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New Fishbucket!

By steve On March 15, 2011 In announcements With No Comments Permanent Link to New Fishbucket!

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Historically, this site has been a bizarre assortment of pages that were haphazardly slapped together. And that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, it was a fun way to show my goofy 70s people, plus I never wanted this site to feel corporate. (I vote YES on sweet 70s ‘staches and NO on wordy case studies and empty marketing statement garbage.)

While the randomness of the old pages was fun, I figured a cleaner homepage and blog and some sort of “navigation” could be useful.

So here we are! The cast of characters is the same, but there’s a little more order around here. The revamped portfolio is easier to navigate and won’t be left neglected for months/years anymore. The quote request page works as it used to, and the blog has moved off of the homepage and into its own comfortable corner.

Leave a comment and let me know what you think!

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Full disclosure… I assume most professional web designers are in the same boat, but with a full client load it’s hard to find time to work on your own site. To expedite the process, this site is based on an excellent theme by Orman Clark. Check him out!

New Soul Train site

By steve On March 7, 2011 In announcements With 2 Comments Permanent Link to New Soul Train site

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Hop back on the Soooooul Traaaaain… We relaunched the site this weekend, going with more of a news/magazine feel and brightening everything up. Check it out!

SOULTRAIN.COM
Site by Fishbucket
Project management by Arisha Williams

Gilbert Arenas Sneaker Champ mini-site

By steve On February 3, 2011 In announcements With No Comments Permanent Link to Gilbert Arenas Sneaker Champ mini-site

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He’s back! Gilbert Arenas now plays for the Orlando Magic, and since he’s no longer with Adidas he’s free to wear whatever sneakers he wants. We set up this calendar-style site so his fans can keep track of what shoes he wears every game:

GILBERT ARENAS IS THE SNEAKER CHAMP.

This was a collaborative effort, involving Dustin Canalin of UNDRCRWN fame, and Paisley Benaza of DOSSIER.

Check it out…

BOOTS N’ WIGS

By steve On January 21, 2011 In announcements With 1 Comment

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Another fun project… BOOTS N’ WIGS is your go-to spot for pictures of BOOTS and WIGS. Uses a yearbook theme, so you can browse through the pages of this fantastic class of crazy people. Check that out!

BOOTSNWIGS.COM
Site by Fishbucket
Additional development by Will Olbrys
Creative direction by Fam-Lay

BBC Ice Cream Season 12

By steve On December 22, 2010 In announcements With No Comments Permanent Link to BBC Ice Cream Season 12

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Just relaunched a bunch of stuff for Billionaire Boys Club to show off the forthcoming Season 12. New homepage, blog and lookbook. Get that!

new NER*D site

By steve On September 24, 2010 In announcements With No Comments

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Hey look at that, late last night we relaunched the N*E*R*D site with a brand new look for their upcoming (at some point) album Nothing! Big thanks to FriendsWithYou, Mr. Mikey Millions and of course the Imperial CreativeDirector P.

N-E-R-D.COM
Site by Fishbucket
Artwork by FriendsWithYou
Project management by Mikey Millions

New BBC Ice Cream Homepage

By steve On August 27, 2010 In announcements With 1 Comment Permanent Link to New BBC Ice Cream Homepage

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We just launched a new homepage for BBC Ice Cream. I did one of these “look back” posts when we launched the third version of the Star Trak site, so hey why not one for BBC too?

DECEMBER 11, 2005: “SPINNER”

This was the first official BBC Ice Cream site. The homepage was just a spinner toy thing that let you pick which side to go into. Little-known fact: If you click the spinner (instead of one of the two sides) it’ll spin and randomly send you to whichever side it lands on. Littler-known fact: you can still spin the spinner.

AUGUST 27, 2007: “BBC WORLD”

I brought out the pencils and sketched what a BBC world would look like. (and later uploaded that original sketch on ARTST.) This was also the day the BBC Blog launched, which has been tremendously popular. Of all Fishbucket-created sites, this gets the most traffic by far. Since we added google analytics in November 2007 the site has had nearly 15 million visits.

AUGUST 27, 2010: THE NEW STYLE

So, to commemorate the three-year anniversary of the last major update, we set out to simplify and streamline the homepage. We’re now showing the current season front and center, and styling the page to correspond with the blog. Expect this style to change seasonally instead of every 2-3 years!

Thanks (as always) to Loic and Phillip!

Rye Rye videos

By steve On July 27, 2010 In announcements With 2 Comments Permanent Link to Rye Rye videos

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This was a fun project, totally outside of the usual Fishbucket fare. I made a bunch of short videos for Rye Rye, which she debuted at her HARD NYC performance this past weekend.

I started with a bunch of images, live clips, found footage, iTunes visualizers (including the excellent Disco Brick, which in my mind I kept calling Disco Rick, but I don’t think they’re related,) and some good old-fashioned video rescanning. I then created some flash animations to add to the mix and brought all of these pieces into After Effects for layering and editing and messing-with. There were 14 videos in all, each with a different look.

Here’s the intro video:

and a logo animation for use between songs:

And some views from the crowd:

MADNESS!!

BBC Ice Cream Season 11 Lookbook

By steve On July 2, 2010 In announcements With No Comments Permanent Link to BBC Ice Cream Season 11 Lookbook

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It’s lookbook time again! This time we had to present the two sides separately. BBC gets its elegant black background while Ice Cream is nutty.

Plan out your Autumn/Winter 2010 purchases now!

Liz Miele site refresh

By steve On May 20, 2010 In announcements With No Comments Permanent Link to Liz Miele site refresh

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Way back in the olden days of january 2006, we built a fun little site for comedian Liz Miele. Today we relaunched the site; same basic style with refreshed pictures by Chris Vongsawat. Check it out, but beware: it may make you hungry for donuts!