Sometimes a client has a great foundation for an idea. Something so simple, it requires very little imagination. This was one of those projects – I knew as soon as I heard what I wanted to convey. Result – clean, crisp design – almost effortless. How do you not love that? Well, unless you don’t [...]

I attended my first “Geek Dinner” last night in Appleton, WI. There were ten people present from several different technological disciplines. As we consumed mass quantities, we discussed the state of Tech in Wisconsin, and what could be done to improve the states profile as being a world leader on this front (thirty years ago [...]

Creating captivating visuals for newsprint is challenging considering colors never seem to pop on newsprint like they do on paper or web. Even these web versions don’t quite capture the vivid color as these are jpegs (which are notorious for washing out color). No matter, you’ll get the general idea – the client asked for [...]

After two months planning and coding into the wee hours of the night, in our free time no less, we now present to you this labor of love, Citizen Wausau web design. Special thanks to my friends Andy Laub and Dino Corvino. Andy agreed to take on the role of Creative Director and Dino as [...]

This is indeed a first for me – After designing a website for our client in Santa Barbara, they called last week to say they’d like to have a translation of the site to Spanish. While I was at it, I dressed it up a the original web design a bit. I think it came [...]

Just wanted to call you attention to the new splash page we’re using for Citizen Wausau. In case you’re just joining us, Citizen Wausau is a new online blog for people of the Central Wisconsin area. There’ll be news, commentary, coverage of area events and what’s even more interesting, the ability to create your own [...]

Our client has given us one of the highest of compliments – they’ve asked us to refresh their website with a completly new web design! Not only did we give her a refreshed look and feel, but we also included a number of upgrades such as a content management system, a java-scripted search engine, a [...]

Every once in a while, I get requests to help with landing pages for commercial emailers. It’s always of interest to me to see how people react to these pages, for example, do they sign up be because it’s a pretty site? Would they be more inclined to sign up if the page had a [...]

Announcing the opening of Citizen Desk – Wausau’s very own co-working space. We’re in high gear preparing the workspace with new desks, fresh paint and all kinds of niceties — see for yourself at Washington Square, 300 Third Street suite 400, Wausau. Our space is on the fourth floor overlooking Downtown Wausau and Rib Mountain. [...]

One of my oldest clients asked if we could create a campaign for their fund raiser- we had free reign to develop the event name, logo, website and branding. We also developed a mailer, advertising and wrote some copy in conjunction with one of our favorite partners in Santa Barbara. This is the kind of [...]