Dark, cinematic and haunting are words often used to describe the work of Lucy Fiddian-Green, a UK-based photographer who approached my agency to create a dynamic Flash-based portfolio for her work. I co-designed the site with another designer and then built it out in one week. Both galleries, bio and footer contact info are XML-driven making it easy for the client to update.
For the last 10 years, Tarantic Records has consistently put out quality underground house music releases. If their current website was a record, however, it would sound a bit tinny. My remix will allow them to refresh homepage content via an embedded tumblr feed, as well as dynamically update and promote their new releases. When I'm finished, it will also looks great on mobile devices, thanks to my exclusive VIP web-standards code and a little piece of iPhone sniffing javascript.
I designed the Moral Compass for UC Berkeley's News21, a journalism experiment sponsored by the Carnegie and Knight Foundations that assigns difficult stories to journalism graduate students to be produced in both innovative and traditional ways. This one can definitely be filed under innovative, due in part to the excellent Flash work by developer Jeremy Rue. To quote one of the comments, "This is terrific. Entertaining while educational. Thank you for taking what could have been rendered as a dry print piece and making it so accessible."
My boss' blog. This custom-built WordPress theme is made to display heavy content in a minimalist style. This isn't the first WP template I've made but it's the best.
Big corporations focus quite a bit of attention on their communications. I think Cisco actually has an entire bullet point department, which grew out of their award-winning pie chart team. In any case, HTML-rich emails are very popular for corporate communications these days, and here's one I made for Cisco!
There's nothing like total control on a project, especially when it's personal. Not only was Tarantic cool enough to put my record out, they also let me do my own artwork. The source photo was a webgrab of a failed Taiwanese housing project, circa 1960. I interpolated it, balanced the color and then laid down simple, clean Helvetica Neue type. Wanna hear the track? Press the play button!
This is one out of a series of four Flash demos I produced for McKesson on an extremely tight deadline. These pieces were produced to introduce the redesign of their intranet, McKNet. Click the image below to view the demo in a new pop-up window.
Faces of Faith was an online event hosted in the virtual world of Second Life. I was hired to design t-shirts, er, virtual t-shirts! One issue I was very aware of was maintaining the readability of the design when worn by user characters, called avatars. As illustrated by the screen capture, the design pops and lets all your friends know you're down with Faces of Faith. It was a fun party- but where did I put my virtual vodka tonic?
Audbol is an up-and-coming MC straight outta the South Side of Chicago. He delivers his "grown folks music" in an authoritative baritone that conveys maturity and style. I wanted Aud's logo to reflect these qualities yet still be hip and yes, even trendy. Hip-hop branding is as sophisticated as any industry and the days of using prefab graffiti fonts and handgun graphics are long gone. This is a custom typeface I drew in Illustrator, complimented by vector shrapnel and a live-traced head shot of the man himself. Truly a diamond in the rough.
