Author Archives: Pete Nawara

Web Design & Graphic Design for Adbean llc

Responsibilities include creating robustly designed comps for the web which are fully layered and ready to be implemented, implementing designs into a wordpress theme, creating javascript and php functionality on the static site, and comping designs for a flash web application.
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Web Design Proposal for Global Authority Inc.

In this freelance operation, I was asked to create several web comps for Global Authority Inc, an authentication services company specializing in sports trading cards. They wanted a professional look while still showing off the sports theme of the site. Using Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and a few references from the client, I came up [...]

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Skillrazor Design Proposal

Here’s a design I comped up for the guys over at SkillRazor. It’s based off of what they already had at skillrazor.com. I’ve rescaled the site to be more information friendly and less flash dependent. The flash that was there seemed hardly necessary so I streamlined that section to be less prominent and more informative. [...]

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BuyFlipRent.com Web Design

This site was designed for SkillRazor from the ground up. Working with a team of Ruby on Rails developers from SkillRazor and Obtiva, I was responsible for creating wireframes, designing the look and feel based on the clients desires, and implementing those styles in a Ruby on Rails environment using HAML & SASS. This also [...]

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Integrated Innovations Web Design

This is a site I did in collaboration with Luke Ratto for  Integrated Innovations under the name Pelu Design® (website coming soon). Based on Luke’s logo design and some direction from the client, we put this design together using Illustrator and Photoshop and then implimented it using Html, Css and PHP while utilizing a Wordpress [...]

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The Sudden Realization That We’ve Forgotten The Main Ingredient

Here is yet another T-shirt Design for Threadless. This one uses some of my hand drawn illustration techniques along with some photoshop editing. I went ahead and did another t-shirt mock up for this one. There’s also Desktop Wallpapers available at http://www.laserboltland.com.
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An Extremely Shockingly And Distressingly Bad And Serious Event Causing Great Suffering

Here’s a t-shirt design I did for Threadless. This design was created in Adobe Illustrator and the mock up was created using Adobe Photoshop. I’m currently using cs3 until someone decides they would like to pay for the newest version for me. Thanks in advance. You’re very kind.
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35 Flavours

Here’s a T-shirt design that’s on critique over at Threadless.com. It’s a hand drawn illustration that I drew on the #8 Halsted bus in Chicago.  The sketch was then brought into Adobe Photoshop and coloured all sorts of different colours. It’s the type of illustration that makes me want to spell color like this: colour. [...]

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A Terrific Ride Where Almost Everyone is Feeling Uneasy

Here’s another yet another T-shirt I’ve just finished for the people over at Randr Tees. It’s called “A Terrific Ride Where Almost Everyone is Feeling Uneasy.” It’s filled with fun and happiness and despair and clouds. All the things that make up a really good T-shirt.
It was created using Adobe Illustrator and my brain and [...]

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  • About Pete Nawara

    I'm a graphic and web designer with a strong visual arts background, adept at the creation of stunning, but functional designs. I was internationally trained at Parson's School of Design in Paris France and have been involved in the fine art, graphic design, illustration and web design fields for 5+ years.

    My fine art and illustrative skills make it easy for me to bring full illustrations to life on your website, from sketches to full realization. Using traditional methods of thumbnail sketches and concept drawings, as well as being an expert in both Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, I am able to produce intuitive and effective layouts for your website.

  • Pete's Toolbox

    Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator

    Adobe Photshop Adobe Photoshop

    Adobe Flash Adobe Flash

    Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails

    Panic Coda Coda

    HTML Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML)

    CSS Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

    HAML XHTML Abstraction Markup Language (HAML)

    SASS Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets (SASS)

    jQuery jQuery Javascript Library

    Terminal Terminal

    Wordpress Wordpress

    Joomla Joomla

    Drawing Drawing and Illustration

    Painting Painting

  • Contact Pete Nawara

    Mail hello@petenawara.com

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