The Cleveland Sound

Been a while since I posted, huh! Well, I've been busy with the holidays, as I'm sure you have too. Snow is coming down hard outside - a good(?) way to kick off December!

I just was hired to help out with a website that someone is working on called The Cleveland Sound. They had a designer but he backed out or couldn't do what needed to be done, so I was brought in to help. I made some edits to a Wordpress theme, moved some things around, added some stuff behind the scenes to make it run a little faster and created a very quick logo to replace the default type. The site has no content right now - just lorem ipsum and some random photos from Google, but it's where the owner wants it, and I'll let you know when it is up and running at full steam.

Until then, you can check it out at http://www.theclevelandsound.com/ or click on the screenshot above.

Neighborhood Leadership for Environmental Health!

The past couple weeks I have been working on a website for a non-profit community organization in Cleveland called the Neighborhood Leadership for Environmental Health, or NLEH.  You can view the website at http://www.nleh.org/.

Casa De Kraftmaid - Auction on October 30

This past week I was brought in to work with a few other designers on a site to advertise a large estate auction in Moreland Hills, Ohio (a suburb of Cleveland).  The house is being sold by the founder of Kraftmaid Cabinetry, Richard Moodie, and the home is quite astounding.  It is estimated to have cost around 8 million dollars and it includes a swimming pool, guest house, movie theater (with a lobby), gym, and so on!

Here is the site:

http://www.casadekraftmaid.com/

Website is GO for Launch.

After a series of set-backs and creative slumps, my website portfolio is up an running at www.adrdesignonline.com

I will probably continue to tweak it in the coming days, as I hope to add some music to "what i've done" page, but please visit the site and look around.

And, while we're on the topic of creative slumps, here's an article that helped me out a bit:
Beat (even the Worst) Creative Blocks
Maybe it can help you too!

Neglected blog and new fonts!

To my readers:

I apologize for not giving you anything to read or look at for over a month.  I plan to be back on a regular basis from here on out. 

Thank you,
Adam


Here is something that I find interesting that you may or may not.  The types of fonts available to use on the web have always been very limited, but thanks to Adobe and TypeKit, there are lots of Adobe's sweet fonts now available for use on the web, like Myriad (Adobe's standard sans-serif font, equivalent to Arial), Minion (their serif equivalent), Rosewood (if you're planning on designing a website for a wild west saloon), and some cursive-like scripts for fancy schmancy sites.  Here's the link:  http://blog.typekit.com/2010/08/16/typekit-and-adobe/  or just click the picture below.

Be back soon, I promise!