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DJ Salman

Mike Postma — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:39:09 +0000

Originally from Dubai and now residing in Canada, DJ Salman is internationally known for his monthly 2 hour long international radio-show “TRANCE-Gendered”, which features the absolute latest and hottest in uplifting and melodic trance music (the show is also available as a free podcast). This Calgary based DJ/Producer has been building a name for himself in the electronic music community and I’ve assisted him by providing him with a logo, website, online ads & photography services.

The letter ‘S’ in the logo/word mark is composed of the two Arabic letters, D and J. The artist’s name is DJ Salman which, when pronounced, has emphasis on the M and N. The traditional Arabic dots are on these letters to reinforce that, as well as emphasize the artist’s cultural background. The logo part features a typical Trance DJ pose in front of a large sound wave.

The website design was kept very clean and modern while again maintaining a certain sense of his cultural background. DJ Salman is all about sharing his passion & music with the community. It therefore seemed natural to have a strong focus on social media. The website also features a blog and a music player. Because the entire website was build on a Wordpress platform, Salman is able to perform all updates himself (even when on the road).

Pilot Light animated logo

Mike Postma — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:38:44 +0000

Geoff D’Eon approached me to design an animated version of the logo for his new business venture Pilot Light Productions. A static logo was developed as a freelance project by one of my colleagues (Crystal Oicle) at Trampoline. The static version would do fine for print work, but given the nature of Geoff’s business, there was a need for an animated version of the logo that could be used on television and on the web. The animated version closely resembles the look of a real burning pilot light, while also adhering to the overall shape, look and feel of the static logo.

Seascape Kayak Tours

Mike Postma — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:31:46 +0000

Seascape Kayak Tours Inc. was established in 1994 and is the original sea kayak tour operator in St. Andrews and on Deer Island, New Brunswick, Canada. Seascape is extremely environmentally focused and wanted to convey that message throughout their website. Their old website was very cluttered and they specifically requested to keep the new design straight forward, clean, and namely accessible and user friendly. I collaborated on both website and logo design with another designer located in the USA, the new logo needed to be instantly recognizable for previous customers in order to maintain brand recognition.

Mariner’s Table

Mike Postma — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:43:23 +0000

The Mariner’s Table is a fine-dining restaurant located in Chance Harbour, New Brunswick. The logo was designed, in order to brand an identity for the new restaurant. The logo portrays an Atlantic Canadian tone, without too much of a ‘fish & chips’ feel maintaining the fine-dining quality.

Designed and constructed website in conjunction with the restaurant logo. The site has a clean look, emphasizing the food visuals to wet the appetite. The warm yellow and red colour scheme has been carefully chosen, because these colours stimulate the appetite. The website runs on an ASP.Net backend and makes use of a masterpage to get a consistent look throughout the website. The menu is constructed by combining Spry with an ASP.Net sitemap file. Strict form validation occurs on the server side using ASP.Net validators.

Used mini/I love mini

Mike Postma — Wed, 09 May 2007 23:25:17 +0000

Tailored original logo and web design, while designing and building a customized Content Management System (CMS) specifically for this client, so that future website maintenance is as simple as possible. Designed and constructed the website, which runs on a PHP backend that interfaces with a mySQL database.

The design also makes use of object oriented coding principles which results in reusable pieces of code. These are used, for example, to connect to the database and to provide a consistent look throughout the website. The CMS is built to be extremely robust and performs very strict server side form validation.