My website for the uber-cool clothing company Brat & Suzie has been featured in Designrfix’s 50 well designed ecommerce sites.
The website was built using the open source ecommerce platform Magento.
You have found the 10,758,459th best blog on the internet, well done! It is pretty sparse at the moment but it will soon fill up with my inane ramblings. I'll be posting on all sorts of interesting things like web design and development, 80s high school movies, things wot I have done at the weekend and the general pointlessness of life. Enjoy!
More shameless self promotion
12/05/2009
I have been extremely slack updating this blog since I wound down the freelance stuff and started working full time a few months ago, so imagine my surprise when I logged in today and found I had 365 comments awaiting moderation – most of them spam. Why would the spam bots be bothering with little old me? My intrigue roused, I checked Google Analytics to discover this site had been included in a Smashing Magazine article!! – Ultimate Guide to Using WordPress as a Portfolio . Thank you Smashing – I am officially chuffed (if drowning in spam).
PS. I was also pleased to find another of my sites, Brat and Suzie has been included on Vandaley Design’s blog. Cheers guys.
My first album sleeve!
07/01/2009
I was recently approached by a local band who wanted me to come up with a sleeve design for their first EP. Their music is a mixture of blues and country and the band wanted this reflected in a “western look” for the artwork.
I started off thinking along the lines of a faded, old-west style “wanted” poster but this quickly evolved into a much darker, monotone design inspired by the title cards of silent movies.
Seeing as most of my design work to date has been web-based it made a nice change to have a crack at designing for print, although working at such a high resolution took some getting used to. For instance, I found putting together the background took a lot longer than creating a website background as it meant stiching together lots of different paper textures and masking the joins.
Still, as a first foray into print design I’m quite pleased with the results. Let me know what you think.
Here’s the front cover…
And here’s the back:
lawrencenaman.com on CSS Mania
22/10/2008
Just a quick post to say lawrencenaman.com is being featured on CSS Mania. Check it out and if you are so inclined, rate the site.
Hello World (I’m an optimist)
16/10/2008
Hello there! Welcome to the lawrencenaman.com 1.1 – now based on WordPress. I’ve spent the last few days knee-deep in WordPress templates creating this theme which I have catchily named "Slighty Rusted, Scratchy Metal With a Big Blue Bar Running Across the Top".
I’ve used the as-American-as-obesity colours: red white and blue in a faded and distressed design to evoke my disappointment in the negative US election campaigns run by Obama and McCain and to reflect the USA’s status as a fading Superpower. In fact, none of that is true – like an inverse Nicky Hambleton-Jones, I just enjoy making things look old. I was actually inspired by this.
Anyway, this is my new e-home and I’ll be mostly using it as a showcase for my web work and for posting hard-hitting, thought-provoking and challenging blogs, such as: "Why Chevy Chase was funnier than Bill Murray", "Who would win in a fight between The Thing and The Hulk?" and "Peace in the Middle East – Achievable in Our Lifetime? No." Enjoy!
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