Café Mia Logo Design
Comments (0) | Posted on: 23.10.2008. 18:33
I have already decided not to take any project starting off my final year but this time I have made an exception for my best client from Southampton. This project consist of (re)branding work, some print work gig and simple web development project. I am sorry but I am just too lazy to post up the design brief. Anyway, feel free to comment on the design.
Banner Design for Blacknight.ie
Comments (2) | Posted on: 22.04.2008. 20:23
First of all, I would like to say thanks to Gary Daly for recommending me to his boss for this project. This animated banner design project was completed for Blacknight Solutions, one of the pioneer company specializing in hosting, server, colocation and domain names registration here in Ireland. They have just launched their new VPS hosting services for their customer and this banner is designed mainly to introduce their new vps services to their customer. Check out this banner in action
Size: 500px x 86px - Format: Animated GIF - Size: 47.06KB
Waffle.ie Logo Design
Comments (2) | Posted on: 19.03.2008. 17:50
It has been a while since I post anything in this blog. I have been fairly busy with works and other stuff. In the midst of juggling my works and studies, I have completed another logo design project for a friend of mine. Let me know what you think about the design.
Malaysian Scholars Foundations Logo Design
Comments (0) | Posted on: 24.02.2008. 11:09
I have just completed one mini project for Malaysian Scholars Foundations. This logo design mainly will be used in their new website which is still under massive construction.
Project brief for this logo design is pretty simple and straight forward. I have used the human brain structure to symbolize the empowerment through knowledge acquisition by the scholars. The initial idea is to use colours in Malaysia flag to signify 'Malaysianess' but then I have to ditch the idea because the colours did not blend well in the design.
CSS Competition at Ozzu.com
Comments (2) | Posted on: 31.12.2007. 18:36
One of the latest competitions at Ozzu is to design a CSS template for their phpBB powered forum site. The trick is to design a template purely from CSS without modifying the markup. It has been ages since the last time I did any CSS coding. Luckily, current Ozzu markups have plenty of divisions to be used for design purposes. Anyway, you can check out my entry for this competition.
I used deep dark ground colors combination to fit the medieval theme and a hint of dragon images embedded in the background throughout the layout. I might alter this template to fit for latest phpBB3 and release this template for free download if I lost in the competition.
Winning is to the main objective here, but what was learn throughout the process that counts. I have encountered two cross-browser bugs for Internet Explorer 6 and below which are known as Peek-a-Boo bug and IE Doubled Float-Margin Bug and manage to fix them using !important hack to selectively target IE6 and below and applying hasLayout fix.
I also realized that I also frequently fall into the trap of divitis and classitis. I used too many unnecessary divisions and classes in my markup codes which result to bloated and complicated codes. This can easily be fixed using the true power of background images in CSS for block property to achieve the same effects with less chunks of code.
