AlbinoMosquito is alive.

The website I’ve designed and built for AlbinoMosquito is now live and ready to great you with a big smiley face.

AlbinoMosquito™ are a leading force in providing creative visual solutions to everything from music videos to gigs to corporate events.

Their background:
Albino Mosquito is a visual arts collective which was started in Manchester (UK) 2002. Founders Richard Ramchurn (painter), Rachel Livingstone (sculptor) and Jonathon McGrath (playwright) set up AlbinoMosquito as a series of exhibitions to showcase Manchester artists. People moved on, followed their own career path. Richard kept the name alive by VJing, directing music videos and running an electronica night. In early 2010 Mauro Camal joined forces to relaunch AlbinoMosquito as a fully fledged production company.

You can visit their website and stuff here: AlbinoMosquito.com

Your Opinion, Sir? v.1.5

Hello all. I’ve been on something of a nostalgia trip of late and at the weekend I decided that it was time…

for my music / film / tv reviewing-ness website Your Opinion, Sir? to get a fresh lick of xhtml / css / wordpress-y paint.

So, in short, I’ve taken all my old reviews I wrote (and some that others wrote) from my 2005/6 website named eatmycheeseplease.co.uk and I’ve placed them (actually – not all, as yet) on Your Opinion, Sir? for your viewing reading pleasure… should you have time to read 100+ reviews written about music and film from a few years ago.

The website now makes use of the WordPress the_excerpt tag, so there’s several reviews per page now, with the option to read more and comment.

Go check it out! Your Opinion, Sir? Version 1.5

This is the Portfolio

What I did:

• Logo
• Design
• XHTML / CSS3
• WordPress
• jQuery

Full portfolio

Ace Things: Cypher13.

Sex sells. Even veraciously homoerotic tongue in-cheek-cheek sex. This post is a quick love letter to Cypher13, a design team who aren’t afraid to let it all hang out.

As a web designer chap, I spend as much time as I can find looking around the internet eating up all the coolizt things the internet can muster. Today, the web-gods have blessed mine eyes with Cypher13; a design-agency team based in Colorado, USA.

They say:

We recognize the opportunity for communication that we’ve created and with it the inherent responsibility. From this responsibility stems a commitment to enrich culture through the creation and execution of our work.

What’s interesting about Cypher13 is their originality. For me, the ‘agencies’ – if they wouldn’t be insulted by being called that – that are truly great aren’t the ones who are falling over themselves to be what they think the client wants them to be, they’re the guys who strip down to their matching y-fronts and hold hands. Perhaps throwing in a suggestive lip-lick.

So, Cypher13 I salute you, your design work, and your rather fetching monochromatic homoeroticism.

AlbinoMosquito

Hello one and all. I’m currently knee-deep in design-ness whilst working on a website design and build for a AlbinoMosquito.

AlbinoMosquito are a collective which provide creative visual solutions in the Manchester area.

The website will include the WordPress CMS which will allow for the client to update their website with the latest news, projects and videos.

Once the website is live, you will be able to browse the thing here: www.albinomosquito.com.

This is the Portfolio

What I did:

• Logo
• Design
• XHTML / CSS
• WordPress

Full portfolio

This is the Portfolio

What I did:

• Logo
• Design
• XHTML / CSS
• WordPress
• PHP / MySQL
• jQuery

Full portfolio

Working on... Alicehorton.com

I’m currently working with an Manchester based Illustrator named Alice Horton designing and building her online portfolio. As we’ve got lots of other things to do currently, I’ve no idea when it will be finished.

As mentioned, Alice is a Manchester based freelance Illustrator who demonstrates a variety of different styles and is experienced in a range of commissions; including Amnesty International, various Art magazines and promotional work for Manchester bands. Her work is also quite ace.

But anyroad, as I’m a fan of Alice’s style and level of perfectionism, I’ll work with her until we’re both happy with the website. On a geeky note, the site will feature a nice gallery section making use of the nice WordPress custom fields / metadata functions.

Note: I’m pretty sure the logo and the background image will be changed at some point.

As a special treat, you can see the website in progress here: www.alicehorton.com.

Bernisson France - Now Live

The website I designed and built for Bernisson France – that picturesque 7 bedroomed home in France (who’s have guessed) is now live and available through a link somewhere on this page.

Bernisson France intro:

Bernisson is a 7 bedroomed property that can also be split into 2 seperate houses as 3 and 4 bedroomed self-contained accommodation. Bernisson is located 2kms from the beautiful Bastide town of Monsegur which is just inside the borders of the Gironde and close to the Dordogne and the Lot et Garonne, just 15 minutes from the Autoroute and an hour to Bordeaux Airport or 40 mins from Bergerac Airport.

The website uses all the usual suspects; XHTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, WordPress and Flash. It also has a nice little Feedback page to leave nice comments.

Have a browse of the website here – www.bernisson-france.co.uk.

What's Your Problem?

This past week I have been redesigning and rebuilding an old website that I made called What’s Your Problem? It is now live for you to play with.

What’s Your Problem? is an experimental and irreverent website I have made whose purpose is to provide random diagnosis to the mental-ailments of the user.

It’s my hope that people will maybe enjoy the surreal humour of the random diagnoses and decide to have a go at writing their own, which they can do by using the ‘Write Your Own Diagnosis’ form.

The website makes use of the WordPress commenting capabilities and blends them into a custom PHP / MySQL random call out. JQuery was used to add a bit of interest to the sliding diagnoses, and CSS3 was used to style them.

I decided to base the design of the website on a typical 1970s theme, beards and all. I’m not 100% sure why.

You can view the website and receive a free diagnosis by clicking here.