Blue Mouse Monkey Blog

Website launches seem to come in clusters, and this one’s the start of the late spring/early summer group. Portland author and editor Sarah Cypher needed a flexible site to market herself as a novelist while she approached agents. Built in WordPress with a custom design, the site gives Sarah the ease of maintenance of a blog, with the scalability of a regular site. We got the site up in time for Sarah’s trip to the Backspace Writer’s Conference. Go, Sarah!

PJM Designs Home

They’ve been a long time in the making, but now Paul McMahon, AKA PJM Designs, has four new interrelated websites. With Paul’s humorous illustrations, along with some goofy animations and funny noises, these sites show the range of Paul’s talents in a very Paul way. There’s a PJM Designs home page, complete with a talking robot, and a couple of ‘easter eggs‘.

(Note: the Drennons website was not done by Blue Mouse Monkey.)

The talking cop on Calling All Cards

There’s Calling All Cards, through which you can peruse and purchase humorous cards Paul has designed.

How Paul makes hens meet

There’s Making Hens Meet, an online portfolio of freelance work Paul has done.

Top Secret Project P.A.R.M.

And there’s Project Parm. That one’s classified, and if I told you about it, I’d have to kill you (using a ultrasonic ray sent back to your computer via the interwebs). But you can go see it for yourself! Check out the Found Photos section - three pages of amazing images Paul picked up off the streets of New Yor…oops.

An incredibly accomplished composer, arranger, and performer, Mark Orton is known for his several bands, including Tin Hat, as well as his composing for films such as Everything Is Illuminated. Mark’s site is rich in music as well as visuals, with a Joseph Cornell inspired aesthetic. There’s even a ‘radio’ filled with dozens of tunes you can play while you’re looking at other websites. Check it out, and plan to stay a while.

Builders of high-end handcrafted bicycle frames, Independent Fabrication needed a new site that communicated the values and aesthetics that earned them their cult following. Blue Mouse Monkey designed IndyFab’s new website in partnership with athletics branding specialists Frank Creative.

Michele Feder-Nadoff’s practice of installations and collaborative performances span Chicago and Santa Clara del Cobre, a traditional copper-smithing community in Michoacán, Mexico. Michele’s work encompasses embroidery, lost wax casting, sculpture, drawing, and painting. We built this site for Michele in Flash, with a custom content management system for her to add project pages, news items, videos, links, and biographical information.

Julie Perini takes on the world!

Julie Perini recently relocated to Portland, whereupon I had the pleasure of meeting her…and pretty soon I was designing her a fab new website! Her short videos investigate her immediate surroundings as well as larger social structures with humor. Julie is cooking, with a recent show at PCC Cascade, and one up right now at PSU. Check it out!

Blue Mouse Monkey is happy to announce the launch of a new website for Seattle artist Roger Shurtleff. Working primarily as a painter, Roger takes on abstraction and the figure with a bold and gestural vocabulary.

Animations made by hand

Blue Mouse Monkey is proud to announce the launch a new website for Stacey Steers’s animated films. Stacey Steers is an animator living in Colorado. Her films are created, by hand, from thousands of collages or hand-painted drawings. They’ve been screened at The Sundance Film Festival, and numerous other festivals worldwide.