Where I discuss what I’ve been doing, why I’ve been doing it, and perhaps how I’ve been feeling about it.
Six weeks of intensive work culminated yesterday in the launch of the new Next American City online presence. The launch coincides with the first issue of their completely-redesigned magazine and fresh new identity (courtesy of art director Keith Webb.) This was one of the more comprehensive sites I’ve been charged with as of late –– involving lots of data migration, a whole new CMS, an ad server, and more — and I’m very happy with the results. They’ve moved from using a barely-working, “custom-built” content management system with an appended WordPress blog, to a unified, extensible publishing system using ExpressionEngine that will serve the magazine well into the future. Good times were had, and they are a fine bunch. Go subscribe.
Other stuff that’s been keeping me busy …
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Given that I’ve been steeped, as it were, in the world of independent music for most of my life — both in playing in bands and being part of an independent record label — much of my design work has traditionally been centred in this world. Over the past five years I’ve probably designed and built a dozen or so web sites for touring bands, and the one knife in my brain every time is finding an easy-to-implement, easy-to-use system for managing shows and tours on these sites.
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In addition to the new round of work I’ve added to the site in the overhaul, I’ve been busying myself with other projects big and small. In an effort to fill space, I will mention a few of them.
Looking back to the spring, for the third year in a row I was responsible for the printed materials for the Run for Rights (which I unfortunately had to miss participating in), a 10 kilometre fund-raising run held in Winnipeg every June. It was this run last year that got me interested in running on regular basis. Ruth bought me a nice pair of New Balance’s for my birthday, and I bought some track pants. That was June of 2006. Last week I used them for the first time – 30 minutes first thing in the morning. I came home feeling like death and my legs were wrecked for days. (keep reading)
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Amphibian has — without fail — provided me with timely, well thought-out work and advice on at least 3 of my own projects. I’ve referred at least that many clients to Amphibian so that they too could benefit from Derek’s expertise, top-quality work and attention to detail. With Derek, the lines of communication are always open and the work is always on-time.
Jason Rosenberg, Owner
Red Alert Visuals
