Wel­come to the won­der­ful world of Helikopter Design, A Philadel­phia web design stu­dio run by res­i­dent pixol­o­gist James Mar­tin. I brew hand-crafted web­sites using ingre­di­ents like HTML, CSS & Javascript. My tools of the trade include Pho­to­shop & Fire­works. What does this mean for the layper­son? Not a damn thing! What you do need to know is that I LOVE what I do. This is not a “job” for me, it’s a pas­sion. The devo­tion for all things web-related enable me to keep up to date on the lat­est trends and devel­op­ments, pass­ing my knowl­edge on to you, the client.

Whether you are inter­ested in a sim­ple blog or a more com­pli­cated cor­po­rate web­site, I can help. I cre­ate stan­dards com­pli­ant web­sites where the objec­tive is “beauty meets prac­ti­cal­ity”. I won’t bore or con­fuse you with tech­ni­cal mumbo-jumbo and I’ll com­mu­ni­cate clearly with you in a lan­guage you can under­stand. Plus, I’m a nice, friendly guy as well!

A lit­tle per­sonal info: I’m a self-taught designer & coder who’s been work­ing with front-end devel­op­ment for about 4 years. I’m def­i­nitely an auto­di­dact. When I have a pas­sion­ate inter­est in some­thing (web design cer­tainly falls into this cat­e­gory), I like to learn every­thing I pos­si­bly can about it. When I’m not doing star­ing intently at a com­puter screen, I love to read tons of books and mag­a­zines (no topic too arcane!), do med­i­ta­tion, and lis­ten to every­thing from Fugazi to Thelo­nious Monk. I also love the Philadel­phia Fly­ers, Glas­gow Celtic F.C. and hang­ing out in the East Falls sec­tion of Philadel­phia with my girl­friend Lisa and my beloved (and some­times pain-in-the-ass) Boston ter­rier, Trevor Tobiasfunke Hwang-Martin.