Indianapolis Web Design Blog

The Indianapolis Colts® have posted the five finalists, which the fans will whittle down to one sparkling choice next week.

Finalists: Voting will begin by early next week (around April 28th) and will be open for approximately seven days.
Here’s my take on the five finalists:

All of you fans and designers out there (many fans ARE designers) check this out. The Indianapolis Colts are putting on a design contest to come up with a horse logo for the Colts. This won’t replace the famous horseshoe, but will still get some play. According to colts.com, “The Colts will use the winning […]

French Designer Philippe Starck, well known for his housewares you buy in Target stores, assumes himself accurate while declaring that he wants to give up design in an interview with a German publication.

As a members and designers, my wife and I both have the privilege to design work for the Vineyard Community Church (on the north side of Indianapolis.) While volunteer design work is hard at times due to scheduling and general life busyness, it occasionally rewards us with the opportunity to turn out projects that we […]

Just stop putting leaves in your logo already.

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Yesterday I took a tour of the local auto industry - driving around town getting estimates for a paint job.
Stepping out of my clean and organized world of validating XHTML, CSS, and good design, I entered a world where it just didn’t matter. Before stopping by several shops, I went online and hit every website […]

A writeup appeared today on Drupal’s website reporting that the Indianapolis Museum or Art’s new website was built using mostly unmodified Drupal 5, development by “Palantir” of Evanston, IL and “Studio Blue” of Chicago, IL.
The website is chock-full of “Web 2.0″ goodness - if you can find your way around it.

N-vent related news:
Tonight I finally got around to updating my design portfolio, adding 5 new web designs. I’ve been blessed with a lot of work this summer and fall, and therefore have hardly had time for my own site updates due to the workload. My freelance brethren out there can attest to this.
I’ve been very […]

There is nothing like a splash of humor to start off one’s day… but this is real, so I’m not sure it qualifies.
Just when you think you’ve seen everything, along comes some real gem of design utopia, a pinnacle of thought and creativity that inspires me to stay in business in hopes of achieving design […]

I am subscribed to the AIGA blog, but like the AIGA itself, it’s not usually meaningful enough to get me to head over and actually read the thing. The latest post caught my eye however: Why Double the Number of AIGA Members? by Richard Grefé, the executive director of AIGA.
In the post, Richard talks […]