portfolio
Rosenfeld Media
2006 – Ongoing
Rosenfeld Media is a newish publishing company with fresh ideas for the User Experience industry. Bright Creative has been directly involved from the very start, doing everything from designing the corporate visual identity and printed materials to designing and developing multiple web properties.
One of the highlights of the Rosenfeld Media site is the multiple weblogs for signed authors, which allow them to communicate with their potential audience before, during, and after the writing process.
SlideShowPro Icons
2008
Design maestro and sometime collaborator Todd Dominey sells a popular Flash gallery component called SlideShowPro. Bright Creative was contracted to create an icon expansion pack for gallery UI controls.
Each was built in greyscale at two sizes, with transparent areas that allow adaptation to various colour schemes. This icon set is the second in a series of expansion packs, in good company alongside the first by Jon Hicks of Firefox fame.
Sprungg Site Design
2007
Sprungg was an ambitious project that aimed to track trends as they spread across the globe, and create a “cool index” as users spotted or set trends of their own. Bright Creative was brought in to design the site and branding, and provide interaction and site architecture advice.
Bright Creative’s work featured a bold organic design intended to complement the eclectic nature of the site’s content, along with a header trend collage that changed over time. (site since changed)
CityFile Site Design
2007
Bright Creative was brought in to avert an outsourcing crisis with this mini–project in mid–2007.
Though the work performed was a simple graphic refresh of pre-existing templates, the result was a more professional design that tightly integrated with the existing content and branding. (site offline)
Google Page Creator
2005
Google Page Creator is one of the search engine giant’s many non-search offerings. Launched in late 2005, Bright Creative developed a web templating system and worked with contractors Cameron Moll and Veerle Pieters to produce a series of flexible, good-looking designs that would adapt to the many needs of Pages’ users.
Each of five base design treatments received five colour variations, five layout variations, and five typographic treatments, resulting in a total of 625 possible design configurations.
Various Logos
Ongoing
But it’s not all web, all the time. Bright Creative has also been involved in designing multiple company and product identities and logos over the years. Here’s a sampling.
For more illustration work by Dave Shea, make sure to see the Chalkwork royalty-free stock icon collection over at mezzoblue.
Proto Software Site Design
2005
Proto Software produces a financial data visualization application. Bright Creative was hired to build their first public-facing web site, as well as advanced features for logged-in users.
Part of the project involved taking an existing logo and typeface and extending it to create a more complete brand identity for the site.(site since changed)
Blogger Templates
2004
For their big 2004 Blogger relaunch, Google contracted a number of well-known visual designers (through San Francisco-based Stopdesign) to create new default blog templates.
Alongside some of the best in the business, folks like Douglas Bowman, Dan Cederholm, Todd Dominey, Dan Rubin, and Jeffrey Zeldman, Bright Creative’s contribution included three variations on a theme, dubbed Snapshot Madder, Sable, and Tequila. Four years later and they’re still showing up all over the web!
New York University Intranet
2004
One of Bright Creative’s very first projects, New York University needed a redesign for their NYU Home school-wide intranet.
Working with the school’s IT and marketing departments to establish look and feel, heavy emphasis was placed on working within existing NYU branding guidelines.
Six Apart Mixed Media Templates
2004
The creators of the popular Movable Type and TypePad weblogging software approached Bright Creative to build a series of templates for the launch of a new mobile service.
Seven styles were designed, then coded to be compatible with five layout variations, for a total of 35 possible combinations. All this in two weeks. Hey, who needs sleep?