Just came across this concept I had created ages ago. I had been learning how to use php and flash to create a simple image uploader. Nothing fancy, just a nice way to play with a few images.
The Blog
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Radio Silence
Greetings my internet following! 2011 has so far proved to be a productive year for me. First and foremost I am now a web designer at W.W. Norton Publishing. The new job has been keeping me busy and motivating me to get working on side projects.
I have been posting my photos on Tumblr for a while now so I’ve added that on as my blog. For the most part it’s just me posting things I like however I try to keep a steady flow of my own photos going! If you have a tumblr drop me a line. You can see my original posts here: patcartelli // me
Another project I’m happy to be working on is Rochester Parkour. My friends Charles Moreland and Zachary Cohn created Rochester Parkour in 2007 and it has grown into an amazing community.
“Since the beginning, it has remained one of the largest weekly recurring outdoor jams hosting everyone from kids, high schoolers, college folk, moms and dads, and also senior citizens.”
If you’re in the Rochester area you should definitely check it out!
I have a few posts lined up with older work and a few newer items in about a month.
That’s it for now! Cheers!
A Fishy wordpress theme
Yet another wordpress theme I had been working on. This time I was creating a theme for fish farmers! My responsibility was to design and develop the project and also make fish interesting to consumers. Simplifing all of the content was what I really wanted to focus on. There was tons of really useful information, but it wasn’t organized well.
Keeping the site balanced for vendors as well as consumers meant restructuring a lot of the information. Statistics that were useful for vendors were being displayed alongside consumer information. The new direction would have kept consumers returning for new recipies, instead of being overwhelmed with the business side of it all. Unfortunately the site never got past the design phase; I was really looking forward to diving into the code! [singlepic id=10 w=640 h=480 float=center]
A Production still
Done for a show pitch a few months ago. It was a wedding show for Brides in the NY area and was meant to have a New York City vibe to it. This logo shot was created with Cinema 4d, After Effects, and photographs taken around manhattan.
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Wizards
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Just came across this mockup I did last summer for Wizard, a local Comic book company. This was done pretty soon after I had graduated from RIT. For the first client outside of RIT I think this was a pretty good start! As you can probably tell, I also wasn’t experienced with ad placement. The one ad at the top right was easy enough to place, but I didn’t figure out where the vertical ads should have gone.
They wanted something that mimicked the comic book story frames which I found lent itself well to the content they needed to display. Sadly the project got canned and didn’t go much further than this, it would have been fun to develop!
Flatrate & Facebook
A few months ago I did the following designs for Flatrate Moving & Storage. The first was part of a Facebook campaign which directed people to the fan page to try to gain some awareness through social media. After that I started designing a brochure that was to be handed out around college campuses. Check it out after the break!
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Eleven Magazine
This was a minimal design I did a while ago for Eleven Magazine, a design and fashion blog run by some RIT students. They wanted something simple and clean that would fit their own design aesthetics. Between Music, Fashion, and Industrial design, Eleven had an interesting mix of cultures that merged well together. Unfortunately the site hasn’t been updated in a while, but you can still check the old posts here:
Pelican Marketing Inc
Heres a site I just finished for a local marketing company. They wanted a site to advertise their services and give people an easy way to get in touch with them. After a few discussions we came up with a one page layout with a nice modern design. I did the design and development of the site.
List Child Pages
I’m currently working on a project that requires a fair amount of child pages. Each page has a few child pages that will be listed in the sidebar. Instead of continuously listing every page and child page, I want to list the current pages children. While hunting through the wordpress codex I came across wp_list_pages and its properties, I came across a helpful post explaining exactly what I was looking for. If a page has children it displays them in a list, and gives you a link to the parent so you can navigate out.
I placed this in the sidebar.php, but it can go wherever you need it.
<?php if ( is_page() ) { ?>
<?php
if($post->post_parent)
$children = wp_list_pages('title_li=&child_of='.$post->post_parent.'&echo=0'); else
$children = wp_list_pages('title_li=&child_of='.$post->ID.'&echo=0');
if ($children) { ?>
<li>
<h2>
<?php
$parent_title = get_the_title($post->post_parent);
echo $parent_title;
?>
</h2>
<ul>
<?php echo $children; ?>
</ul>
</li>
<?php } } ?>
