New website design for tableware industry leader revealed

Mottahedeh recently hired me to redesign its website. Please find a sample design above.

The parent company Mottahedeh, Inc., based in New Jersey, distributes Mottahedeh, R. Haviland & C. Parlon, and Milestone. I designed the new site to show the three brands with equal footing, and make it easy to navigate to each.

In the attached comparison, I show the enhancements I made over the original.

Currently, the new home page is 'live,' with subsections coming as they are ready.

The new site should be fully ready by January 1st, 2010.

Please find the temporary site here - mottahedeh.com

New York City subway coat hangar by SS

The image on the left is of a coat hanger that was in today's Times. This image inspired me to think of how a New Yorker may do it.

Solarek Studio's Dubai T-shirt Featured in Middle Eastern Magazine

If you're flying to Dubai or around the Emirates this month, please look for the editorial mention about Solarek Studio in Jazeera Airway's inflight magazine. (Click here to view the article on Jazeera's website in English.) The April 2009 print issue gives a full page to our Dubai t-shirt. (The attached image shows their website in Arabic, as well as the printed page layout showing Wordsworth on the right side page.)

We currently offer New York and Dubai designs on regular and v-neck American Apparel tees. You're also welcome to request a custom design for any city or country by writing me. (I personally do the designs, and love doing them.)

Buy Dubai t-shirt - click here

Please check out our Wordsworth website site where you can browse and shop online:
http://www.wordsworthdesigns.com

Gotham Comedy Club poster update

This image shows two Gotham posters that we designed. The one on the left is one of the originals from October, and the one on the right is a more recent design. The difference: we've moved to using color pictures to make the poster more compelling to encourage attendance and purchases. The color layouts are slightly more work, but worth it. The image also show the photos that were used to make the poster. When I make the posters, I seek to close in on the comedian's face and eyes, which I think draws people in. To catch a show at Gotham Comedy Club, please visit their website - please click here.

Gotham Comedy Club chooses Solarek Studio to design posters for the front of the New York City club

Gotham Comedy Club chose us to design the posters for the front of their club. Since October, we have designed over 20 posters for the club. We design two poster types for them: one large poster showcasing one show/person, and one poster showing what is coming up for the month (usually four different acts). Check out a show at Gotham: www.GothamComedyClub.com

Council on Foreign Relations selects Solarek Studio to design website for 2008 Election

The Council on Foreign Relations, the New York-based political think tank, selected the Solarek Studio to design its 2008 election website. These are two designs that were presented. The designs include: a new, improved navigation system, columns for RSS feeds at the top, video playback spots, template features, and social networking features. Solarek also designed the Council's Campaign 2008 Election logo.

Foreign Affairs website design: FA magazine chooses Solarek Studio to design 2008 election home pages

Foreign Affairs, a magazine devoted to international relations that is published by the Council on Foreign Relations, selected the Solarek Studio to design an updated home page. The magazine also asked for three home page designs for the updated site that promoted essays by presidential candidates in the magazine. Designs included home page layouts for Obama-Romney, McCain-Clinton, and Edwards-Giuliani.

"The Solarek Studio has great insights into how magazines and other periodicals can best present themselves on the Web," says Tom Davey, Website Director at the Council on Foreign Relations. "Even a journal as traditional as Foreign Affairs has benefited."