Submission for a site re-design competition for J.U.I.C.E sponsored by cut&paste and SCION.

This is one of my earlier assignments as a Creative Developer at space150. I was responsible for creating the sub pages for the version 20 website based on the homepage and version identity handed off to me by the designer. After the pages were approved, I assisted in slicing up assets to handoff to the Creative Tech for the front end production.

I took on the role of designer for this class project my senior year at MCAD. Garrick, who runs the Minneapolis based weblog for the interactive community, gave the class a mission: redesign my blog. As a team, the class needed to present a more effective layout for the blog that improved the overall visual appearance and organization of information. I took on the role of information architect, designer and developer. MNteractive currently had no obvious navigation and a bunch of tag data displayed in a long list on the left of the page. We proposed this design as a more compact and cleaner, clearer presentation of information. The top image is a first round design file I created. The bottom is a html/css file. I used the posts from MNteractive at the date of this project for this layout. This design was not applied to the actual blog, it was only a proposal.



As the designer for this project, my teammates and I researched similar blogs and looked at a few popular blogs (like boingboing,net and laughingsquid.com) and agreed on a clean, minimal, main-content-left-aligned design. The tags in this redesign are organized into tag clouds to promote relevance through hierarchy. This design keeps the majority of the site's information above the break. With the apparent navigation and sidebar, the user knows where s/he can go on the site and what they can find when visiting.

I built this site for local artist and MCAD alumni Kyle Hermanson. The gallery has a CMS built with PHP using a MySQL database. Kyle wanted a site that he could update without needing much knowledge of HTML. The design is minimal to focus attention to the artwork in compliance to Kyle's request.



This site started as a way for me to learn PHP in my Organizing Data course as a student at MCAD. I took on this project for Kyle as a service and means for me to build my portfolio and technical skills. I did not complete this project and it did not go live.