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EMC Insignia

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Project Summary

Client: EMC Corporation
Agency: Form Studios
Date: February, 2006
Skills: CSS, HTML, JavaScript,

Form Studios contacted me midway through a web redesign for EMC Corporation, maker of Retrospect backup software. They needed a series of Adobe Photoshop comps, designed by their agency in New York, converted into templates and integrated into a custom-built CMS. Additionally, Form Studios wanted the challenge of building the template using an elastic design, meaning as a user changed their preferred text size, the design would scale accordingly. With the project needing to be completed ASAP, we knocked out roughly twenty unique templates in a highly compressed timeframe—including the elasticity—with semantic HTML, clean CSS, and a dash of JavaScript via the Dojo library.

About This Site

Hi there. I'm Kai: a graphic designer focused on building usable websites following current web-standards. I currently live in Half Moon Bay, CA, though I recently spent eighteen months working, living, and traveling through Asia. On this blog you'll find my portfolio , a journal section in which I write about and link to things that interest me, as well as photos that are cross-posted to Flickr.

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