updated: kcgiessen.com

and when i say "updated" i mean "re-designed". and there'll probably be another iteration of this in 6 months. cause that's what interactive designer-wives do for their sound designer-husbands, right? "design on a whim" was in our vows. c'est romantique, no?

i like this version better though. and kc's still building his portfolio, so lot's more amazing work to come. but he's super talented & i'm so proud of him.

check him out!

coming may 2009

no updates recently 'cause i've been ridiculously busy. and a long way to go. whew.

LIFT : english camp landing page

This week I did this little page for my Estonian friends at Risttee Church. If you're a teen living in Estonia, you should definitely go! Thanks to Tarmo for coding it! Good luck guys.

razorfish work | H&R Block 2009 banner ads

It started with this. One of the original storyboards I created for the 2009 H&R Block Online banner campaign. Okay, so banner ads aren't the coolest, but I think these are pretty fun. 

We wanted the design to be clean, simple, colorful. This concept for the look & feel was one of mine and I also designed 99% of the icons for the campaign.

(If you missed the motion, refresh the page!)

Art Director: Jonah Gellert | Flash Designer: James Martis | Copywriter: Martha Dixon

formallyyoursga.com

Designed/built this little site for Formally Yours.

kcgiessen.com

Designed/built this simple little piece for my hubby this week. He's a stud. Go check his work out.

formally yours : splash page

skinning wireframes this weekend for formallyyoursga.com.

dress diaries : blog design

the new layout style of the Dress Diaries blog, 

written by Cathy Butler of Formally Yours.

 

{above: the original style of the blog}

anthropologie's "adorn"

if you know me, clearly anthropologie is one of my influences. i don't know a designer that doesn't love the the catalogs, merchandise and in-store experiences. their site is pretty, but the content, not the bones is what really makes it pop.

so when i saw this post on oh joy! today, i got really excited. and for good reason: 5 new sections devoted to accessories. each has a completely different look, navigation, layout. but they are all super cool.

i love that their team branched out to try something new. to experiment with fun stuff. design that really gets the user to interact with the merchandise.

{above: video of the model wearing each featured piece}

{above: zoom in to examine each piece as carefully as you could want}

{above: dance steps animate through the shoe slides}

{above: slide horizontally through an illustrated world built around the features}


{above: accessories interact with the mouse as you hover over/near them}

jackie hall designs

This weekend I finished up the website for a good designer friend of mine, Jackie Hall. Jackie's graduating from the Circus in less than 2 weeks and moving to Jacksonville. Her work is great. Enjoy.

I did the Flash animation on the homepage using her identity and used Dreamweaver + SimpleViewer to set up the portfolio sections.


{click the images to view them nice and large}