GwenHarlow.com was designed and built by Gwen Harlow using BBEdit, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator. This site uses Movable Type as its content management system. Pages within the site may contain HTML, CSS, PHP, and Javascript. The primary font is Century Gothic, Lucida Grande, Gill Sans, or Helvetica, depending on which is installed on your computer.

Rotating thumbnail photos on left were taken by Gwen using her beautiful, beautiful camera.

We don't know what version this is; we've been redoing our portfolio site since 1996 and have long since lost count.

inquiry@gwenharlow.com

PERSONAL GOALS
Dual MFAs in photography and design from Art Institute of Chicago; vacation homes in Manhattan, Acapulco, Ventura, and Melbourne; Powerball win in 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007!

PREVIOUS PERSONAL APPEARANCES
Corporate public relations officer; engraver of fine gifts; computer instructor; Berkeley's best barrista; data wrangler; Blue Light Special announcer; small-network systems administrator

PERSONAL EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, Mills College
Communications major with emphasis in ethnic studies; editorships on student newspapers; state-level awards and merit scholarships for excellence in copy-editing and writing; extended studies in mathematics and photography

WEB SITE DEVELOPMENT
Concept to launch; small business, non-profit, and personal sites; shopping carts; site templates; galleries/portfolios; business card sites; backwards browser compatibility

IDENTITY AND BRANDING
Logos; print collateral; personalized look and feel

ADVERTISING AND MARKETING
Copywriting and editing; search engine optimization; HTML e-mail promotion; ad placement

GRAPHIC DESIGN
User interface; templates; banners; digital pre-press

DATABASE AND CONTENT MANAGEMENT
On- and offline set-up for single or multiple users; community forums; CMS and blogware

IMAGERY
Digital photography; photo manipulation and optimization; customized graphics and illustrations

Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, ImageReady, GoLive, Acrobat
Macromedia Fireworks, Dreamweaver
Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
BBEdit — We really, really, really love BBEdit!
Various CMS and blogwares, such as MovableType, TypePad, WordPress
Filemaker, MySQL, various FTP, compression, messaging, and e-mail clients
advanced HTML, XHTML, CSS, RSS
intermediate PHP, Perl, XML, Javascript

We have no unhealthy phobias about either Windows or Mac, but will admit to a slight preference for cuddling with our G5 on lazy summer evenings.

Small business
Baywood Building & Design
Burlesque Image
KineVideo
PC Nerd

Non-profit
Arrowsmith Academy
Berkeley Broadway Singers
GirlVentures (nee Bay Area Girls Center)
Negrophile
Black American Feminisms Bibliography

Portfolio
George H. Kelly Jr.
Jules Bianchi.com
Studio Karin Turner
Kallisys
Karen Rogers-Robinson

Personal projects
Photofluffer
Ofrenda
Don Harlow Reviews

In the full-time setting, Gwen was one of a team of designers in the creative services department I ran for a large, public online direct marketing company. She was always a team player, very creative, fast on turnaround, took direction very well and produced outstanding work. At the time, I wished that I had had 5 more designers just like her.

As a freelancer, I have called on Gwen on a number of occasions to handle projects on short notice with high demands. Every single time, she rose to the occasion. One time, I was handling a client while I was traveling in Europe. Gwen worked with me on my schedule and made sure that the time difference didn't get in the way of our doing business and creating an excellent design for the client. (Gwen is also a very talented html coder, which has proven extremely helpful on many occasions.

Gwen is very easy to work with, sincere about her goals of customer satisfaction and a pleasure to do business with. Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

I have a photography site, and I wanted different icons to represent the different kinds of photography available. I had been searching endlessly and could find nothing that suited my needs. I explained to Gwen vaguely what I was looking for, and she was able to create icons for me that I absolutely loved and fit right in with the design on my site.

Gwen was easy to work with and responded to my requests quickly and professionally. Although I live in Los Angeles, I didn't even notice the 400-mile gap between us because she made it convenient to communicate with her via email and was easy to reach by phone. Because I do know a little HTML, I have been able to work on my site now that she has designed it, and she has been happy to give me tips and advice from time to time.

I really appreciated her ability to listen to what I wanted and make it a reality in a very short time.