cmyplay

As an introduction to fully-fledged WordPress design and coding from start to finish, I’m glad that I had the Etiket website to practice with. I managed to overcome a number of technical hurdles, not least of which was creating separate sections that are automatically updated according to how a post is categorized.

The design evolved as a reversal of the style of the Voluma.tv* site created by my colleague, Jaco van Der Walt. I set about using elements of the design and applied them to the 960 Grid System. The Grid System is incredibly useful as a framework for constructing layouts.

The work that I put in on this site has helped us win new work for a number of companies. It turns out that they’re all looking for similar solutions for their online presences.

I haven’t been happy with the cases on offer for the iPhone 4 so far. They’re either terrible imitations of Apple’s official bumper cases (which aren’t available in South Africa yet) or they’re the incredibly ostentatious Ed Hardy silicon condoms that refuses to leave your pocket.

We’ve recently had some vinyl decals made for the office and I really enjoyed the vinyl solutions I’ve seen floating around for the iPhone 4. Instead of making yet another internet purchase, I thought I should try my hand at making my own.

What you see here is two early examples of the end results. I’ve made the obligatory reference to the greatest television show of all time alongside the appropriation of a previous piece of my illustrative work.

The printing wasn’t perfect on these prototypes and I’m not completely pleased with the die-cuts, but I’m very excited about these pieces. Let’s see if they’re going to show up in the cmyplayStore.

These form part of an internal branding project for Etiket. Each designer needs to produce 3 A3 poster designs that are to be featured in a studio exhibition.

It’s tough to find the time to produce these, especially if they aren’t specifically briefed into the production pipeline. Nonetheless I enjoyed working on these more than some of the other work I’ve done over the past few months.

I repurposed the Hard-drives illustration as both an iPhone background and as a badge design. The badge was submitted to Net#work BBDO as part of the Visi Covet promotion at the Loerie Awards 2010 earlier this month. I’m pretty disappointed that I didn’t see the end product.

Starting work at Etiket in May has left me with very little time to contribute to cmyplay. Thanks to a guest post over at Miss Moss, my fires of self-expression are now rekindled.

One of the earlier projects that I worked on was a pair of TV spots for the Rapport newspaper. It was pretty hectic, like most AV deadlines tend to be. The 60 second spot was a week and a half of team effort from most of the designers at the office. This 30 second spot was completed afterwards, primarily by myself, over the course of a week. I have a new appreciation for the flexibility of Particle Playground.

Hospitality Marketing hope to offer smaller B&B’s, Guesthouses and Hospitality business a range of online solutions for their logistical business operations. I’ve been doing many website designs over the last few months, but this is a design that takes it’s direction from very pragmatic needs.

The site is geared towards being open, clean and easy to navigate while also demanding the viewer’s attention. The logo is done in a style that is more natural and photorealistic than I am used to creating.

I had fun creating the contact form because it gave me the opportunity to further explore the style put forth in the logo. I also like how practical it is to have a contact form directly on the landing page while not dominating the layout.