Improving the internets. Daily.
Featured below is work from three recent clients. They include both interface designs as well as full-scale web design in functional html+css. Over the past five years, I've worked on over twenty projects. Please send me a note if you'd like to see more examples of my work. I also have a printable portfolio I can send along.
Sightline Institute
/ Full Designs: A | B | C
Kerker Agency
/ Full Project: Mini-Site
The Columbia Missourian
/ Full Designs: A | B | C
After doing a tremendous job on our Sightline Daily website,
Ryan helped our fundraising team create a simple & attractive template
for our email appeals. He put it together so quickly and in a way that
makes it really versatile, not to mention updateable by a non-techie like
myself. I'm excited to use the template in our upcoming campaign.
– Stacey Panek of Sightline
[He] worked with me from the start to display
my photography in a way that was not only respectful of the work, but actually enhanced
it. That's not easy to do online. Over three years ago, Ryan produced a
site for me that combined function and aesthetic. Today, it's
just as relevant and just as striking.
– Steve Boyle of Steve Boyle Photography
Ryan is a great designer. You can see that from his clips. But perhaps more importantly Ryan is the most patient and well-rounded designer I've ever worked with. In our rethinking of Vox and the Columbia Missourian he not only survived the criticism of the Missouri School of Journalism but he wowed us. And repeatedly. We asked him to design for a moving target and he put together two coherent sites that brought energy to the web.
– Brian Hamman now of The
New York Times
We were planning to create a Faneuil Media blog, but halfway through the process, Ryan Swarts, the excellent designer we’re working with said, “Hey, why not turn the whole thing into a blog?”
Good question. Why not? So we did it, and now our site is a blog.
– Rick Faneuil of Faneuil
Media
I suppose the first thing anyone notices in a site is the
graphic design. Man, is Sightline Daily tastefully done. It's clean, skimmable,
attractive, and presents a lot of metadata about news clippings in a non-overwhelming
way. A few times, I found myself mindlessly clicking around and just absorbing
the niceness.
– Andrew Burkhalter of ONE/Northwest