illyan seem design | new york

HelloThere

My name is Illyan and I make websites

I am a digital designer living and working in New York City. Over the past decade I have worked on video projects for network, corporate, and independent film clients, print design and marketing for small businesses, and for the past several years I've been focusing my attention on standards-based web development. Here are just a few of the services I provide:

Services

Standards-Based Web Development

Design and development of hand-coded, standards-based websites using (X)HTML, CSS, jQuery and PHP.

Content Management & Blogs

Dynamic websites with ExpressionEngine.

Search Engine Optimization

Optimization of content, code, and internal links; editing and reformatting of content for the web.

RecentWork

QiSites provides elegant, professional websites to licensed acupuncturists. It's a full service website solution, featuring my own jQuery-based content management system, which totally rocks! This was by far the most engaging and enjoyable web development project I've worked on. It's nice being my own boss.Ingredients: jQuery, PHP, XHTML, CSS, Cufon, and lots more... Just completed this redesign of Blue Horse Digital's website, including content management with ExpressionEngine. Founders Betsy Rich and John Upshall wanted the site up asap for their growing business, which specializes in high-end archival video services. We worked together on the content, and managed to go live exactly 2 weeks from our first conversation, and still support everything from IE 5 to Google Chrome!Ingredients: Photoshop, Copywriting, XHTML, CSS, jQuery, Expression Engine, sIFR Schnapp Studio brought me in to assist in the development of this Flash site for nascent advertising agency Rivet Global. I had a lot of fun bringing the unique design and interactive concepts of Rivet's in-house artists to life. FYI, pinatas and alcohol are a dangerous combination!Ingredients: Flash, ActionScript, Photoshop I was contracted by Special Ops Media for the redesign and coding of the center column of JPMorgan's Institutional Americas home page. A clean design and semantic, list-based markup made this redesign a success.Ingredients: Photoshop, CSS, XHTML ITS Soho is part a new template collection I'm creating.Ingredients: Photoshop, XHTML, CSS This redesign of Tri-State College of Acupuncture's website involved a total restructuring of content and code. The end result is a highly functional website that's easy to navigate and comfortable to read. Ingredients: XHTML, CSS, jQuery, Expression Engine Designer Lily McCullough of The Macro Company brought me on to develop a portfolio site for art director Graham Turner. Dynamic Flash was just the thing to bring Lily's design to life. Content updates are super simple thanks to the XML back end.Ingredients: Flash, ActionScript, XML, Javascript ITS William is part a new template collection I'm creating.Ingredients: Photoshop, XHTML, CSS Acupuncturist Chandra Hood wanted a clean, simple website to provide information for her patients. The layout and typography focus on making the content both legible and readable, and we incorporated statuesque anatomical sketches that reflect Chandra's background in Western biomedical science.Ingredients: Photoshop, XHTML, CSS This was a first pass at a redesign for the marketing heavy Now Music site. This project is dead in the water, but would have provided some interesting Flash challenges. The design was inspired by a car stereo.Ingredients: Photoshop This is a prototype for a Flash-based trigger point acupuncture training manual. The user can navigate the body to select a muscle, and then watch video examples of any point in that muscle being released. The application is XML-based to allow for easy updating as new video becomes available. Apps like this are a great use of technology, and I'm a fan of any project that uses Flash for education.Ingredients: Photoshop, Flash, ActionScript, XML, Poser Working with legendary designer Bob Gill once again, for this Lumiere Productions documentary title sequence. I was responsible for interpreting Bob's story boards into an animation that would achieve his and producer Cal Skagg's vision. The outcome, for this documentary about journalists in the most dangerous and repressive locations in the world, involved text in six languages animating on with a type-on effect. Ingredients: Photoshop, After Effects