Alyson Design

Custom WordPress Theme: Motorboat Movies

adesign — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:39:49 +0000

Alyson Design worked with Motorboat’s Cameron Burr to create a portfolio website just as quirky as his wide variety of video, documentary and hand-drawn animation projects. Updating the content himself was a priority, so we integrated this design into the WordPress content management system, our hands-down favorite to work with. The project also included an emphasis on organic search, as the rest of the world should witness Cameron’s humorous, professional, and sometimes bizarre take on his subjects.

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Custom WordPress Theme: The Muskin Company

adesign — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:54:43 +0000

Quite often less is more, and this web design for The Muskin Company puts that theory into practice by placing this long established Austin home builder’s work front and center. This project gave the company a clean, easy to navigate space to feature their amazing custom home and remodeling work, all of which is easily updatable using the WordPress content management system. Along with the site, we created a fresh logo design, matching yard signage, and integrated our SEO Starter Kit to help push the company’s organic search presence to a much higher level.

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Website Design: Petticoat Fair

adesign — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:55:52 +0000

Petticoat Fair has been meeting the intimate apparel needs of area women for over 45 years, and we were excited to help this landmark Austin retailer update their web presence. This project included a complete site redesign with a new foundation of xhtml/CSS code, a fresh visual identity, user-friendly non-Flash product galleries, and an emphasis on organic SEO to help potential customers find them online more easily.

Custom WordPress Theme: Opal’s Divine Mary Mix

adesign — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:36:22 +0000

Building a brand like the Opal’s Divine Mary Mix requires a cohesive look that runs from product, to advertising and marketing, all the way through to the website. For this part of the project, we created a custom WordPress website that not only reflects the Opal Divine’s brand, it encourages participation by fans and users alike! We’re looking forward to more tall tales on the site’s blog from Michael Parker, founder of the Opal’s Divine Mary Mix.

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Custom WordPress Theme: Home Sweet Home Austin

adesign — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:33:08 +0000

Home Sweet Home Austin’s Janet Cloudt is no stranger to the Austin real estate market, and when she decided to create a fresh approach to the traditional realty website, Alyson Design was there to assist. Janet had a number of very specific goals for her new business website, both visually and functionally, and once again a fully custom WordPress theme was the solution.

Anchoring her site is a Community section, which not only serves as a place for Janet to post personal blog entries and informative articles, but also gives users online space to interact and submit their own informative content. Visually, the site takes a big detour from the typical real estate website, and it gives the logo we designed a bright, comfortable new environment to live in. This project also included integrated MLS search tools, a featured properties section and featured neighborhoods pages, all of which can be quickly and easily updated through an administrative control panel.

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Product Label Design: Opal’s Divine Mary Mix

adesign — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:11:29 +0000

After ten years of depending on Alyson Design for all of the graphic and web design requirements for their three Austin restaurants, Opal Divine’s called on us when it was time for their first product launch. We worked closely with Opal’s founders and their PR team in creating a Bloody Mary Mix label design that effectively reflected the Opal Divine’s brand that we worked so hard to build. Thus the Divine Mary Mix was born – just add Tito’s vodka!

Check out the custom WordPress theme we designed as part of this project

Poster Design: 2010 Great Austin Beer Festival

adesign — Thu, 27 May 2010 22:34:49 +0000

We are excited to be working with The Great Austin Beer Festival, a new event where attendees are rewarded with unlimited 4oz samples of some the finest brews from Austin and around the globe. The event will offer multiple opportunities to learn everything you want to know about beer, and will be held at the Austin Music Hall on June 26th, 2010.

Visit The Great Austin Beer Festival website here.

Poster Design: Sycorax

adesign — Wed, 26 May 2010 23:05:07 +0000

The Weird Sisters, Austin’s favorite all-woman theater troupe, are proud to be performing an original work by one of their founding members, Susan Gayle Todd. The Weirds’ sixth annual production features New York’s Azure Osborne-Lee as Sycorax, a healer of Algiers who rises to prominence through her arts – and through her relationship with the enigmatic spirit, Ariel. When a catastrophic storm destroys Algiers, Sycorax is blamed. Stripped of her power and her lover, she is cast out and later marooned to become the “witch” of the isle from Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

There will be eight Performances June 17-20 and 24-27 – for tickets and more information, visit the Gemini Playhouse website.