We have spoken with Trent Walton (@trentwalton) before on UMS, we’ve interviewed him as well. If you haven’t come across his name in the web development community yet i’m sure you’ve seen his, and his company Paravel’s work. He is behind so many different projects you could spend an afternoon going over them with him. From his own blog trentwalton.com, the blog post design swap series, themanyfacesof.com series and honestly one of my favorite web based marketing projects that i’ve seen in a long while the Lost World’s Fairs Trent is a man who likes to keep active in the web design community. I asked him if he would spend a short break with me to go over his more recent projects and just tell us how all this stuff came about.

For the Lost World’s Fairs Trent was approached by Jason Santa Maria to help out on a web poster series of pages to show off the WOFF font format that IE9 now supports. Along with a few other well known web designers they created the series of pages with Trent and Dave Rupert leading the implementation and Trent designing the main home page of the series.

From the work they did on Lost World’s Fairs ‘Lettering Js‘ was set loose. Letetring Js is a jQuery plugin for radical web typography. When Paravel is going to produce a website they want to push the limit with what they can do with the most up to date techniques, this plugin allows them to do experimental typography sort of ‘off the cuff’ when working on markup. Admittedly it’s not for everything, it fits a need for how they work, but they are cool enough to release it for all of us to grab and use as we see fit.

This is one of the earlier projects Paravel released. They are on the 3rd set, having done Alan Rickman, John Cusak and currently The Goonies. If you enjoy those large page, heavily art directed post pages then you are going to love these. These are such a great example of great illustration paired with great art direction and execution. Clearly they have fun with this and you can see that in the work.

They also create a ‘shoots & ladders’ style iPad game from the Goonies addition to The Many Faces Of.

Another really interesting project Trent has going on is Design Swap. It’s a simple concept, two designers create a post on each other’s blog. There are some really intriguing pairings coming up. These swaps are very cool and there are some really talented web designers participating.

ABOUT TRENT WALTON
By day, and often times by night, I work with the team at Paravel to defend the interweb one byte at a time. I live west of Austin in a part of the Texas Hill Country where the lake levels are constant, the chicken fried steaks are as big as your face and the cedar pollen takes no prisoners.

Trent Walton is founder and 1/3 of Paravel Inc., a custom web design and development shop based out of the Texas Hill Country. When he’s not working on client projects, he’s probably writing & designing articles for his blog, co-managing DesignSwap, or contributing ideas for the next edition of TheManyFacesOf.com.

Bio taken from trentwalton.com, be sure to follow him on twitter too @trentwalton.