Ive got to be honest, I dont use Photoshop or Illustrator (Mainly because I cannot afford them) but I use the happy medium of Adobe Fireworks. Alot of Design guru’s will probobaly thow their lasso tools around my neck in order to gag me but I love it, and am slowly converting web designers to it’s simplicity and beauty.

Every now and then I take a break from coding and writing cool shit to just draw and design. This time it was mocking up some icons potentially for an iPhone App or just for general use! To be honest there was no real reason but I am happy with the Gowalla-esque style result.

Eurotech is a small company who specialise in the manufactuer and global distribution of Gaseous Fire Exstingushing , so my challenge was make something so niche and quite unexciting fresh and sexy.

First off I am going to be a dad which is both a worry and very exciting news for me, however it will mean random charchters in my web pages as I am sure young Clark will be banging the keys like Seasme Streets Animal on a drum set, Loving the thought.

So whats been happening in the world of Steve “Clark Studios” Clark. Well client wise I have been approached by several companies and secured some new clients for some summer websites, One called CMS which I suppose is going to be the hardest thing to SEO in the world. As well as that I have been doing the odd campaign monitor emarketing template and consultancy and tweaks to websites.

One of these websites was a company called mantek a seal and gasket company based in aldershot who needed some bits of work done on there new WordPress driven website, I have to say a gem of a client who had good savvy of computers already but just needed some help in tweaking their site – needless to say it is now live.

Just secured a design and templating job for a mansion house based in Hampshire which has been delivered and I am expecting the site to go live by mid July. Really liking that site.

What else, Oh yes just finished a design for a coach company based in Hampshire, it is with the client at the moment so I am expecting build to commence next month which I am excited about. See a preview here.

A part from that won a lot of money at Royal Ascot and having started writing a mean little Twitter App, shame I cant dedicate much time to it at the moment.

Anyway – I have managed to secure Releif Milkerz, C&F Hockey, DLP Coaches, Showbiz Spy and Mantek as clients and a couple of others on the card. Releif Milkerz is the site I am currently working on and is a big project which in my opnion is going to work really well, very niche!.

C&F Hockey Club Design

Relief Milkerz Concept

Also this month I finally got iwantotworkinoz up and running – you can see it at www.iwanttoworkinoz.com.

Free Layered PNG file(I say layers I have not really layered it up it is just a load of paths).

I drew this for use on a site as a low res image but it never came to be used so I am offering it free. So crack on and download it.

It was done in Fireworks CS3 so I am unsure how it will render in other packages.

Enjoy any way.

Download the zip file here.

Circus Scene

Is a circus company which provides workshops for schools, businesses and the general public. They provide a number of circus based services and have no branched into selling a couple of products which they require a small paypal shop for. The main goal is to bring the site up to date with a fresh new look and new logo.

I want to work in Oz

Yes I do, and this site is my first step to achieving this. By doing various freelance work for Australian based agencies I intend to get sponsored and bugger off to Oz. If all else fails I will make a I want to work in Dubai website and go there. It is still in progress and can be found here.

Pro AVS and Plasma Screen Rentals

Two sites for my brother in law who is starting his own business. This is the whole package, branding, website and collateral.

Sites are at: www.pro-avs.co.uk | www.plasmascreenrentals.co.uk

Bathtimes is a family run bathroom retailer, installater based in Fleet, Hampshire that requires a a web presence. The primary feature of the site is a offers section which allows the webmaster to add there current offers.

More soon.

I am currently designing a micro site for truly scrumptious beauty to promote a new product called Zeno Pro. The site already exists and is mearly a holding page until the new design is built, it is currently located at www.zenopro.co.uk

The site is a micro site to drive traffic to the current web shop for sales leads. It is a simple XHTML and CSS based site which may include some Flash aspects.

EA following Nascar 08 (which to be fair was alright but its custom skins where god awful) have released a whole new paint booth feature which allows users to download a Photoshop or PNG template and design there own cars and then upload them via EA’s website for use online. Great idea, and hopefully others will follow.

Expect to see websites for skins popping up everywhere including one I am going to write (and unlike xbox league online it will get finished). Just got to buy the domain name now.

If you are intrested you can download the templates from EA’s Nascar 09 Page. I will post a basic PNG template for Nascar 09 soon so all your Fireworks users dont have to do all the transpaerency rubbish.