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Have a flirty Christmas at the one 4 me online dating

Ben — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:47:59 +0000

Hey people.

Have recently given the one 4 me a slightly festive overhaul, nothing tacky or in your face, tried to keep it simple and to the point, it is a dating site after all and the festiveness doesn’t really matter at the end of the day. I guess I had too much time on my hand that day… go check it out, remember, there’s a few weeks till Christmas, plenty of time to find some festive flirty fun online…

www.theone4me.co.uk

The ditched image

Ben — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:30:02 +0000

And here is the image that was ditched in favour of the light bulb… now I have looked at it again, I really like it but I think the light bulb is slightly stronger…

Glowing Bright – new imagery for bh design

Ben — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:18:17 +0000

One of my ideas for the new bh design site was to incorporate a standard household object into the main design. I originally had a spray bottle of cleaning solution and did a pastiche type affair, but it didn’t quite work as well as I hoped so the idea of a light bulb came up and here is one of a few – they all have different quotes. The site is so new still, but eventually there will be lots of different themes flashing up randomly on the home page.

Here is number one though!

New logo for bh design

Ben — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:10:35 +0000

Well, it must be a time for change, or something in the water. Since moving to Kintbury, I have designed 3 new logos for bh design, completed 2 redesigns and lost the will. I have also completely redesigned my dating site and taken on 2 redesigns for 2 of my best customers. Is it madness, or is it something in the water? Soph does say the water smells funny…

Anyway, bh design now has a glorious new logo, which I have affectionately called the splodge. It came about by accident really whilst redesigning the one 4 me, I was playing with splodges (there are lots in the design) and I just had an idea to put my current logo type in one and bobs your uncle and all that. We have the new logo as seen below. It was a big decision to redesign it, I was more than happy still with the one designed by a friend of mine a few years ago but I felt like a change, I wanted to push my company into a new direction and felt I needed to do something with it.

Here it is anyway, I would invite you to comment, but you can’t as I have comments turnd off, damn those spam bastards.

I should also mention that there is spangly new website to go with the new logo – please go there now and tell a friend!! www.bh-design.co.uk

New identity for the one 4 me – my online dating site

Ben — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:18:37 +0000

As you’ll see from my earlier post, I decided to create a whole new look for my year old dating site. I think it is important to keep websites looking fresh well kept and with this, I redesigned the logo.

I have gone for something a lot more organic and free compared to the older more constrained logo. I wanted something that was more modern and funky and something that would fit in with current design trends. I wanted the identity to feel young and fun, rather than a bit too serious like the old one may have done…

I think it helps the overall brand and with more sites due to launch soon, it sees the growth of the bh design operated online dating experiences.

visit the site here: www.theone4me.co.uk – exciting online dating site

New look for online dating site

Ben — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:11:44 +0000

I decided to take the plunge recently and redesign my online dating site, there must be something in the water where I live as I have now redesigned my own website and identity and now the dating site. I think it was a wise move though and I am much happier with it and think it is more in keeping with current design trends. Just got to hope that the fine single people of England like it!

http://www.theone4me.co.uk

Recent Work – Subcontract Design Service

Ben — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:28:08 +0000

This is a work and a non-work sit so I thought I’d add some more work to it!

This is a new website for a Subcontract Design Service specialising in 3D Modelling and CAD Draughting.

Random Photos of the Day

Ben — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:40:30 +0000

It has been a while since I did this, months actually – my bad – so today I am going to add a few photos. They are my attempt at creating a model village using Photoshop. You can buy a lens that creates the same effect but I use PS, it’s cheaper.

Here is a site explaining how to do it. There is also a Flickr group devoted to it. Go there, go now!