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Welcome
to the premier issue of
Gardiner Design the
[ eye for design ] news
I'm back from my vacation in St. Croix,
and I thought I'd start a newsletter to keep in touch with my
clients and friends. I
plan to do this on a bi-monthly schedule, or as news merits... so please
email me me if you'd like to be removed from my newsletter list.
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Vacation
Woman by Debi Gardiner
available exclusively at istockphoto.com |
Thanks,
Debi Gardiner /owner, designer, illustrator. |
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Chimneys
by Debi Gardiner
available exclusively at istockphoto.com |
Debi
sells photos & illustrations at
istockphoto.com [ the designer's dirty little
secret ]
A few of you already
know that I have ventured into the world of stock photography
and illustration. I joined up with istockphoto
in December 2003 attempting and make a little mad money from my photography
addiction. A new digital camera and a trip to Greece lead to some
exciting stock images, so I thought I'd give selling them "a shot".
For those who don't know about istockphoto.com,
it's a very inexpensive source for quality stock imagery, including
photography, vector artwork and flash files. I currently have over
125 images in my istock portfolio:
[ www.istockphoto.com/avante
] which include both photos and vector images, several of
which been awarded the elusive "flames" for images with
a minimum of 100 downloads. 
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A surprise under
the covers of Guy Kawasaki's new book:
The Art
of the Start
Guy Kawasaki sponsored
a contest through istockphoto to create the cover design for his recently
published book, and of course, I entered. The theme of my entry (shown
to left) was a paint-by-numbers concept in which I combined and altered
several photos to mimic the light blue lines and filled areas of a
project in progress. With color names indicated in the blank areas
such as "aim for the sky blue", and "sell what you
know yellow"... I sent off my entry. Although not the winner,
I was thrilled when Guy decided to use not only the winning entry,
but to print all entries inside of hardcover's glossy
jacket. So buy the book, (or see the inside book jacket here ) and
see Gardiner Design in print once again. |
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Minera Webworks |
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Lisa
Shea, owner
of bellaonline,
the second largest woman's website in the world, wanted a art
deco style owl for her newly formed LLC and turned to Gardiner Design
for this rendition. |
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Handworks Gallery |
Owner
Glenn Johnson wanted to change the logo he inherited when he purchased
an upscale craft gallery several years ago. He loved the look achieved
when Gardiner Design designed his website,
[ www.handworksgallery.net
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Debi
Gardiner and Maureen Wolf awarded Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce
website redesign project
Gardiner Design just celebrated it's 19th year
in business, and first anniversary as a member of both the Blackstone
Valley and Worcester Chambers of Commerce. A
member of the BVCC's marketing committee, Debi
has been involved in many print design projects for the chamber. The BVCC
also wanted an updated website design, and after bidding against several
other member webdesign firms the team of Gardiner Design
and Wolf Web Systems was awarded the job. Currently in
the final design phase, we will be presenting .php templates to the chamber
so that the new design can be propogated throughout their current site
of more than 100 pages. We'll keep you posted on the progress! And
don't forget, Debi and Maureen
are sharing office space, so interactive
websites which include databases, e-commerce and user interfaces are just
one call away.
Speaking of the BVCC, Debi lead their task force for an April community
service Earthday 2005 Clean-up. You can read all about it at [ www.gardinerdesign.net/bvcc
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