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design
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a tailored home page
We worked with the FERN, an investigative journalism non-profit in New York, to amplify their online voice. In designing and building a comprehensive digital publishing platform, we have created donation tools, social media templates, and publishing tools. This latest design gave the editorial team a vast new canvas to create layouts using the Wordpress Gutenberg editor.
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article designs with expansive layout possibilities
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categories and series pages provide an organizing structure to articles
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a map of FERN articles
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reporters pages
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a flexible donation system
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customized for apple news, google amp, and facebook news platforms
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create modals with ease
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logo geometry
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logo design
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promotional graphics, including a podcast identity
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a banner system to easily create, show and hide campaigns
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social media graphics using canva templates
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original t-shirts designs, available at bonfire.com
Working with South Bend Design has been a fantastic experience. Jeff’s design and development skills are unmatched. Projects come in on time and on budget and look amazing. Every time.
Tom Laskawy, Co-founder and executive director
code
GDPR compliance
content licensing tools
e-commerce
google AMP
apple news
google analytics
advertising system
modal system
banner system
credits
FERN:
Tom Laskawy, Executive Director
Sam Fromartz, Editor-in-chief
South Bend Design:
Jeff Fassnacht, Web Design and Development
Dan Jaworsky, Web Development