Just completed an submitted the logo for Code Camp 14. It also includes some first. For the first time there is not tents in the design an for the first time there are people around the camp fire. The three people play an important rolls. The first person, left to right, has an idea. The [...] Read full story »
Decorators Workroom takes its first steps
We are proud to announce that our new client Decorators Workshop took its fist baby step in the early hours of the morning. The event was marked by the launch of its temp. “coming soon” page. Keep an eye out for updates as soon we will have there amazing new full site launched. Wait until [...] Read full story »
GREY WOLF DESIGN Launches Improved News Section
After a few days of work, we launched our new News section on the GREY WOLF DESIGN web site. After several issues arose with the last theme we were using in Word Press and jumping over an using an custom Blogger template as an interim solution, we are finally back on Word Press. The design [...] Read full story »
Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Launch Event Report
Just returned from the Microsoft Expression Studio 4 launch in New York City. The event took place as part of the Yahoo.com sponsored week long “Internet Week”. Right out of the gate all the new features found in Expression Studio 4 or impressive. Bill Buxton delivered his best performance I have seen to date as [...] Read full story »
Pro 4 Modifieds new website goes Live !!
After a few months developing and test the new site and pulling over all the content from old to new, we are re-launching the the Pro4mods.com website. The new site is driven by a highly customized database system that will greatly improve communications within the drivers and fans. Also check out the improved photo galleries [...] Read full story »
Launched New Website for KMS: Kidd Motorsports
After a lot of hard work and long hours by GREY WOLF DESIGN working close with Mat Fritz, we are happy to announce the launch of the Kidd Motorsports, totally redesigned, website. http://kidd-motorsports.com/ We still have some small touches to add like special things for the fans in the Fan Zone Section, so make sure [...] Read full story »
Created logo for Bob’s B-1b R/C Bomber Project
In addition to the special project subdued insignia patch we add the official project logo now. After getting a request from John the webmaster for the really cool, ongoing, project of Bob building his giant scale B-1B remote control bomber model plane that will take off under the power of 4 screaming mini jet turbines, [...] Read full story »
Created Logo for Code Camp 13
With the new Code camp notice comes, another Code Camp logo. This time its a Spring date and it’s already Code Camp 13, WOW so fast. A quick post to let everyone know that the date is set and the venue reserved: New England Code Camp 13: Saturday, March 27th, 2010 The Microsoft offices in [...] Read full story »
Boston WebsiteSpark Group Success
Last night was the very first meeting of the new web design & development group that I run called the Boston WebsiteSpark Group. The group have four core purposes (1) to talk about the Microsoft WebsiteSpark program (2) talk about and learn about the Expression suite of web design & development application, and most [...] Read full story »
B-1B R/C Project Logo
I was working on an unrelated Insignia project and listing to Bob’s project YouTube videos while waiting for a client to get back to me and the idea for a logo patch for him popped into my head an 20 min and ta-da, they already got it posted up on his project website and even [...] Read full story »
Pennington Flower Temp Page Going Live
In a huge jump forward on yet another project that was placed on hold until after the holiday season, we will be posting up the first sign of what’s to come for the Pennington Flowers website this evening. It’s always great to really be working on a project like a high-end florist business because they [...] Read full story »
Sneak-Peek at IST’s Second Site
While on a roll, and since several people have asked for a sneak-peek at the near final design for the second site for the International String Trio ( IST). This site is their face forward for the High End events and party clients. More news soon on this one as its about 80% done we [...] Read full story »
Seekonk Speedway Annual Banquet
Last night, 16 Jan 2009, at Venus De Milo’s it was a great night to gather and toast all the drivers and teams from Seekonk Speedway. I had the best time working and socializing with some of the best photographers that have been covering racing tracks in New England for over 40 – 50 years. [...] Read full story »
Distinctive Surfaces of Florida Finally Launched
It took some time to get it all changed and up-dated, but we are very happy to launch the Distinctive Surfaces of Florida site go live. We were brought in by Heavy Advertising to produce the non flash portions of the site ( Just the home page is Flash). Heavy is our favorite agency [...] Read full story »
Kidd Motorsports Joins the Client List
GREY WOLF DESIGN is very excited to announce our newest client, Kidd Motorsports, that literally took shape on the door steps of New Years Eve 2010. The race team based out of Exeter, Rhoads Island, managed by Matt Fritz. The two car team with driver Kyle Casper operates the #07 Pro Stock and #7 Late [...] Read full story »
Interesting Stuff from webInno 24
Just back from another exciting Web Innovators group meeting. If you’re in the Boston area and have not heard of this group check them out (www.webinnovatorsgroup.com). From the presenters and side-bar companies tonight I present a few i found very interesting: ThredUP: They provide a service were you can trade your clothing, with others in [...] Read full story »
Launched News Section for Mad-Dog Motorsports Site
Today we just launched a new News/Blog site for Jake driver of the Mad-Dog Motorsports # 46 Pro Stock racing car. Currently it houses the Race Results and Team News for the 2008 and 2009 racing seasons. We have already infused the blog with some images and more will be forth coming before the end [...] Read full story »
Software … Glass Runneth Over…
For the first time in my long professional career i can say that my cup do runneth over in the software departments. Well all have go around and around the software/ applications rollercoaster in our carriers. Especially know in the doom days of the error of the “Suite” almost everyone has these, often expensive, bundles [...] Read full story »
Barak Uranovsky Site Launched Live in English an Hebrew
We just launched Barak’s site last night ( morning for him in Israel ) and he will be busy uploading all his text into the sites CMS (content management system). This was not our first multi language site, but or first English–Hebrew combination, luckily for me I did not have to learn it, my friends [...] Read full story »
Catching Up on Stuff and Craft
Previously I have blogged about little applications, frameworks, and tools that we have tried-out and/or added to our mix-bag, rather tool set. As they say something’s stay the same yet other things change. One of things that I have found very useful is using Yahoo’s new homepage design as my home page in my browsers, [...] Read full story »
New Blog for Grey Wolf Design
We re-launched our GREY WOLF DESIGN website today after making some adjustments to the pages. The two things you will notice right off the bat are the new supper-sized the thumbnail images for all the work galleries and we added in a second gallery page to the Web section. We have also totally changed our [...] Read full story »
Let the Music Play….Twice
It has been a very busy start to the Fall of ‘09, yesterday we had a double-music-header with the launching of two Violinist websites. Ben Powell, a member of the International String Trio (we launched their site this past Spring, was the first site to go live. Sariata Uranovsky another amazing violinist ( an fellow [...] Read full story »
Kyle DeSouza’s Motorsports Site Goes Live
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Kyle DeSouza Joins Client List
We are very happy to announce that Kyle DeSouza is the newest client to join GREY WOLF DESIGN motorsports department client list. Kyle , from Fairhaven, MA,is a very talented young driver in his rookie year in the # 88 Sport Truck division, and is also driving in the # 88 SYRA 750 division at [...] Read full story »
Double Vision – Double Solution
Recently a client came to us to help them out with the fact visitors to their site were not completing an request for information form out a vast majority of the time. They were also getting a lot of spam, or at least they think was spam because it was hard to sort incomplete forms [...] Read full story »
Pro 4 Mods Web Site Launched and Instant Press
Okay another rain soaked week here in New England ( we think its summer but not sure yet!!!) Late yesterday we launched the new site for our exciting new client the Pro 4 Modifieds series, and this morning we got new press from Yankee Racer website (YankeeRacer.com) Read full story »
New Motorsports Marking Division at GREY WOLF DESIGN
Okay put all the rumors away, we have finally launched our new division “Motorsports Marketing”. Those that know me will say, duh , about time. We are not just a race fans, we love racing. I grew up bouncing around Darlington and Charlotte ( sorry Lowe’s) race tracks and then did some motocross out west. [...] Read full story »
Seekonk Speedway Site Goes Live
It has been a very hard three months here at Grey Wolf Design since we secured the Seekonk Speedway site re-design project there was really nothing to salvage from the old site. So, in that regards it was the best kind of redesign: nuke and re-build!! We evolved a new version of our Nb “new [...] Read full story »
Quick Press for New Seekonk Speedway Website
The very day the we launched the new Seekonk Speedway website, the staff over at the Yankee Racer had already posted an announcement and showed us some love for the new sites design improvements: “The site is easier to navigate with information on upcoming races, news, race results and point standings. New photo galleries and [...] Read full story »
Mad-Dog Motorsport Becomes New Client
Mad Dog Motorsports joins the GREY WOLF DESIGN clients list. We jumped right into things and created a nice promotional site with a lot of additional pages and support for the sponsor related visitors, but primarily for Jake’s growing fan base. Read full story »
Wire Frame / UI Sketching and Grid Tools
Since New Years, I have found and employed some new tools to speed-up the design phase of our firms design-build process. GRIDS Grid Designer 2 : In an effort to speed up and play with the gird layout an elements, I found a joy of a tool online. Grid Designer 2 (http://grid.mindplay.dk) is nothing short [...] Read full story »
Another Flash/XML Calendar CMS launch
Heavy Advertising, recently gave the Marina Bay Beach Club website a much need redesign and we tagged along deploying or custom flash/XML calendar CMS yet again. We used our very intuitive content managment system for a flash site the Heavy Advertising crew built. Our system give the end user client the ability to log in [...] Read full story »
Time Tracking – Home Run
For many long years freelancing as an designer I have looked for an affordable solid solution to tracking my time of the many projects both new and ongoing. Done it all the various accounting software features, time trackers, and paper time sheets. From time to time when trying to escape work or designers block I [...] Read full story »
Nb CMS Branding Launched
Today its now official, the content management system we developed now has an official name Nb standing for “New bits”. previously code named Dex after the office cat Dexter, it now got its own brand identity as it marches off into the world. From the very start we were on a mission, and what [...] Read full story »
Sustainable Urbanism Summit Site Launch
We are excited to announce we have created and launch the website for CNU New England Chapter’s huge Sustainable Summit. It was a fast paced and exciting development project, with great results. The blog should be comming early next week so they are off to a solid fast start. website: http://www.cnunewengland.org/summit/index.htm Read full story »
You Got Listings Website Launched
Right on the heels of their logo completion, we announce the live launch of the YougotListings.com website, sporting a clean and fresh modern design, catering to their dual client base; both agents and landlords. This is our latest and most exciting client and we are happy to launch this great site visual design for them. [...] Read full story »
You Got Listings Branding Launched
Grey Wolf Design, announces, the logo for a new great member of the client family, You Got Listings. Simple clean logo, the conveys the business services and market out reach, clearly. Read full story »
Camden Police K9 Insignia – Subdued Version Creation
Grey wolf design was tapped, to create an subdued version of the Camden insignia. We are very happy to be able to show off one of our insignia. Since 2000 we have design and generated over 200 special operations team insignia which most often we can not show-off publicly. I will make an effort to [...] Read full story »
Web User Stats : January 2009
Looking at Market Shares’ end of the year trend and stats an interesting picture of were we are and what we are doing as-far-as Search Engine usage, Browsers, and Screen Sizes, other stats are also available on their great site as well if you in the trade.The following is snap shot of there data (numbers [...] Read full story »
Rocco and the Stompers Site Launched
Busy last couple of week here at Grey Wolf, we are proud to announce the Launch of the Rocco and the Stompers website this past Monday. Boston-based all-star octet, Rocco and the Stompers, merges the traditional 1930’s Swing Era sound with contemporary arrangements and compositions. Formed in mid 2008, the group’s focus has been [...] Read full story »
Kids Clothes Club Site Launched
We are very proud to announce, the launching of the new Kids Clothes Club site, a heart warming and amazing charity, and we are honored to call them a client of ours. Since 1991, the Kids Clothes Club has been providing new, warm winter coats to children in need. In our first year, we helped [...] Read full story »
Star Trek Online Store Gets Face Lift
Launched the new home page for Themed Merchandise Corporation’s Star Trek store site. So, hey if you like or love Star Trek, hop online and check them out. Especially the Enterprise Gummi candy, because, grey wolf design designed the packaging for thie really great looking and tasting gummi candy. link: http://themedmerchandise.com/ Read full story »
Flash/XML Calendar CMS system x2
We recently wrapped up two great projects with Heavy Advertising. We created a very intuitive content managment system for a flash calendar system Heavy built into their two recent club site launches. Both The Estate Boston and Eyebar DC, no sport smooth control over their club calendars including both text, limks and image uploading. Info: [...] Read full story »
Building a Better Process Foundation (Part I)
A design team is always looking to improve its process. Often new tricks and tools are added rather piece-mill on the fly. From time-to –time I like to look at the process we are using and streamline things. The end of last year I set out with an objective of really performing a deep spring [...] Read full story »
MassArt Senior Projects Show 2008
Yesterday, in-between meetings , I managed to stop over at MassArt. Two of my friends are seniors and had presentations at the senior project show. Shawn’s, i had seen during production, but its was great to see it finished. I really like his idea of playing with the typology of everyday sounds, as [...] Read full story »
Improving TV websites
If you missed the short and very informative artice by Whitney Pastorek ” A Better TV Website in Just Four Easy Steps” in Entertainment Weekly (11.7.08) pg 81, you should check it out. For a very long time TV stations have been very bad at understanding this aspect, and today with so many watching missed [...] Read full story »
Building an iPhone site
I came across one of the best blog articles I have ever read: Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site Posted by Ross Harmes, posted on the Flickr blog. Having recently gone through an interesting effort developing the mobile site for Galen Partners, I totally was not only able to relate to his article but [...] Read full story »
Building a Better Process Foundation (Part II)
Grids Over the early half of the year I set off researching various articles and examples of design grid systems. I took a lot of these theories and systems and most of the visual designs produced over the past two years to see what fit into my love for clean design and a body of [...] Read full story »