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
Long-time Utopian.net hosters and friends from up north, Woodward Design, are in the midst of a site redesign to show off more of what makes their work so sought-after. We helped out with a light development project to transform the firm’s layouts and existing HTML into a WordPress theme for their new “Birdhouse” studio blog, launched last week. Amanda, Dana, Kristin and Anders will be using the easy-to-update space to give glimpses into the process that delivers such beautiful illustration, design, logo, and brand work to Woodward clients, and to provide interaction with fans and customers through comments, syndication, and other features built-in to WordPress at Utopian.net.
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Utopian.net Leitmotif provides complete WordPress themes matching the detailed designs of the artists we strive to serve. It got an official name and a mini-launch today, which you can see in the differences at the Utopian.net services page, and in the how-to documentation for creating your Leitmotif site design.