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With a structure built from the ground-up, the RMIT School of Art showcase site follows on from the success of previous projects for the Schools of Fashion and Architecture. It powerfully and proudly shows off the extraordinary scope of work produced by the school.

UX & Web Development by me, UI by Stephen Banham at Letterbox.

Letterbox is a design studio based in Brunswick, Melbourne. The studio specifies in typographic projects even though it covers different areas such as identity systems, print, exhibitions, websites, lectures, books, commercials and much more.

In February 2016, the Letterbox released it’s ninth version. The front-end design was completely updated and several Javascript functions were added to simplify the user experience. The navigation was also redesigned to give a higher ranking in the studios specific areas via search engines.

The UX & Web Development was run by me and the UI was designed by Stephen Banham.

As part of an article published by Stephen Banham in the online edition of Desktop, the free game Tall Storeys was developed where players can try their hand at matching up branding with real estate developments. Intentionally difficult to play, this game reiterates the disconnection between the graphic identities and the construction integrity of many of the new developments. There is a link to the article from the game.

Tall Storeys was developed during a 10 week front-end development course I did at General Assembly in Melbourne. All the JavaScript code and Firebase database integration was developed from the ground.

UI design by Stephen Banham, Letterbox.

Building upon the success of the RMIT School of Architecture and Urban Design website, the RMIT School of Fashion and Textiles website takes a more simplified form, showing the diverse range of activities and outcomes from its Masters Program. Two new functions were added, the ability to link videos from Vimeo and Youtube but also a new tagging system that linked the fashion projects with the relevant teacher and student. Further expansions of this site to encompass other programs are expected in 2016.

UX & Web Development by me, UI by Stephen Banham at Letterbox.

This very complex web project involved the website development of a portal to showcase the extensive projects and research from the RMIT School of Architecture and Design. The biggest challenge with this project was to be able to showcase as many projects as possible for the user while still keeping the same visual preview of the projects. The site was thoroughly planned via a site map and wireframes which resulted in several solutions to enable this feature for the user. They were given the ability to access a project through the category structure in the menu and the front page slider but also via a sorted search and tag system.

It proved to be successful in raising the profile of the school, both nationally and internationally.

UX & Web Development by me, UI by Stephen Banham at Letterbox.

Coinciding with the associated portfolio website, this website for renown architectural photographer Rhiannon Slatter has been purposefully built to evoke an architectural animation.

The website is using JavaScript plugins such as Infinite scroll to be able to show the beautiful photographs without having a heavy page load and Isotope’s grid system Masonry to easily showcase the different architectural categories on all devices.

As a part of my work at the Letterbox studio, I created several eNewsletters for companies such as the Mental Health Professionals Network, the Give it Up for Margaret! event and the Sydney-based botanic designers Pepo. I was also in charge of updating the content and the beautiful images on the Pepo website.

The eNewsletters were built from scratch and then implemented in to email marketing programs such as MailChimp and Campaign Monitor where the client easily imported their list of email subscribers and sent the email campaign.

Cold Cargo is a transport company that offers high quality transport such as express runs and local bids with a focus on cold cargo, for both individuals and companies.

The website layout was designed after the round form and the blue colours of the already existing logo. The elements of the site were focused on being as clear as possible with a large booking form, a jQuery slideshow, strong contrasts and a easy read typeface so that the user could easily get access to the sites main purpose – to book transport.

The site was built with parallax scrolling, allowing all the content to be on the same page for easy access. It was built with WordPress as it’s CMS and designed for all devices.

A web resource for TOW Projects – research, curatorial and interdisciplinary arts practice. The site shows the process and outcome of projects including books, cultural events, exhibitions and public art commissions.

Acosense develops and sells Acospector Acoustic Chemometer, a non-contact instrument which measures the complex fluids in the process industry and delivers an analysis previously considered too difficult or impossible to obtain. The innovative technology can measure many properties simultaneously and provides accurate results even on liquids that are opaque, viscous or give coatings.

The company demonstrated their product through lectures and meetings but they didn’t have a marketing strategy for the costumers they could’t meet face-to-face. In order to reach their whole costumer target they needed a folder and three different product sheets. Because this was a growing company, there was no change to their already existing graphic profile. Instead, the folder was carefully designed to link their old graphic profile to their new measurements and information. The folder and product sheets were printed and cut by us with a Xerox printer.

This illustration was a part of my studies at Jönköping University, Sweden. We worked on a project where we got to draw our favorite artist in Adobe Illustrator. Because music and dancing is another passion of mine, I chose the Gothenburg based musician Håkan Hellström.

This illustration of a DJ-set was my introduction to Adobe Illustrator. It took me a whole month to finish and I remember sitting in front of my screen in a coffee shop at 7 in the morning, obsessing over little buttons who were the size of my fingernails. This was a part of my degree in graphic Design and Web development at Jönköping University, Sweden.