Retro Portfolio: Press Your Luck

Modeled after the game show of the same name, my “Press Your Luck” was developed as a way to award prizes to exceptional members of the business unit I was in at TechSmith. Graphics representing each prize could be uploaded into the system, from which a game board would be created. “Whammy” graphics could also […]

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Retro Portfolio: Retro Hockey Challenge

Retro Hockey Challenge was a proposed charity event to raise money for Child’s Play charity. It would have been a video game marathon centered around 1990s-era hockey video games. The logo for Retro Hockey Challenge was designed to invoke an “old-time hockey” feel, deliberately older than the video games that would have been played. A […]

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Retro Portfolio: DetroitHockey.Net 15th Season Logo

For DetroitHockey.Net’s fifteenth season, I designed a logo in the style of something that could be worn as an athletic jersey patch, like you would see a sports team do. I started with a vaguely-triangular shield shape, with an outlining pattern similar to that of the DetroitHockey.Net shield logo. That logo itself was perched at […]

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Retro Portfolio: DetroitHockey.Net Redesign

The version of DetroitHockey.Net that launched in November of 2008 was intended to clean up several problems that had started happening on the site in the two years since its last redesign. First and foremost was that the Invision Power Board software was intended to be used with a wider site template, so in the […]

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Retro Portfolio: ClarkRasmussen.com Redesign

The August 2008 redesign of ClarkRasmussen.com came from frustration with another project. I needed to focus on something else and realized that it was time to rework one of my own sites so I did that. Intentionally, the site design was similar to some of my other sites. The basic structure (banner, horizontal navigation bar, […]

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Retro Portfolio: HockeySweaterNumbers.com

HockeySweaterNumbers.com was my first completely new personal site launch in several years. As such, it should come as no surprise that I borrowed from my existing sites. The color scheme of HSN was based on that of O6 Web Services and the basic site template was similar to DetroitHockey.Net. Completely unique to the new site […]

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Retro Portfolio: DetroitHockey.Net Redesign

I made two major design changes to DetroitHockey.Net for the version that launched in October of 2006. The first was to abandon a “fluid” layout in favor of an “elastic” one and the second was to incorporate a horizontal – rather than vertical – navigation bar. The change to an elastic design was because of […]

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Retro Portfolio: HockeyBird.com 10th Season Logo

The HockeyBird.com Tenth Season logo evolved from the Illustrator equivalent of a set of doodles. I was working on another project and was a little stuck so I started putting together ideas for a logo for HockeyBird.com’s upcoming 10th season. A set of three were developed, all with the same design but slightly different styling. […]

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Retro Portfolio: MSU Administration

On February 27th, 2006, a new version of Michigan State University’s web site launched. The next night, a team at MSU’s Division of University Relations that included myself rolled out a series of new sites for the university administration. The updated sites were for the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, and […]

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