letstalkfutures.com blog redesign

07Jan10

So my company finally put up the blog redesign I started working on back in June. It can be viewed at letstalkfutures.com

Some of the main objectives of the blog redesign were:

showcase some of the new promotional endeavors we were working on including webinars, podcasts, and twitter
merge our blog with our current monthly newsletter by making the blog look a bit more “magazine-like”
Make the blog look more consistent with the main website, (which I also designed) with similar colors, icons, fonts, etc.

I based the design off of the template Mimbo but after countless revisions, and the help of our awesome developers, that template became more of a unique work of art, kind of like a sculptural garbage heap.

Speaking of revisions, I always find it interesting to look back on all the different versions of a design leading up the the final product. For this project I gathered most of the versions and put them in a slide show below. I would be lying if I said that I think the final product is always the best, but that is the nature of my job. To quote one of my favorite guilty pleasures, Mad Men, ““You’re not an artist, Peggy. You solve problems. Leave some tools in your toolbox.” Tis the life of a designer, but hey at least I get paid for what I do while I’m still alive