Portfolio Spotlight
Brownell Networks Group
Website Version 5
Naturally, Natural Flow Design would be the designer of its parent company the Brownell Networks Group. The Brownell Network Group's website and its child websites has seen several transformations over the years, and NFD is constantly working hard to push the leading edge of website design techniques. As a result of this NFD has released the BNG v5 template, which is designed to be easier on the eye by using simplistic site designs using a lot of white space.
Gingergrass Restaurant
Website and Logo
After being in business for 3 years, Gingergrass Thai and Vietnamese Restaurant wanted to establish a brand for itself and get their menu online with a new website. Natural Flow Design worked with Gingergrass to create a simple, yet colourful logo that was pleasing to the eye. Once the logo was complete a website was then built to complement the logo.
Cole Harbour Place
Web 2.0 Site
Natural Flow Design helped Cole Harbour Place bring its website from a static design that has been in use since the early 90’s which could only be edited by one person using HTML, into a sleek new design backed with a content management system where edits can be contributed by everyone on staff and then be approved for public posting by management. Additional features on this website include: dynamic calendars that automatically change daily, newsletter subscription system, and WYSIWYG page editors for contributors.
Councilor Mary Wile
Information Pamphlet
Mary Wile needed a pamphlet for her race to be councilor in the 2008 Halifax Regional Municipality municipal election and she needed one fast. She contacted Natural Flow Design by email and they worked closely with her to get her a design that matched her existing campaign and that was ready to submit to the printers in less than a week.
Councilor Mary Wile
Door-Knocker
In the last remaining week Mary Wile needed a doorknocker to stick to her constituents’ doors reminding them to vote in the Municipal election. Natural Flow Design took her list of criteria and developed a design that was ready to print in less than 3 days.
EngagingColeHarbour.ca
Councilor Lorelei Nicoll
Lorelei Nicoll is passionate about her community and when she decided to run for municipal councilor she came to NFD to help her build a simple yet effective website to communicate who she is and what she believes is best for her community.
LDANS
The Learning Disabilities Association of Nova Scotia is a prime example of how NFD can improve the communications of a small office. NFD first of all installed eGroupWare, an open source groupware solution to help the employees and staff communicate and share data with one another more efficiently. NFD then redeveloped their website to give it a cleaner and more professional look. NFD also made the website more accessible to staff to make on-the-fly changes by installing a news management application. Also NFD installed an online community for those whose lives are affected by learning disorders.
HPCS
Planning for Improvement Report
Hammonds Plains Consolidated School was faced with the challenge of creating a professional report that had to be impressive in both content and design for both the school board and for the public. They approached NFD to assist in creating a design that fit closely with their school’s existing visual identity. NFD then created a template that the school could be proud of.
Brownell Networks Group
Website Version 5
Naturally, Natural Flow Design would be the designer of its parent company the Brownell Networks Group. The Brownell Network Group's website and its child websites has seen several transformations over the years, and NFD is constantly working hard to push the leading edge of website design techniques. As a result of this NFD has released the BNG v5 template, which is designed to be easier on the eye by using simplistic site designs using a lot of white space.
L&HFDC
Lozowski & Hadad Family Dental Centre did not have a website until they contacted NFD. They also did not have a consistent image throughout their entire clinic, having different logos on every medium. We provided logo samples and they picked out the one that suited their needs best. We then designed the website and a print advertising campaign around this new logo. They provided content and we applied it to the template. L&H Family Dental Centre is a prime example of a small business that can greatly benefit from the services of NFD.
MNCoAA
The Mainland North Committee on Drug Awareness had an amateur site with a lot of informative content but no clear navigation system or consistency between pages. NFD took their website and redeveloped it, creating a brand new template and applying it to existing content. A total visual identity makeover was achieved that is consistent across all mediums; from professional poster boards, letterheads, business cards, and web pages.
Author Renee Field
Website Version 2
Author Renee Field was one of the very first NFD clients. She started with only a brief synopsis of her first Book Rapture. NFD then tailored a site specifically to that book, but under Renee's name (Website Version 1). As Renee wrote more books, she asked for a redesign to refocus the attention from Rapture to herself as a talented author, looking for a design that encompassed all of her books current books while maintaining flexibility in the design to accommodate future books (Website Version 2). The newer version of this website also included a blog that is compatible with RSS feeds.
Caution! This site contains literary adult content.
Author Renee Field
Rapture Book Trailer
In anticipation for the release of her book Rapture, Author Renee Field consulted with NFD to create an Adobe Flash Animation that would hook potential readers into purchasing her novel. The book trailer, similar to a movie trailer, consists of images, music and text chosen by Renee and strung together in an appealing format by NFD. This same trailer was also exported for easy uploading to YouTube.
Caution! This sample contains literary adult content.
HPCS
Hammonds Plains Consolidated School’s website wasn’t the most organized of sites, the colors varied greatly from page to page, the navigation bar wouldn’t stay in one place; the design as a whole wasn’t consistent from page to page. NFD developed a new website using media provided by the school, including logo, images of the school, and school colors. Once the template was complete, content was filtered through for relevance and resorted to appropriate pages. The new content was then applied to the template. NFD also provides a webmaster service handling content requests from visitors, and occasional updates.
Author Lilly Cain
Author Lilly Cain's came to NFD looking for a website for a website that was just as dark and sultry as her writing style. NFD established a logo, a website design, and helped bring Lilly Cain's writing into something equally stunning.
Caution! This site contains literary adult content.
Park West School
Park West School has had a long history of different website styles. It has gone from simple, to sleek and back again with every passing school year. There really had not been any consistency between the different site designs; you could say that the website had an identity crisis. This identity crisis remained until NFD was hired to redo the website once and for all. Finding inspiration in the school's puzzle piece awards that were presented to students, NFD's staff finally discovered exactly what Park West School was all about and created a website to reflect exactly that. NFD also provides a webmaster service handling content requests from visitors, and occasional updates.
Author Renee Field
Website Version 1
Author Renee Field was one of the very first NFD clients. She started with only a brief synopsis of her first Book Rapture. NFD then tailored a site specifically to that book, but under Renee’s name (Website Version 1). As Renee wrote more books, she asked for a redesign to refocus the attention from Rapture to herself as a talented author, looking for a design that encompassed all of her books current books while maintaining flexibility in the design to accommodate future books (Website Version 2). The newer version of this website also included a blog that is compatible with RSS feeds.
Caution! This site contains literary adult content.
Wise Man Investments
Though this website never did get off the ground due to communication issues with the client on the client end, it still demonstrates a simple, and yet high quality website created by NFD.
Author Judith James
When Halifax author Judith James needed a website she started with nothing but excerpts for from her books. NFD took those excerpts and worked closely with her to turn them into a logo and website that was simply Judith James. NFD also installed a newsletter system which collects and verifies email addresses to prevent any spam blocking.
CHHF
The Cole Harbour Harvest Festival was merely a twinkle in its founding association’s eye when they came to NFD to design an identity for it. NFD took their vision of a logo, created it and then created a complementary website. The website contained various elements including a random image generator for the purposes of displaying sponsor’s logos. NFD also contributed a great deal of its work for free to this important community initiative.
Heron's View Pet Care
Heron's View Pet Care is a business that is just starting up. It turned to NFD to create the first and most important piece of business identity; a logo. Once a logo was created, it was then implemented into this attractive business card.
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