Welcome

Bright Creative is a one-man design & web studio run by Dave Shea, of css Zen Garden and mezzoblue fame¹. Based in Vancouver, Bright Creative takes web and application design commissions from clients around the globe. Find out more >

¹ Not actually famous.

Featured Work: Joyent

An extensive branding and redesign project across multiple mediums for the cloud hosting company, done collaboratively and making use of the Processing design language.

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Projects

While you’ll find examples of the work I do for my clients within this site’s portfolio, it’s not all work all the time. Here are some of the extra-curricular activities I play with in my spare time. Some people build model airplanes; I build web sites and icons. Must be in the right industry.

mezzoblue

mezzoblue

My personal weblog focused on all issues web and tech, design and development alike. Well-read, and allegedly well-respected, by peers in the industry.

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css Zen Garden

css Zen Garden

The seminal CSS gallery and demonstration site, it’s what convinced thousands of web designers to pick up CSS in the first place. Yep, I built that.

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Chalkwork Icons

Chalkwork Icons

Well over 1,800 icons in a visually unified family, designed for common metaphors and actions needed by software and web sites. Available for general purchase.

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