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Designer’s notes
Note of gratitude
In 2008 I walked into the Brothers K Coffeehouse to ask the owner whether I may post a flyer advertising my freelance graphic design services on their bulletin board. After posing that question to and meeting John for the first time, he asked whether I would be interested in designing the shop’s first website. Having never done any web design whatsoever, I naturally agreed to undertake the project.
Somehow, miraculously, the website brought freelance clients to me and launched my design career. I’m forever grateful to John and Brian for taking a chance on me back then, and again to John for trusting me with the design of this new generation of the Brothers K website.
About the design
From the outset it was clear to me that it would be fun to make visual reference to the literary association between the coffeeshop’s name The Brothers K and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov. A Moleskine notebook became the canvas for the site, with small bookmark tabs serving as the page navigation.
Jonathan Liss
jonathanliss.comWebsite 1.0
