DesignDivine Project Blog

Precision Plumbing - Concept Sketches for New Van Graphic

Three concepts – The Atlas, The Weightlifter & The Squirrels

To be used on the side of precision service vans. These will ulimately be composite photoshop images.

Completed Halcyon Graphic Standards Manual

We finished the Halcyon branding package, complete with logo, stationery, business cards and mini graphic standards manual.  We were shooting for a classic, professional look for this financial services company.

Final Logo Design

Logo for a local startup.  They were looking for a feminine design that incoproated a clover graphic.  I am quite pleased with the results.

There are no great solutions to any of these problems/limitations yet, just a series of hacks and work arounds …

CSS issues

• Multi-column layouts in CSS
• Vertically-centered content in CSS
• Active Links tag

Cross-browser compatibility issues

• Rounded corners
• Embedded fonts
• Rotated text
• PNG image files
• CSS Vertical Collapsing Margins
• Table Rowspan alignment
• ALT/title tags

Search Engine Readability Issues

• Ajax / Spry content
• Flash content
• Dynamic page URL naming

Designer Task Issues

• Hghlight current link/page in navigation
• Converting HTML table-layout site to CSS-layout site
• Thumnail galleries – cropping/aspect ratio matching
• Sub-domain RSS/XML security restrictions

Wish List

• Rounded corners!!!
• CSS/HTML dropshadow effect
• Simple fade effect for hover state
• Clean way to separate template from style from content