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I Wrote a Thing: Secret Fine Dining, Local Food, and Red Tape with Pop-Up Lafayette

A review of Pop-Up Lafayette, the new, elusive, all local and organic “supper club” that is taking over the imaginations of area foodies. “Our political philosophies are layer upon layer,” one chef said. Another said, “We just want to cook beautiful food in an interesting way.” Another said, “We want to cook food we are…

Bike Stuff and Ticket Sales

I’m pretty excited about this one. Today Think Lafayette started ticket sales. Our first event is sponsored by Bicycle Lafayette, a national dinner and movie screening tour that will take a stop in Lafayette this May called “Dinner and Bikes.” “Dinner and Bikes” (official site) is a national tour that shows communities around the U.S….

Think Lafayette, Redux

The old Think Lafayette design was fine (meh) but wasn’t going to work with our future plans, which included an overhaul of the blog structure and the addition of sales on the site. We gave it a little face lift. TL is coming up on its first birthday soon. My favorite part of the project…

Uptown Jazz & Blues Festival

The Uptown Jazz & Blues Festival is typically the last summer festival in the Greater Lafayette area. They always draw a fabulous crowd of music-lovers and excellent regional musicians who fill the historic downtown area with a night of jazz, blues, and dancing. It’s a great way to spend a summer evening. I was thrilled…

Star City Vintage

Star City Vintage was built in order to promote my online jewelry business and solicit the opportunity to purchase jewelry in the Greater Lafayette area. This is a good example of how existing themes and tools can be utilized to throw together a nice-looking site with ease and speed.

MidCentury Jewelry

MidCentury Jewelry is a full-service jewelry store based out of Ohio, and the site was built to order with a light and airy theme with an Art Deco motif. MCJ’s previous website was built before a shop and blog could easily be integrated and hosted together, and the administrator found the old e-commerce sites difficult…

Banners, Logos, and Mastheads

In earlier versions of this site and during my time at Feministe, I did a lot of redesigns. This was my playground to learn the art of good design and how to use color and fonts to convey a mood for the site’s content. Many of the blog’s early designs were vintage-themed and included cheeky…

Bistro 501

Bistro 501 is a local French, fine dining restaurant in the Greater Lafayette, Indiana, area that needed a website to display their gorgeous interior and luxe menu. In 2006, I hard-coded a design for them that worked well for about five years. This year the website was in need of an overhaul, so we redid…

Feministe

Feministe is my oldest existing contribution to the internet. I began the site in late 2000 way back when nobody knew what the word “BLOG” meant, even me. This site was both personal and an extension of my college studies, where I explored feminist practice and theory from the comfort of my own bedroom. Here…

Think Lafayette

Think Lafayette is a pet project that I co-founded with a long-time friend. This site is a group blog that covers life and recreation in the Greater Lafayette, Indiana, area. We promote cool businesses and young movers and shakers in the local scene. A group of interesting, cool, and creative young professionals have come together…

Slim Coincidence

This was another fast project done all the way back in 2006, with a hand-coded splash page for a young professor who wanted something cozy done with an illustration of a bird and a bookworm. This page links all of her work online, including curriculum vitae and blog.