quality design and WordPress development. We're super thrilled about the future, and are excited to have all of our strengths combined to deliver the best possible work. Check out our site: http://ran.ge
My friends at Automattic just announced the re-vamping of their CodePoet Program. They have a fancy new website with great resources for developers, designers, and builders. WPCandy has a great article about the launch. Congrats to Pete Davies, Michael Pick, Evan Solomon, Rebecca Collins, Krista Stevens, and Dave Martin for an outstanding job on the site! I really can not wait to see where this goes. They're really tapping into the community and sharing thoughts and resources from the best in the business. Its incredible.
I'm in the eBook Y'all!
Along with the great resource that is the site, they are also doing an eBook series. They interviewed me for their book on WordPress and Responsive Design - you can read my thoughts on the subject in the eBook! Get it! It's Free!!! And it looks beautiful! Michael Pick did and incredible job designing it. It's just lovely. See my incredibly designed bio page below.
Congrats CodePoet! #WPYall
I had the neat experience of going to the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum here in Birmingham, Alabama. I wasn't expecting that I would like the museum as much as I did. The collection of vintage typography on the beautifully crafted motorcycles were just stunning. I also really enjoyed some of the old pressed metal work and emblems. Here are some photos of the vintage type.
Last week I designed and launched PandoDaily's Mobile site with Greg Kumparak's PandoDaily Lead and Aaron Campbell's development skills. It looks fabulous. We still have a ways to go with it but I'm pretty thrilled the direction its going in.
Interestingly enough, the mobile site used to be responsive (still is for the iPad and Kindle), but we needed something leaner that can put the focus directly on the PandoTicker and post headlines. Going away from responsive site for mobile was a good fit in this case.
Check out Greg's writeup on the site here.
I wish all board games looked so fine as this Scrabble Typography Limited Edition.
Scrabble Typography Limited Edition | The FontFeed. h/t @miklb
Sara Cannon is a UX/UI Designer, Former Business Owner, Creative Director, & Artist remote working in Birmingham, Alabama.
Have a project I could help you with? Contact me at sara@saracannon.com.
