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December 12, 2007

what Lisa's been up to, November edition

Insanely busy as usual here at the corporate headquarters of Lisa Hazen Design & Editorial. As I wrap up my work for 2007, I'm on an article-writing, site launching extravaganza of sorts. Most significantly, the redesigned, ecommerce-ready site for Margot Madison Creative Stationery (MMCS) launched. The high priestess of MMCS, Margot Madison herself, is actually one of my best friends. There was a time when, freshly sprung from college, we chased boys together in Cincinnati. Margs is now a successful small-business owner, a wedding-invitation designer to the stars and now the purveyor of different customized paper product lines.

This site has been my most ambitious project to date. It involved customization, AJAX coding, ecommerce, and many things I don't really understand. Mad props to my multi-talented programmer, Alex Killough, who put up with the various incarnations this site went through over the months. Please visit the site at margotmadisionstationery.com and place a nice big order. Margot owes us some serious cash. Use the coupon code: baggermaniac and you'll get 20% off your order.

The second site was designed for a new client: the author Michele Weldon. Michele already had a best-selling book, I Closed My Eyes. (She even appeared on Oprah to promote it!>) Her new book, Everyman News is about the evolution of the daily newspaper in the Internet era. After all, no one is waiting for the morning paper to get the sports scores anymore— they just go online. She evaluates a shift to more feature-based reporting and how that will change how we receive our news.

For this site, I used a traditional newspaper grid and "black and white and red all over" palette. My friend, Samira, created an interactive Flash map to help deliver results by location. I'm really happy how this one turned out.

Posted by lisa at December 12, 2007 02:20 PM

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