About

About The Artist

Name: Amy Cofer
Country: USA
Interests: Graphic design, abstract/3D abstract design and rendering, web design.
Tools of the trade: Adobe Photoshop CS

My name is Amy Cofer. I'm currently a self-taught slave to Adobe Photoshop. I've been in love with Photoshop since the moment it was installed on my processor about three years ago. For as long as I can remember, I've been messing around with graphic programs and playing around with personal web sites through free hosting sites (yahoo, geocities, AOL free homepages...)

Around fifth or sixth grade I created my first web site, mostly because my brother had stumbled across AOL free homepages and I wanted to create one just like him--(like older brother like younger sister?) Little did I know that a simple AOL homepage would land me where I am today.

As a little girl I would create tiny images pixel by pixel at 100% zoom in the Microsoft Paint program. Although I rarely consciously realize it, I look back and realize that I've been destined to the path I'm on for quite some time. I've always taken an interest in how graphics were made--it fascinated me then, and fascinates me to this day.

Everyday life inspires me to learn new things and create new things in photoshop. Music and color are huge inspirations me. I feel that once you've chosen the right colors, you can create something beautiful.

 

Services

As a designer and graphic artist, I currently represent Design 215, owned and operated by Robert Giordano. Rob and I work together in order to make companies, artists, and the products and content they wish to provide to the public more presentable on the internet. We work to the best of our ability to design easily navigational web sites that are coded to web standards and pleasing to the eye. Our goal is to create nothing less than a presentation that you find satisfying and up to par. As stated on the Design 215 web site, our philosophy is "Clean and Simple is Best."

"A good site:
-is pleasing to the eye.
-conveys your message clearly.
-is easy to navigate and browse.
-loads quickly at all connections.
-is compatible with most browsers.
-is accessible from mobile devices.
-provides answers to common questions.
-encourages visitors to return again.
-is easy to maintain and update."

Rob put it best when he said, "An art gallery's walls are plain- the art placed on the walls is what matters."

 

Cophase

I've had creating a website in mind since I started working for Design215, not only because I felt it would be a great way to "get out there," but I simply wanted a nice little piece of the world wide web to show my art and work in. Despite my desire to do this, Rob had to push me and encourage me a lot to actually sit down and create something worth working with. It took me a long while before I created a design that I felt suited what I had in mind--simple, pleasing to the eye, easy to navigate, yet professional looking. After many, many hours of starting and trashing design after design, I finally came up with the current design.

Although Cophase is not the first web site I've created, it is the first professional web site I've had that I can easily mantain and update with the things that I create.

Thankfully, I've got Rob to help me out with things, and thanks to him, Cophase has been coded to all web standards and should be fully functional in any browser.

As far as the design, it was created entirely in Adobe Photoshop CS. I attempted to lay out and create as basic an appearance as possible before I began designing the actual graphics. I did create the images myself, as I rarely use other people's photoshop brushes on my own work. I feel it takes away from any ability to call a piece of work my own.