To commemorate their 15th anniversary and new album, San Francisco’s Cypress String Quartet wanted a redesigned site. The design is clean and airy, and allows users to sample music and offers various options to purchase it. The group’s social networking activity is integrated throughout the site, as is the busy events calendar. Despite the fact that there is a lot of information here, the look is very streamlined.

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ICU Eyewear is a Bay Area-based company that offers bright and beautiful glasses for men and women with contemporary styling and refined design elements. This ecommerce site was built upon the Business Catalyst platform to manage an inventory of more than 2600 SKUs of varying colors, magnifications, and styles.

Hartwin is a Chicago-based company that supplies windows, doors, and more to area architects and contractors. They needed a simple WordPress site to promote their business, provide a way to contact the principlals and integrate vendors.

The Wildcat Golf Academy is a program from Northwestern University geared at training junior golfers to compete at the highest levels. The co-founders have worked with some of the biggest names in golf, and together have produced seven Big Ten Championships. This WordPress site uses landscape photography of the different courses with tips and tricks directly from the trainers.

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The Chicago studio formerly known as Gourmet Pilates wanted to reinvent itself as Pilates Center of Chicago with a new site and logo. This new site is light and airy, with gorgeous photography that shows off the space and beauty of the poses. The WordPress site is integrated with MindBody Online so schedules appear real-time in the site, and allow users to easily sign up for classes.

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I’m absolutely thrilled to be working with FLOR on their user interface and design. This is a homepage animation I designed for them. The goal was to create a dynamic demonstration of how individual tiles and adhesive dots easily assemble into beautiful, unique rugs. The animation is built in jQuery and designed to be easily updated with each new catalog that is launched.

As bread and wine are two of my favorite things, I was thrilled to work on the Web site for this new Chicago neighborhood bistro. The site was designed using a WordPress template that allows the owners to easily manipulate the menu, send newsletters, and edit information as their opening day approaches. I was so bowled over by their menu, that I negotiated partial payment in trade.

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Over her career, Leslie Jonath has seen more than 300 books through to publication as an editor. She recently launched her own book packaging company, Connected Dots Media. Here, you can find past publishing projects, learn about the book categories she services, and learn about how her services work.

I met Jamie through the work I did for Women’s Media Group. Jamie is a Chicago-based performer, producer, consultant and media personality. She needed a site that showed the body of her work, provided audio samples, linked through to buy albums, and promoted new work.

The previous site for the Christian Family Coop was not utilizing the Web medium well at all, and parents and teachers alike requested a redesign. This site uses beautiful photography of the children in action coupled with news and information about upcoming events and program information. It also makes it easy to contact the director to enroll your child or just find out more.