When Nate Braxton and I began work on Hicks-Gibbon Studios, we immediately wanted to make our own products. Greeting cards, being a very low-capital product, seemed a good way to dip our toe in the waters of business. Things have been… slow. There is hope ahead, but in the meantime we’ve been in desperate need of cash.
We’ve been using WordPress for quite a while on our personal sites, and have even begun to incorporate it into other professional sites for organizations. Then we realized that if we build a platform for the rapid creation of highly-custom looking sites within WordPress, we could be a great help to very small organizations and business who are in need of a web presence, but don’t have the finances to have something custom-built. Our solution could be quick, inexpensive, and designed specifically for their needs.
Hence the Hicks-Gibbon WordPress platform currently in development. We will soon have a couple of example applications available online, and at that point we’ll begin peddling the idea to small businesses and non-profit organizations.
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Adam O'Hern is an industrial design consultant specializing in visual brand languages, and has designed products ranging from laptops to power tools, classroom toys to bathroom fixtures, and robots to lint rollers. He has published with 3DWorld Magazine, CGTuts+, and Luxology, and works with Josh Mings of SolidSmack.com on EngineerVsDesigner.com. |
