Portfolio
I work as a manager in a corporate environment, which means that my designs are rarely entirely my own. As a manager I'm most likely to delegate and supervise design work. In those cases where I do act as a designer, I am most often called upon to collaborate, or adapt existing designs, or implement designs provided by others.
That's the down side; the up side is that I have a keen eye for easy maintenance, adaptability, and expandability; I keep my sites well organized and I always write clean code.
In addition to my corporate work, I've done some freelance. In those cases I am the sole designer and developer. I also act as Merchandise and Design Manager for a local non-profit, and in that capacity have variously designed, illustrated, and assisted in producing merchandise and marketing collateral.
Below you'll find some of the work I've been involved in. To separate the very different kinds of work I've done, I've put it into three categories. Click on a thumbnail to view a larger image.
- Corporate (web design)
- Freelance (web design)
- Personal (web design)
- Ads (graphic design for print and web)
- Marketing Collateral (graphic design for print)
Corporate (my role: supervising)
American Banker (and associated sites)
Supervised initial design and coding. Advised on user interface and information architecture. Provided on-the-fly coding corrections during marathon phone meetings to tweak and correct the site. (Note: American Banker is slated to move to a new platform August 1, at which time the design and code will change from what my group built.)
View sample source code | View sample style sheet
The Bond Buyer
Supervised design and code modifications (code was based on AmericanBanker.com, above). Advised on user interface and information architecture. (Note: American Banker is slated to move to a new platform some time late in 2009, at which time the design and code will change from what my group built.)
Accuity
Supervised coding and CMS implementation. Advised on user interface and information architecture.
TGBR
Supervised implementation of new design with the constraint that code was to be changed as little as possible. (Note: This screen shot shows a page after logging in. TGBR is currently in the process of being redesigned and merged with a recently acquired product.)
Employee Benefit News (and associated sites); Financial Planning (and associated sites);
High-level supervision and trouble-shooting. Advised on user interface and information architecture.
SourceMedia Conferences individual conference sites
Supervised the design and assised in the production and implementation of
a flexible template designed to be easily brandable by specific conference.
The two example shown here have essentially the same code base, but were given a different feel via the css.
CardForum.com
Supervised design and production. Acting as Web Strategist, determined how
best to implement ideas from the businesss side.
CardTechnology.com
Adapted the CardForum.com design in order to produce a quick site redesign
to coincide with the launch of the redesigned magazine. Produced and implemented
all code and images.
CardLine and CardLine.com
Supervised the design and production of the CardLine newsletter and accompanying
archive web site. Also created a basic, unstyled newsfeed that clients could pick up and style to their choosing.
E-Marketplace project
Produced HTML prototypes for a tool that could be fully branded and adapted
to a number of sites, using HTML templates and style sheets.
Freelance (my role: all design and development)
SaritaChiquita.com
Designed, advised, produced images and HTML, and implemented.
FoolMoonStudio.com
Designed, advised, produced images and HTML, and implemented. The initial site is a one-page "postcard" site, which was intended to be followed up by a more elaborate site.
BagelArtEvanston.com
For Bagel Art Bakery and Sandwich Shop in Evanston, Illinois.
Designed, advised, produced images and HTML, and implemented.
Personal
TonyBreed.com and TonyBreed.com/tony
Everything in these sites is my own. The previous design is shown here; visit the site to see the current design.
Ads
Chicago Independent Radio Project (CHIRP) Record Fair ads
To advertise the 2009 CHIRP Record Fair, I took a photograph, doctored it with the CHIRP logo, and used it in a number of web an print ads.
Web ads for Credit & Collections World and BondBuyer.com
Early on in my time at SourceMedia, the web design group was occasionally called on to create house ads. Turnaround needed to be very fast, without using stock images. Some examples are to the right.
Marketing Collateral
At the start of the organization, we had no logo, so I doctored a sketch of a bird I had done for use on a button and postcard. Later, when we had a logo, created a banner incorporating both the bird sketch and the logo. Later, I doctored the bird sketch furtherfor a temporary tattoo design. I also did prepress for these items.
Postcard, Poster 
As we prepare to launch, we need a new postcard with updated copy and a fresh image. We also need a poster that we can easily print out or photocopy and put up around town. The goal is for people to keep the postcard, and for the poster to be interesting enough to make people stop and take a look at it. The committee I head came up with the idea of a cut-out, fold up radio. Another volunteer provided photographs of a 1980's boombox, which I drew and used in the postcard and poster. I did the prepress for these items, and also edited copy.
Program Guide
Did all illustrations, design, and pre-press. This program guide was designed to fold up into pocket size. The boxes are all skewed at slightly different angles mismatched angles to draw attention away from the fact that at such a small size, the many folds would almost certainly not line up properly.