Web and Print Design Portfolio

Recordare / MusicXML
Logo design + design and development of a Drupal & Shopify eCommerce website, with a custom CakePHP Geolocator plugin for Shopify that offers up different products to specific regions around the world. The Shopify store also taps the Fetch plugin to facilitate the sale of downloadable products. Drupal and Shopify are bootstrapped together, providing a seamless transition between a powerful content management system and the store system. As part of this build, we completely reinvented Recordare's visual brand identity.

Pranamaya.com
Custom Magento eCommerce site featuring flash video players, detailed tabbed product descriptions, a powerful review engine and a completely unique design & product presentation.

4RFuture.com
An extremely custom online store featuring a great selection of natural and organic lifestyle products. We performed all aspects of this website build, from design to the store's programming and production.

Hanford Mead Publishers
A custom-designed idCommerce-based store for a Santa Cruz publisher. Apart from designing and building the site, we also built a custom API for idCommerce in order to share login credentials with Hanford Mead's sister site, SoulCollage.com

Smith & Vandiver
Smith & Vandiver came to us with a unique challenge: unify our 3 brands while designing and building a dynamic eCommerce and informational portal. The end result of an intensive 3-month project is a completely redesigned business identity for this nationally-acclaimed manufacturer of bath and body products.

Jomar Labs
A Magento Commerce build for a nutritional supplement manufacturer. Site designed by Erik Gundersen.

Children's Hospice
Custom-designed informational site which also features secure online donations and a robust osCommerce-backed store which drives their selling of bracelets. This site also features a handful of other administrative tools, which allow the staff to update many aspects of the site themselves.

The Ginger People
A totally-custom redesign of US version of their web store and informational website, backed by the Magento Commerce platform. Magento is a powerful new eCommerce platform that's still experiencing some growing pains, but with a lot of determination and a little bit of tequila we were able to bend the Magento platform to our will. Check it out before and after our redesign.

Forty Oaks Farm
An eCommerce site and corporate web presence for a startup business selling fresh bouquets of culinary herbs. We performed all aspects of design and programming for this very streamlined eCommerce environment.

SockSmith.com
Highly customized eCommerce site which we designed and built from the ground up.  This is the first implementaion of our next-generation IDcommerce ecommerce solution.  This site takes advantage of a revamped image and product handling framework which makes the administration and presentation of product easier and cleaner than ever before.

No Enemy Clothing
Custom-designed web store and CMS powered entirely by the Magento Commerce platform.

Think Local First Santa Cruz
Custom website design with custom-built Customer Relationship Management system to handle membership management and payment.

Arcangeli Grocery Company / Norm's Market
A full-featured eCommerce site powered by an extensively customized installation of osCommerce. We also shot all the product photos and designed all their gourmet food labels.

Simple Business Systems
Extensively customized osCommerce website, integrated with a subscription component, support forum and trouble ticket system.  We also provided  a complete corporate identity package, including logo design, business cards, letterhead & envelopes.

Walkabout Harnesses
Custom e-store for a manufacturer of custom-built harnesses for pets.

Heart O' The Mountain Winery
Custom design & photography and production of a rustic informational/commerce website for this allocation-only winery located at the historic Alfred Hitchcock estate in Scott's Valley, CA.

Jian
We completely redesigned the site's web presence while re-structuring the content and streamlining the information flow. Check out these before and after screenshots of the Jian.com homepage.

Davenport Roadhouse at the Cash Store
Website development, design consultation and implementation of a web-based Content Management System (CMS) and online booking system for this inn and restaurant on the north coast of Santa Cruz.

Aikane Surfwear
Highly-customized eCommerce integration of a radical design by cj design.

Beauregard Vineyards
Complete Custom eCommerce site design, Flash, Newsletter, music loops for homepage.

Sockshop and Shoe Co
eCommerce support and maintenance on an X-Cart- powered website.

Leroy Powell
Goofy flash site for a country music artist currently playing with Shooter Jennings. Sells downloadable music and photo albums via an osCommerce-based store.

Temple Beth El Aptos
Full site reconstruction and design, featuring online membership renewal, class registration secure donations.

Chardonnay.com
Rebuild and redesign of existing website, including a custom-built combined registration calendar and store

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SoulCollage
We leveraged Drupal to its fullest with this complete redesign and rebuild of the SoulCollage.com web presence. We took full advantage of the Views and CCK modules, alongside some custom-built modules, to create a miniature social network for the multiple groups of SoulCollage facilitators, then we tied the Drupal roles to an idCommerce-based store at hanfordmead.com-- a single login and profile for two completely separate websites.

PMG Technology Solutions
A WordPress-backed informational site for Physician's Medical Group designed to promote their e-Practice technology solutions for their vast group of doctors. We provided both design and development along with extensive print/branding design.

Community Connection
Custom design, logo design and a full-featured Drupal-backed website with a custom-built job board and a series of videos produced in collaboration with our partner, Nomad Productions.

Pacific Energy Sales
Design and development of a WordPress-backed informational website and hydronic heating resource center.

2RHealth
Custom designed theme + website production for a WordPress-backed site for a sustainable food business.

Price Landscaping
Custom designed theme & website production for a WordPress-backed site for a landscaping business in Napa/Sonoma.

Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center
We completely revamped the SC4 website, taking their old, static site and implementing a new look that complements their printed marketing materials. In rebuilding their site, we implemented an extensive content management system and a private staff resources back-end or intranet, where staff can login and see dozens of pages of additional materials on the website.

Warmboard
Complete site design and production with a full Content Management System. We also provide ongoing support and maintenance.

Hospice of Santa Cruz County
Site design and production, plus implementation of a donation script for Santa Cruz County's Hospice organization.

Okizu Foundation
Complete redesign of an existing website, plus implementation of an opensource content management system. Check it out before and after our redesign.

Allterra Environmental
A unique redesign and content management system for a progressive environmental sciences firm in Santa Cruz. We wanted to keep the design as simple as possible while leveraging powerful and unique large-format imagery, and the end result is a very modern, easy-to-use look that we're quite proud of.

Americorps / Corporation for National & Community Service
Design for Drupal skin for a resource portal used by Americorps to guide and organize volunteers. This site is a partner site to the Obama Administration's Serve.gov community service website.

D'la Colmena Market
Design and custom WordPress theme for a small community market in Watsonville.

Craig Blackwell, MD
Custom design and construction of a website with a web-based Content Management system for a Santa Cruz opthalmology practice.

Ridgeline Technology
Custom design and development of a WordPress-driven website for a manufacturer of ruggedized computer hardware. We built a custom WordPress plugin for this site that handles the product database, and the design also features original photography by John Benedetti.

Nagel Technologies
Site design and coding of a stylesheet and XHTML template.

Lighthouse Bank
Logo design/brand identity. We designed Lighthouse Bank's distinctive logo. We also provided design services and consultation for their website.

Yamamoto USA
Site design and construction for a Japanese printed circuit board manufacturer.

Casa Manzanillo
Visually-rich promotional website about an exotic hotel in Mainland Mexico, complete with client-maintained Flash slideshows and a full Content Management System.

Connell and Associates
Informational website for one of Mainland Mexico's premiere law firms. Available in English and Spanish and backed by a full-featured Content Management System.

Santa Cruz Surf School
Custom website design and construction, including a custom-built online registration calendar for their classes and summer camps.

Mentawai North / KC Travel
Custom website design and implementation of a flash photo gallery system for an Indonesian surf charter company.

Posada de los Raqueros
This is a good example of the kind of website we can produce for the hospitality industry. We shot all the photos, wrote most of the content, designed and then built every aspect of the site. If you look closely, you'll see photos of iluminada owner John Benedetti surfing the point out front of the inn.

Nadel Phelan
Custom design and development for a high-end Scotts Valley PR Firm

Bay Area Strategic Group
Custom website construction for a Bay Area business consulting group using a WordPress opensource Content Management System.

Cowell's Surf Shop
Photography, Design, Flash, E-Commerce

KelCore Fitness
Website design and photography + implementation of a web-based content management system for a personal trainer's site.

Hakes Sash and Door
We tore apart an aging Flash website and turned it into a search engine friendly W3C-compliant XHTML/CSS site.

Pure Audio
Site architecture, construction, maintenance and design assistance, Flash

Nature First Tree Care
Site design and production, Flash, photography; built in partnership with Emerald City Entertainment Group and Jeremy Gray.

Partnership for Parents
An offshoot of ChildrensHospice.org, this site is a detailed online resource guide for parents of seriously ill children. We designed the site and built the back-end around an extensively customized NucleusCMS software core.

PadresCompadres.org
The Partnership for Parents website, ported into Spanish.

Valley Heights
Website design, photography and production for a senior living community in Watsonville.

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Gina Gershon
We recently overhauled actress Gina Gershon's web presence while implementing a simple Content Management System that allows her to keep her site, fimography and press releases up-to-date. We also provide systems administration for her dedicated webserver and have set her up with a simple, inexpensive Shopify web store.

UCSC Wellness Center
A design-only project in partnership with Jabico Enterprises. We designed a new look and user interface for a Drupal-backed website.

Genome 10K
A custom Drupal skin designed and coded for an international scientific research project affilliated with UCSC.

University Affiliated Research Center, UCSC
Design, branding and website production + ongoing support for a research partnership between UCSC and the NASA Ames Research Center.

Nader Pourmand's Research Group
Custom design for a Bio Nano Tech research group at UCSC.

Leroy Powell
Simple site for a country music artist. Sells downloadable music and photo albums via an osCommerce-based store.

Jack Baskin School of Engineering, UCSC
Redesign of all division websites for the School of Engineering at UCSC.

UCSC Summer Session
We worked with Jabico Enterprises to design the look and feel for UC Summer Session site, which is powered by their Chameleon CMS Content Management System. This site was recently awarded Best Website honors at the Western Regional Conference in Hawaii.

UCSC Student Health Center
Redesign and reconstruction of the university's medical center site. We also provide ongoing web maintenance services for them.

UCSC Office of the Ombuds
Updated the look and code for one of UCSC's department sites, while trying to stick to the University's design requirements.  Also features some of our original photography.

Emerald City Entertainment Group
Site design, user-interface and html architecture for a local record label and music publishing business.

McCourt Studio
Artist website programming and site production from an existing design. Site redesign in progress.