Website Design
And Development

Silent
Auction
Website

The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program needed an online forum for donors to place silent bids on ceramic platters during the run-up to their live fundraising event. Images of the works were posted online as they were completed, allowing the community to bid virtually on items before the event. This had the effect of creating pre-auction bidding wars, which elevated minimum bids and generated a sense of competitive anticipation for the live auction. Ultimately the project succeeded in making the experience more exciting for the participants and more profitable for the institution.

This art consulting firm works with clients from around the world and needed a website to showcase past clients’ collections and promote the firm’s latest ideas in a blog. To present their prestigious list of clients in an engaging format, the site design implements a dynamic map highlighting the location of each client as the user hovers over their name.

ErgoMedica wanted a website that would resonate both with patients and prospective companies in need of quality medical care for their personnel. Plant Projects worked with the ErgoMedica staff to write copy for, design, and build a site that reflects their mission of providing high quality medical care in a relaxed and meticulously designed physical environment.

Artist Beth Campbell required a website that she could easily update to present her portfolio of artwork in an unconventional yet intuitive package. A long vertical column of large, stacked thumbnails gives a quick overview of her body of work. Each of the thumbnails links to a horizontal album of images for that project. The design works equally well on large screens, laptops, tablets and smart phones to best reach her target audience.

Silent
Auction
Website

The Chaves County CASA Program needed a website to promote their silent auction event to raise money for the organization. The WordPress based site, maketimeforkids.com, was designed to showcase all the donated items and provide a means for the community to bid on them. The Chaves County CASA staff was able to easily update new donations and monitor online bids, receiving their donations at the end of the auction via PayPal.

The client wanted a clean, corporate look that promoted a portfolio of past work. The design is direct, bold, and practical, reflecting the architectural practice of the firm. It relies heavily on large images, which take up over half the page, to visually communicate their expertise. As one scrolls over the name of each project both a photo and description appear.

This site was designed to display large graphic images and their corresponding text quickly. The gray background provides a neutral color for the documentation of the artist's sculptures to be viewed against, and the linked rollover image with text enables the audience to see all of his work at a glance. Each project page consists of images and a link to a press release which elaborates on the ideas displayed in the documentation photographs.

For this portfolio site the client wanted to display a wide range of project types using a minimalist design. All the projects are presented on a white page that floats nicely in any size screen and creates a clean, bright site that is reminiscent of a book layout. Of special interest is the integrated video on the Novalis at Hospital of Central CT page.

'Designing a Better Hotdog' is a series of satirical drawings composed for Dadwagon, a smart, fresh and frequently funny weblog oriented towards young fathers. The assignment was to design a hotdog that kids would not choke on, which was taken as an invitation to reimagine the humble sausage as a sequence of decreasingly palatable frankenfoods, topical ointments and industrially-pureed monstrosities. The drawing style is intentionally loose, sketchy and chaotically composed, with the mark-making and subject matter consciously referencing classic underground comics and punk graphics as well as better-known publications like MAD magazine and the early National Lampoon.

To showcase the artist’s sculpture portfolio, this site design focuses on a large photo gallery with rollover thumbnails. This enables the viewer quick access to a large number of images so they can easily navigate the full documentation of each project. To allow for varying screen sizes the site always maintains a central location on the viewer’s browser.