Howdy,

You’ve found yourself at Gurry Design, the home of freelance web and graphic designer, Peter Gurry. Since 2000, I’ve been creating websites and blogs that are standards-compliant, search engine friendly, and nice looking too.

Take a look at my portfolio and, if you like what you see, get in touch and find out how I can help improve your users’ online experience.

A Sampling of My Work

Chez Stacy

A delicious new website for personal chef and caterer, Stacy Plackowski.

Prokopets Studio

A snapshot of the new Prokopet Studio Blog

An updated blog and a brand new website for the Prokopets.

KJH Consulting

A new website for bank consultant Karen J. Hartnett.

Gurry Wedding

A clean and simple site for our wedding.

George D. Beukema Therapy

A warm, inviting site for a therapist working in the heart of Chicago.

Nairobi Swahili

A one-page website for Oloo, a Swahili tutor living in Nairobi, Kenya.

Quality Blog Design

Your blog says a lot about you. So does your blog’s design. From full Wordpress installations to simple design tweaks, I can help get them saying the same thing. Think your blog needs some help?

Let’s talk

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Google is phasing out support for IE6. Perhaps it’s time to follow suit.
I just learned about the new Flickr collection from Getty Images. Prices start at $5 for small sizes. The power of Getty search + the quality and diversity of Flickr. I will have to do some exploring here.
Chez Stacy. For some reason I was often hungry while working on this one.
Dozens of FontFont fonts are now available with Typekit. And Microsoft gives a sneak peek at IE9 and its much-improved font rendering. I’m impressed on both counts. These are exciting times for type-loving web designers.
FontShop puts together a nice list of Times New Roman alternatives. If you run a small business that does a lot of in-house printing, take note. A small investment like this can really make your printed materials stand out.
Make Photoshop Faster. Two little tips that seem to work quite nicely.
Georgia and Verdana—no doubt the most widely used fonts in the world—are set to be improved. Among the planned improvements are new weights and widths beyond the original four fonts in each family, extensions to the character sets, extensions to the kerning, and—the one I’m most excited about—OpenType typographic features for enhanced typography. Here’s the official announcement.
I thought I noticed that Google’s search box had been enlarged. And so it is.

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