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: : square·bones : : is all about customer service and customer satisfaction - I work personally with every one of my clients to meet their needs and make their ideas real - and most rely upon my judgement when it comes to the design of their work. Each project I undertake, each design I create, has to meet my personal level of satisfaction - it has to be as perfect as I can make it. And it has to make my clients happy. Fortunately, my clients make it easy to make them happy - a good design, attention to detail, timely service - professional and pleasing - they are all my hallmarks.

Let me show you what it is I can do for you.

graphic design

Graphic design is the primary service I provide to my customers, though I am better known locally for building web sites. However, I've finally decided to get out of the web site building business. Too many headaches, too many browsers, too many conflicting technologies. My aim is to return to my roots as a graphic designer for print or web, for advertising, for business identity, or any of a hundred other reasons that keeps me from banging my head on the Internet wall. I still want to keep my hand in where I can, creating useful web based applications using my programming skills, but I am going to leave the design work up to those who haven't yet learned better. As long as there are people in the world using Internet Exploder as their primary browser, I won't be designing web sites. For those customers I presently support, I will continue to give them good service on their sites, but I won't be taking on any new customers who want that kind of work done. From this point on, I am a graphic designer only. That said, let me tell you want I provide in the way of products needing my design skills:

• Logotypes : designing a logo is an art form and takes someone with experience in the print world to do it right. Honestly, I haven't designed many logos, but I understand the concept well enough to tackle the branding your company needs. And I know how to design it to work in any kind of application - clean, solid colors, not nit-picky graphics or complex gradients. Logos are all about simplicity of function and complexity of design that says something about your company. It is a symbol that represents the concept, the basic paradigm of the service a company provides its costumers.
• Brochures : they sell your services, they are ubiquitous, and many are plain dull. Why not present a document with full color graphics, photos, and well-laid content using a clean, professional design - ready for printing. Better than a business card, and capable of making the deals you want.
• Business Cards : sure you can order these on-line from various speciality web sites or even your local print shop, but there is nothing like a custom look to make you stand out from the crowd. Dont't be old - be bold! Take a chance with a unique design that will get you noticed.

advertising

Graphic design, web implementation, logotypes, brochures...it's all about marketing, and marketing depends a large part upon advertising. In many forms, subtle and gross, advertising pervades our lives, but as good or bad as they are, people remember them, they stick in their minds, they tickle their fancy, they get them humming jingles or laughing out loud. If you are going to spend money on advertising, at least spend it on a design with some longevity and with some kind of style. I can make your advertisements special and unique, for web, print, television, even radio (designing for radio is all about the words you choose).

ADVERTISING services I can produce are

• Printing : your business's best friend is advertising, and effective advertising is even better. Don't rely on just any old ad to sell your business, have something unique and attractive that catches the eye, an advertisement built to look good in print.
• Web Banner : put your business on the web with a well-designed banner - no running monkeys, or crazy animations, just eye-catching design that sells your business. Let me put your business on someone else's web site and bring their customers to your attention.
• Billboard : design is design, no matter how big the job or how small. Let us create a unique piece of artwork that tells a story about your business in bigger than life style.
• Telephone Directory : catch the eye of a potential customer with a professionally designed advertisement. Yellow is not the only color available to the creative mind.

web implementation

Though designing web sites has been my primary occupation, it has only been in the last few years that I have ventured into the world of web application programming using PHP, a popular programming language on the web. Using the power of PHP and MySQL (an open source database), I am able to empower sites to be dynamic and provide the tools necessary for the average user to change the content of the site at will. It is my belief that the power of the web should be at least in part in the hands of the common user, and not at the mercy of the web developer. To that end I have designed input forms that store their input in databases, and then applications that allow users to edit and delete that information as they see fit. A database alone has little power without an application behind it allowing access to its data and another providing the power to modify that data. That's where I come in. Invisible and powerful, the web application is the future of web design.

color correction and separation (pre-press production)

Pre-press is the brass-tacks of the print design field; knowing what colors to use for each application of the graphics, knowing how to spot colors that are out of gamut, and positively separating the colors so that what you see in the proof really will be what you get from the final product - not many businesses realize how important this step is when sending a job to a service bureau - avoid costly errors by doing it the right way the first time - hire a professional.

If you are interested in contracting my services for your design needs, or would like a quote on a project, drop me an e-mail.