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Way back in 2008, Klucid designed and developed Hopie Spitshard's original website (built on Drupal 5). Three albums and nearly four years later, Hopie has grown immensely as an artist, thus requiring a website overhaul. Not only are we redesigning the front end to match her new image and musical style, we are also upgrading her Drupal installation so that it is up to par for the new year.

Check out the initial concept for the new design above. Stay tuned as we share the design process with our readers and publish each step of designing a website from scratch - no templates! Follow along as we interpret comments and suggestions from Hopie into the new design.

I recently discovered this new series of compilations, Putumayo Presents. I have no idea how old it is or how many of them there are, but I do know that I will be listening to this one all day!

Here's a concept for the new Go Bigg Music Group website. The company requested a grunge-slash-urban look and feel. Actually, one member of the team asked about an exact clone of the 6Fingers site, which I designed earlier this year. Read more »

For this entry, I decided to execute an idea that I had earlier this year when I designed a poster for Hopie Spitshard. Reusing the silhouette profile of Hopie's face, my intent is to have a large graphic over the front with the words "Diamond Dame" running down the left side under the arm.