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Angel’s Share

Angel’s Share etched glassware lineup.

Five etched glasses share one commemorative crest, and nearly all the difference between them is shape. Angel's Share is a static design study in showing that difference clearly. Ordering and inquiries are switched off.

Side by side

The collection is a Kenzie glass, a rocks glass, a full-size Glencairn, a Wee Glencairn and a Spey dram glass. One photograph of all five in a row explains the range faster than five paragraphs could, from the broad rocks glass to the narrower tasting shapes. Glass disappears on a busy page, so the photographs get a lot of empty space around them.

For the crest, a wider shot shows where the etching sits on each glass and a close one shows its lettering and fine lines. The type around it stays restrained so the mark keeps its own character.

An etched Glencairn glass
Etched glassware detail. Product and artwork: CJDesignLab.

Building a set

The part I found most interesting was the order of things. The page shows the whole lineup first, then the individual pieces, then explores how someone could choose a matching or mixed set, with customization and shipping questions grouped nearby. The same photographs have to work at all three stages without the glasses blurring together.

The glassware is by CJDesignLab, with orders coordinated by Kyle and Lindsey. I designed the page from the collection's existing imagery and release material.

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Creative full-body websites portrait of Cory Boehne
04WEBSITES, DESIGNED AND BUILT

I design the site.
Then I build it.

A cookie brand that opens with a little theater. A board shop in Miami sunset colors. A cabinetmaker’s work filling the screen. I design how each site looks and moves, then build the pages, forms and tools that make it work.

Design, graphics and code since around 1999.

A different business.
A different approach.

The first few seconds matter. Here are three very different ways into a site, and the decisions behind each.

Miami Boardshop homepage with a sunset boardwalk scene and large multicolored heading.
Miami Boardshop / Homepage screenshot.
Shop website

Miami Boardshop website

Sunset color, a custom board that turns as you scroll, and direct routes to service, builds, parts and ship-in repairs.

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Website design for Utterly Good Foods
Client website

Utterly Good Foods

Ashley's cookie footage opens the page, a short signup gathers interest in drops and tastings, and a private workspace keeps track of everyone who joins.

Inside Utterly Good Foods
Website design for Wooden Beard Woodworks
Client website

Wooden Beard Woodworks

A hosted design preview for a custom woodshop, opening on reeded white oak and brass and leading into a gallery of named projects.

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Wooden Beard
The Green Monster entertainment center
The Green Monster entertainment center in Davie. Woodwork and photograph: Wooden Beard.
Client website

Close enough to see the grain.

I let the reeded oak, grain and brass carry the opening, then built the gallery around projects with names and places.

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The portraits on this site

Real photographs,
AI-generated portraits.

I made these portraits in Image Studio from several reference photographs of myself, including full-body shots. Each portrait and its surrounding objects are separate transparent images, so I can arrange them differently on each page.

Drag the divider to compare a reference photograph with a finished portrait.

AI-generated portrait of Cory for the AI perspective
Original standing photograph of Cory
Original photographAI version
  1. Farmington High

    Looking after the school's computers and network with Jacob.

  2. Cyber Port Station

    Working at an internet service provider in Farmington, New Mexico.

  3. Around 1999

    A web design firm for local restaurants, travel and hospitality businesses.

Where the web work began

It started with the school computers in Farmington.

At Farmington High, my friend Jacob and I looked after the school's computers and network for credit instead of taking a regular class. By seventeen I was working with him at Cyber Port Station, an internet service provider in Farmington, and around 1999 we started a web design firm together. I remember the name as Matrix X Solutions, which tells you roughly what year it was.

Most of our clients were local restaurants and travel and hospitality businesses. I mostly did the HTML, graphics and animation while Jacob leaned toward the backend, though we traded jobs when it made sense. There weren't many layers between an idea and the page. You made the image, wrote the markup, worked out the interaction and put it online.

I still like working that way. When I make the graphics and write the code, a visual decision and the way the page actually behaves get settled at the same time.

Continue into dealership software and Maximo

The whole
collection.

Client sites and the storefronts I keep working on come first, followed by two labeled design studies.

12 entries
Behind the design

Where some of this comes from.

The software under several of these sites, the companies behind a few of them, and the photography that trained my eye.

Your website

Tell me what
you're making.

Send what you have, whether that's photographs, a logo or just the questions customers keep asking, and tell me what visitors need to do when they arrive. I'll design how it looks, moves and reads, and build the whole thing.

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