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Theme Starter for WordPress 3.0

mikeb — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:55:12 +0000

My second theme release for WordPress called Theme Starter. You can find my first theme here.

This theme is 3.0 compatible. This theme is meant to be a single theme starter for those that need a starting place without trying to take apart a more complex theme. It uses the 3.0 navigation, and includes the post thumbnails (option).

add the_post_thumbnail(); to uses the post thumbnail feature.

Here is a screenshot:

Here is a Live Demo

And you can find the download here: Theme Starter

Personal Re-brand for 2010

mikeb — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:20:51 +0000

I was recently working on my logo for Brisk Studios and I was having trouble and was tired of my current “brand”.

I wanted something fresh and bold. Something that would be to spread across all the branding types of media like business cards, website, letterheads, etc..

With today’s designers and the charity of their works and projects, I came across a site: tenbytwenty

He had posted a free font that I really like called “Nevis”

I definitely like sans-serif fonts and bold typefaces. I wanted the logo to have the letters B and S, but I wanted to add a little flare to it. Which gave me an idea to incorporate in my design. Lightning!

Lightning has some great qualities like: powerful, quick, energy, and light. The Definition of my last name Brisk is active, fast, energetic. So I thought to myself what a great connection.

Here are the sketches from the starting process:

I finally came up with something I felt fit me.

I was really happy with the final outcome, I was able to use that logo to make new business cards, new website design, and a new outlook on my business.

My new business cards:

My new website:

Conclusion: Thank you design community for the inspiration, free fonts, and encouragement. I hope this post will inspire someone else to use the high quality resources that are around and feel good about creating a brand for themselves.

Custom Photography Blogs

mikeb — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:24:49 +0000

Custom Photography Blogs is going live on Aug. 31st and I can’t wait to proudly announce it on Monday. CPB is started by Jane Johnson who is a creative and passionate photographer who knows that every photographer wants their own person blog that they can express their photos and creativity. Just like she does.

I’m the other half of the project, I build what she designs, see my other post on the process we go through to build these custom blogs. We use WordPress for all of the photography blogs. We want people to be able to afford a custom blog so that’s where we come in, we design custom photographer blogs each with their own personality at a price that they don’t have to break the bank.

Preview of the home page:

Jane is a great person, has a passion for perfection and knows what she wants. She has made me a better designer and coder because of that. If you’re interested in a custom blog please check out Custom Photography Blogs.

You can also follow Jane on twitter.