A little post since the holidays.

Thought I would give this code a try on the blog, its my flickr account.

making space on the dry-board

One of the sites we here at smithsforge.com where working on the past week is a section for Pacific Western. When you go to their site there is a cross border shopping package that they offer, the design layout and code development was our part. I will post a link when it’s up live for customers.

I am currently working on a coffee table book for a private client, photos of that will be up as soon as the client receives it.

I am currently getting a lot of things ready for printing to take photos of in their environments for the portfolio section. For example instead of having a flat graphic layout of a brochure I will have a photo of someone holding the brochure and different ways to show how you would view it.

A new look for our photo restoration site will be soon. The old site was well... poorly executed, but with more education and experience we are improving all the time.

Just a update.

Well... my dry-board is full, so there is a lot of work that I have planed for. First thing that I have completed already (I just need to take some pics of for the site) is table top signs, a triangle shape ad that was mocked up for a client for their Xmas sales. The mock up is made for SportChek- there honestly isn't anything special about this design, its mostly just to show the physical setup. Ill have to make a "scrumtralisent" one to show you people later.

We are waiting on a job that we quoted a price on, if this goes thou I will have a new website to show off you to ya.

Also some other things that are up in the air is a new layout for PhotoCheck our photo restoration service. And second is a DVD case- I am still sketching up stuff for the DVD.

I thought I would post some links.

First off this video is a big fav of mine since some friends showed me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay7ER3TGSoM


Now getting down to brass taxes:

10 ways to get inspired
http://www.howdesign.com/article/worldinspiration/

go-go-media! This is one of my top favorite sites, I like to keep up on what they are doing. They have some great tips and help on how to do things.
http://www.gomediazine.com/

a butt load of PS help
http://psdtuts.com/tutorials-effects/40-dark-and-futuristic-photoshop-effects/

This is a site I take a look at from time to time just to poke my nose into other peoples studios:
http://www.on-my-desk.blogspot.com/

And to end the list, this is the flickr group I am part of:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/scott-kelbys-worldwide-photowalk-st_johns/

the monkeys are loose

I have set this blog up but have nothing ready yet. This will be mostly just used for latest news and such.