Susan Kurtz Graphics Blog

At this time of Thanksgiving, I am so happy and grateful to be able to work with the wonderful clients that I have. Here are some of my recent projects. Please check them out.

Site design and development for www.opengatesangha.org (with creative director, Prema Akasha)

WordPress site design customization and development for ahyescreations.com.
Check out the organic skin creams! (Store is still in development, but will be up and running soon.)

An extensive site update for Tom and Bonnie Thompson of www.theawakenheartcenter.com

Another site-wide update for www.thebaumannfoundation.org (formally baumanninstitute.org).

Thanks to all of the people, organizations and businesses I work with. It’s always an enjoyable collaboration of creativity.

I’m very excited about my friend Kim Dana Kupperman coming to the Bay Area in October to read from her new book, I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives From the Other Side of Silence.

Read the book review from the NYTimes. Read: Kim Dana Kupperman: The TNB Self-Interview – A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again.

Bay Area Book Readings:
October 10, 5:30 p.m.: Reading at Capitola Book Café, 1475 41st Ave., Capitola, CA.
October 13, 7 p.m.: Reading at Books, Inc., 2251 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA.
October 14, 7:30 p.m.: Reading at Mrs. Dalloway’s, 2904 College Ave., Berkeley, CA.

I invite all of you in the Bay Area to come!

copyright Moma

Check out these “vintage” ads. They were designed by a Sao Paulo ad agency called Moma. Gorgeous and ingenious!

Just recently Sonya Amrita of Illuminated Wisdom and I worked together to update her website, originally designed by me in 2007. This overhaul involved the recoding of her site from a “table-based” website design to a table-less, cascading style-sheet (CSS) based design, using PHP “includes” for clean, concise coding that is easier to maintain (although the look/feel of the site remained exactly the same). Sonya worked on a new page configuration and all new, rich content with the help of her copywriter (as well as gorgeous new photography by Sonya).

Both as a business expands or changes direction and as new and improved website building comes to the forefront, websites should be updated or even, as in this case, overhauled. Regular new content and cleaner code help to generate better web ranking, all in the cause of bringing you new business.

© 2010 Susan Kurtz Graphics and David Michelson

Red Tape, by David Michelson, is now available as a Kindle book: http://www.amazon.com/Red-Tape-ebook/dp/B003MC5DE6

I will be designing the cover for softback publication in the near future.

When the right to live is taken away by those who profit by it…
The intent of RED TAPE is to bring greater mainstream awareness to the China/Tibet conflict and to explore the U.S. economic investment in China despite China’s human rights violations.