Work
Welcome! I have a lush new website primed for 2010. Before that drops why not check out some of my recent projects?
- LTD
Print (design, branding & promotion)
LTD is a warehouse club night based in Leeds, UK. The event organiser asked me to devise a concept, design-through-print, and I went with 'limitation' and drafted a bunch of intriguing iconography to run with.
We got a few thousand flyers and posters done and promoted it primarily through Last.fm - the world's largest online music catalogue - which has scope to add events.
We made interesting use of track meta data too: custom playlists were built and run overnight to scrobble the artists playing on the night. Eventually the LTD profile matched the line-up to a T, so everyone hitting the site could view who was playing, find out individual artist info, listen, comment, and ask questions - all with a social by-product requiring minimal effort on our part.
- Newnham College
Print (design & promotion)
Newnham College - part of University of Cambridge - hosted a mid-Summer village fête event back in 2008 to celebrate the end of exam period and term-time.
I whipped up this typographic beauty to invite students and teaching staff alike to bask in civilised fun and frolics.
You can walk on the grass!
- Friends of the Earth
Print/Website (design & branding)
Young FoEE gave me the awesome opportunity to design them a logo to use throughout their protests to stop climate change in Poznań and Copenhagen during 2008/09.
- Blow Design
Website (design & development)
So often the case; we spend so much of our time looking after our clients that we don't get the chance to update our own websites.
Blow Design (now Blow Creative) drafted me in to design a bespoke Wordpress theme to help them get all of their lovely work onto the web.
- Syntegra Consulting
Website (design & development)
Taking some existing branding (logo/colours) I built up a modular, and scalable, layout to cater for Syntegra Consulting's future business requirements (things like new services and tools).
The design is integrated with a fully functional CMS platform (Wordpress), which allows for content modification.
Built in standards compliant HTML/CSS, providing a solid accessible foundation; the site boasts exemplary SEO features, such as an XML Sitemap and Blog/FAQ section to help generate readership.
- Blow Creative
Website (development)
I worked in harmony with Blow Creative - one of Bristol's most experienced FMCG design studios - to develop their online identity.
The site sports an advanced gallery interface, which allows users to breeze through their work in seconds; giving a great overview of some of the many, high profile, companies they've worked with.
- Despicable Flickr stunt
Website (promotion & branding)
A little web stunt I pulled to promote the launch of my new (this) 'folio on Flickr.
- Personal vCards
Print (design & branding)
Everyone is all 0's and 1's in 2009, right?
It may be true, but my phone and laptop batteries died at a recent networking event and it made me regret not having a simplistic card to energize conversations. Always a winner!
- West Test
Print/Website (branding, design & development)
Working closely with west-test.co.uk I helped tailor a set of full identity and brand guidelines, along with a tightly built website to accommodate the firm's online material into 2010.
The company's owner asked me to bear in mind the company's locality – Bristol – and focus specifically on promoting its activity in the South-West of England. Working collaboratively on accurate, useful, site copy and integrating steadfast SEO techniques, along with evocative artwork will enhance readership adoption and follow-up conversions.
west-test.co.uk will benefit from the ability to talk directly with its clients through the website; answering important and relevant questions in a forum-style experience through the site's FAQ threaded-comments section, which also doubles up as a useful by-product for populating the site with pertinent content. The site is built with standards in mind, and features a fully primed CMS for the owners to perform CRUD operations, such as updating pages, creating articles and posts, and moderating discussions.
A special consideration was given to enhance site usability, typography, design symmetry, and consistency throughout, with the aim of improving overall UE and visual clarity.
It must be a great feeling to know you have the best PAT Test-related website on the Internet?
About
Lewis Dexter Litanzios works and plays as an established freelance designer, with 5 years experience - from Bristol, England - specialising in user-centered Front-end Web Design and Development.
I utilise a bunch of technologies you won't care about unless they can do something for your business (which they can). I possess a solid grasp of Web Accessibility, Usability, Branding, and writing for the Web, which I consult on regularly around the UK. Awesome SEO is a by-product of all of these things combined, which comes naturally after I've finished my work.
I'm extraordinarily well connected and able to source talented programmers, artists, and other designers at the drop of a hat (some of which are good friends of mine).
On top of all of that; I'm equipped with attention to detail even the Rain Man would dribble over, and more attitude than Top Cat himself.
