Day 2

Senior project ideas that came up tonight:

• Develop website for a friend's new business
• Nonprofit website or/and photography work
• Develop some web based applications/utilities/tools with a friend

I searched for nonprofits in my area and West CAP seemed like a company that I would like to work with so I sent them an email:

West CAP,

I am a Multimedia Senior at UW Stout juggling around ideas for my final project to graduate by.  My vision would be to partner with a local nonprofit that was interested in Website Design/Redesign, Company Branding, or Photography services pro bono.  The only catch is that it would have to work in the context and constraints a senior thesis project demands.  If I could assist West CAP in any of these areas please contact me, we can talk about possible projects.

Best,
Evan

Then for some reason I decided to search on Craigslist for possibilities on their nonprofit employment section.  Nothing but Working America/AFL-CIO came up and they already have a legitimate website that is well designed.

I talked with my girlfriend about possible branding identities and she suggested that I just use my name.  My name though is not easy to spell or pronounce so automatically I put the idea aside but she gave me some good examples of people who have successfully done this, granted they are all photography sites.  The website I will build mostly will feature photography as its my biggest portfolio piece though I should be able to add at least one website, possibly two this semester.  These are some sites she gave me.

simone maiwald
michele danze
jewgeni roppel

Leanda Ryan at leandaryan.com was a big influence for me in terms of design and photography when I was younger.  Right now it looks like she is redesigning her website.  Recently I have noticed a shift toward large fonts on the web which are easier to read from the days past of large blocky paragraphs of text in small fonts like at simonnorfolk.com.  I do really enjoy the simplicity though of Simon Norfolk's design and the depth he pulls you into every piece of work with his written context.

So I have been looking at different combinations of my name to see what would work for a domain name portfolio/company site:

www.evantheurer.com // too long!!
www.evantheu.com
www.evthe.com
www.evant.com // ok
et.com // haha no way
eth.com
ethe.com
etheu.com
etheur.com
etheure.com
etheurer.com
evth studios // hmm
evnthr studios // gross
evt.com
evtn.com // newsy
evt.com
evth.com
e as in evan dot com
EvTh
eVTh
evTh
evT Design {www.evtdesign.com}
eVt Studios [www.evtstudios.com] [www.evtstudio.com] 

evt photography // no don't want to limit the use by photography or design or webdesign in domain which is why I like the versatility of studios

evT Studios //www.evtstudios.com// 

I just realized how many people there are in every senior show I have been, soooo many.  Which I need to use as free advertising and exploit this opportunity as much as I can to get my abilities out and known (motivation) but of course this isn't a one time thing to do.  I should be rubbing elbows right now.

 EVAN THEURER | BASIL MEMORIES | 2011
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