Lawrence Naman - Web Designer/Developer

Brat & Suzie – “one of the best e-commerce websites”

Larry — Sat, 15 May 2010 14:14:48 +0000

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.

More shameless self promotion

Larry — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:19:49 +0000

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!

Larry — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:20:13 +0000

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

Larry — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:07:35 +0000

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)

Larry — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:57:00 +0000

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!