Bathroom Key Web Design

The best part about creative ideas is making it a reality and Bathroom Key is one of those random ideas that came to me one day at coffee shop restroom. I was sitting around working on my third cup of coffee when nature called for the billionth time, so off I went to beg for the bathroom key from the Batista. With my prize in hand and the urgency in my step I went off to answer the call. The bathroom key came with it an attachment, a large bulky object chained to my key to make sure it was not lost and second to discourage me from stealing it and using it to open up my own public restroom some were else.

I have seen so many of these interesting bathroom key attachments over the course of my life that I finally decided it was time to start yet another blog called Bathroom Key. The blog is dedicated to posting and writing about this prolific form of urban art found in many bathrooms around the world. So I went looking ob flick for more pictures and found plenty to get me started with my new venture, Bathroom Keys.

In terms of design I wanted to take my blogging/web/design/photoshop/html skills to the next level and create a truly unique navigation bar for it. I created the background tile in photoshop which I used as my repeating background image for my bathroom motif. Next I made the biggest bathroom key attachment I could fit in an 800 pixel wide seen precariously propped up between the handle bar and the toilet tank cover. What bathroom would be complete with out magazines, so I created some covers at fake magazine cover to be used as my navigation bar buttons. Once I had the design the way I wanted it to look I chopped it all and imported it in blogger with linked them to my favorite social networks.

This of course is just the beginning, there will many hours spent writing, promoting and tweaking the layout so that one day Bathroom Keys will become popular and viral (in a good way). And hopefully encourage a new breed of photographers to go out and catalog the vast world of bathroom keys.

Kitchens By Ken Ryan - Web Site Design

I finally finished a new web site called Kitchens By Ken Ryan for Ken Ryan an expert in kitchen design, manufacturing and construction in Novato California. I designed this web site using Illustrator CS2 and then went on to put it all together in Dreaweaver, a very cool program indeed. The gallery is almost done but I found that Photoshop CS2 has a nice feature that allows me to quickly take a batch of photos and create a custom gallery in a short period of time. It creates HTML pages that gives me the flexibility to further customize my code to fit the needs and design of my layout in Dreamweaver.

They also wanted to add client testimonials so I created a Blog for them with the same look and feel as the rest of the web site to make it easy to add content.

The Pen Guy's Million Pen Recycling Flyer

The Pen Guy's Million Pen Recycling Flyer
The Pen Guy's Million Pen Recycling flyer is finally designed and ready to be placed along side the new Pen Recycling Barrels place in locations around Sonoma County for people to donate their old pens. I needed a poster that was easy to understand and fun to read so I used Grobold Medium for that purpose that had a fun cartoon quality to it. I also created a new pen recycling logo that hopefully says "recycle pens" in Illustrator from scratch, no clip art here.

The flyer was created so people who want to start a pen drive at their business or school can down load it, print it and post it up in a prominent location. I also made it so you can pretty much see it from space especially the phrase "Recycle Pens Here". Also at the bottom I added a space for a hand written time and date for when the Pen Guy will be appearing for a visit with the Mercedes Pens Art Car. Email the pen guy if you want to set up and start a pen drive at your location.

Secret Service Tour at Redwood Covenant Church - 4x6 Flyer

Secret Service Tour at Redwood Covenant Church - 4x6 Flyer

This project came along last week to promote a local free concert called the "Secret Service Tour" at Redwood Covenant Church September 2, 2009 from 6-9pm. The four bands playing are Abandon Kansas, Sleep for Sleepers, Hazel and Vine and local band Surrendered. The concert is sponsored by Playit4Word, Broken.fm and RCC.

When I was told the name of the project I went into full creative mode and was able to come up with the initial idea within 3.5 hours, WOW. There are times such as these that the creative flow is there 100% and it becomes and effortless experience for me to create. Others times its like pulling teeth. When they told me about the title of the concert, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. The phrase "secret service" launched me into the idea of creating a secret agent file complete with photos and operational info. I love the details of this piece such as the Polaroid photo treatment, paper clips, the label maker font and the old folder file. Do you feel like going on a secret mission to a free concert? I do.

Rock'n Blues Festival by the Lake - 4x6 Flyers

Rock'n Blues Festival by the Lake 4x6 Flyers are headed out to the printed to promote one of the biggest festivals held in Novato Ca.It will held September 26 at Stafford Lake and proceeds will benefit the novato public schools. The amazing B-52's will be playing and Blake Lewis the beat-Box guy from American idol will also be there.