Real Detroit Weekly’s ‘Best of Detroit’ issue has hit the stands, featuring beautiful cover art by our friend Kevin O’Rourke.

Real Detroit Weekly also named him ‘Best Cover Artist‘ in recognition for the work he’s done since living in Detroit.

Check out our shot of Kevin used for the feature in print and on the interweb.

Our previous post shows more pictures from that portrait session.

We recently had the pleasure of photographing our good friend, Kevin O’Rourke.

Look for his feature in the upcoming issue of Real Detroit Weekly.

Cover and 4 example spreads

Good Samaritan Hospital is part of Advocate Health Care, the largest health care organization in Illinois. It is also the second largest employer in the state of Illinois with 25,000 associates. Would you believe it’s a not-for-profit organization? That it is.

To help educate the community about Advocate Health Care’s commitment to only the best in medical care and technology, this saddle-stitched brochure contains 28 pages describing Good Samaritan Hospital’s capabilities.

Today MOCHIMAD and Nerd Swarm LLC are pleased to announce the official launch of The Sprich Group web site for Realtor and golf enthusiast, Tom Sprich, of Keller Williams Realty in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Tom Sprich is one of the leading Realtors in the West Michigan residential housing market and needed a modern web presence with dynamic, built-in capabilities for easy updates and changes. To accomplish this, we built the site entirely in the WordPress platform, which uses powerful and fast-loading CSS coding in a PHP framework. WordPress is known the world over as a blogging platform, yet when you view the site, you will not recognize it as a blog.

The Sprich Group site has a built-in content management system that allows Tom Sprich to create and manage pages, media content, blog posts and navigation. He can bring house hunters the latest advice on the market, provide up-to-date listings, share a video on home improvement, or even recommend a good recipe. This kind of usability and control for the site owner, combined with clean CSS design, translates into a more useful experience for the visitor.

We love building dynamic and search-engine-friendly web sites in WordPress. Contact us to find out why.

MOCHIMAD is proud to work with artists and musicians. We ARE artists and musicians, after all. One such artist is Colombian fine artist, Rossina Bossio.

Rossina’s former site was Flash-based and heavy on browsers, making navigating through her extensive portfolio cumbersome. Utilizing clean graphic elements provided by Rossina, we set up her new site in WordPress, the highly-customizable open source blog platform. What many people don’t realize is that WordPress is also very powerful for building dynamic web sites because of its excellent built-in content management system.

The new RossinaBossio.com is clean, functional, search engine-friendly, and most importantly, easy for Rossina to update whenever she gets a new exhibition or completes her latest commission.

All new www.rossinabossio.com!!! on Flickr

MOCHIMAD LLC wishes you a happy and healthy 2009!

We are about to launch a new site for Colombian fine artist, Rossina Bossio. The new site departs from her prior, Flash-based web site and provides a simple and clean gallery showcase for her evocative painting, photography and drawing where users can purchase prints. Additionally, users can learn about upcoming Rossina Bossio exhibitions or potentially participate in Rossina’s ongoing interactive art projects, such as Dialogue with the Radio.

We built this web site on the WordPress blog platform, but it’s not a blog. It does not have the appearance of what you think of when you think of blogs. Word Press’ versatile Content Management System (CMS) enables Rossina to update her own content without relying on developers like us to perform every task that arises. We also included powerful, easy-to-use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tools into her WordPress build to help her continually hone her site to achieve better search engine results, and therefore increase traffic, response and print sales.

Self-branding is often a stone in any creative professional’s career. I am no different. I really don’t have trouble coming up with ideas. I just drop a bucket into the well and pull the ideas out. Deciding which one to roll with and make the commitment to is a different process—the “stone in the shoe” part.

Photography has always been and always will be a driving expression of my ideas. It’s the primary way I flex the muscles that every creative person needs to exercise to stay sane and/or to stay in the design business. The photographic mastheads that first meet your eye at the top of the page here are going to rotate through a dozen or so that I made up in advance.

I decided to do this for a couple of reasons. Firstly, we have lots of them and they all look great; and secondly, I simply get tired of looking at the same one for too long. It’s part of the creative professional’s curse. Constantly re-imagining, revisualizing. Maybe that’s a major reason why we do what we do all day long, and often into the wee hours.

Therefore, I will change the masthead every week or two—but I can’t promise I won’t change it more than once a day either—so maybe you’ll take interest and decide to come back ever so often to have a gander.

Shot on Fuji Pro 400 medium format film with all natural light. No Photoshop retouching performed.

Sue Lott and Matthew Richards are available for any of the following services in Detroit, Chicago or Madison.

Strategy
Wire-framing, Navigation, User Interface and Information Architecture; Storyboarding; Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM); Copy-writing for SEO; Blogging for SEO; Content Management System (CMS) Training; Branding Strategy, Design and Implementation; Special consideration given to artists, writers, musicians and bands for public image strategy

Presentation Media Design
Presentation Media Design for training, speaker support, trade shows, proposals, advertising and marketing using PowerPoint or Adobe Flash; show set-ups and executions

Web & Interactive Design
Page and Interface Design; Blog Design and Implementation; Asset Development; Flash Interface, Environments and Banners; Flash Character Animation; Motion Graphics for Web, Video and Broadcast; Special consideration for website design packages for artists, musicians and bands; WordPress, Actionscript, CSS, PHP, AJAX, Java, HTML

Print Design
Graphic design from strategic conception through production; Traditional and Digital Illustration; Digital Imaging; Copy-writing

Photography and Imaging
25 years of photography experience, including traditional film, medium format and digital applications; Exclusive contributor to iStockphoto.com; Commissioned assignments available on work-for-hire basis; Natural and studio lighting; Photo shoot coordination and execution; Models, make-up artists, assistants and locations sourcing available; Asset management; Expert in photo compositing, retouching utilizing the latest techniques; Special consideration given to photography for artists, writers, musicians and bands; Lifestyle, beauty, creative and conceptual image specialists