Pilachi_Sketch [ BLOG ]

It is increasingly clear to me that a stock blog layout is no longer the way to go for me… it was fun in its early incarnation as an experiment with Ruby on Rails… however it is pushing the “ugh” factor when I see this modified template applied to formal “corporate / professional” entities trying to make a quick buck on the internet tip.

It makes my skin crawl.

In the first quarter of 2007, Samiva Limited approached Pilachi to prepare a press ad for their emerging commercial entity.

As a newly registered company, Samiva had neither brand, nor recognition. As such, Pilachi encouraged the owners to undergo a branding exercise; rather than merely place an individual ad.

Samiva, in addition to other mechanical and electrical fittings, sells industrial strength generators. These generators, the size of large barns, are essential for uninterrupted power supply in Ghana; especially with the indicators of a looming energy crisis. Read more

The National Gallery Website was again overhauled. Why, because for the past three or so years, I have not been able to populate the flash interface with content. This could be attributed to the digital divide or any host of reasons inbetween; however, necessity mothered the inventive repurposing of a blog engine and a hybridization of my original Flash template to repopulate the pages of the National Gallery Websites.

This way, the Gallery can update content on their own timeframe and at their own pace.

I give you, the new galleryjamaica.org.

In an effort to reporpose the content of Sekani Design for Pilachi [similar to Macromedia's transition to Adobe, At&t transition to Cingular then back to the new At&t, Alias' transition to Autodesk, well... maybe not really] the existing graphics will be used until the new unified approach is ready for air time.

Here are selected images from the existing Sekani Design site: before redesign. The first image below shows one of the original freehand sketches that was developed to scale. It was such a close representation to the final design, that it was used as the “About” section of the website.

One of the main changes in the version 2 website developed for Pilachi: the information architecture changes significantly. Instead of the navigation showing “Art, Architecture, Graphic Design,” the categories and services offered change significantly. The categories now occur along a simple matrix of sliding continuum[s] for development (urban design, architecture and industrial design) and communication [design] (for print, screen and web).

New content is being uploaded to the Zuar Design Studio site. Zuarjarrett.com was designed a few years ago [using the moniker sekanidesign.com... the precursor to pilachi.com] as a portfolio site for an emerging architect and colleague in Jamaica. Now, with new project content, a few more than a few things have changed.

Updates should be completed in a week or so… provided there is sufficient time to focus on the update.

Slower than mol-asses, not that I have anything against Moll Flanders, the galleryjamaica website was updated again. Were puns intended? Not really.

For the current exhibition at The National Gallery of Jamaica: The National Biennial, the following home page options were designed, from artwork in the exhibition, and uploaded in January 2007. The complete Pilachi designed website can be viewed at www.galleryjamaica.org.

Having figured out how to make web-logs or (blogs) on the server using Ruby on Rails, that nifty new scripting language…

What would have been a difficult task of MySQL database programming and PHP scripting… is now a breeze. Read more

The other categories of the design blog have been neglected.

Having been asked, here are some of the recent projects completed by the embryonic design company Pilachi.

They will be described in subsequent blog entries