Charlie | Web Design Columbia MO

Things that didn’t make it into my portfolio and/or to a finalized project, but were still a ton of fun.

Some sketches I came across from various projects.

I need to make an iPhone app, so I signed up for an iOS design crash course. This is pretty hard stuff (for me) but I’m making it easier on myself by making an infographic about iOS programming as I go. I find that it forces me to learn it by designing an explanation that [...]

Web security is a very big deal, whether you like it or not. As some of you might be aware, I subscribe to a geopolitical forecasting publication called Stratfor. It was recently pwned by Anonymous Antisec hacktivists. The hacktivists obtained and revealed usernames, passwords, credit card numbers and addresses of thousands of members in the [...]

One of the coolest things about my job in recent years has been the addition of student staff. I generally have a handful of students: convergence or broadcast journalism, graphic design, computer science and Information Technology. Apart from having someone young around to show me the latest cat video on YouTube, it’s really refreshing to [...]

I love the Apple Magic Mouse. It makes browsing the web and documents a breeze. However, the slightest misplaced touch to the mouse while in Illustrator or InDesign and poof — you’re taken via unstable wormhole to a different quadrant of your artboard. I searched for a simple solution that does this: If I open [...]

When CoMo Realty approached me about a realty logo, I was really excited to take a new look at an old profession. One of the things that I noticed in my early research on the project is that all of these logos are old — predating the web and the use of online maps which [...]

Just a small logo project but a fabulous story. Glenn’s Cafe of Boonville, Missouri contacted me about tracing their logo.  This is a pretty simple project — just a couple of hours to trace, check, and save in the appropriate formats. As it turns out, my neighbor’s father (a signmaker) actually made this sign years [...]

Ahh, okay, you’re interested in becoming a designer? Well, in the same way that knowing MS Word doesn’t make one a successful writer, good design is 3% software and 87% design and communication discipline, and 10% business. So what I would recommend to someone interested in design, is to get a BA in Graphic Design and [...]

Dear Sir, I am opening a restaurant in China and I need you help to create the restaurant logo. The logo should conveny a young, funny and affordable image. The logo should show our offer: pasta, wine, coffee, cocktails, steaks, milkshakes… I thought to use a snail (one symbol of France) for the logo. The [...]

The first step in any logo is research — one piece of which involves looking at competitors. In developing a logo for a new local realty company, here’s what I discovered in my initial research of their competitors. Colors Certain colors are already “taken” in the realtor market. These colors include: HOB – red, peach [...]

Illustrative Logo for ecopave LLC based in Columbia, Missouri

Illustrative logo for the Academy of Early Childhood Learning in Columbia, Missouri

Illustrative logo for a social media consultant

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Website Design for Accreditation Readiness

This is a request that almost every designer has to address at some point, almost weekly, when you work directly with the public.