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Inner Space Yoga, Making Your Yoga Practice More Colorful

Screen shot of a Shop page showing one of the beautiful fabrics Inner Space Yoga has available.

Located just outside Asheville, Inner Space Yoga offers quality props for yoga studios and home use. Their colorful and unique yoga props – bolsters, eye pillows, zafus, and sandbags – are hand made, to order, using beautiful fabrics from around the world.

The Inner Space Yoga website needed to showcase these fabric and allow for custom ordering of bolsters in three different styles, eye pillows in two styles, and zafus.

As many of the fabrics are available in limited quantities, updating and adding in new fabrics with ease was a must!

Inner Space Yoga was created in 2007 by Angela McWilliams, to meet the need for quality, domestically manufactured yoga props. All designs were developed and refined with the input of Angela’s teachers and fellow yogins, with the goal of creating yoga props that are durable, well-made, supportive and, above all, beautiful. Many of the materials, such as the cotton batting, are sourced locally, and the products are sewn by either Angela herself, or local sewers.

As with most yoga folks I know, Angela is encouraging to everyone to get started with yoga and realized that many people might not understand what a Round, Oval or Flat Bolster meant and how to select a style when ordering. Therefore it was also important that the website contain information to assist customers in making a bolster selection. The WordPress site we customized for Angela provides her with static pages for such info, along with her shop, social media links, blog, and basic wholesale inquiry form. The site also contains a slideshow of bolsters in use to inspire you.

Visit Inner Space Yoga and ooh and ahh over the beautiful fabrics, then make a selection and soon Angela will be handcrafting your colorful yoga prop.

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Posted in Web Design by alice

Discover PLANET ART

On first load, the stars in the header and footer twinkle.

How could I not have a great time designing for a business called PLANET ART!?!

An illustrated logo with influences from pulp SciFi covers – fun – owners, Brandy and Dave – double fun – getting to also do a rack card, car graphic, t-shirts, event posters and a WordPress site – okay, you get the idea, fun.

Planet Art is a different kind of frame shop and gallery located in the River Arts Galaxy in Asheville, NC. They have an Art Exchange where you can buy and sell (for cash or store credit) gently used art, a gallery wall to feature local artists, and of course do an excellent job framing.

Brandy is one of our star WordPress clients. She dove right in and mucked about with pages and post almost immediately after getting the login for her site. She has used photos well and included lots of relevant info. She has also been savvy about cross-linking to her Chair Repair website and included some of the basics on chair caning on the Planet Art site. We touch base with her every few months to see if questions have come up, and to tweak css here and there as needed and to add items to the sidebar which requires some html knowledge. My bet is she’ll soon master that as well.

Discover PLANET ART online at http://discoverplanetart.com/

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Posted in Illustration and Logos & Layout and Web Design by alice