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MEINERS OAKS PARKS
Non-profit  |  Ojai CA

Meiners Oaks Parks is a grassroots effort by locals dedicated to creating a public park that benefits the residents and environment of Meiners Oaks and the greater Ojai Valley. The vision is to build a place to connect with our plant, animal and human neighbors, where young and young at heart can find joy and wonder in nature – right in our own neighborhood.

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DOUG KNOTT MEMORIAL
Poet  |  Ojai CA

Doug Knott was a poet, performer, and producer of literary events. He was the author of the poetry collection Small Dogs Bark Cartoons, the play The Last of the Knotts, several chapbooks, and was a co-founder of the performance troupe The Carma Bums. Doug had a law degree from Harvard, and a deep history of creating and performing in events at the intersection of poetry, punk, and the art world.

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HILARY BAKER
Artist  |  Ojai CA

Hilary Baker grew up in the midst of Hollywood's film and music industry. The subjects of her paintings range from wildlife to baseball to her unsettlingly take on the history and architecture of Los Angeles. Her signature graphic style, unexpected textures and dissonant palette suggest a mordant wit at the heart of her impressive body of work.

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NICK TAGGART
Artist  |  Los Angeles CA

Nick Taggart creates eloborately detailed and fantasical drawings, watercolours, gouaches and paintings, along with photographic art projects – with the garden and his wife & daughter as his muses. His early work documents the 1980 era Los Angeles art and music scene. His site is designed to be clean, direct and focused on the artwork and the stories and inspirations behind it.

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LAURA COOPER
Artist  |  Los Angeles CA

Laura Cooper works in multiple mediums ~ including painting, collage, ceramics, fibers and paper mache. Recurring throughout her work are drawn, sculpted, painted, crocheted and sewn articulations that emulate and elaborate the natural structures of found organic forms. The website is rich with her beautiful textures, colors and handwork, revealing her intense passion for nature, the garden and the wilderness.

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JENNIFER WOLF
Artist  |  Ventura CA

With an intimate connection with nature, Jennifer Wolf explores the painting techniques of transforming minerals she has personally mined from the land into usable pigments, combining these with state of the art acrylic mediums. Her lushious and sweeping paintings become evidence of the artist’s personal experiences and discoveries within natural geographies.

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JOHN HILLIS SANDERS
Artist  |  Long Beach CA

This comprehensive overview of more than 50 years of John's art-making process documents the enormous archive of his site-specific work, installations and paintings, alongside their significance within his exhibition and academic milestones. This expansive study takes the format of a historical timeline, scrolling from left to right, with clickable thumbnails linking to details of each artwork.

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RUSSELL CROTTY
Artist  |  Ojai & Ventura CA

Russell Crotty is my husband and I am his Studio Manager. So I have a keen understanding of his work, which is presented in a narrative format to reveal more about the passions and inspirations that fuel his extensive body work ~ including drawings, large-scale books, collages and globes.

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SHARON BUTLER
Artist  |  Emmett ID

Influenced by her African childhood, Sharon Butler has had a life-long interest in and love for African and American Indian art, dovetailing with her ongoing fascination with form, design and color. Her love of horses has also been a strong source of inspiration since Sharon was a child, and she often selects that powerful animal as her primary subject.

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MAR MEL INN / BED & BREAKFAST FOR DOGS & CATS
Pet Boarding & Grooming  |  Long Beach CA

This site features the antics of Marmelade, the ficticious mascot of the Mar Mel Inn. On each page, she supplements this pet boarding company's info with her warm and playful commentary. The site presents many phots throughout the pages, along with a photo gallery slideshow of "satisfied customers."

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BOOKENDS BOOKSTORE
Bookstore & Curiosities  |  Ojai CA

A unique bookstore within an old church, offering a vast inventory of fine and unusual books in a wide range of subjects including philosophy, the arts, travel, adventure, science, psychology, religion, the classics, children's literature,  first editions, and rare spiritual tomes, along with a selection of eclectic curios and gifts.

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CAMAKUA
Film by Will Gibson & Thomas Moore  |  Los Angeles CA

To make public their synopsis, strategy and clips for their film idea, I set up the website at Assemble – an online web editor specifically for filmmakers – where they could self-editing the site as they move through the development, production and release of their film.

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PHYTOHUMANA
Natural Remedies & Wellness  |  Ojai CA

Amanda McQuade Crawford is an herbalist and psychotherapist practicing integrative health care at her clinic PhytoHumana, serving Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties. She practiced as a Consultant Medical Herbalist for decades before she became a licensed therapist (MFT), and now offers an informed and experienced perspective on botanical medicine and clinical psychology.

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OJAI HERBAL
The Ojai Herbal Symposium

Lanny Kaufer of Herb Walks founded and hosts this yearly symposium in the Ojai Valley. He brings together many accomplished speakers that delve into everything "herbal" including natural health and medicine, acupuncture, use of herbs around the world, along with sourcing and foraging.

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AFTER REDESIGN

BEFORE REDESIGN

HERB WALKS WITH LANNY KAUFER
Interpretive Nature Walks  |  Ojai CA

For over 4 decades, Lanny Kaufer has led nature walks and hosted various symposiums that focus on the traditional and modern uses of herbs for their culinary, medicinal and ceremonial properties.

I redesigned the existing site with a more contemporary Wordpress theme, putting Lanny's numerous events upfront on the homepage within an interactive slider – then customized the colors, fonts and graphics to convey the outdoorsy, adventurous and instructive qualities of his unique business.

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