misselhornMedia has completed a new website design: Rey’s Cleaners, a Miami-area high-end couture cleaners & dry cleaning company with multiple locations.





The site features quite a bit of fashion photography, some fashion glossaries, and a handy fabric care symbol translator… so now you will know what all those alien symbols on your clothing tags mean!

If you live in the greater Miami area, go ahead and sign up for their free pickup & delivery service. Rey’s Cleaners does a great job and provides exceptional service.

Please feel free to leave comments, critiques, and/or suggestions on the usability, aesthetics, or content.

I recently bottled my first mead (or honey-wine for the uninformed)…

the Recipe

• clover honey
• orange
• whole clove
• ground cinnamon
• ground ginger
• raisins

For all you homebrewers out there, I have also posted a more detailed description of the recipe and process.

I also thought it would be a neat thing to come up with a cool label design for the bottles, most of which are the swing-top variety. The packaging design features a honey bee outline (it’s mead, remember?) and some honey comb and textural backgrounds.

By the way, if you are a friend of mine in the Jupiter, West Palm, or Palm Beach Gardens area, please let me know if you come across any of these swing-top bottles; I really love using them for all my homebrews.

Also, let me know what you think of my label design!

misselhornMedia has recently completed a small informational website for FashionCare.

Website design features:

• Straightforward navigation
• Simple images & graphics
• Social media footer

The programming is pretty minimal, including a touch of css, javascript, and php for the contact form processing.

FashionCare is a dry cleaner certification program that ensures high quality garment care from its numerous nationwide affiliates.

Note the difference between the final design and the mockup. As you can see, some designs go through a bit of modification as the project progresses, and misselhornMedia aims to find the most suitable and effective final website design.

Please feel free to leave comments, suggestions, critiques, opinions, and/or praise.

misselhornMedia recently completed a new website design for Health Awareness, Inc. They are a family-based small business from Jupiter, FL providing treatment options for patients dealing with any of a range of conditions and afflictions.

The site itself is a fairly simple two-page design featuring a brief company description, a call to action, and a list of medical conditions for which the company provides treatment. The second page is a contact form which guests can use to get more information and seek treatment directly from Health Awareness.

Overall, the site provided a simple, cost-effective design to help Health Awareness reach a broader market online via its website.

The site can be viewed here. Please feel free to view and leave comments if you so choose, whether they are regarding the design, usability, or overall impression.

This beer has been a bit of a crowd pleaser (the recipe is posted below)… It started as a blonde ale, which I believe is in the American light category. However, a few days after fermentation began with regular dry beer yeast (Safale US-05), I added a packet of dry Champagne yeast, which ended up giving a nice, bright green apple- almost sour tinge. I also whipped up some custom labels for the brew, as you can see in the image.

Also, while preparing my bottling sugar (5oz sugar in 1 pint boiling h20), I added a spring of Thai Basil (pictured above), and a bit of Chinese 5-Spice which consists of:

• “Chinese cinnamon”
• powdered cassia buds
• star anise and anise seed
• ginger root
• ground cloves

Feel free to steal the recipe and leave some comments:

RECIPE (HTML|PDF)

Logo design for senatorial candidate Robert Marshall of Illinois

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I came across a cool new site: imeem.com. They have cut deals with many record companies and you can share playlists you make on their site for free (however, some songs only allow 30 sec previews).

Here’s a brief of the artists and songs I’ve included:

Dead Can Dance are an Australian group of multi-instrumentalists that draw a lot from folk and world music. Many of their songs are in foreign and even ancient languages. This is the former band of Lisa Gerrard, the dramatic solo vocalist featured on many epic soundtracks such as Gladiator, Whale Rider, etc.

Blonde Redhead is a Japanese female-fronted alt band that I just think has interesting chord progressions and great drumming.

Shearwater is a project by a guy with a haunting voice, that isn’t always suitable for everyday listening. Apparently he named the band after a type of birds, because he is a birdwatcher.

Amon Tobin made a whole album using very strange high quality samples of natural events: bees, running water, lions, etc.

Clifford Brown, I just like nice smooth tunes like this, which are way too cool for elevators.

The Colour of Spring by Mark Hollis is very minimal, but sometimes those are the hardest things to do correctly. Slow, mellow, but nice piano.

Siouxsie and the Banshees are a kinda far-out, dark rock band of the 80s and 90s. She makes some pretty dramatic phrasing choices which always makes me interested.

Wes Montgomery “Watch What Happens” and listen as well. I like the stereo panning in this one, and it is just one of those songs that you don’t really pay full attention to and then it finally catches you and you smile and say “What is this? I like it.”