fordycedesign provides services in creative direction, art direction, graphic design, user interface design, and consumer experience. we've created websites for big, established brands, forged concept-to-frution mobile apps, designed logos for major companies and small personal businesses, developed brands for cutting-edge internet start-ups, and delivered micro-sites for media companies. pretty much anything in the web sphere that involves end-users, we'll take a crack.

fordycedesign specializes in creating unique and industry-specific design with a strong, clean aesthetic tailored to fit technology, marketing, entertainment, and artistic clients who want to communicate their purposes as simply, directly, and smoothly as possible. it's all about understanding the medium and the user.

"...fordyceDESIGN gave our website a professional look that impressed investors and helped us to secure our 2nd round of venture capital financing."

Dane Boysen, Ph.D
Co-Founder, Superprotonic, Inc.

services

creative direction / art direction
logo & identity design
brand development
consumer experience / product strategy
website / user interface design
css / flash / interactive design
print / graphic design
photography / retouching
corporate / entertainment / e-commerce

select client list

boku, inc.
caltech
whittmanhart (dna studio)
mtv / nickelodeon
walt disney company
kelloggs
amgen, inc.
superprotonic
tuvox, inc.

contact

fordycedesign
san francisco, ca

626-399-3839
gfordyce (at) gmail (dot) com



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paymo app for android

date: june 2010
role: creative director, designer
employer: boku, inc.
info: application design and landing page concept for new paymo (boku's payment service) 1-tap™ mobile app on android

aoa redesign

date: march 2010
role: creative director, designer (ia: stephanie arnold)
client: apartment owners association of california
info: strategic, architectural, visual and ui overhaul for aoa corporate website

paymo logo redesign

date: january 2010
role: creative director, designer
employer: boku, inc.
info: logo re-design and complete branding overhaul for paymo, the mobile payments platform for boku, inc.

palm pre yellowpages.com app

date: september 2009
role: creative director (art director/designer: kaoru nishiyama wood)
employer: at&t interactive
info: creative direction for yellowpages.com app on palm pre mobile touch device
quotation: "The app still serves the basic function on finding nearby businesses, but does so with exceeding ease and grace.... YPmobile is a fantastic way to find nearby businesses with simple and intuitive controls and options.... Yeah, YPmobile is that good...."   — Derek Kessler, pre|central.net

yellowpages.com redesign

date: august 2009
role: creative director, lead designer (art director/designer: kaoru nishiyama wood)
employer: at&t interactive
info: redesign and new product vision for atti's flagship brand, yellowpages.com, including home page, events vertical, and company product page. clean, simple video player interface for third party deployment and inclusion on yp.com redesign

buzz.com logo design

date: august 2009
role: creative director, designer
employer: at&t interactive
info: logo design and branding investigation for atti's new concept for an existing web property

more atti mobile products

date: july 2009
role: creative director (designers: cathy hung, sean tatalovich, lynn chang, & kaoru nishiyama wood)
employer: at&t interactive
info: wap implementation for ypmobile and experimental native app for iphone

live yp website concept

date: june 2009
role: creative director, designer
employer: at&t interactive
info: concept for proposed redesign of atti's ether.com product

yp.com logo design

date: june 2009
role: creative director, designer
employer: at&t interactive
info: logo design for rebranding of yellowpages.com to yp.com, targeting a new demographic and focusing on an updated business model

v2 yellowpages.com native iphone app

date: may 2009
role: creative director, designer
employer: at&t interactive
info: updated user interface, graphics, and functionality for second version of yellowpages.com native iphone app

caltech yess program

date: january 2009
role: art director, designer
client: caltech
info: graphical and ui redesign for caltech young engineering and science scholars website

att interactive pre-design

date: november 2008
role: creative director, designer
employer: at&t interactive
info: design for new at&t division, att interactive, corporate site and related mobile ad network site

buzz.com pre-launch website concept

date: october 2008
role: creative director, designer
employer: at&t interactive
info: concept for introduction to the atti's buzz.com product prior to alpha launch

yellowpages.com native iphone app concept deck

date: may 2008
role: creative director, designer
employer: yellowpages.com
info: pitched to apple senior management, concept deck for native application created prior to the openeing of the app store and iphone v2.0

j2me app for yellowpages.com

date: april 2008
role: design director, designer
employer: yellowpages.com
info: yellowpages.com mobile for j2me application platform for pda and mobile devices

ve6 maps dashboard

date: january 2008
role: design director, designer
employer: yellowpages.com
info: dashboard user interface for new microsoft virtual earth 6 web-based mapping application
quotation: "The look and feel of the navigation controls is super cool.... I sent the URL to several people internally here at Microsoft and the comments were overwhelmingly positive - definitely a site we will showcase moving forward."   — Ken Miller, Sales Manager, North America, Microsoft Corporation

alvin and the chipmunks micro site

date: november 2007
role: art director, designer
client: convergence media group
info: micro site promoting the release of new alvin and the chipmunks feature film

shrek the third micro site

date: october 2007
role: art director, designer
client: convergence media group
info: micro site promoting shrek the third dvd release - ui/graphic design and flash-based game

iphone web app on apple.com

date: october 2007
role: design director, designer (in collaboration w/ chris szadkowski)
employer: yellowpages.com
info: iphone web app featured on apple.com - Most Popular Search Tools

yellowpages.com iphone web app

date: august/september 2007
role: design director, designer (in collaboration w/ chris szadkowski)
employer: yellowpages.com
info: iphone web app featuring search, results, more info, directions, map functionality

yellowpages.com blackberry icon

date: august 2007
role: design director, lead designer
employer: yellowpages.com
info: yellowpages.com icon for blackberry main interface screen

beowulf micro site

date: august 2007
role: art director, designer
client: convergence media group
info: micro-site for beowulf movie release - flash effects and countdown ticker

orosi valley coffee logos / labels

date: may 2007
role: art director, designer
client: orosi valley estates coffee company
info: series of labels for boutique line of coffee roasts

jonas bros mashup

date: may 2007
role: art director, designer
client: convergence media group / mtv & nickelodeon
info: flash-based music and video mashup for jonas brothers

kelloggs flash promotion

date: april 2007
role: design implementation
client: whittmanhart / kelloggs
info: expanding flash banners with mouseover actionscript to highlight speaker and load video

collactive logo design

date: march 2007
role: art director, designer
client: collactive, inc.
info: logo redesign and branding initiative for internet start-up company
link: collactive.com

saunders logo redesign

date: january 2007
role: art director, designer
client: saunders corporation
info: logo redesign plus stationery, stickers, and liner card

superprotonic website

date: december 2006
role: art director, designer
client: superprotonic, inc.
info: website redesign and extended branding for revolutionary fuel-cell company
link: superprotonic.com

disney fairies flash feature

date: november 2006
role: lead designer
employer: the walt disney company / disneyshopping.com
info: flash feature promoting release of disney fairies feature film

disney holiday gift shop logotypes

date: november 2006
role: designer
employer: the walt disney company / disneyshopping.com
info: logo comps for the annual disney holiday gift shop promotional marketing initiative

disney halloween boootique flash feature

date: october 2006
role: lead designer
employer: the walt disney company / disneyshopping.com
info: landingpage feature for halloween theme products - flash implementation with animated buttons and mouse trailer

johnny repeat graphic novel title

date: september 2006
role: art director, designer
client: citizen press
info: title treatment for graphic novel johnny repeat, part 1 of 3

disney skin-it gadgets feature

date: july 2006
role: lead designer
employer: the walt disney company / disneyshopping.com
info: synergistic marketing landingpage for electronics protective skins

citizen press website

date: may 2006
role: art director, designer
client: citizen press
info: website design and blog for emerging comic book publishing company
link: citizenpress.net

sweet bakery logo

date: april 2006
role: art director, designer
client: sweet bakery
info: logo and labels for bakery / confectionary / cupcakery

leifrin holdings logo

date: march 2006
role: designer
client: leifrin holdings
info: logo design and stationery for irish financial company

novelist rachel harper website

date: february 2006
role: art director, designer
client: rachel m. harper
info: promotional / informational website for release of author's premier novel
link: rachelmharper.com

citizen press logo & branding

date: july 2005
role: art director, designer
client: citizen press
info: logo design, stationery, postcards, and t-shirt designs for emerging comic book publishing company

trackbone website

date: june 2005
role: designer
client: trackbone
info: website design for site monitoring software start-up

ascent logo

date: april 2005
role: designer
client: ascent
info: logo design for financial advisory firm

bonded services website flash elements

date: january 2005
role: lead designer
client: bonded services
info: flash website elements for world's leader in media management

bloomin' quick logo

date: august 2004
role: designer
client: bloomin' quick
info: logo design for quick-stop flower shop

mcsins site intro

date: july 2003
role: lead designer
client: millennium corporate solutions
info: flash intro for risk management and insurance services company

singleton-price logo

date: june 2003
role: designer
client: singleton-price
info: logo design and book jacket design for internet-based print-on-demand company

anderson business technology website

date: may 2003
role: lead designer
client: anderson business technology
info: website design for brick & mortar business machine sales and service company
link: andersonbt.com

category web logo

date: january 2003
role: designer
client: category web
info: logo design for website-monitoring software company

entheos website

date: december 2002
role: lead designer
client: the entheos company
info: website design for philanthropy / telecom services company

tuvox website

date: november 2002
role: lead designer
client: tuvox, inc.
info: website redesign and stationery for silicon valley speech automation start-up

fordycedesign logo, v1

date: september 2002
role: designer
client: fordycedesign
info: self-promotional logo design for boutique web & graphic design company

clearingpoint network logo

date: february 2002
role: designer
client: clearingpoint network
info: logo design for open-source software company

xylosystems logo

date: july 2001
role: designer
client: xylosystems, llc
info: logo design and stationery for web development company

xao inc. logo

date: may 2001
role: designer
client: xao inc.
info: logo design and stationery open-source e-commerce web services company