Wrayco Design- Graphic Design & Web Design

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Solidtube, a young Austrian band, chose Wrayco Design to design their logo and CD package upon reaching their $50,000 goal on Sellaband.com to produce a CD. Although none of the band members were American, they had a very American sound, and were partial to the feeling of the Old West. The …

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False Profit Skateboards offers socially-conscious products for the left-of-center crowd. This is an e-commerce Flash site which features animation, video, and PayPal integration for product check-out. Business owner Mariano Dauz wanted Wrayco to capture the feeling of his existing product …

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Mark Schneider makes fine jewelry with an emphasis on the bridal market. With his extensive collection of rings, he needed a dynamic site that would allow for viewing the rings and other pieces in a variety of formats. I took their existing logo and adapted a style for the pages that would …

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I have always been a fan of the super-realistic effects you can get via the Gradient Mesh tool in Illustrator. Since I envied others being able to do this, I decided to put some effort into trying to achieve this myself. Turns out it wasn’t so hard for me once I had read through a couple …

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Here is a promotional postcard I created for Los Angeles legendary tango dancer and teacher, Yolanda Rossi. I wanted the imagery and color to reflect her elegance and passion for the dance. She teaches out of her home and so I went there during a lesson and photographed her and her students …

Buntich Logo Case Study

Sometimes it’s worthwhile getting a peek into the logo design process, and because of the number of variations I created when designing a …

Punch Rewards

This is a logo I designed for an iPhone application that would enable the user to reap the same rewards as are offered for paper versions of loyalty …

Transition Pittsburgh

Here’s a logo I did for a new basketball team in Pittsburgh, PA. They wanted something with an old train and a basketball in it that could …

Salzburg Castle

I’m experimenting with a simple, imperfect style reminiscent of cut paper for this illustration. I think this type of image, and especially …

The Scoring Factory

This is a logo for a basketball skills camp in Pittsburgh. The coach wanted something that was reminiscent of all the old factory buildings there, …

Krafton Publishing

Krafton Publishing was a start-up company that published wall calendars. I love it when the product and the company name lend themselves so well …

Wrayco Design is the design studio of Amanda Wray, located in Monrovia, California. I specialize in web design, but also offer print graphics, logos, illustration, photography and sound design.

I design websites clients can update themselves, and most projects are available with hosting, SEO, email marketing, and stat analysis.

Blog

Understanding Image Formats
One of jobs of being a designer is helping clients understand the mysteries of file formats. Anyone who has spent any time around a …
Web Security
Web security is akin to visiting the dentist. It’s one of those necessities that you can’t ignore forever or you will end up with …
What does Google want?
“How do I end up No. 1 in Google?” clients ask me time after time. I smile, reminded of myself as a teenager, remembering …
Webpage font choice
One thing I was told in design school was that limitations and restrictions are just as critical to good design as creativity and freedom. …

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“Search engines love regularly updated websites such as blogs, so designing on a blogging platform is very SEO friendly.”