Outward Focus Design

Classic Hardwood Floors was in a common position: the company had a homemade website which was fine when the company was just getting going, but after several years of growth, the site looked a bit amateur for the caliber of work the company performs. The goal for the site was of course to show how [...]

Jamie Peha and Anne Nisbet have a radio show called “TableTalk” that airs once per month locally in Seattle. The focus is on wine and food: home cooking, restaurants, and foodie events in the Seattle area. The site primarily is a vehicle for three blogs: one about home cooking, one about events, and one a [...]

Mistral-Kitchen is a fine dining restaurant in Seattle. The feel of the restaurant is distinctly modern, having been designed by an architect. The owner wanted the website to feel modern and clean, yet dark and moody. The site is built on WordPress, with a custom back end allowing restaurant staff to easily be able to [...]

Belle Femme is an independent salon offering organic skin care in a luxuriant atmosphere. The owner wanted a site that offered a feeling of European luxury and abundance. The salon also sells jewelry, and the new website offers rich detail for each piece, as well as a way to cross reference other pieces of jewelry [...]

This was an interesting one! Having designed an individual restaurant site for Serafina and Cicchetti separately, both under the same ownership and management, the owner now wanted an “umbrella” to wrap the two sites together. This was useful especially given that much of the information, such as contact info, is shared between the two restaurants. [...]

Mixed Greens is run by two serious photographers and foodies, and they are competing with some pretty sophisticated websites for attention on the internet. There old format wasn’t cutting it, so they asked me to redesign it. We kept enough flavor from the old design (same logo and masthead, white background, bright green links) to [...]

Cicchetti is the sibling restaurant to Serafina, whose website I also designed. The owner wanted a very different feel for this restaurant, as it is a more casual yet modern style of establishment. Cicchetti’s site features striking photography which expands to fill the background of each page, no matter the size of the viewer’s monitor. [...]

Fred Arcala is partner in a Seattle law firm that specializes in immigration law. He wanted a site that had iconic American motifs, yet still appeared professional. I designed a masthead with the Statue of Liberty, and infused the palette of the site with blues and burgundies. Fred also wanted to be able to add [...]

This was the second project I completed for Seattle-based author and chef Nicole Aloni. The first was her professional homepage, but after we finished it she felt like her new book, A Conscious Feast, needed its own identity. The site I built for her is a richly featured WordPress blog. It has a custom mechanism [...]

Yoram Bauman, the world’s first and only Stand-Up Economist, had a challenge for me: could I help him condense the information from three websites into one? And could it also look appropriate for both a comedian and an Econ professor? Yoram had been juggling lots of information between three different websites, and he wanted to [...]