About Bright Creative
Bright Creative is the web studio of Dave Shea, award-winning designer and author. Located in Vancouver, BC, Bright Creative takes commissions from clients around the globe. We enjoy working with passionate people who truly understand the potential of the web. People like you.
About Dave
Dave Shea is the creator and cultivator of the highly influential web site csszengarden.com, and co-author of the recently-published Zen of CSS Design (New Riders, 2005). (See all publications.)
The founder and design lead of Bright Creative in Vancouver, BC, Dave also writes for a large global audience of web designers and developers on his popular weblog, mezzoblue.com. His sites have won multiple awards, including 'Best of Show 2004' at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, TX.
Dave and his work have been featured in numerous books and magazines, including Wired, Germany's Page Magazine, and Japan's "Style Sheet Style Book", among others. He has spoken internationally at design and technology industry conferences, including Flash in The Can, Web Essentials, SIGGRAPH, SXSW, and more. (See all speaking engagements.)
With almost 8 years of experience working on the web, Dave is a member of the new generation of designers that believe in useful and responsible web design. Access for all users and devices, support for open standards, graceful interoperability between front- and back-end code, and highly detailed visuals are all par for the course.
Our Philosophy
Bright’s work conforms to W3C-approved technology. Web Standards developed by the W3C ensure content will be available to the widest audience thanks to improved accessibility, support for mobile devices, and continued access to even the oldest browsers. Content stored in XHTML (an XML-based format) will help ensure future compatibility and easy access for tomorrow’s browsers.
Our work conforms as closely as possible to WAI Level A Accessibility (and may go as far as AA or AAA if possible), as well as U.S. Government Section 508. While 508 isn’t required outside of the United States, it was developed with users in mind, so makes for a useful measuring stick.
And of course, if we couldn’t deliver this without sacrificing the visuals, we wouldn’t be doing our job. Our focus is responsible design, emphasis on design.