www.wostmann.com is the site I designed and coded in 2007 for Wostmann & Associates, Inc. This was a much more professional design than a sleek graphic design. The site was built primarily in PHP and some CSS elements, with a MySQL database backend. The top menu is the only DHTML/javascript element of the site. A backend CMS was developed so staff in Anchorage, Juneau, and elswhere can update their news items and project details. Wostmann & Associates is one of the largest private IT professional companies in Alaska and Alaska Grafix is proud to have designed their website.
Two poster designs I was comissioned to do for the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD) in 2005 to help promote Alaska’s new seat belt laws. These photoshopped posters were hung in Department of Motor Vehicle stations across the state.
A clipart series I designed for the Alaska State Legislature’s End of Session Press packet in 2004. The individual pieces were assigned to the pages of topics such as veteran’s benefits, fighting crime, education, resource development, government reform, etc.
The contreversial logo design for my funk/jazz band I played bass guitar for from 2004-2006, called “Satan’s Taint.” Yes, we had a lot of fun with the name. People didn’t know what to think. Most thought we were some heavy hard rock band and would come see us funk out or play Dave Brubeck. For the summer of 2005 we played at the Alaskan Bar every Tuesday for “Taint Tuesdays”. The T-Shirts were very popular and I still have some available at satanstaint.com.
A poster design I did for some friends of mine’s band, Dag Nabbit, for their Halloween show in 2003. It was a quicky last minute thing, but a fun project. I guess I was really doing the music scene in the early 2000s.
“False Feeling of Freedom” was the title of the only album produced from the band Contra Public, which I played bass guitar for from 2001-2004. This was the CD cover and booklet design I put together for the album. The design is a little retro by today’s standards with only using basic Photoshop filter effects. You can read more about the band at at the Rock Alaska Records site, and you can still buy the CD at CD Baby.
www.housemajority.org is the website I designed and coded in 2003 with the start of the 23rd Alaska State Legislature, for the Alaska House Majority Caucus, and have maintained and developed the site since it’s creation. The site contains bill tracking & revisions, search features, news items, polls & surveys, archives and Representative bios & committees. This site also utilizes some aspect of almost every web design element available including HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Ajax, Java, CGI, CMS, SEO, PDF, Flash. The file size for the whole site is over 3GB.
One of my first photo “enhancements” in 2000 using some 3D elements, 6 different photos, including the bear taken while in Denali, with some lighting and brush effects in Photoshop 4.6 (before the History panel).
There was a time when pen & paper were used to do illustration by hand. Here are a few pages from my senior college report on illustration techniques using perspective, shadows & reflection.
