Free Thinkers Movement Design and Illustration

MANIFESTO

"Art is the highest task and proper metaphysical activity of this life."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

My name is Dennis Ramirez.

I am no longer freelancing at the moment, as I am now the web developer at
Victory Records here in Chicago (as of February 2007).

You can keep up with new developments and projects of mine at my Virb account.

Other than that, I'm going to leave all else up.

Cheers,

Dennis

SERVICES

I offer a range of services for Business as well as Individuals (musicians, artists, etc.).
If interested, fill out the Request Form for an estimated price.

Web Design & Development Graphic/Print Design Identity Illustration

Web Design & Development

HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash/Actionscript, PHP, MySQL, XML, SEO

Whether you're a band needing a way to promote yourself, a company seeking to establish its brand online, or just looking for a personal site/blog, I will help you create a user-friendly website that balances aesthetic and function, and I'll give you advice on how to get it noticed, in search engines and other websites. If you already have a site, but just need it tweaked, optimized, updated, or just tidied up, I can help with that as well, creating Content Management Systems to allow you to maintain your site content yourself, without having to worry about the design.

DOWNLOADS

LINKS

These are creative people and groups I think should get some more attention. Please take some time to see what all of these wonderful artists have to offer.

Choose a category: Musicians Art Writers & Thinkers Design

Music

Rapoem - [ Experimental Hip Hop ]Oucho Sparks - [ Progressive Indie Rock ]Andreas Kapsalis Trio - [ Mediterranean, Flamenco, Acoustic Jazz ]David Safran - [ Folk Rock ]Tom Schraeder - [ Folk Pop ]Sunday Morning Chameleon - [ Indie Pop ]Curtis Evans - [ Folk Rock ]Rishloo - [ Kinda Metal, Kinda Rock ]Cyne - [ Hip-Hop, Best I've heard in a long time ]Si*Se - [ Latin, Trip Hop, Drum & Bass ]Mandy Leigh - [ Blues, Pop Rock ]Halou - [ Ambient Trip Hop ]

RESOURCES

These are groups and organizations that have causes or missions I believe in and support, from practical to political. I encourage you to visit their respective sites to let them explain themselves better than I can.

Digital Rights & Information

Creative Commons - [ Copyright Licenses for Creative Works ]Source Forge - [ Open Source Software Projects ]Electronic Frontier Foundation - [ Digital Rights ]
Culture & Information

Downhill Battle - [ Music Activism & Free Culture ]Wikimedia Foundation - [ Free Information ]
Design & Art Resources

Designed to Help - [ Design For Charity ]GFXartist - [ Online Art Community ]deviantART - [ Online Art Community ]Stock.XCHNG - [ Stock Imagery ]Morgue File - [ Free Image Reference ]
Web Design

CSS Zen Garden - [ CSS design advocacy ]A List Apart - [ Web Design Periodical, Tutorials ]Web Design Forums - [ Web Design Coummunity, Education ]

CONTACT

I am doing my best to get all the different sections i had planned up and running. The Downloads section will be expanded, and there will also be a blog as well various other features to try and make this more than just a design website.

Please, feel free to suggest any features, and all critiques and comments are welcome.

Otherwise, you can contact me at design@freethinkersmovement.com.

COLOPHON

Apparently this going out of style, but I think it's a neat idea, since I like seeing how other build their sites. A colophon (usually found in books) is a description of the materials and processes utilized in making the product.

So without further adieu...

Typography

For all the text copy on this site, I have used Trebuchet.

For those of you who happen to have Macromedia's Flash Player, i have used the
sIFR method to replace all the headlines with BellGothic Bold. It uses a JavaScript method to replace the text with a Flash movie.

Code

I coded the site and portfolio in XHTML and CSS. The portfolio is powered by
PHP and MySQL.

Web Hosting

I use Media Catch for my web hosting, and I have nothing but great things to say about them.