A website on wheels due to Sebastien Atoch from www.quadbyte.net and a design by Claire Burelli, both from Montreal, CA. I only did the integration, you know, the CSS with some xhtml bits in template files.
Discount-marine.com is about to unveil its new website. It’s based on Drupal now, I am glad to have had the chance to redesign it. Here is some of the designed views.
DarQroom is a very exciting project I worked for from September 2008 untill now. It’s a inpired website for photographers who want to get the most out of their photos presentation. It’s going to be VERY soon an open Beta, so you should stay tuned on www.darqroom.com and subscribe to it. This website can store an unlimited amount of your photos, including your tiffs and raws! You’ll also get elegant flash galeries (Pole Nord Studio flash developer colleague Morgan Legal has been involved in it).
Original artistic direction has been made by french agency Uzik. I’ve been designing screens since. Here is a selection of my work :
(featured pictures from my Flickr Album : Olympia + Heretik + le cabaret des filles des joies de Juliette Dragon)
OWS is my favorite partner for web development. They are in Paris, France, and they’re some strong experts in Drupal CMS. AND they have a new logo 
Quick xhtml/CSS markup under wordpress for Forum Des Images here in Paris. Design By Raphaël Mechet from Pole Nord Studio.
I’ve already presented the ODIT France project we’ve done with OWS. It’s time to catch you up with the final designs. Final website is online : www.odit-france.fr
Ecoburo.fr is now online. This shop sells ecological minded office products. They are great, and if you’re in France I strongly recommand you get a close attention to their price. What if you could do some savings while you save the planet?
They wanted to keep the look of the paper catalog for their online website, so I came up with this grid, presenting a lot of products on the same page, with a lot of pictures straight at the first level.
On december 2007, we started the Seronet project. Seronet is a Drupal based social netwxork for HIV Positive people. It belong to Aides, wich is a kind of French Act-Up (there IS a french Act-Up nevertheless).
These designs were the proposed design during the first step of the process. The two last views has been chosen. I then had to convert it to a Drupal Theme, with PHP Template and CSS.
You can see the website live htere : www.seronet.info
Proposition 1
Proposition 2
Proposition 3
Chosen design : unlogged version
Chosen design : logged version
This is linked to these stories:
We started this project in May 2008. It is a Drupal complete redesign of the old Joomla-based Odit-france.com website. The old design was simple and effective, but the back-end was a total nightmare, thanks to very limitative CMS Joomla. We brought Drupal and its extensively managable backoffice to get the contract.
These graphics are the first step of my Artistic Direction process. After having discussed with the client about what he feels, wants, has in mind, I work on two or three different tracks. I gather any kind of elements, colors, screen captures, photos, words, that fits with the idea and combine them into a grid. The client can then point out the one he prefers, and can also go deeper into the grid, saying he prefers this cell to this one, that hge does not want this element to appear in the final designs, etc… This step also alows you to include a lot of people in the design process. Get the feedback by email, don’t be limitative: at this moment of the project, anybody can say anything.
As a designer, you still have the occasion to test and propose elements that weren’t chosen during this phase. If you want to defend an idea, do it, explane it, show it in action.
The two grids below are not soi different, as for this project the client really said he wanted a “Web 2,0 look”, with gradients, glossy buttons, bright colors, shades… I had to explore between the “plastric-toys like colors” and the more “journalistic-serif-style”.
During the second meeting, the first one has been chosen.
Here is the version of the website we had to redesign : (this is the Joomla website BEFORE the Drupal redesign)
The website BEFORE the redesign