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Kim Fuller and Rachel Balaban needed a site done quickly to promote their women-centric "Retreats on Authentic Living." They wanted something that would fit in with the concept of wabi sabi, while conveying the harmony of that message.
With less than a month to design and implement the site for a January 1 launch, Joe worked closely with Kim and Rachel to serve up a simple and clean site that didn't bust their budget, yet more than met their needs.
The result can be viewed here.
WEBSITE: Newport International Film Festival Re-Design (2008)A facelift for an old favorite ... incorporating a new e-commerce component for online ticket sales
Visit newportfilmfestival.com
Newport filmmaker Alix Flood got it in her head to set
about distributing her 2004 movie 'A Totally Minor
Motion Picture' herself.
How to go bout it? Do it online!
So Alix once again (see Floodlight Productions, below) turned to Joe to come up with a site — as well and a method for distributing her movie via the web.
Joe came up with a lean design and a simple e-commerce solution using PayPal. On the site, Alix is selling her movie via download for the bargain price of $1.99. And 10 cents of that goes to a worthy cause — Partners In Health. So visit Distribution Revolution and buy the movie.
Says Ms. Flood of Joe's work:
"Joe Ruggeri is is the only web builder that I would ever work with. He's professional, creative, thorough, and extremely knowledgeable about a constantly evolving medium. "
Postcard design for the August 2006 premiere screening of Home on the Harbor, produced by the Newport Film Salon. Each year, the Newport-based Salon holds a screenplay competition. The winning screenplay gets produced by the Salon, its members and various film professionals who lend their talents to the effort.
In
typical do-it-all fashion, Joe took his responsibilities as NIFF's director
of operations to heart and decided to not only produce, but direct and
animate the minute-long promotional trailer for the 2006 film festival.
With his own photos as a basis for the animation, Joe used Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Flash and Apple's Final Cut Express to create the trailer.
The trailer was screened before most NIFF screenings and served as the basis for a promo that aired on Cox Cable throughout Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts in May and early June of 2006. (QuickTime required to view trailer).
The Crusing
Club of America decided to undertake a complete redesign of
its aging website in early 2006. While the basic interface design was
done elsewhere, the CCA brought that design to Joe for implementation.
Joe and John Flanders of John Flanders Internet Consulting, Inc., put together a plan to integrate a public site as well as a private, members-only site, which allows CCA members to update their personal information, as well as pay their annual membership dues online, via the site. This integration included the use of several databases to control various functions, ranging from the aforementioned user updates to tracking the downloads of various PDF files and the maintenence of a worldwide member moorings database.
The site also allows various CCA stations around the country to update and edit station-specific "mini-sites" within the main site.
Joe
has worked on The
Newport International Film Festival's web site since 1999, both in
his capacity as web designer at JFmedia, which is a sponsor of the festival,
and as a member of the festival staff .
In May of 2003, his work on the festival's website was honored with a Crystal Award of Excellence, given annually by the Communicator Awards, in recognition of excellence in visual communications.
The Floodlight
Productions website was created for filmmaker Alix Flood
of Newport, in conjunction with the production of her first feature
film, A Totally Minor Motion Picture.
Shot entirely in Newport in early 2003 on digital video, A Totally Minor Motion Picture, is in post-production (as of September 2003) and will be shopped around to various film festivals in the coming months.
Not only did Joe Ruggeri create the website, but he served as an executive producer of A Totally Minor Motion Picture.
The theme was Oscar Night, so something glitzy and glamorous — and
totally self-deprecating — was called for. Enter the ball committee's
honorary chairpersons, husband & wife team Nick Benson and Alix Flood.
Some old Oscar publicity stills (in this none other than Audrey Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart would do), some quick headshots of Nick and Alix and some new-fashioned touchup work and — Voila! Instand glamour shots to grace the Ball invitation.
Take
a reference to the epicenter of the disco "culture",
the infamous Studio 54, add a disco ball, a play on the phrase "art studio"
and some funky 70's typefaces and you've got something that simply evokes
the disco-flavored theme of the 2006 Ball.
Get down with your funky self!