Penelope Illustration, 2010

Friend and frequent collaborator Penelope Dullaghan wanted a fresh, ever-simpler redux of her minimalist and popular personal/professional/portfolio site. With her elegant designs in hand, we developed a lightweight custom theme revision that sharpens the focus on Penelope’s prolific and varied work.

Sidelight: As mentioned on her blog, Penelope is the featured artist in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of Communication Arts magazine. Check out the interview and image collection in a bookshop near you!

You can sign up for hosting, request project quotes, get in touch, and learn about accessing and operating service features, as well as learn a little bit about the people and places behind our business.

Enjoy, and let us know what you think!

We’re sorry for the trouble, intent on resuming our excellent uptime record (even if we can’t recover the mathematical average for some time to come), and continuing to investigate not only the minor issue that was the original source of the problem, but also our contingency plans for dealing with problems of this kind at the rare times they do arise.

Thanks for your patience today while we got things working smoothly again.

[1] 2009 uptime for the relevant server(s) prior to today’s incident was 99.99% by our internal statistics, with a hasty and not yet thorough verification against sampled pingdom numbers having just been conducted. 0 minutes of downtime were recorded by pingdom during the preceding month, September 2009.

Kate's Latest Penguin Art

Kate Garchinsky’s design, illustration, and art works are front and center in her reorganization and visual redesign of her long-standing PenguinArt.com. With a look and feel from Kate’s drafting table atop a WordPress core and custom theme and plugin development by Utopian.net, the site presents work archives and personal projects, along with notes, tales, and updates on Kate’s blog.

VonGlitschka.com - Glitschka Studios/Utopian.net 2009

Von Glitschka raises the curtain over his Glitschka Studios site today, with a new design, new hosting, and a new platform for managing updates, edits, and uploads of Von’s latest exuberant and distinctive work. Renovated in collaboration with Utopian.net’s Brianna Privett, vonglitschka.com uses the open-source WordPress content engine with a Leitmotif custom theme. The new site will keep clients in the know about goings-on at the Studios, while minimizing maintenance to keep Von and Co. doing what they do best: creating inventive Illustrative Design for ad agencies, design firms, and corporate art departments.