New Work
New Work: CMB Logo
CMB Construction is a steel/hybrid construction contractor based in Fort Worth, TX.
The challenge in designing this logo comes from the client's need to include some subliminal messaging into the mark. CMB is a Christian-Owned company and is named for a specific piece of scripture. Because of that the client wanted to use colors somehow affiliated with the Catholic calendar during the period of the epiphany, and wanted to somehow incorporate the mythical star.
Although we worked with lots of different versions of stars, and lots of different ways of incorporating them into different typefaces, we ended up going with a version that substitutes the "Steel Star" (or hypocycloid) from the American Iron & Steel Institute's SteelMark™ for the star of the epiphany and integrated it with a custom drawn M.
New Work: walkerWellness.com
Walker Wellness Clinic is an eating disorders treatment center located in Highland Park Village (a big swanky shopping district in downtown Dallas, akin to Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills). We're very proud to announce that their new website is up and running, and looking pretty darn nice if we do say so ourselves.
When Philip Walker approached us originally it was to take their existing site and recode it into a standards compliant version so that it would be compatible with browsers other than Internet Explorer. In its original configuration (produced using the perennially evil FrontPage) it was completely unreadable in any non-IE browser, and it was getting complaints from the growing number of people who use compliant browsers like Firefox, Safari or Opera.
What evolved in the long run was a new design based on the old site, built on a content management system (hosted by KeepOpen.com) and completely standards compliant; not to mention designed for easier reading, smoother navigation, and clear and concise communication. We congratulate Walker Wellness Clinic on their new site.
Process Essay: The Dracul Logo
I was recently asked to design the logo for a new comic book based on the real life childhood of Vlad Tepes, aka Vlad "Count Dracula" the Impaler. It's the first logo in a really long time that I have done where I hand-lettered the type and developed a custom logotype without using an existing font, so I thought it would be an interesting case for a process essay. Now, let me begin at the beginning:
New Work: KeepOpen.com Site
As some of you know, Jon is also a partner in KeepOpen.com, a hosted content management system based on open-source software. It's been over a year since KeepOpen started taking clients and, although they've designed and launched sites for their clients, they had not tackled the design for their own site.
New Work: Southwestern Services
Southwestern Services is a Retail Contractor, meaning that they build-out, renovate, and maintain physical facilities for retailers. Their client include some of the best known brands in retail (Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Lowe's, PetSmart, GNC, etc...).
Their new site features a piece of technology that we're very excited about, a job map using a Google Docs Spreadsheet as its database, and using the Google Maps API to illustrate where and what SWS does.
New Client: Phelps Stokes Fund
ohTwentyone is pleased to welcome The Phelps Stokes Fund to our stable of clients. We'll be designing the graphics for their Plone-Based S.T.A.R. web platform.
Plone is a product that runs on Zope, the foundation on which KeepOpen.com's own CMS is based.
New Work: Alliance Business Ins. Logo
 ohTwentyone was recently asked to develop a logo and business card for a new company called Alliance Business Insurance. Although the name of the company is a reference to an area of the DFW Metroplex called "The Alliance Corridor" we decided that a more apt meaning of Alliance for an insurance broker would be the relationship between them and their clients, or the assemblage of various parts to form a cohesive unit.
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