Adventures In Freelancing -- Part II

As I mentioned before, Steve is a pretty consistent source of clientele. This time, one of his roommates needed a website for a web series he is making entitled Arklay. It tells of the events leading up to a big zombie outbreak and the conspiracy behind its origin.

For the website, he wanted something very basic, and without any heavy navigation. The idea is that there are five key phrases, each with an accompanying video. There isn't any indicator of what phrases the videos are linked from, so the viewer has to search for the link amongst the cluster of crazed writing. As of right know there is only one video up (spoiler alert: you can watch it by clicking the not-so-subtle bloody words), and I'll be updating the site with the others as they are completed. You can visit the website by clicking here.

Fun fact: the bird in the Twitter icon on the bottom of the main page is undead (it has x-ed out eyes), but it ended up being so small you can't tell. What can I say, superfluous details are my bread and butter.

Adventures in Freelancing -- Part I

As I have mentioned before, I have been picking up some freelancing jobs here and there. Some of my contacts are local, but they are mostly people from L.A. because Steve is awesome and throws my name out to anyone who needs design work. One of his friends wanted me to design an identity for his massage therapy business, Modern Massage; this included making a logo, business cards, a letterhead and a website.

This is my immaculately trimmed thumbnail. Oh yeah, and his business card design (these are roughs I printed out on my computer and cut out myself, so the actual cards probably look better). Jade stone massage is one of the specialties at Modern Massage, so I only thought it would be appropriate to reflect that in the business card design.

This is the home page for his website, which you can visit by clicking here. Everything was designed to be simplistic and user-friendly as well as being consistent with the color scheme of the business card and letterhead. My favorite part: on the contact page, I made a facebook link button out of the same texture as the logo. I'm really proud of that for some reason. Don't judge me.

And finally, since my website was pretty janky-looking, I made a little 'Under Contruction' page to replace it. I mean, my website looked like it was made out of construction paper and masking tape, so I didn't want people to think it was a fluke that Modern Massage's came out looking pretty decent. It's not much, but you can click here to see it full size.

I have some other freelance projects I'm working on, but my main goal is to get my full website up and functioning withing the next few weeks. I'll let you know how that goes.