Middle Ear Media

March Poster Design for Harley’s Lounge

For the March poster design, I returned to the idea of doing a text based design that I had last month. The lay­out is loosely struc­tured around the sacred geom­e­try of a golden spi­ral that sweeps out from the bot­tom right cor­ner and curves around from the upper left to the upper right cor­ner where […]

2010 Poster Design for Terracotta half-life

I just fin­ished a new poster design for Ter­ra­cotta half-life. The poster lists gig dates for the first half of 2010 as well as the band’s web­site. I based this design on some ancient Egypt­ian art. It has a gritty feel due to the use of sub­tle tex­tures and shades of dark gray. This darkness […]

February Poster Design for Harley’s Lounge

I felt like doing some­thing dif­fer­ent for Feb­ru­ary. At first I was think­ing about doing a com­pletely text based design, until I had a vision of a zip­per. I’ll save the text idea for next month.

The lower por­tion is a col­or­ful spat­ter­ing of blues and greens. This area is held together by a half-way unzipped […]

Terracotta half-life gets a new look for 2010

Ter­ra­cotta half-life is a trop­i­cal funk band from Mar­quette Michi­gan that I founded over five years ago. I cre­ated the first web­site for the band in 2005. It was a sta­tic site built with HTML and for­mat­ted the “old” way with lots of nested tables and inline styles. It was a real pain to update. […]

January Poster Design for Harley’s Lounge

The year has just begun, so it’s back to work for me. The first poster of 2010 for Harley’s Lounge has just been fin­ished. Harley’s Lounge is one of the few venues in Mar­quette, Michi­gan that sup­ports local music and I am proud to design their monthly posters.

For Jan­u­ary, I used an image of an […]

5 Ways to Promote your Website

As the new year rapidly approaches, you might want to think about how to pro­mote your web­site bet­ter. This is the per­fect time to set goals and make plans. So, I’ve com­piled five tech­niques that you can and should be using to increase traf­fic to your web­site. Some of them are free and some require […]

Dynamic Content: Why it’s Essential

There are many rea­sons to have dynamic con­tent on your web­site, but the two most impor­tant are to increase traf­fic and to increase sales. Dynamic con­tent will drive traf­fic to your site by help­ing give you a bet­ter rank­ing in search engine results. It can drive sales (assum­ing you’re sell­ing some­thing) or con­ver­sions by giving […]

December Poster Design for Harley’s Lounge

Decem­ber is upon us. I just com­pleted a design for the last Harley’s Lounge poster of the year. Harley’s Lounge is one of the few venues in Mar­quette, Michi­gan that sup­ports local music and I am proud to design their monthly posters.

For Decem­ber, I went with a sim­ple yet fes­tive look. I used green, red […]

Google PageRank Update

I was pleased to notice that the Google PageR­ank for my site (middleearmedia.com) recently jumped up from 3 to 4. Accord­ing to Google, PageR­ank reflects their view of how impor­tant a web page is. Or, in other words, it’s the rel­a­tive value of any sin­gle page on the inter­net in rela­tion to every page on […]

Audio Restoration and CD Cover Design

Music is a beau­ti­ful thing. I’ve been work­ing on an audio restora­tion project lately. The group was called the Calyp­so­ni­ans and they played authen­tic Calypso. The record­ings were made with a portable cas­sette recorder in the early six­ties. My job was to trans­fer the audio from the orig­i­nal cas­settes to a dig­i­tal form (ulti­mately a […]