Antoine Valot

Max is an old and true friend, and I was delighted to get him set up with a good starter site. 
Max is also a keen geek, so I decided against putting a layer of abstraction, such as a CMS or blogging platform, between him and his code. Instead I tried to build good code. I [...]

Third version of the Department of Redundancy Department’s website, this time using Wordpress. Wordpress is a beautiful piece of software, highly discoverable… of course, it’s targeted at geeks, but I think it broadens the target a bit.
For the DRD’s site, I chose a simple theme, and tweaked the typography. Videos will be hosted on YouTube, [...]

A whopper of a project!
I was able to set a good direction on the information architecture, and to keep everyone committed to a more-or-less standard navigation scheme. There was little I could do to influence the tone and tenor of the copy, but I did help cut down the marketese to a manageable level. In [...]

Well, it’s official! After seven years in the consulting business, I’m returning to my roots in the marketing department: I’ve switched positions at BT INS, and will be maintaining all our corporate websites. My new title: Internet Marketing Manager…
It’s going to be fun to get back [...]

Sometimes all a complex problem needs is a better metaphor.
This higher-ed consultancy, client of ours, has been struggling for years with transfers of large data files to and from their clients. Statistical analysis works best on large data sets, and in this case, the files reach in the dozens of megs, and they usually are [...]

Finished building a nice clean UI for a college counseling questionnaire app. This was an exercise in using CSS to deliver a clear design across browsers, including the dreaded IE 6, with only a couple of days to test and deliver.
White space, use of Lucida Sans Unicode on Windows and Lucida Grande on the Mac, and attention to type [...]

A little logo I designed for my friend’s production company. Lawnie Gold is jewish, but not very orthodox, and likes to poke fun at himself. Hence the name.
Did it in Flash. I know, I know, graphic design is supposed to be done in serious applications like Illustrator or Freehand… but I’ve paid my dues, [...]

This is an interesting set of Flash movies. The directions to the hospital are animated, and the campus map features zooming in to the different floors.
Not exactly earth-shaking stuff, but I did try to go a bit past the paper metaphor, and exploit some of the capabilities of animated media. A bigger budget could have [...]

Spent a couple of days overhauling the Colorado Midwives Association’s website, for my friend Dana Beardshare. Dana and Jan were our midwives, and the genuine love they poured into caring for my wife and I [...]

Did a one-week stint in Houston, Texas for a large international oil company, helping fix an internal accounting app. As is common with enterprise engagements, we were not only putting together a unified dashboard for a set of disparate and incompatible financial and accounting systems, but also walking the slick tightropes of high-flying politics. 
It was [...]