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Lake Park Lutheran – website redesign

admin — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:14:23 +0000

I had worked with Lake Park Lutheran church staff in the past to help with updating & training on their previous site when the web person had moved on. It had become clear that their old website template wasn’t an accurate depiction of the community at Lake Park Lutheran (For one, the main header image was a picture of half dead trees. Which quickly became a funny inside joke around the church office), and that they would need to upgrade to a custom website.

The end result allows for much more flexibility and gives a much more welcoming feel (especially more welcoming than the dead tree photo ) All areas of the church’s website are editable by the staff, and training was provided before the site launch. Also having multiple site editors/administrators has helped them to keep the site alive and up-to-date.

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Milwaukee Ale House

admin — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 06:49:15 +0000

One of my favorite local destinations, the Milwaukee Ale House, was looking to have more control of their website. With the amount of content their site needed to cover, the site really needed to have a flexible but focused structure of information. The Milwaukee Ale House website redesign was completed with a fully customized wordpress with plenty of templates to fit the content.

Fresh off a readers choice win of “best live music venue” in Milwaukee it was important to focus on the live music area of the new site. Since the Ale House provides home for lots of live music at both Ale House locations, having a way to filter events by location, but also allow users to easily see if their favorite band was playing at either location were both equally important. Each event now has it’s own detail page with photos, videos, links, etc. so that the band can easily promote the show by linking to the show page itself. By entering a band genre(s), the site also recommends bands on the schedule that are similar in sound, allowing the user to potentially find another reason to come back to the Ale House again.

Finally, being a restaurant, live music venue and micro-brewery with two locations (three if you count their newly expanded brewing/bottling location), it was important to have a functioning mobile version of the site, so visitors could easily look up directions, menu, phone number, (etc) if they were on the go.

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playing drums for Emily White

admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:53:11 +0000

One day i got an email via facebook asking if i would play the drums on the main stage at milwaukee’s pridefest. Of course i agreed and met Emily White shortly after, when she dropped off two CDs for me to practice with. After a quick “talk through” of the songs the morning before going on stage, this was our first official time playing together as a trio. the following video is a collection of raw video captured by the official Pridefest videographer (and my good friend) Jessica Janiuk. And i would be that girl drummer making all the strange faces while playing (and ps, go check out Emily White’s music. she is very talented and a joy to play music with)

on the porch – photo shoot

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:46:23 +0000

on the porch is a milwaukee based band that was just starting off and came to me for a poster and cd cover layout design. in order to do these two design projects, i also put together a quick photo shoot so the band had some high quality images to use for their marketing materials. here are a few shots from that.

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walkers point photoWalk – photography & photo editing

admin — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:36:32 +0000

the cream city milwaukee group on flickr.com has a photowalk every month. in may 2008 the walk was through the walker’s point neighborhood here in milwaukee. here are some of my pictures from that photo walk. some pictures are more heavily manipulated with photoshop (including some HDR photography). to see more of my photos from that walk, take a look over here.

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divine word lutheran – website design

admin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:24:51 +0000

the goal for this website was to create something that could be very easily updated. so i set up the whole site on wordpress, and gave pastor gaeta the login information and let her go to town with adding content. i also created a flickr account to make it easy for anyone to upload more pictures.

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divine word lutheran – logo design

admin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:15:39 +0000

after joining divine word lutheran church, i was quickly put to work with helping out. one of the first projects was a logo design. after several other ideas, this design was created using an actual small communion glass from the church that is used every week. one of aspects that stood out to me about this church (and one of the main reasons for joining) was the strong sense of community. in a very diverse congregation, in a very diverse area of the city, the community remains one of the key elements of this church body. another goal of the logo design was to illustrate the “traditional” and the “new” coinciding together in harmony. also it was my distinct goal to stay away from any form of cross, for many reasons. but the main reason is because many of the church members and visitors have been hurt by, discriminated against, or just plain rejected by Christians and people who claim to be Christian. divine word lutheran is a much different church, and needed to be represented as such.

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miltown kings – website design

admin — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:04:46 +0000

the miltown kings are a drag king troupe here in milwaukee. their website was very out of date and not very user friendly to update. since most of the “kings” had full time jobs and were not web programmers, they needed a website that could fit around them. also, through getting to know them personally, i learned how much deeper the troupe’s passion was. the drag kings had plenty of fun, but were serious about social justice and raising awareness for a wide variety of causes and organizations. this website includes space for all of those aspects, as well as an easy to use “back end” so that anyone can update the website. i also had the opportunity to be the official photographer for one of their shows. (those photos can be found here.)

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metaFour jazz – concert posters

admin — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:44:16 +0000

these are just two examples of our jazz quartet’s upcoming gig posters. i always make them in two sizes: larger ones to hang up places, and smaller quarter page handouts to give to people.

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westminster presbyterian church logo

admin — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:22:43 +0000

a logo design for a small church on the east side of milwaukee. logo is created using the actual stained glass window of the church. focus on the play between traditional and contemporary was very important here.

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