Project Update: 2010 Texas Bulldog Show

Posted By Keith
12.03.09

2010 Texas Two Step Specialty Show

The Fort Worth Bulldog Club and The Lone Star Bulldog Club are partnering together for a bulldog specialty show in 2010.  I had the pleasure of designing the show website.

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Project Update: Levymedia.com is Live!

Posted By Keith
06.20.09

Levy Media Website

Levy Media, an independent video production company, hired me to refresh their identity and website.

Owner, Jason Levy, recently relocated to Kansas City, MO and felt it was a good time to start fresh and new. After we discussed the details and determined the scope of the project I started with the logo.

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Project Update: Weedex Testimonial Video

Posted By Keith
05.17.09

Weedex Client Testimonial Video

I recently completed my first video production project. The client was Weedex Lawn Care and the project was to create a customer testimonial video emphasizing the benefits of their services (vs. DIY) and cost efficiency.

Working in cooperation with Andy Slipher we visited with four different Weedex customers to get their impressions of Weedex’s service and costs. Shooting took little less than a day with Andy interviewing the customers and myself filming using a Canon HV10 high-definition camera. Audio was recorded into a Macbook Pro using a shotgun mic. and Final Cut Studio’s Soundtrack. Read More »

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Illustrator Tutorial: Creating a Cloud

Posted By Keith
04.18.09

Illustrator Tutorial: Creating a Cloud

This is a pretty simple and straight forward tutorial that doesn’t require advanced skills but you should have a basic understanding of Illustrator. I am using CS4, but this will also work in CS3. Read More »

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Inspiration from The Web – March 29th, 2009

Posted By Keith
03.29.09

Inspiration from The Web

These are a few websites I’ve come across that I found either very useful, attractive, functional and/or all of the above. Hopefully, these sites can help provide creative inspiration. Content ranges from illustration styled websites to Flash and more.

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IE8 = FAIL!

Posted By Keith
03.23.09

Web Standards

With the release of IE8 came high expectations across the web community that Microsoft would finally adopt open web standards.

Well, it looks like all those expectations were ceremoniously flushed down the toilet as IE8 totally bombed on the ACID 3 test.

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Inspiration from The Web – March 7th, 2009

Posted By Keith
03.07.09

Inspiration from The Web

These are a few websites I’ve come across that I found either very useful, attractive, functional and/or all of the above. Hopefully, these sites can help provide creative inspiration. Content ranges from illustration styled websites to Flash and more.

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R.I.P. IE6

Posted By Keith
02.22.09

Web Standards

I’ve decided that my website will no longer support IE6. It’s something I’ve thought long and hard about and after reading many convincing articles on the matter I concluded I shall no longer contribute to it’s inadequacies.

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Vector Illustration: Phoenix

Posted By Keith
11.28.08

Keith Bates Illustration - Phoenix

This is a vector illustration I designed today of a Phoenix. It’s my first real illustration and thought I would share it. You can download a 1440×900 version here.

I created this using Adobe Illustrator CS4 using no pixel elements. Hope you enjoy it!

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Web Design Project: LSBR Gift Certificate

Posted By Keith
11.25.08

Lone Star Bulldog Rescue Gift Certificate

The Lone Star Bulldog Rescue launched their new Gift Certificates for purchase. Users can can make a donation on behalf of a family or friend and then print out a gift certificate to send as notification of the donation.

I had the pleasure of designing the gift certificate, landing page and banner.

Click her to check out the Lone Star Bulldog Rescue gift certificate landing page.

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