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.
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
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
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.
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.
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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