CV of Justin Lang

I got tasked this today to come up with an email marketing piece for my local office to remind our church customers that we have things available for their last minute purchase for Easter.  My original idea when i was told to do this was to start with Easter eggs or something like that.  But I began to think about what is this thing going to be… a reminder.  And honestly, how does eggs working into lighting?!?!?  Doesn’t show a damn thing we sell or do.

So I put together an “Easter basket” filled with lighting equipment.  If you look closely, you’ll see an Easter surprise! PEEP PEEP!

But what is interesting about the design was the subliminal message in the basket.  First, I had no idea that I was doing it, but one of my religious co-workers noticed that I had put in a cross.  It is actually a lighting tool.  Happy little surprise.

Over all I think the design is clean and simple.  Gets the point across and keeps the company name out there.

We kids, it is official, a new site design that I have been working on for the past month has gone live with it’s first posting. The Owner of the site is a friend and co-worker of mine through Barbizon in New England. He is starting to write for Live Design and his first article this month is the importance of a good web presence.

The goal of the site is to show off his lighting design work and writing skills. We utilized WordPress as the content manager as it is simple to use and easy to integrate new plug-in’s and upgrade.

This theme is not for sale and is the property of Zoll Design. If you like what you see, please feel free to contact me through my design firm, Justin Lang Design, info@justinlangdesign.com

Visit the completed site at www.zolldesign.com.

Something that I have been working on is a re-design of a co-workers website. While the concept has been approved, we are now in the stage of transferring the design to HTML. The site will go live by the end of the month.

While I really can’t say or show much at this time, I did want to provide a sneak peak at what I am up to. This design has actually gotten the creative juices flowing and made me think about my own sites and how they need a re-freshing.

So, in the next couple of weeks, after this project is done. Look for a new design to come around for not only chimpwalk, but also my professional site!

So Renee got me out of the house again yesterday when I had sooo much to do. So if you are reading this and you didn’t get your proof yesterday, I blame Renee!!! ;) It was good to get out of the house. THe weather was around 60 degrees and Sunny as hell! The water front was quite busy!

On these walks, I have been taking my new D80 Camera. And yesterday on our hour and a half walk, I took about 200 photos. I have crunch the ones I like and have uploaded them to our photo gallery, photos.justinandrenee.com. Take a look!

A Co-worker of mine sent me a link with a listing of the top 10 things to do in order to have a successful blog. On that listing was a tool to help bloggin, Ecto by illuminex. The beauty behind this little program is that you can write post off line and publish them to the site late. Thus negating the need for internet connection to write blog post.

As most of my readers of chimpwalk know, I write to a few blogs around the net. What is an added feature that I am already loving about this program is that I can quickly and easily start writting on another blog with out having to log into another site or program. It handles all of my blogs in one place.

If you write for your own personal blog or company blog, check Ecto out. It just might be worth the $20 fee!

Can you belive it, I got ink in this months issue of ETC Vision Newsletter!  All thanks for my thoughtfulness to take a photo while out on a demo with CNN.  ETC inked me regarding my post about CNN and the 60″ plasma screen we used for a demo of the ion board.

You can read the complete write up from ETC’s Newsletter here.

This is how I spend my sundays morning from 3am to 11am.  I have been working This Week with George Stephonopuls at the newseum.  It still amazes me that we spend SO much time setting up this shot and it is used for about 1 minute if that!

So I have been tasked with coming up with a new logo for our new Dodgeball Team, the Eballa Virus. We already have a website name and I am currently working on that, but first up is the logo.

So the questions is, how do I turn the Ebola Virus into a logo for a DodgeBall Team?  Well I am currently working on some sketches and hope to have a logo finialized after thuresdays practice and team members can “vote” on it.

So stay tuned, not only is there a logo on it’s way, but also a website!

Stay tuned

My lat post mentioned that I am working on rebranding our wedding website.  Well, I am pleased to say that I am 75% there!  I have only been working on the main page for the time being, but that is where most of the info is held.  I expect to have the site rebranded by the end of the week.  Then having a soft opening after that, then the grand OPENING on Jan 1.

So I may need some testers, anyone interested???

Here is a sneak Peak at the redesign of our wedding website, JustinAndRenee.com.  While I liked the first design, Renee has asked that it be redesigned to look more like out invitations and colors for the wedding.

So, working off a sketch, here is the first look that I can up with.  There is still some work to do, like coding it for wordpress and maybe some changes to the layout.  I wanted everyone to know that YES, I am working on it.

Black Friday is a great day to to this by the way!