Rstearns Graphics is the sole creation of graphic designer Roger Stearns. Rstearns Graphics creation has been a long process and is still an evolving and ongoing development.
Roger is a very talented artist that hopes to establish a history and career in this field of graphic design and web creation. He created this web site to show the world what he has accomplished in his life and of his potential future.
Hello, my name is Roger Stearns. I am a graphic designer and a life long resident of La Crosse, WI.
Although I have a unrelated full-time job, my real desire is to establish a home based freelance graphic design business on the side.
What I lack in real commercial experience, I hope to demonstrate here in these pages my abilities and skills will prove that I am worthy of your consideration for your next project.
Quite a few years ago, Roger Stearns created the name Rstearns Graphics as his logo and corporate indentity. Roger has always had a desire to create a career in graphic design. He attended a local tech school WWTC for graphics where he excelled and learned a great deal.
Since then Roger has worked unrelated jobs, yet independently continued his thirst for knowledge and understanding in new areas of study in web design, HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScipt programming languages.
Life truly is a continual journey....
Rstearns Graphics desire is to be,
A successful small graphic design business in the La Crosse, WI and surrounding area's.
To offer great design with an eye for detail and excellence at a reasonable value to companies on a budget.
To strive for excellence and quality at all times, and listen to what you need and demand.
To grow, learn, and build new relationships. Come join Rstearns Graphics!
Rstearns Graphics has created a variety of different web sites and interactives that demonstrate able abilities and applied knowledge of web design and programming using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other languages.
A combinatation of various Adobe products were used such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Live-Motion and Go-live in his creative process.
H.G. Wells was one of the best known English authors, whose works include The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau.
Rstearns Graphics created this web site as an exercise to demonstrate techniques and knowledge of web design featuring a favorite interesting author.
This web site also makes use of a front page sometimes referred to as a splash page.
"Once Upon A Day In Wonderland", is an imaginary movie trailer which features a variety of different computer graphics.
Rstearns Graphics created this movie trailer using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Live-Motion for educational purposes.
Although the whole world wide web is made possible by a variety of client side progamming languages (languages that are excuted by the user's browser on thier own computer) such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and XML which browsers interpret and display all the wonderful web sites available today. The Internet is becoming quite a dynamic and exciting place which requires a greater interactivity than just the standard old static web sites of yesterday.
Many web developers use what is called a server model, which is the combination of elements that make up a web application (a web site that is as much a program as a web site). These elements include first the Web server application -- for example, Apache or Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), then the server side progamming languages (languages that employ scripts on a web server which produce a response customized for each user's request to the website) -- PHP, VBScript, the Java family of languages, Python, Tcl, etc (the list of possible languages is long) and a relational database -- MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL, to name three.
Rstearns Graphics has gained experience with some of these critical internet programming languages that are the very backbone of the internet in the creation of these interactive web sites, "The Recipe Center" and "The Food Store" using the AMP server model (Apache, MySQL and PHP).
"The Recipe Center", is a dynamic interactive web application content management system which allows visitors to post and retrieve recipe information.
Visitors can view and search for recipes to an online database. Registered users will even be able to log in and add favorite recipes of their own. All submitted recipes and e-mail addresses will be collected in a MySQL relational database and, once approved, get displayed live on the site.
"The Food Store", is a fully-functional online food store application that allows customers to shop online, select items for purchase, and of course, check out.
This web application also has built in administration functions required to run the online store, and all the administration work required to maintain the product catalog, monitor stock levels, and process customer orders.
Dynamic Web pages allow you to easily change your content in real time without even touching the coding of the page. That's right: Without manually making any changes to the page itself, the information on the page can change. This means a web developer can keep the content on the page fresh so that what a visitor sees there now may be updated or replaced in a day, an hour, or a minute. The core layout of the Web page can remain the same (such as where the logo, links, and so forth display), but the data presented constantly changes.
Layout design is a creative process that is the communication of ideas, concepts and overall structural presentations which an artist attempts to express his or her interpretations of the clients desires and requirements.
Within these pages Rstearns has brought together a compilation of comprehensive layouts, digital renderings and various publications which represent a portion of the creative history of Rstearns Graphics.
Here are a few interesting comprehensive advertising layouts that Rstearns Graphics has designed for demonstrative purposes in the learning process and developement.
Comprehensive layout design is an important part of the creative process in the creation of advertising materials. These renderings aid in the communication between an artist and his or her clients the concepts and ideas which are being conveyed and adjusted.
What is art?
What a question, any one definition of art would not be enough. Billions of things one could say.
One definition could be;
"Works produced by such
skill and imagination".
Well let me show you some of the works of Rstearns Graphics and I'll let you be the judge.
Rstearns Graphics has created a variety of pencil and ink drawings over a period of time.
Here are just a few renderings that were created using several different techniques such as pointillism and three point perspective.
I am sure you will find these renderings interesting and of great artistic value.
I hope that you would take time to consider Rstearns Graphics,
if you are interested in my work and would like to discuss any future projects.