The online design portfolio of Dan Hiester
Welcome to my online design portfolio. Here, you can view a selection of past projects, and read some insight about what went into them. Working on each one of these projects have been experiences I am thankful to have had.
Although I had used desktop publishing and graphic design software throughout my childhood, I didn’t realize I had potential to be a professional graphic designer until I joined the nationally-recognized journalism program at Santa Ana College. My first page layout for the student newspaper, El Don, won me a commendable mention from the Society for News Design, and foreshadowed what became a very successful career in that school’s newsroom.
At about the same time, the release of Mozilla 1.0 finally obsoleted Netscape Communicator, and the web was finally ready for CSS-driven layout. For the first time in the history of the medium, it became possible to fine-tune a website layout with the same level of attention to detail as traditional print design. Immediately, I became passionate about bringing my award-winning, magazine-influenced design style to the web, and combining it with a fascination in usability theory.
These two passions have served me well, and although I have spent time as both a print designer and a web designer, I feel very strongly that my experience in each of these fields is beneficial to each other – something I think you’ll see as you browse through my projects.
