Landon Elmore consults on internet design and marketing initiatives, able to step in at any phase of an ongoing project, or on the ground floor on a new project. Landon's a creative guru, with business-chops as well. Meaning: He delivers. He's an excellent resource for Design Firms, Agencies and In-House Art Departments.

Landon Elmore Design is able to offer turn-key development for more complex creative communications endeavors, drawing on years of experience putting together development teams for clients like GE Capital Mortgage and Levi Strauss & Co. Download resume»

Landon Elmore Design
133 Fayetteville Street - 6th Floor
Raleigh, NC 27601 - USA

919.247.1852 Email: design@landonelmore.com

Landon Elmore relocated to San Francisco in January 1989 from his native homeland of North Carolina, two years after graduating from the School of Design at North Carolina State University (with honors). There seemed to be a calling from the west coast, where he quickly found a job at a design firm in North Beach. Landon settled into a career designing and producing all manner of printed materials; the old fashion way - with sharp exacto blades, some sheets of typesetting and rubylith and some hot wax.

Then, just as the 1989 earthquake shook San Francisco to the core, we began to feel the tremors of yet another kind of shake-up; the PC revolution. So...we learned to use the Macintosh. Soon we "Mac" users unknowingly put the typesetters out of one business, while bolstering their transformation into another - the "Service Bureau". We instead produced wonderful print pieces by giving the printer a computer disc rather than a "mechanical". This was when "Multimedia Gulch" in SF, as it came to be called, really began to take off. Companies were now designing CDROM's and games, and advances in video and audio and 3D modeling just kept getting better.

Then...enter the Internet. In 1996, we plunged headfirst into the development of the web; a craze that had us all incredibly excited. HTML was the undisputed king. New delivery methods for our clients' messages were being invented daily. Since the beginning, we of the "Gulch", have ridden the marvelous wave of 21st century technology, and have learned a great deal along the way.

In 2002, Landon returned to his roots in Raleigh, NC, along with wife Kirsten and new baby girl, Leila Johanna. Landon continues to work with West Coast clients, while working with new NC clients in and around the Research Triangle Park.

If you have a creative communications project, you need someone who can help define the project and provide accurate cost estimates, produce the work and deliver on time and on budget. You need excellent design skills, and you need the project plan to be smart and well executed. Whether the project is large or small, that's what we deliver.

Typical steps in the development process are as follows:

1. Project analysis. Client meetings and research as needed to fully assess the project's objectives, resources, time-frame as well as editorial, design and technology requirements.

2. Proposal. Includes editorial, design and technology strategies and an overall production timeline with milestones, approvals, and budget details.

3. Development. With an approved plan in place, content is defined here, and applied to interface (or other) design studies. We normally provide different looks in an initial design presentation, then define a selected direction through a few more reviews towards sign off.

For websites the refinement process includes these steps:

a. Prototype. Proposed interface and architecture in a demonstration version with limited functionality.

b. Alpha version of project. Running code without full feature functionality. Media assets are in place for testing all functional elements.

c. Beta version of project. Near-complete project ready for comprehensive testing and refinement.

d. Product Launch. Final product.

e. Ongoing Development and Maintenance. We often design programs that utilize a phased approach, including continued development after a particular initial launch of the product. Especially with website development, as this medium requires ongoing development to keep the site fresh. We keep this in mind and plan for it in our development plans.

Everyone has different needs when it comes to communicating with the world about their company or product. We love working with our clients to create compelling content across all media. We'd love to help you, too!