I’ve been kicking around the idea of a refresh/realign of my site since I started working on thingsthatarebrown full-time. It’s been over eight months of “hunt and peck” web design and development — design ideas hatched, then discarded, picked back up again, then left in the dirty clothes pile, only to be put back on because there was nothing clean to wear.

After a lot of piecemeal iteration, I finally arrived at a visual language I could live with, one that shows what thingsthatarebrown is all about.

1+1 = 3

Now that I’m working with the wonderful Tiffani Jones (soon to be Tiff Jones Brown), the goals, abilities and positioning of my agency change considerably. Gone are the days of just being ‘a solid freelance designer’ — today we’re a bona fide agency, with serious combined talents and a decidedly collaborative approach to web design. I’m more excited for the future than I’ve ever been — ain’t no mountain high enough… and all that.

So really, what we most needed was a site with Tiffani’s name on it, as well as one that showed over a full year’s worth of my best design work (the old site was painfully out of date). It also needed to scale in order to fit some very exciting projects that we’ll post in the coming months.

More than anything, the new site is really just an evolution of my brand, clarification of my message, and a stronger showcasing of my work — as Cameron Moll said smartly, “good designers redesign, great designers realign.” The brown birdy has grown up nicely. It’s powered by my eternal frenemy, WordPress, and it’s both a flexible design and platform to keep up with my rapidly growing company.

Hope y’all like it.