“Keep it simple.” Were the instructions for this piece. It’s deceiving how involved it can be to produce a simple piece. I submitted 4 or 5 really nice, simple pieces, which I’m thinking about creating a library of to pitch to future visual artists.

The site is assembled with html and css, which controls the rollover you see. The videos supplied were a diverse variety from many formats including PAL and took a while to reformat using Final Cut Pro to get them to fit the width of the center column exactly.

For the player I used a jQuery script called Lightbox.

A full page flash design for a vacation rental in Palm Springs, California. Everything involved in the production of this site, including half the photography, all the copywriting and research, logo design and even the name of the house I had to do myself. The owners were hands-off which allowed me plenty of artistic freedom, however it turned out to be a LOT of work.

In the end I’m pretty happy with the results. The actionscript code is mighty pretty. The images are loaded in using xml so the client could update the photos and description later as needed, without my intervention.

The original design of this banner had no Flash, it was just a jpeg. When Apple released the new iPod, the client wanted a revamp I suggested adding some Flash. In the working example, each show had a unique click through. It took a while to get the coding just right, but in the end it has been one of the most successful flash banners to date. I like to design flash banners that incorporate functional interactivity. Something that isn’t a ploy to get you to click or a mindless game that results in getting your browser redirected.

This is where I kicked it up a notch. This is a rendered 3D movie, which I edited down and brought in frame by frame. Due to size constraints I had to keep it short. At the time we were going with pink as the online signature color. We connected the banner to directly connect to the archived tune. The client really liked this and had me do another which you can see here.

A quick website for an entrepreneur who was launching a new product. Pretty much left alone to do what I wanted on this site, with 2 restrictions… time and money. I really like the way orange and grey work together. You can do so many subtle things then you shift the grey hue to warm and cold. Client was super happy, and so he should be. This one came in under $1,000.

The site itself is now defunct but I have the skeletal working still on my site.

There is quite a bit of work on this one. If you look carefully, all the ribbons draw on individually and is a different hue for each, as well as type color changes. It’s laborious work but the effect feels polished and professional.

I had to break a lot of actionscript rules to get this done on time. I was able to keep all my actionscript in the timeline but I couldn’t keep all the elements in the first frame. The end result doesn’t matter as it looks the same, but I take pride in my coding and I like my flash to look as good on the inside as it does on the outside.

This is a very simple home page slideshow banner that rotates through static screens. Clients like flash banners because they can squeeze a lot of message in a small space. The only drawback is that most web-masters require the file to be below a certain size, usually around 30K. The trick, as a designer, is to find fonts that read well and not allow the overall quality to suffer too much.

This is my website for the past 4 years. It’s long overdue for an update, but I cut my teeth on a lot of different code building this, including a complete recoding from object based coding to timeline coding. I guess this site has taken the place of it to some degree. I love flash but sometimes it’s a little restrictive in ease of updating. I still tinker with it from time to time and will always use it as a code resource and a place to test new ideas.

This site is a good example of how I like to use color in a site to help with navigation.

This is one of three home page splash designs submitted for Santa Monica College. I was supplied with a folder full of images depicting the new architecture on campus. I decided to go with a unique layout that breaks the expected, 3 column, css that they had before. The sky and buildings extend to the right as far as the largest monitor and a screen size detect detects and delivers the correct proportions for each viewer.

As I write this… the project has stalled at the bureaucratic level and it’s doubtful it will ever see the light. It’s a shame really because most large institutions go with a template who’s style and design is dictated more by the back-end CMS than a designer.

A site for a client that helps other companies build better sites… The obvious brief: This clients prospects will be looking hard at this site to judge the firms capabilities!

There are a few bells and whistles. A custom drop down menu, random generator code and delicate motion graphic typography. I also used a custom wipe for each page. As usual, being all about color, I chose a colorway and stuck to it. All the images came from my extensive personal image library. It’s an older piece but I think it still holds up pretty nice. Perhaps I’d re-do it as a full page liquid flash next time.