Studio Signorella

Longtime friend and collaborator Jerry Downs compiled this project from his many years of road trips. He asked me to help him assemble the book and then help get it out to the world via a website. See it, read it, pass it on.  

Since the fall color is starting to transform our plant world, I find myself thinking about color. Color has an effect on us. We can use that to our advantage throughout our lives. I’ve read that people make quick judgements about us by the color of the clothes we wear. I have to hope not. [...]

As an antidote to the sterm and drang of the daily news, I found some peace and pleasure in my local community in the form of: The Comida food truck out north in the Bookcliff Vineyard Tasting Room and Upslope Brewery parking lot on Friday night. Friends and neighbors were chatting it up, chowing down, unwinding [...]

We see them everywhere. Those little blocks of randomly checkered patterns. We know by now that we’re supposed to scan them with our smart phone to have our device give us some bit of information; a product comparison chart, an email address, it might take us to a web site or give us a phone [...]

According to Mobi.com there are 5.3 billion mobile subscribers on the planet. It’s expected to double in the next 5 years and over take the PC as the web surfing device. So it’s probably time that I had a mobile something or other and hooked up all my clients as well. I’ve been messing with [...]

Great to see so many folks I only get to see in person once a year. There seemed to be more start-ups at the event this year, but that might be just the people I happened to meet. The program featured a hand-held app for the 3 day program which was incredible for how easy [...]

Hard to believe a year has passed since the last Forum. I’ll be attending it for the next three days. Looking forward to all the positive energy (sorry to sound so Boulder) the Forum generates. They’re not printing a program this year, instead there’s a LOHAS Forum app you can download at itunes (free) that [...]

I thought my flash site was the last one I’d have to build. Then Steve Jobs decided to not support Flash on Apple ipods and ipads. A problem. So for the last year I’ve been squeezing in work on this new site. I’m not foolish enough to think this will be the last. This site [...]

In the last 12 months I worked on new logos for SlowColor, Airshow, Schacht, West Peak Global Advisor’s Active Beta, and the Family Recovery Center. That is an usual streak of identities for extremely different people and products. All on the Identities page now.

One of the aspects of design that I relish is the range of communication messages that I’m asked to present. These two recently completed websites are good examples of the extremes. As with the Bookcliff site I showed you in May, both of these sites are custom designs utilizing the WordPress platform as a content [...]

I’ve been working with Bookcliff Vineyards for several years now, and in February I got the opportunity to redo their website with a content management system using a WordPress theme custom designed for Bookcliff. We got it up on time and on budget and we’re now in the midst of adding a few marketing extras. [...]