Caleb Opp Photography Website -Finally!

After a long time, I was able to finish this project for my friend Caleb Opp. Caleb is a talented photographer who has recently dedicated a year to teaching English in South Korea. While there he saw some amazing things and even got Swine Flu! Quite an adventure.

I met Caleb at the Art Institute. Knowing his talent, I was excited when Caleb asked me to do a flash portfolio site for him. I tried some animation techniques I have never attempted before with the "Crows". Fun!
Check out the site at: CalebOpp.com

A Child's Song Website Launched!

AChildsSong.com
Took some time this October to focus on WordPress and A Child's Song. "ACS" was ready for a new look and a powerful site to be ready for their recent Google grant which will generate a lot of traffic. After some further investigating, I learned that I definitely and proufoundly "heart" WordPress...

Interactive Directories Logo Campaign

A recent project for Interactive Directories in which several Colorado-based websites were being started that needed continuity while maintaining individual characteristics that related to the subject of each.










Much thanks to Katie Messer (my little sis) for lending a hand to help me meet with the concepts and execution of these logos to meet this aggressive time line. She's terrific! Check out her blog.

Deer Hill Website

DeerHillExpeditions.com
So this website was a HUGE project that spanned from May to September of this year. Built on WordPress as the CMS, Deer Hill needed also needed some flash elements to help the website standout and avoid appearing to be just a WordPress theme. I had my friend and associate Eric Munoz assist me with the WordPress side of things until I could take the reigns myself. The out come made me, Eric, and our mutual client at Deer Hill all smile:

Deer Hill

Sorry it's been so quiet lately. I've been meaning to move my blog to WordPress but I'm wanting to have the blog integrated into my whole website which means redesigning my whole website/portfolio. It's going to be fun, but a large task. I'm looking forward to it. Here's what I've been up to this summer:

This is the logo for Deer Hill Expeditions. We went a lot of different ways before arriving at this solution. There were also lots of different treatments for the final product. This one is the "weathered" look.

"Deer Hill provides outdoor adventures and community service opportunities for young people."

They have a focus on service which provided a lot of interesting styling opportunities. Website is next.

iSchool Band

Been working hard with Bandfind Inc. to design and develope their latest social network:
iSchool Band

Services include:
Logo Design
icon design
Information Archeticture
xhtml/css
website layout
identity developement

iSchoolBand.com is a social network for high-school marching, and concert bands. It allows students, instructors, boosters, and parents to communicate online and streamline tedious tasks. There is also a common place where users can share sheet music, videos, mp3's, and pictures.
I've collaborated with Bandfind Inc. and I know the level of professionalism and research that has been put into it and I'm excited to see this product take-off!

WebKit's New Website Launched

WebKit.com

Designed by Yours Truly!

WebKit is a company I've been working with over the past few years. We did a re-design previous to this one since I've been working with them, however we were not able to lend the focus we really wanted to on it until now.

With the arrival of Mercury, WebKit's new php frame work for CMS, Ecommerce, and even social networks, It was the perfect time to rework their website.

Rick Messer Design is now working with WebKit on web projects with this new frame work which is pretty slick!

Please take a look at the new WebKit site and let me know your thoughts!

Montana Trout Lodge Website

Montana Trout Lodge has a new website.

This one was especially fun. Lots of freedom and the opportunity to create a logo to work from. This project is 100% Rick Messer Design from start to finish. There was a strong desire from the client to utilize their photography from around their many river journeys.

Check out the new site! MontanaTroutLodge.com

River City Marine Logo

I've been working with Winboats Web, a subsidiary of Webkit, who offers incredible POS software and integrated websites for boat dealers. We've had a lot of industry clients as a result of this new branch and this logo is a favorite of much of the design work we've been incorporating into this new branch of industry.
River City Marine is a boat dealer based in Kamloops, BC. This is a famous boating town because of the confluence of rivers in the heart of the city. The thought was to find a mark unique to this client while visually communicating their level of professionalism and hi-end business practices. The three elements you see indicate the general geographic location of the 3 main rivers (From left to right: Kamloops Lake, The North & South Thompson, and Shuswap Lake) in relation to the city of Kamloops.
Both me and the client were very happy with the end result!

Bryce Boyer Invitation - Photo Studio Grand Opening!

I was so impressed when I saw this new series Bryce Boyer (an amazing photographer right here in Denver) was doing to break-in his new studio. He asked me to lend a hand with the invitation and I was all-too-eager to take a chance to work with such talent. Here's what we came up with:

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What an honor to be able to work with Bryce. He's been working on his amazing new studio in Sunny Side and is going to be doing a Grand Opening May 22nd for the Art Director's Club of Denver and AIGA's F.A.C. meeting. Bryce's party will take place after the meeting.

Bryce's reputation is very widely known throughout the Editorial world and around the creative Industry in Colorado. Check out his STUFF

Faithful Workouts Website Launched!

New website launched for Faithful Workouts!
View here: faithfulworkouts.com



Faithful workouts is a ministry dedicated to spiritual, as well as physical fitness.

If you have Direct TV, tune in to channel 378 (NRB) and catch an Episode of Faithful Workouts on Monday mornings!

The new faithful workouts also provides you with weekly uplifting messages if you sign up for the newsletter or twitter. Or check the blog on the homepage.

Thanks to Eric Munoz, and Kevin Starling for their much appreciated collaboration on this project!

Embodymusem Website Launch!

New Flash Website for Embody Museum.
EmbodyMuseum.com


Music, Cultural Photography, Ancient Artifacts, XML Galleries, page to page animation, Tattoo & body art... awesome client!

Bowling Shirts & Promotional Jumbo Postcards

I recently had the opportunity to design a T-shirt for the Bowling League I'm in at Red Rocks Church. This was super fun and Scott Russomanno the head of the Sports Ministry was nice enough to grant Silver Sponsorship for the donation of my time to design the shirts.

I've never been good at self-advertising, but this was a unique opportunity to design something that 90 people who see me once a week at church would be seeing. I designed some 6x11 postcards to put in a goodies bag that everyone gets along with the T-shirt I designed.

This was an opportunity to do something fun and experiment with some typography/branding/and new styles. I went for a mild amount of humor because I just can't take myself seriously! Love to hear some comments on this!

Meetingwoo.com Launched!

http://www.meetingwoo.com/
I've worked with Meeting Woo over the last year creating their brand and we're proud to announce that we've launched the website today!
Check it out guys I would love to hear your comments!

Bossnupmusic.com Launched!

Bossnupmusic.comThis site was a joint effort. Together with Webkit we turned this motha' out! Take a look!

Faithful Workouts Logo Design

Created a custom font for this logo. Went through a lot of color changes with this one but we're all very happy with the end result!

Currently working on website.

What do you guys think of this logo design?

Fourelementslandscape.com Launched!

Chigity. http://www.fourelementslandscape.com/

New Website Launched

Xanadumedspa.com
Just launched website for client Xanadu Med Spa. Take a look!

Latest Projects

So I've been up to a lot of different things lately and rather than attempt to up date you all on every one. I thought it would be cool to just make a collage of all the projects I'm currenty/or recently working on.

Ofcourse some of these are mid-process. There are also a few that I can't put on because of non-disclosure agreements.

There you have it!

Basketball

I played basketball at the local rec center today with some friends. You may not realize this, but basketball is hard... and so is the floor... ouchie.