

Hoang Chiro tri-fold brochure
Brochure, June - 2008
Adobe Photoshop and Quark XPress
"Client needed a brochure to give clients created from scratch off of a previous model. Art was processed in Photoshop and text and other elements formatted in Quark." - LV
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Xpresspaknship.com
Web site, April - 2008
Macromedia Dreamweaver, Wordpress and
Adobe Photoshop
"Client needed a multi page Web site for printing, packin and shipping business with content management." - LV
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Thechicory.com (redesign)
Web site, October - 2007
Macromedia Dreamweaver, Wordpress and
Adobe Photoshop
"Blog needed to be more functional and offer more space for sidebar content. Three-column theme was added and the CSS was edited to conform to vast redesign. " - LV
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Leveeland.com
Web site, May - 2007
Macromedia Dreamweaver, Wordpress and
Adobe Photoshop
"Artist promotion and eCommerce site was designed around a swamp asthetic. CSS for template was edited to assist the design. Blog software utilized to ease sometimes daily updates to inventory. " - LV
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Houndstoothmedia.com
Web site, January - 2007
Macromedia Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop
"Site was inspired by houndstooth fabric pattern. Sides were creating by twisting shapes of squares using Photoshp modify tool. " - LV
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The Chicory.com
Web site, Oct.ober - 2006
Macromedia Dreamweaver, Wordpress and Adobe Photoshop
"Site was made by madifying CSS on an existing Wordpress template, adding plugins and replacing masthead in favor of altered New Orleans landmarks and symbols. " - LV
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Magnoliabuildersllc.com
Web site, October - 2006
Macromedia Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop
"I counseled the client on his contracting business name and logo, did most of the content development and the entire design for the site, including the 'Honesty. Integrity. Skill' tagline. Client was inspired by Magnolia tree in his grandfather's yard ans site was built around that. " - LV
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Romykaye.com
Web site, June, 2006
Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop and Flash
"Client needed an update to her site to make it more "swanky" I obliged with the swirl pattern and some subtle Flas effects. I also introduced a very subtle green into the scheme. " - LV
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91Gators.net
Web site, August, 2005
Macromedia Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop
"This was a pleasure to design. I was asked by the reunion comittee to design the Web page for my 15-year high school reunion. I really neeeded to show off skills while at the same time conjure up memories of yesteryear. Everybody was pleased with the results (including me)." - LV
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AuthorViews Blog
Blog, June 27, 2005
Nucleus and Macromedia Dreamweaver
"Blog first served as a travel journal for two novice filmmakers
crossing the country filming authors. It has since been used as a genral purpose blog. It was designed to closely
mimic the main site (see below) in design while conforming to
the engineering of the Blog software" - LV
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Set Your Head On Fire
Web site, Mar. 7, 2005
Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop and Flash
"Old-fashioned typewriters were a natural fit for this
book proposal site." - LV
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AuthorViews
Web site, February, 2005
Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop and Flash
"I also designed the AuthorViews logo which serves as
a masthead for this 80+ page site. Pages were created using server
side includes and CSS with Dreamweaver and Flash. Side menu is
relative to each page." - LV
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The Beautiful Plan
Newsletter, December, 2005
Quark XPress
"This was straight-forward pagination of a quarterly newsletter. Not much creativity permitted, I was just following the rules of basic page layout, utilizing as best I could everything I learned at La Jolla Light. The Beautiful Plan was a 12-page publication and I have included three pages of it here. " - LV
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Natural-born winners
La Jolla Light cover image, July 10, 2003
Adobe Photoshop
"Image was created using Adobe Photoshop as part of La
Jolla Light's Summer series in 2003. Struggled for a while with
different motifs before settling on this 'Space Surfer' design." - LV
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Mac Meda
La Jolla Light cover image, July 3, 2003
Adobe Photoshop
"Cover art for La Jolla Light story on a secret surfing
society created using Adobe Photoshop. The background surfers
are a reapted image inverted horizontally. I also wrote the accompanying
story." - LV
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Season of the Arts
La Jolla Light cover image, May 22, 2003
Adobe Photoshop
"A combination of the Photoshop cutout filter and an adaptation
of hue and saturation created the graphic effect used for the
center subject. I then swirled the sky blue background to give
the image a more tropical and retro appearance." - LV
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Building a Better Body
La Jolla Light cover image, May 8, 2003
Adobe Photoshop
"The editor wanted a 'Six Million Dollar Man' effect and
I was able to deliver it by searching the Web for appropriate
images and adjusting them to fit the assignment.The torso was
enlarged from a small 100 pixel .gif" - LV
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The War From Here
La Jolla Light cover image, April 10, 2003
Adobe Photoshop
"I was asked to create an image of the effect of the Iraqi
War on the people of La Jolla and to include religion, economics,
patriotism and protest as subject matter. I searched the newspaper's
photo archives for images that conveyed those themes and saturated
them in Photoshop using reds and blues and created this 'Captain
America' design. - LV
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The Final Cut
La Jolla Light cover image, March 27, 2003
Adobe Photoshop
"The subject matter was 'Artists on the Cutting Edge'
so I wanted to create a design that was minimalist and edgy at
the same time. The silk screen effect was accomplished using a
white photo reduced to two colors and a simple gradient background.
I also wrote the accompanying story." - LV
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Romy Kaye
Web site, Feb. 1, 2003
Macromedia Dreamweaver
"Artist asked for a site that used pink and orange together
so I was able to deliver that in a swanky and hip package that
isn't overbearing and obvious." - LV
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Theater Village
La Jolla Light cover image, Dec. 26, 2002
Adobe Photoshop
"Architectural plans were all I was given to work with
so I took the most creative ones and fashioned a cover out them
using Photoshop selections and the lowering the opacity of certain
layers. I also wrote the accompanying story." - LV
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Pop La Jolla
La Jolla Light cover image, Oct. 10, 2002
Adobe Photoshop
"The goal was to recreate a pulp fiction novel and the
resources provided were old pictures of beach scenes. Another
application of the Photoshop cut out effect along with use of
brilliant beach-inpired coloring accomplished the '60s effect.
I also wrote the accompanying story." - LV
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