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Case Study: Susan Modaress

Basil Gloo — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:56:51 +0000

We’ve been assigned to create a website with a blog for Susan Modaress. She had a basic idea of what she need, however she hoped to rely on our team for the creativity and specific designs to make it work.

Susan is constantly working with new clients so she would like the site to be appealing with creative elements yet functional for newcomers, of course. She didn’t have a solid vision so we worked to develop that.

First iteration:

But she would like a darker mood. Second version:

However we’ve decided to create some different version while we waited for her answer:

Hmm… After some discussion we’ve decided go back a few steps and start with some of the coloring and texture changes. Also we’ve worked with gray colors – metallic, light gray, silver, white and as an accent red color.
Clean & classy look that’s more corporate:

No? Really? Ok, we’ve decided to stop here and held very detailed and long discussion negotiating every little detail.
Completely new version has been made:

She said: “Thanks, it looks really good. yes I think we are getting there.”

For final version we’ve decided to take out the gray part at the top and go with all white.

Ok, here it is:

“Many thanks the site looks awesome!”, – Susan said.

Everyone is happy with everything and we have another happy client ;)

Visit online and enjoy at susanmodaress.com

Case study: Non Juan

Basil Gloo — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:17:46 +0000

We’ve been assigned to create a branding for the nonjuan.com — first of all to make a strong character that will be easily recognizable by the audience and carry all the needed traits client wanted.

The requirements were more or less as follows: Non Juan is a comical dude who always experience fails of epic proportions trying to date a girl; he is an African-American guy with somewhat unkempt look, a bit nerdish (but not too much), not too upset with the current state of things, cheerful and funny. As Non Juan himself is saying: “I’m just like Don Juan — minus the ladies, money, charm, and everything else.”

First iteration produced someone too confident in himself rather than awkward.

Putting glasses on wasn’t much help either.

After this point was decided to make several sketches for the client to approve the overall look. The sheet with rejected (oh irony — Non Juan [Rejected] is how the logo looks like now!) characters:

And here is the sheet with the “getting closer” results:

This is where the current Non Juan was born:

In the production of the site itself we created humongous amount of illustrated characters, thingies, backgrounds etc.

Visit online and enjoy at NonJuan.com

Case study: sergeystanchev.com v2

Basil Gloo — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:19:28 +0000

Our graphic designer and illustrator, Sergey Stanchev, recently created new design for his personal portfolio page. It’s clean, modern and very professional. Just try this cool effect for images on “works” page :)

Visit sergeystanchev.com and enjoy!

Case study: Southern Weddings Daily Blog

Basil Gloo — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:58:22 +0000

Southern Weddings Magazine is the South’s hottest wedding magazine for the modern southern bride. The Daily SW BlogSite highlights the best in real Southern weddings and incredible event details from all over the USA.

We were contacted for custom Squarespace theme development by Lara Casey. Sure, no problem, Lara :) She created graphic design herself and we developed theme.

Basically she wanted a better looking blog with additional functionality and revised structure. The details are as follows:
1. We developed a custom blog theme for Squarespace publishing platform.
2. Created a flash animated banner at the top of the page.
2. Added revised menu items (lots of new items added).
3. Several new pages – “Real southern wedding”, “Inspiring details…”, “Photography” and sub-pages have been developed.
4. Thousand of new galleries.
5. Twitter bubbles talk-boxes for “About Us” page.

Also, we created detailed instructions for every page describing how to manage and edit them.

And now, after tons and tons of work, it’s ready!
You can visit Southern Weddings Daily Blog at swsmag.net for review.

Feedback from Lara:
“So far everyone is LOVING the site. Everything looks great. I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!”

p.s. feel free to contact us if you need custom blog design and development :)

Case study: sexscenes.info

Basil Gloo — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:21:32 +0000

“Sex Scenes” is a comic and erotic story about a young woman filmmaker who sets out to make a sophisticated, edgy, sexy but arty film in today’s corporate Hollywood — it’s about her, and about how her project effects the people she encounters along the way. A comic (but sexy) picaresque adventure story, in other words.

We were commissioned for the graphical concept of this project by Ray Sawhill, and we worked from scratch providing the direction, logo design, web design and custom Squarespace theme.

Before designing website, we started with the branding process. The idea is to have a visually appealing typography only logo based on the type treatment popular in late 60 – 70. Swirly lines and bold characters along with strong color did the trick, and here is result:

When logo has been finished we proceed to website design. Our main point of reference was ’60s and ’70s art-erotica movies, and we needed a website to remind visitors of those movies.

Splash page needed to look like a movie poster or book jacket. We created a vector image of a nude girl holding a movie camera in one hand. General idea was that back in the ’70s she’d have been the girl onscreen. Now “the girl” is also the movie maker.

Ok, done:

On all other pages, we added both the horizontal, top-of-the-page navigation bar and the secondary (vertical) column:

And here is Ray’s feedback:
Gorgeous, love it, thanks to all for great work.

You can visit sexscenes.info and take a look of overall website design.

Case study: morphthing.com

Basil Gloo — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:40:41 +0000

Recently we did a redesign for the MorphThing.com website for Charan Kondal. This is an online face morpher that combines two faces into one. It’s fun, free, and no download is required.

Charan said about his current old design:
“It’s not professional enough, or unique enough. It looks amateurish for what is actually a really cool and sophisticated web app. Parts of the interface are pretty messy. Nothing really stands out that is great about the current site design. The function of the site (morphing) is great, but the way it’s presented isn’t.”

We did our best to improve all the points mentioned by client and finally website has been redesigned. Also interface design for the morpher app was created.

New look is usable, clean and stylish and gives users a great experience. Redesigned interface has enough space to add new options easily. The new morpher design is much simpler than the old one.

Here is the result from our team:

And here is client’s feedback:
“This is amazing! Good work!” – Charan Kondal.

Charan and his team currently recreating the underlying system (databases, morphing code, etc), and launching the new site approximately in a month.

Looking forward to see new website online!

Case study: NewEraCapTalk.com Blog

admin — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:51:00 +0000

NewEraCapTalk Blog is online now!
Now website consists from 2 parts: blog and forum.

Enjoy!

Check blog online >>>

Case study: Logo Designs

Basil Gloo — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:45:00 +0000

Everyone Knows Graphic Design Studio presents new logo design concepts:

1) PUMATALK logo concepts

2) NEW ERA CAP TALK logo concepts

Enjoy!

Case study: NewEraCapTalk.com Forum

admin — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:43:00 +0000

Our new project is online now!

NewEraCapTalk.com – Online Fitted Hat Community

Scope of work:
- logo design;
- forum theme design;
- blog theme design.

This is interactive website that connects New Era Cap lovers from all over the world. The main features of the community site – forum and the blog. Now first phase of project is online – forum. Blog is coming soon…

“New Era Cap Talk is an online community dedicated to NEW ERA CAPS and Sports enthusiasts. New Era Cap Talk is your number one source for cap and sporting news.”

“Don’t just talk about it, be about it.”

Check forum online ->>

Case study: Puma Love Contest

admin — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:05:00 +0000

Our new work for Puma Contest!

New Contest on PumaTalk. All designs provided by Everyone Knows.

Here is description from Joey:

It’s a contest!
It’s a whole lotta fun!
And everyone can participate!

Here’s how it works… We want to bring PUMA Lovers closer together on PUMATALK and we want to show the WORLD our LOVE for the PUMA brand and for that, we would like to give our special pair of kicks to the winner of the photo submission contest.

That’s right, the contest is going to be a photo submission on the photoblog! We want to see how you rep your PUMAS and we can’t wait to see all your pics! The contest starts Jan 25th and will go till Feb 19th – on Feb 20th we will select the winner and will give out a pair of kicks along with placing the winner’s photo on the frontpage of the blog for 2 weeks straight. All of the participants photos will be featurd on the photoblog a well.

Here’s how you get started!

Send your photos to: YourPUMAS@PUMATALK.com and write a brief description about your photo…

TIPS: try to be as creative as possible