Parchment Post
Parchment Post curates the work of diverse designers and illustrators to deliver high-end greeting cards and stationery to subscribers’ mailboxes. We constructed their beautifully simple site based on Darling Studio‘s elegant layouts, and provided basic training to the Parchment Pressers on operating, editing, and updating it.
YA author Rae Mariz worked with Utopian.net to design a site that brings together her interests, writing projects, and prophecies. A WordPress base makes the content easy to update, and a custom theme presents visitors with a sample of the Mariz sensibility and style. With her latest book The Unidentified drawing praise from Cory Doctorow, Danah Boyd, and others, and with a new novel in the homestretch, Rae Mariz is a writer to keep an eye on, and her site is just the place to do it.
Writer Rae Mariz
Well-known commercial illustrator/designer Von Glitschka is a longtime client and occasional collaborator of Utopian.net. Von and freelancing friends Dickie Adams and Kristen Fischer gather every couple of weeks to record a new edition of The Freelance Radio Show, a podcast “dedicated to helping self-employed professionals and contractors navigate the ups and downs of being in business for themselves.”
We helped the show with a light theme customization and hosting, opening the new digs for business in February, 2011. Tune in for wisdom, tips, and advice of, by, and for seasoned freelance creatives twice every month.
The Freelance Radio Show
Do What You Love for Life e-Courses
Yorkshire’s Beth Nicholls is a creative adventurer, and in her e-courses she delivers “tools and inspiration to help you do what you love, for life.” Utopian.net built the architecture and code to implement another Darling visual design for Beth’s Do What You Love for Life e-courses, including the surrounding site, social features, and simple authentication for enrollees.
Character modeler Chad Colebank launched a new site for his Tweeterhead sales & news in late 2010. Utopian.net built the content framework based on a design by Darling Studio, incorporating newsletter subscriptions and other social features. Tweeterhead offers character models from the sexy to the stunning to the scary.
The visual concept presented to us by Christine Mason Miller and Darling Design for Christine’s renovated personal site was a fun challenge to work into a WordPress base that lets Christine keep us all up to date on her creative life and passionate pursuits. Utopian.net delivered this project and launched Christine’s new site in the second half of 2010.
The new ChristineMasonMiller.com
Iris Photography's new Darling/Utopian site
Magazine, event, and wedding photographers Iris Photography sought a look-and-feel rebuild for their portfolio site as well as a streamlined content management backend so they could update more easily. We constructed a custom theme based on the crisp template provided by collaborator Darling Design, integrated plugins and software to add features and functions to the new site, and delivered the finished product early in September 2010.
Chosen as the picture-snappers for TIME Magazine’s Most Influential 100 Gala and official portraits for the 2010 New York Mets, Iris has plenty to show off, and a site built to do just that.
Scott Hull Associates
Scott Hull Associates first called on us nearly two years ago for the construction of a multi-artist, multi-author site highlighting their respected agency. When the time had come to rethink, refine, and reinvent the site’s visuals, Scott rang again.
Bringing us together once more with Penelope Dullaghan, a frequent collaborator and popular editorial artist from Scott’s stellar stable, the project called for a design that would maintain a similar feel in a simpler, cleaner, and more concentrated form. Penelope delivered a layout we were as excited to develop as Scott and company were to green-light. We added some clever programming on a tag-based quick search feature that prospective Scott Hull customers can use to sample the styles, manners, and methods of the illustrators Scott represents.
The new site puts a honed focus on the work Scott’s team of talents produces for a diverse group of clients — from Jamie Oliver Magazine spreads to award-winning Starbucks campaigns, from the mural helping set the mood for your meal at Panera to Cincinnati’s Great American Ballpark.