“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.

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.