8/31/2005 12:07:00 AM|W|P|John Torres|W|P|Here are a couple of comps I did for SoftBank Capital on behalf of Hunt and Gather. My good friend, Ann Karash, was the art director on this project and she really helped push me along in the right direction.
I'm really happy with how it came out, especially considering it's a website for a venture capital firm. Not exactly the most exciting or inspiring stuff... visually that is. I'm sure the world of venture capital is boats load of excitement and inspiration.
I'm particularly happy with the balance/asymmetry of it as well as the sense of depth these comps have.
|W|P|112546218484540040|W|P|Hunt and Gather|W|P|john.torres@gmail.com10/12/2005 08:15:00 PM|W|P| |W|P|These are so lovely and... ahhh PURE. Pure being the perfect word to use before they go through the rigamarole of client interaction! I really love the asymmetry with the "pages" here, as well as the use of brown... We are about done with the production of the site, and I will let you know when it is up. Beware, these nice stock photos are replaced with shots of meetings!10/31/2005 12:19:00 PM|W|P| |W|P|the new site is live!
that bottom bg/texture needs to stretch to the length of the page, but otherwise, you can see some of the original beauty...8/28/2005 11:42:00 PM|W|P|John Torres|W|P|Coming soon. I’ve been doing a lot of digging for some nice art to hang up at home and I’m sick of seeing the same shit everywhere.
So… I’ve decided to make a series of posters myself. I’m guessing I’ll make 3-4 posters based on the same theme.
Suggestions and collaborators wanted.|W|P|112528705797644320|W|P|New exciting poster series!|W|P|john.torres@gmail.com10/12/2005 08:17:00 PM|W|P| |W|P|here is an enthusiastically raised hand!
(any interest in splatter paint? and then covering it up? i.e. negative images of funny feathered birds?)8/24/2005 02:26:00 AM|W|P|John Torres|W|P|I'm going to be taking a trip to Canberra, AU some time around October. My time at Irrational Games is going to be split 50/50 between the Boston office and the office in Australia so they're flying me down to meet the team. I'll probably be there for about 4 weeks.
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I hear Canberra isn't exactly the most "happening" part of Australia but it's only about 2 hours by car to Sydney so I'll prbably make a least one trip over.
But as Steven said, worst case I'll have the really long plane ride to look forward to.|W|P|112486521216250369|W|P|Australia|W|P|john.torres@gmail.com10/12/2005 08:31:00 PM|W|P| |W|P|I told you about aquabumps.com, right? not so close to Canberra, of course, but it is good thing to daydream about... you and nikole and jarod could hop on a surfboard triple tandem (hmm... you know what I mean)!8/24/2005 02:19:00 AM|W|P|John Torres|W|P|I'm working on a web site for Mary Beth's photography portfolio. If anyone has any nice photography sites (I'm more interested in seeing the way navigation and layout is handled) then please pass them along.
I'd also love to hear some suggestions for cool features. I'm planning on implementing lightbox sharing. Meaning, you can go through the site, choose some photos you like and then email that package to someone. Another idea is to do eCards or slide shows that a user could customize.
As usual, I'll post some comps here when the site is close.|W|P|112486477702878822|W|P|Photography Site|W|P|john.torres@gmail.com7/21/2006 06:32:00 AM|W|P| |W|P|Well done!
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http://muerudke.com/lrnp/qzjr.html | http://zsfjfxae.com/sdtt/caym.html8/24/2005 02:04:00 AM|W|P|John Torres|W|P|I've been playing around a bit with saving information from flash to the server. I basically wanted to create a database without have to actually go through the hassle of creating a database.
I found that the easiest, but still fairly robust, option was to have Flash call a PHP page that would generate an XML file on the server. Flash now plays very nice with XML so it works great.
This is all still very new territory for me so I don't think think I'm qualified to provide a tutorial of any kind but if anyone's interested let me know and I'd be more than happy to share my files with you.
This weekend I also figured out how to pass a variable to an SWF that is embedded in an HTML page through the URL. If the Flash movie is not embedded you can just pass the variable like: http://www.mysite.com/myMovie.swf?var1=value
You just need a variable of the same name in Flash, in this case "var1".
However... when the swf is embedded it's a bit trickier. The HTML needs to pass the var to Flash, not the URL. So the way I'm doing it is by sending the var to a PHP page which plugs in the desired value in the HTML page.|W|P|112486436186980511|W|P|Flash, XML and PHP|W|P|john.torres@gmail.com8/24/2005 02:03:00 AM|W|P|John Torres|W|P|Here are the comps for another site I did for Itero. Itero is the company I've been doing these Catholic sites for. I'm hoping to do more work for them. I really enjoy being able to just come up with the layout and not have to worry about the implemtation of it.
This is the most "spiritual" of all their sites so I had to resort to some stock photography which I normally wouldn't have used. I think it's a good fit for the audience.
|W|P|112486347748281345|W|P|St. Jude|W|P|john.torres@gmail.com8/24/2005 01:48:00 AM|W|P|John Torres|W|P|That's low... although I noticed that some other designs that I thought would do very well ended up scoring in the low 3's. I guess the threadless kids are a tough crowd. I haven't heard anything about the winners yet, although with that score what little hope I had before is gone.
But not all is lost. I'm still planning on printing the shirt myself.|W|P|112486283161038426|W|P|2.42!|W|P|john.torres@gmail.com10/12/2005 08:22:00 PM|W|P| |W|P|total nonsense. that threadless crowd is ridiculous! why don't you make a tshirt of a bunny with floppy ears wearing a bikini and saying "funny mondays" which would, by my estimate, score a 7.8.
just imagine these scores on the opposite scale — i.e. 2.42 is a much better rating when you imagine the high is 0 vs. 10.
(and for all that brouhaha, I request a shirt in size S/M, please!)8/22/2005 11:49:00 AM|W|P|John Torres|W|P|Here's a link to my submission for the threadless t-shirt competition. The more votes I get the better, so get over there and start voting!
|W|P|112412119798225721|W|P|Theadlesss submission|W|P|john.torres@gmail.com8/17/2005 01:39:00 AM|W|P|John Torres|W|P|
Here's the logo I've been working on for the site. I wanted to go with kind of a marker on paper look but I still wanted to keep it clean.
I'm probably going to make a few more tweaks to it but hopefully a new site with a new logo will be up within a month or two.
But you won't hear me complain if I'm too busy with freelance work to get the site done.|W|P|112425756186178338|W|P|Logo|W|P|john.torres@gmail.com8/17/2005 01:24:00 AM|W|P|John Torres|W|P|
Here's the comp for the home page I did for the Claretians website. I had to go with a very compartmentalized design, which I'm not a big fan of, in order to match some of their existing sites but all in all I think it looks pretty good.
Check out those heavenly clouds in the header!
By the way... I've already been asked to work on another one. I'll post that some time next week.|W|P|112425648894004284|W|P|The Claretians|W|P|john.torres@gmail.com2/11/2006 01:00:00 PM|W|P| nikolet|W|P|Ha ha...they still haven't taken out the "Nikole Roome quote." It's great!7/21/2006 12:27:00 AM|W|P| |W|P|Good design!
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I’ll post some screenshots when I’m done.|W|P|112413165389789593|W|P|Happy Catholics|W|P|john.torres@gmail.com7/24/2006 12:09:00 PM|W|P| |W|P|Good design!
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|W|P|These are so lovely and... ahhh PURE. Pure being the perfect word to use before they go through the rigamarole of client interaction! I really love the asymmetry with the "pages" here, as well as the use of brown... We are about done with the production of the site, and I will let you know when it is up. Beware, these nice stock photos are replaced with shots of meetings!
nikolet|W|P|Ha ha...they still haven't taken out the "Nikole Roome quote." It's great!