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Ancillary Factory specializes in graphic and web design for artists and small businesses.

Take a look at my portfolio below, and drop me a line if you'd like to work together on a project.

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Jon Schwab
7461 Rupert Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63117
(217) 899-6810
jon@ancillaryfactory.com

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  • Rifflet.com, a site for sharing unfinished song ideas, recently appearing in Wired magazine
    design/coding/drupal

  • The Modern Riffer, the official blog of Rifflet.com
    design/coding/wordpress


  • The Cloud I'm Under, the site of an NYC-based multi-instrumentalist and producer
    design/coding/wordpress

  • IMakeTV.com, the website for Crowdson & Company, a talented Central Illinois videographer
    design/coding/wordpress

  • Pinwheel Preschool
    design/coding/drupal


  • Sisters of the Son, a singing group in Central Illinois
    design/coding/wordpress

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Experience

Jon Schwab's educational background includes a B.A. in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from Illinois College in Jacksonville, and M.A. in Communications from the University of Illinois at Springfield.

Jon began his career in 2001 doing agency work in graphic design and video post-production. In 2003, he continued sharpening his design skills by writing, shooting and editing 30-second spots and long-format video production for Insight Media in Springfield, Illinois.

In 2003, he also co-produced and edited Alternate Tunings, a weekly thirty-minute program highlighting local musical performances on WCFN in Central Illinois. In 2005, the show was reborn online as Banddot.com, where Jon co-produced and edited full-length concerts for major label artists like Local H and the Supersuckers.

In 2007, Jon left Insight to found Ancillary Factory, specializing in print and web design for small businesses in Central Illinois, creating unique identities for dozens of clients.

Jon's web expertise includes design and development for open-source content management systems such as Drupal and WordPress, and he maintains several projects in the official WordPress plugin directory.

He also enjoys playing cheap guitars and runs Rifflet.com, an online place to share unfinished song ideas, which was recently mentioned in Wired magazine, a fact he repeatedly tells anyone within earshot.

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A few of my side projects have gotten some public attention:

WP Install Profiles (WPIP) is a WordPress plugin that automatically downloads custom groups of plugins.

"...a simply brilliant idea that will save you tons of time when setting up new WordPress sites" - WPMU.org

"I wished I had it on the last five sites I created. I could of saved hours of setup and configuration time." - WordPressJunkies.net

"We use a lot of the same WordPress plugins on every install; had I known about this awesome plugin earlier, which downloads a configurable group of plugins all at once, I would have minutes of my life back. Alas, I do not. But now I'll be savoring the extra time this plugin saves me." - Paper Leaf

Rifflet.com, a place for users to collaborate on unfinished song ideas, was featured in Gizmodo, Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, and Wired magazine.