Web
Kohl's ColorTrends Spring Collection
Under a tight deadline, I was brought on to build a Flash piece to promote spring products at the department store. All was built in AS3.
The Melnikov House
A Website for the revolutionary Russian Avant-garde architect Konstantin Melnikov (Константин Мельников). Working with FirstBorn, I was responsible for all backend, frontend and Flash programming on a site that accomodates both Russian and English.
The Russian Avant-gard Foundation
I worked together with FirstBorn to build the new Website for the Russian Avant-garde Foundation in Moscow. The site features, aside from being available in Russian and English, a custom-tailored CMS with a plethora of Web 2.0 interactive features throughout.
Kohl's MVC Microsite
Working together with the Kohl's creative team, I conceived and built the backend for a microsite made for most-valued Kohl's customers. The result was a portal built on a custom OO framework that utilizes Flash programming with JQuery to make the user experience more engaging.
Wisconsin Public Service Commission
I was approached to build an application (CD and Web-driven) that would display and filter through thousands of public comments on a controversial project involving the construction of power lines across Southern Wisconsin. I used the opportunity to migrate to Flash AS3, utilizing the new E4X features.
Shrek's Treketh To Adventure
I was brought on as a senior Flash developer to help build an online game to promote the new Shrek movie and McDonalds 'go green' campaign. I gained a ton of experience working with advanced OO design patterns, subversion, as well as large-scale rich-internet application development.
Kodak Colorflow
Working with infographic illustrations from Funnel that clarified Kodak's Colorflow processes, I was brought on to manage production and build an interactive Flash piece for a trade show. The result was an engaging experience that serves as a tool to help educate customers.
Swiss Colony
Imagine taking 13+ large-scale e-commerce Websites and putting them under one hood, completely centralized. In this very ambitious (and successful) Web project, I was brought on to train IT staff and build code that drives the front-end for several of these sites. What emerged was a great client relationship and amazing challenges we solved together.
Experimental
Patterns in Oscar Movies
Using a dataset provided by the InfoVis 2007 contest, we (at Pitch) devised several visualizations to find patterns among actors in Oscar-winning movies from the past 10 years. The result were three pieces that we found compelling and revealing, as did visualcomplexity.
Processing Basics
I've been working with Processing during free moments this year. To demonstrate just how easy Processing can be to start out with, I made this 'worm' to show how you can create seemingly complex visuals with just a few lines of code.
FastFood Calorie Visualization
This is a piece I concepted and started on literally the morning of my session at FlashBelt this year. At that time, I only showed one meal at one fast food chain (McDonalds). Since then, I've taken this further to show several more chains with downloadable source code.
Simple Data Visualization
Speaking at FlashBelt 2007, I demonstrated some of the basics of data visualization using a simple and easy to obtain data set that compared temperatures between two regions of the country I've lived in. Starting on a grid and then moving to more abstract methods using Flash and AS3.
Physical
Office Space
I've been working out of my studio since autumn 2006 and it's been a great experience. 2007 saw the most challenging and largest projects I've ever worked on and I look forward to what 2008 has in store. Have a look at how the office has evolved over the past 1.5 years.
Pitch White T-Shirt
Just to mix it up, I wanted to make a t-shirt that was a little brighter than the black on black. The result was a white t-shirt with blue Pitch system. American Apparel.
Pitch Hoodie
Holiday hoodies for friends and clients! While we had about 40 iterations to pick form, I couldn't resist something super minimal and black on black. American Apparel.
Pitch Black T-Shirt
Printed on American Apparel and arguably the most confortable t-shirt to date, this was my first attempt at designing a physical object. I had 60 of these printed.