Squid Power!
Just a little fun with Photoshop
Web 2.0 Mockup
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Or is it 3.0 now? Anyway, here’s a redesign concept for a client that wanted a fresh look. |
Car Show Posters
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2 new designs for a poster promoting a car show in Connecticut. |
GT and the Sidewinders
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I’ve been building a new site for local rockers GT and the Sidewinders. This site incorporates Wordpress CMS functionality, but also has some After Effects motion-graphics snuggled under the navigation in the header. |
BMW Microsite Idea
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Here’s another take on integrating motion graphics into the web experience. This time I built a page for BMW’s X5 sport utility vehicle. This site gets it’s impact from the resizable full-screen CSS effect. The video in the background is a swf but all of the other elements are fluid CSS-based html. |
Interactive Motion Graphics Concept
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So I designed and built some cool motion graphics for Sherwin Williams with the theme of Color Your World. The hard part is how to turn cool motion graphics into a practical, usable web experience. Let’s take it one step further – how can you make the experience interactive and involve the visitor even more? To tackle this problem I built a microsite with a flash element that plays the movie and then changes color randomly with the users mouse movements. The user can play the movie again and change the movies color while it plays. |
New Motion Graphics
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Here is a motion graphics experiment for Le Vin Skin Care. The process began with some product photography at home with my trusty Nikon D90, and then some clever work in photoshop to get a 360 degree view of the product. Finally the photoshop layers were brought into After Effects where the bulk of the work was done with a lot of help from some great tutorials at VideoCopilot.net (Click the image to see the ad..) |
The Future
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So I’ve been doing some mobile development lately and I got to thinking about designing for a vertical viewing experience and within the context of our current smartphones. What will marketing and advertising be like in the near future? Maybe something like this?! This is a motion-design concept I came up with and built with Photoshop/After Effects/Flash to demonstrate a smartphone-ready ad for Virgin Records. (Click the iphone to see the ad..) |
My work in print!
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My design for the 21st Annual Housing Colorado Conference has been printed and is in circulation! I developed this while working at local design firm, Ryden and Associates. My design was chosen by the client out of several designed by the Art Director and other in-house designers. Don’t I feel special! |
Full Screen CSS
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Yes – it can be done! I’ve been working on a new site for Gretsch guitars endorsed guitarist Bobby Smith. I have some great live photos that I’ve taken and wanted to play with a high-impact look that uses a photo to capture the feeling of a live rock show. To really make it work, the photo needed to stretch across the entire screen – no matter what the visitor’s screen resolution is and the design should react to any resizing of the browser window with the content staying in a predictable location. One more thing – do it all without Flash! Well the solution requires some crafty CSS tips that I picked up here and I think it makes for a pretty impressive look. |