Business cards are one of the hardest things to design. You have a very small area to use, but so much information to get across. There are only so many different ways the to arrange the information, without making it look like all the other business cards out there. I think I was able to accomplish a unique design while still keeping it simple.

There is always a tradeoff between functionality and ease of use. For the client they have a very simple interface to add and manage the inventory. For the user the are able to navigate the site with ease. This case was almost an exception to the rule, where the functionality and ease of use are both ranked very high.

The design must feature the interlocking MC logo and the text "learning today, leading tomorrow". The rest is creativity and a lot of trial and error. I am fairly satisfied with my final outcome.

I set out on a mission for this site. I wanted to make something for my client that I would want to use. I was blessed with a representative that was just as tech savvy as myself. This means I could provide a more complex interface in certain areas but still provide the ease of use that I would want. This allowed the user all types of flexibility without having to have the knowhow of creating a website. I am very proud of my finished product.

With only a day to come up with a design, I wasn't about to be too picky about the end result. The end result was blown up and printed on 4 sheets of standard 8.5 by 11 sheets of paper. Without the availability of (or time to get) a professional printing service to get a full size image header.

Making something as simple as a coupon stand out among all the others is not as simple as it might sound. You want to keep everything simple, yet give it one feature that distinguishes it from all the others.

The ability to create images from scratch and provide an accurate depiction of lighting and shadows is a art that many try, and few master. I believe I have done very well with this image to show accurate reflections and lighting, albeit far from perfect.

This was the first website which I used a template file. This would make it easy for me to change the template of the website if we ever chose to. Figuring out the basics of that wasn't too straight forward. Remember: I was just starting out with commercial development at this point!

Less is more! If there are too many vivid colors that pop out at your eye you tend to think of it as ugly. by applying subtle colors, and only making certain portions of this stick out to the user it serves well as a desktop wallpaper without interfering with your icons on the screen.