I’m always trying new things. While this site serves as my portfolio for finished (or long-term) work, it’s also my testing ground for new ideas and techniques. If something breaks or looks awful, feel free to let me know.
Goner Records
August 29, 2011 – 5:01 pm
Still in testing, the redesigned Goner Records site boasts a Drupal backend for nearly-unlimited flexibility and expandability. 
The Drupal backend also makes it much easier for the Goner staff to keep the site updated without having to resort to basic updates on a static HTML page.
Design improvements include a custom typeface, displayed in modern browsers through the use of @font-face CSS; a fully-integrated navigational scheme, to make exploring the site easier for visitors; and a design that, despite an intensively improved organizational structure, retains the charm of the current site’s do-it-yourself aesthetic.
I Love Memphis
January 3, 2011 – 11:10 pm
Redesign of ILoveMemphisBlog.com and design of the blog’s annual report.
The blog’s design has successfully encouraged an increase in pageviews while making content easier to find.
My job with the redesign consisted largely of ensuring a consistent experience with a lightly-tweaked preexisting theme and incorporating the blog logo throughout.
I designed the annual report from scratch, with the intention of making a dry document easy to read, filled with the vitality of Kerry’s writing and personality. You can view a PDF of the I Love Memphis Annual Report here.
TribeCamp T-Shirt
January 3, 2011 – 11:00 pm
I was commissioned by LunaWeb to design a t-shirt for their TribeCamp event.
The logotype with the hive was one of the last designs I had worked on as an employee of the design shop, and they wanted a shirt design for the event that would expand on the idea behind the beehive imagery used as an asterisk in the logotype.
The idea was that people of divergent skillsets and specialties (tribes) would be brought together to make something bigger. After a few revisions featuring interlocking hexagons, we settled on this design.
All icons were designed from scratch, and in clockwise order represent:
- phone: mobile development
- camera: photography and visual design
- pencil: copywriting
- HTML code: web development
- Facebook: social media marketing/maintenance
- tie: business/financial managers
The bold black-and-white design was intended to allow for easy reversal in a single-color screenprint.
Spring 2010.
TribeCamp T-Shirt
January 3, 2011 – 11:00 pm
I was commissioned by LunaWeb to design a t-shirt for their TribeCamp event.
The logotype with the hive was one of the last designs I had worked on as an employee of the design shop, and they wanted a shirt design for the event that would expand on the idea behind the beehive imagery used as an asterisk in the logotype.
The idea was that people of divergent skillsets and specialties (tribes) would be brought together to make something bigger. After a few revisions featuring interlocking hexagons, we settled on this design.
All icons were designed from scratch, and in clockwise order represent:
- phone: mobile development
- camera: photography and visual design
- pencil: copywriting
- HTML code: web development
- Facebook: social media marketing/maintenance
- tie: business/financial managers
The bold black-and-white design was intended to allow for easy reversal in a single-color screenprint.
Spring 2010.
Poetry Broadsides, 2007
January 3, 2011 – 10:51 pm
A series of broadsides printed for a class on “manifesto poetry” by writers and artists working between the world wars. The goal of my manifesto was to find a way to tie design, typography and poetry together without resorting to the literalistic methods of concrete poetry.
These designs were screenprinted onto heavy stock and signed in extremely limited quantity. All known extant copies are in my possession.
“Times New Roman” was never printed, as the serifs of the typeface proved difficult to capture in the process of making the screens.
Fall and winter, 2007.
Poetry Broadsides, 2007
January 3, 2011 – 10:51 pm
A series of broadsides printed for a class on “manifesto poetry” by writers and artists working between the world wars. The goal of my manifesto was to find a way to tie design, typography and poetry together without resorting to the literalistic methods of concrete poetry.
These designs were screenprinted onto heavy stock and signed in extremely limited quantity. All known extant copies are in my possession.
“Times New Roman” was never printed, as the serifs of the typeface proved difficult to capture in the process of making the screens.
Fall and winter, 2007.
Matthew Trisler
January 3, 2011 – 10:41 pm
Print and Web design for my solo music efforts.
In July, 2010, I deesigned an album cover for Nine Songs, an digital album available for download, inspired by vintage abstract LP covers, like those viewable on Project Thirty-Three.
MatthewTrisler.com, redesigned in December 2010, utilizes @font-face CSS properties, and the Jean-Luc font family from Atelier Carvalho Bernau.
MatthewCT.com
January 3, 2011 – 10:31 pm
My own portfolio site, as it appears in winter 2010.
Using WordPress and the Clean Home theme from MidMo Web Design, as a starting point, I hacked it apart and built a highly customized theme that served the needs of a portfolio site that will continue to be easily customized on into the future.
Features @font-face CSS.
Social Expedition Podcast, episode 3
November 30, 2009 – 9:35 am
Though I did say at the beginning of this podcast that “It’s not an auditory transmission,” that is, of course, exactly what it is. This is an example of rather extreme editing. In getting our interview with the gentlemen from the “Shut Up and Listen” podcast down to the roughly 30 minute time limit we’ve set for the Social Expedition podcast, I needed to edit out nearly an hour of content, rearranging the conversation into something coherent.
social expedition, episode 3