As a part of the Fall 2008 semester MFA coursework at IU, I created a video teaser “mockup” promoting the Tipoteca Italiana fondazione, which is a typeface and printing museum located in Treviso, Italy.
The Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts Type Shop web site. Responsible for design and programming of web site, all photography, and portions of the content.
The eScience 2008 Conference web site that I designed and assisted with programming for the IU Office of Creative Services, has won a silver W3 award. The W3 Awards are sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of Visual Arts.
I’ve been reviewing the previews of the new release of Adobe Flash and After Effects. This update seems very promising: Finally, a re-vamping of Flash, making it more of an “animation” tool for web. The new tools and interface are very similar to After Effects, which makes perfect sense! It seems like Flash hasn’t really changed much since ver. 5, and after Adobe acquired Macromedia, I was hoping to see an immediate re-vamp of Flash to become more like After Effects. Finally, that day is here. And After Effects using the XFL can export working/layered files directly into Flash without compromise. Can’t wait to get my hands on it.
As an interactive art director for the Office of Creative Services, our office has been designing and developing a new web presence for the Kelley School of Business. I have been tasked with designing five of the seven department web sites. I’ve been responsible for art direction of photography, creation of marketing concepts, and executing the design of the concepts whether static or active with Flash animation and actionscripting. The image above represents some of the excellent photography I had an opportunity to art direct.
The Department of Business Law web site contains a vertical slide navigation I built using Flash.
The Business Communications web site contains a Flash interactive feature. I enjoyed all aspects of this project from directing the photo shoots to programming the Flash.
It’s been well over two years since I’ve updated my web presence with a complete re-design. Since the life span of most web sites is around two-three years, I figure it is time for change. The most significant change with this new design besides the visual overhaul, is the integration of a Wordpress blog functionality. There’s lots of cool stuff going on in design, and I want to write about it, not that I’m thinking anyone would care to read it, but it’s more of a way for me to document it, record it, archive it, whatever.