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hey, look over there!

admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:01:53 +0000

guess what? i started my own company and finally got that website up and running. since i don’t want to maintain *two* design portfolios… i encourage you to check out my shiny, new (and more up-to-date) graphic design portfolio at tracyappsdesign.com! thanks!

ps. i’ll still be keeping tracyapps.org up and running, don’t worry. i just haven’t decided what i should put here. i’m keeping my old portfolio pieces here as well, since i know of many sites that have linked to the portfolio.

reaching out MBA conference – web design

admin — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:46:24 +0000

after developing the logo design for the reaching out 2008 LGBT MBA conference, the next step was to create an online presence that would promote, inform and connect people to the 2008 conference in washington DC. the website needed to be professional, and easy to update for the conference organizers. so i programmed the site on wordpress, and gave an online training of how to update, correct, change, and add things to the website… all without having to know anything about web “code.” both i, and my client, are very happy with how this site turned out.

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walkers point photoWalk – photography & photo editing

admin — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:36:32 +0000

the cream city milwaukee group on flickr.com has a photowalk every month. in may 2008 the walk was through the walker’s point neighborhood here in milwaukee. here are some of my pictures from that photo walk. some pictures are more heavily manipulated with photoshop (including some HDR photography). to see more of my photos from that walk, take a look over here.

brian’s bistro spices

admin — Sat, 31 May 2008 06:38:15 +0000

this is the tasty part of my job as a freelance designer. i have the wonderful opportunity to work for people who create yummy things, like brian’s bistro spices! this site was my first experience using the e-commerce web hosting, shopify.com, and i highly recommend them! and i also highly recommend briansbistrospices.com, because the spices that i bought the other day smell/taste AMAZING. it’s a rough job i tell ya…

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reaching out MBA conference – logo design

admin — Sat, 31 May 2008 06:30:04 +0000

reaching out is a yearly LGBT MBA conference. i was hired to create the logo, website and print marketing for the 2008 conference. since the year’s theme is “Redefining Human Capital”, the request was to have an image of the US capitol building incorporated into the logo. so i found an image i had taken, and re-drew the capitol dome by hand to help give it a more “human” touch.

christmas card 2007

admin — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:43:13 +0000

i wanted this Christmas card design to be a fun play of urban and traditional. so the “star” is more symbolic in this design.

divine word lutheran – website design

admin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:24:51 +0000

the goal for this website was to create something that could be very easily updated. so i set up the whole site on wordpress, and gave pastor gaeta the login information and let her go to town with adding content. i also created a flickr account to make it easy for anyone to upload more pictures.

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divine word lutheran – logo design

admin — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:15:39 +0000

after joining divine word lutheran church, i was quickly put to work with helping out. one of the first projects was a logo design. after several other ideas, this design was created using an actual small communion glass from the church that is used every week. one of aspects that stood out to me about this church (and one of the main reasons for joining) was the strong sense of community. in a very diverse congregation, in a very diverse area of the city, the community remains one of the key elements of this church body. another goal of the logo design was to illustrate the “traditional” and the “new” coinciding together in harmony. also it was my distinct goal to stay away from any form of cross, for many reasons. but the main reason is because many of the church members and visitors have been hurt by, discriminated against, or just plain rejected by Christians and people who claim to be Christian. divine word lutheran is a much different church, and needed to be represented as such.

senior pictures

admin — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:21:11 +0000

my goal as a photographer is to capture the subject and their personality in real ways. i will never be that photographer that makes you tilt your head 45 degrees to the left, while having your left hand on your chin and your other hand on your hip… no.. tilt your head more… turn this way.. look over here… no.. put your hand on your shoulder…. tilt your head more….

ps. there’s more pictures over here

on3design - website

admin — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:10:24 +0000

on3design is a husband-wife photography team. the goal for the website was to basically create a nice simple “canvas” to showcase their photography. their photography is amazing and i wanted all focus to be on their work.

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