Logo and web design for École Assimil & Institut Losanna

Tasks: Web design and development + Logo design + Stationery design

Skills: Fireworks + Dreamweaver + PHP + CSS + XHTML + JavaScript

Visit: Website

École Assimil & Institut Losanna is a language school based in Lausanne. They have been recently awarded with the label eduQua and needed to redesign their website, this time multilingual, to better promote their offer and reach new clients. They also take the opportunity to rebrand the school with new logo and stationery.

I was responsible for every aspect of their multilingual website project, from concept to completion, including keyword optimization, proofreading and publishing. A ruler has been integrated in the design to resonate the school's slogan "Languages made to measure". I also created their new logo and provided accompanying stationery (letterhead and envelope design).

Client: When we decided to redo our website, we called quite a number of designers. After speaking a few times with Omiga we decided to go with her. It's the best decision we've made in quite some time.

Web design for Laboria International

Tasks: Web design and development + Creation of a style guide

Skills: Fireworks + Dreamweaver + CSS + XHTML

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Active in the international cooperation, Laboria International is a platform for exchanges of experience and knowledge in developing employment and have a large amount of content to publish on its website. Thus a search capability was planned to allow visitors to access to specific information. They desired a corporate look coherent with the seriousness of their organization.

To meet their needs, I designed a clean and sober layout to allow visitors to quickly access to information they are looking for and to consult the pages in a clear and instinctive way. On the homepage are highlighted the conferences and workshops organized by Laboria, the search form and the members area.

I created a style guide as well. The guide explains the choices that were made. More importantly, it outlines everything that must be met for updates, so that the website reflects a consistent, serious yet organized image.

Favicon design: beauty in 16 pixels

Tasks: Favicon design

Skills: Fireworks

I design a favicon to help my website stand out among others in crowded Favorites list and, ultimately, remind visitors of it helping them return to my website. The favicon design is based on my initials with the p's descender rising above the "o".

Favicon, acronym for Favorites icons, is a very small icon associated with a particular website. Most browsers display them in the address bar and its drop down list, in tabs, in Favorites list as well as in the history sidebar. It identifies and differentiates your website. Once visitors succeed in visually connecting your website and its favicon, they will be able to quickly identify your website in tabs without having to read the page’s title and even create a shortcut to your URL that displays your favicon on their desktop. A favicon is a sort of mini-logo, but it cannot always be your logo in miniature. Most logos would be unrecognizable when they are risized to a 16x16 pixel tiny image.

Spec ad illy coffee

Tasks: Edit two headlines and create a visual following the given format

Skills: Photoshop

Roman first. Arabic one. There are many types of Arabic qualities, illy selects the best and mix them in order to give you the best of the best in terms of aroma and taste.

The structure of the advertisement is to have on the left an image tendentiously white and red (the packaging colours), without outline. On the right, illy cup or illy tin. Two headlines (curious but clear) are kept through some rhetoric connection; each headline will be congruent with its image and express a quality, a reason of excellence of illy.

This press advertisement format had been created in 1993. At the time, illy wanted a campaign easily recognizable, even if it would deal with different themes and subjects. Each ad would talk about one alone of illy reasons of excellence. The campaign aimed at reaching a well-educated and curious target. At last, the purpose of the campaign was to educate consumers on coffee culture, so that they would understand the reason of illy premium price.