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Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society

Submitted by Laura on March 30, 2007

We designed a new logo for Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society.

We had free license to try all sorts of ideas when it came to design and branding, as long as they conformed to the Stanford Law School branding guidelines on color palette and treatment of existing logos.

Aid Workers Network

Submitted by Laura on June 22, 2006

When we did the web design and Drupal theme for Aid Workers Network, we also did this logo.

rare pattern

Submitted by Laura on March 27, 2006

Design launched 27 March 2006. This is a css-only theme for this site using Drupal.

rare pattern is my personal blog. I wrote a little bit about the new theme there.

BlogHer (beta)

Submitted by Laura on March 25, 2006

This is the 2006 BlogHer website. At the time of this screenshot (and this writing), the site is still in beta -- i.e., public but still undergoing further development and design work.

The BlogHer website itself serves as a clearinghouse of information for the 2006 BlogHer Conference itself, but it's also a vibrant online builder of community for women with its multiple daily front-page blogs about what women (and men, too) are writing about on blogs covering all kinds of topics.

The BlogHer Blogroll is the third main component -- categorized blogs whose listings are submitted by any and all who register on the site. We did some custom coding to get all those blogrolls to list the appropriate categories while paginating gracefully and linking directly to the linked sites while still tracking click-throughs. We also have forums set up, and a few other things planned.

Sep 21 2005

by Laura

Duck's Breath 2.0: a DVD redesign for new release

Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre is one of those comedy troupes that you never knew you already knew. As it turns out, they have 30 years of history presenting their peculiar brand of off-the-wall lunacy in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in places they've toured in the past, but that's probably not how you might know them. I knew them from the Ask Dr. Science spots they run on NPR stations around the country ("Remember, he's not a real doctor." "I have a Master's Degree--" "--in science!")

Now, to be perfectly honest, I can't say I cared much for the Dr. Science bits on the radio. But when I sat down and watched the footage of the Duck's Breath 30th Anniversary Show, the Dr. Science sketch had me in stitches! Because in the live show, he takes questions from the audience and answers them on the spot, ad lib. And that colors the whole experience. (Dan Coffey, the man who is Dr. Science, also hosted the radio show Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!.)

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