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Photography Made Simple

Shavawn Selleck contracted me for quick deadline photo web portfolio. The main challenge besides the quick turnaround, was to have a the ability to quickly change the presentation depending on which of her clients will be reviewing the work.  Shavawn has been able to build up a broad portfolio over the last few years with …

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Burkle Foundation Mobile Ready

Ronald W. Burkle, A major political fundraiser, he is listed on the Forbes 400, with an estimated net worth of $3.2 billion in 2011. Project: The Ronald W. Burkle Foundation contracted Daniel Fairbanks Design to showcase Ron’s various contributions through the foundation he set up, and have come around after launching the first site I designed …

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Public Relations Agency Hires

The Rowland Agency commissioned the web design, production and ongoing maintenance services for a San Francisco Bay area based PR firm. The design challenge started from dissatisfaction of a popular design contest website and coming up short after multiple attempted designs that were submitted. Daniel Fairbanks Designs task was to prove, not only the job of …

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Launching Rose Park Roasters

Contracted by two Long beach residences that love coffee as much as I do.  The task seemed easy but with various eCommerce custom features and WordPress design, a challenge arose. The was challenge; a uncommon shipping feature for bicycle delivery, Paypal integration as the payment gateway without leaving the site and having payment processed through …

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Film DP and Make-up artist

Carolina Zorrilla de San Martín is a experienced Directory of Photography with an exstensive portfolio and  a back ground as a makeup artist.  Carolina contracted my services more than a year ago to do a Flash website, but after a long peried of delay, she returned to complete the design.  After some discussion about the …

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eProductivity Design reVISION

Starting back in December, I was contracted to perform a site overhaul for eProductivity, a software application that makes Getting Things Done in IBM Lotus Notes.  I admit not knowing anything about this market or the software, but when it comes to good design, there really is no obstacle that can’t be overcome. Upon learning …

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Design Consulting

Recently I was approached by a long time surfer friend of mine, to consult and review the current front page design of the church he now pastors in Albuquerque, NM. This can be a designers dream or nightmare, to reconstruct a direction of another designer who just finished the project, and the challenge is not to …

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Creative Harmony

Design blog for inspiration » creation » harmony Featured design for a landscape architect firm in southern California. Graham Stanley enter into a new business venture of designing Green Walls. I was approached to convert a pre-existing design and static website into a CMS system and robust WordPress backend so that the client can edit …

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