MY NAME IS TIM SCHEMAN

Adding Mobile App development to my knowledge base.

admin — Sun, 20 May 2012 21:40:29 +0000

I have started on the journey to learn all there is to know about mobile app development. Thanks to the team at mobile.tutsplus for providing such a wealth of knowledge about Mobile App development. I have walked through some of their tutorials, and am ready to take on the process. The next step is to find ideas for mobile apps. Please contact me if you would like your idea to be the “ginny pig” while I develop my first app.

Hosting Change For Let Tim Design It

admin — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 06:34:03 +0000

Just this evening, I decided to change my hosting company. I was getting sick of the slow performance I was getting from GoDaddy. It always seemed like when I wanted to post to my blog, or make updates to the site, I would run into a brick wall. And to make things worse, with Google making the recent announcement that page speed would be a ranking factor, I felt that having a sluggish server was just going to hinder my ranking. So I made the switch. For all of my readers and clients, I apologize if it messed my site up for a couple of days. It will be back up and running by early next week. Have a good day.

Fun with Flash 2011

admin — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 05:10:55 +0000

I know flash is on the way out, but sometimes I like to create things just because I can. This is a 2011 revision of a flash intro I did for my good friends at I Hate Punk Rock Records.

Another Website For The Portfolio.

admin — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:00:46 +0000

Thank you to the the The Disappeared from St. Louis for allowing me to design another great website for them. This overhaul of their website included many new features that the previous one did not have. It is a really nice design highlighting there latest album by incorporating its artwork into the design. Please take a look at the samples I have provided here as well as visit the actual site at thedisappearedstl.com. When you visit their site you will be instantly engulfed in The Disappeared experience. You are provided with the ability to hear their music, purchase their latest and past albums, as well as their other merchandise, read their tour journal, and even find out where they are playing next. Be prepared to rock!

New features:

Built on a content management system, giving them the ability to update the site whenever and wherever they like
Built in tour management system, that displays show information to their fans
Music player to highlight their music
Blog style tour journal
Twitter feed integration

New website completed!

admin — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:59:50 +0000

Amazing! The new website for the anime/pop culture community Otakuholic.com has just launched. For this site, I took the client’s existing logos and color scheme and refined its composition. It now screams anime with bright colors, fun character illustrations, and a comic style font. Best of all, it is coded using proper HTML, and the content management system allows the client to make updates 24 hours a day.

If you like what you see, let me know. In addition contact me to design or redesign your website.

Logo Design for Wisconsin startup!

admin — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:07:07 +0000

Hot off the presses!! The new logo for Wisconsin based tech marketing company Tuna Traffic. This logo was developed using my 3-step process for developing logos. The process keeps the customer involved in the project 100%. After a short conversation in person, via email, or skype the client chooses from the mock up sketches that are provided to them. The idea is developed further fleshing out colors, and font choices. The final logo is completed in a illustration computer program. Adobe Illustrator is my choice, but there are many different application that can be used for this type of work.

Please contact me to design or redesign the logo for your company.

Newest project completed!

admin — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 02:42:30 +0000

New site launch today for the Missouri non-profit GILD. Please check out the new site at: gildhumanrights.org. It is a WordPress based site that includes a content slider style gallery on the first page. Once the content is entered by the client, it will be a really nice site.

This project has sparked interest in a new venture. I will be undertaking WordPress theme design. The first couple will be available for free as I work out the kinks. Please keep a look out for these upcoming free themes as well as the other themes that I will be selling.

Logo Design A How To

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:01:10 +0000

The Introduction

This article is number one in a series of posts covering the logo design process. This series of posts has two goals in mind.

1.) To teach new designers the long excepted process to design a really good logo.

2.) To give new and existing clients some insight into my process.

Brainstorming, Ideation, and The Sketch:

I start by thinking through the name of the company. What ideas does it conjure up? Sometime the internet can help with this (try Google images). Then I put these ideas, and the ideas that were provided on the creative brief (email in this case), into a sketch on paper. The sketching process allows more freedom to work out ideas. You don’t have to be controlled by what the computer can and can’t do. Your only limit is you imagination, and the amount of lead (graphite) in your pencil.

See some of the sketches below:

After I have some sketches on paper, I send them to the client. I want to make sure we are on the same page, before I get to far into a project. After I get feedback, I move on to the next step “Refining the concept”. The refining is still done on paper, so don’t jump on your computer just yet.

See you on my next post “Logo Design – Concept Refinement”

A graphic design portfolio …

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:26:32 +0000

A graphic design portfolio is a dynamic, ever changing representation of the work that is completed throughout a designer’s career. My portfolio is no different. This is why I have redesigned the gallery portion of my site to a straightforward yet scalable layout that everyone can page through. So please feel free to take a look at the pieces I have designed. I have included samples of web design, package design, print design, web banner ads, and identity / logo design. It will continue to evolve as I design more things. If you need anything designed for yourself, your band, your business, or anything else, just let me know.

An idle mind is a terrible thing … or is it?

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:17:50 +0000

One thing you will notice is that I am always trying to keep my coding skills sharp. The best way to do this as a designer, is to continually use them. When the client work is slow, there is not as many chances to code web sites. This is why you will see me over the next couple of days moving things around. I will be focusing on the portfolio/ gallery section of my site. Things will be changing just a little bit. I will be incorporating some possible Javascript as well. We will see how it turns out. Please be patient as things change. A little new HTML and CSS will not will hurt.