Bonita Boyd - website design

It was an honor to create this website for the extremely talented concert flutist Bonita Boyd. She performs all over the world, has recorded an impressive discography, and teaches at the Eastman School of Music. Bringing all of this together into one website really shows how passionate Bonita is, and how many lives she has touched! Congratulations on the new website, and all the best to you, Bonita!

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www.BonitaBoyd.com

CLIENT: Bonita Boyd

PROJECT: Website design, logo design, photo editing

RESOURCES: Powered by Squarespace. Fonts: St. Marie Thin, Source Sans Pro. Home page photo: courtesy of James Alby; all other photography provided by client.

“It is my great pleasure to recommend Alli Coate’s work in virtually every respect. She has designed a beautiful, sensitive, exciting, and imaginative website for me! Her design is absolutely marvelous- what she can do with the available materials to make them meaningful and striking is astonishing! Alli is also a delight to work with- organized, concerned and caring about her client’s needs and wishes, and a person of the utmost integrity. I am thrilled with her work!”

— Bonita Boyd Professor of Flute, Eastman School of Music Performing and recording artist

Interior page of BonitaBoyd.com

New Website

It's here! I've been making lots of websites for clients, then realized that it had been a very long time since I'd given any attention to my own. All I can say is - finally! And two thumbs up to Squarespace for being awesome.

PeaceLoveStudios.com illustrations

I'm so happy to announce that the new PeaceLoveStudios.com has been launched! This process has been a great collaboration between the team at PeaceLove, designers at Studio Pie, and developers at Trestian. To emphasize the artistic and community-building aspects of PeaceLove, I created an illustrated background filled with art supplies and a peaceful little world. I also created illustrations for the rollovers in the navigation bar, and icons scattered throughout the site. Take a look at the new website and let us know what you think!

Tidying up

The other night I had an Arrested Development netflix marathon keep me company while I worked on some website edits; I ended up staying up way too late but now my blog is looking tidier and and more in line with my main website. Part of the process involved going back through all my old blog posts - here's how my site looked in 2009 and 2006. Personally, I'm loving this new clean look! Hope you do, too. Suggestions are always welcome. :)

Young Leaders Fellowship design & branding

I recently teamed up with Tino Chow and Big New Ideas to create branding and some design pieces for Young Leaders Fellowship, a local non-profit we are involved with. We designed a logo, website, postcard and poster in record time!

I also had the pleasure of creating some illustrations for the website. I used a combination of tight pencil drawings and loose brushstrokes to convey the personality and spirit behind the organization.

In my line of work, I spend a lot of time figuring out how to visualize abstract ideas. Working out how to illustrate some of the programs offered by YLF was challenging, but in the end I was able to get the point across simply.

A new look

My website has needed a sprucing up for a while, and today it all came together, finally! Hope you like it. Thanks to everyone who has been supporting me by buying my prints! I'm constantly working to keep the store stocked with new prints, so be keeping an eye out.

Unifying images

I'm very excited to be working on a project for a talented woman named Sarah Salerno Thomas. More info to come, but for now I'd like to just share a few of the images I've been working on. Sarah does interactive performances with children in schools, museums, and libraries across the Northeast. The photos she has collected from her different performances vary slightly in lighting conditions, exposures, and image quality. This is fairly standard issue, and it can be a challenge to find a way to unify an array of images.

For Sarah's project, I've chosen to overlay the images with colored drops of paint. It creates a playful, exciting result. I love this technique and hope to be able to use it often- it's a very satisfying way to incorporate your hand into digital work.

the site

allicoate.com After two almost-full days of HTML, my site is up and running! I'm so happy with how it turned out. Click the screenshot to visit... please let me know what you think, or if you find any problems!

Now for some orange creme swirl ice cream....