I do interactive design. I love making things usable and accessible, I love coding, I love working with hardware as an alternative to software, I love good design, I love typography, and I love the smell of hot clean laundry.
To combat the recession and post-holiday blues, Greer built a Happy Place, full of photos that make us feel happy. And we invited past clients to add their own photos. I led the project and built the flash application. Everyone loved it.
A Saskatchewanian fishing lodge needed their website updated to improve search engine ranking. The interactive team at Greer came up with a plan: use some sweet Javascript to condense the site into a few pages. It worked.
Greer Photo is the portfolio of Jill Greer, the resident photographer at Greer & Associates. The new site needed to match the new Greer website. It was built using some existing code and a brand new photo gallery coded by myself. I built it while at Greer.
Clockwork's premier product is the Active Media Manager, a powerful content management system for websites. One of my jobs as intern was to build the manual and product site. I put together the site to match Kyle and Eric's designs. It is, of course, running on the AMM software.
The Hotel Minneapolis site was another Clockwork project. I built it up from the mockups with CSS, XHTML, and some of Clockwork's special sauce: the AMM CMS. I wish I got mints on my pillow at home.
Del.icio.us is a little slow, and Firefox is missing a decent bookmark manager. Yay! Links can hold all my bookmarks and sort them by tag. Everything is stored in a little text file, so we don't even need a database. Keep it simple, stupid.
The Fight Against Destructive Spin is a project I worked while interning at Clockwork. It's a Wordpress blog about public relations written by the folks at Arment Dietrich, a Chicago-based PR firm. I got to do the production - building out the theme and getting all the plugins working.
The goal: to make an educational game in Flash. Knowing nothing at all about the sport of hot air ballooning, I decided to teach that. A bit of research was required. I'm working with the FAA to distribute pilot's licenses to everyone who completes the program.
The internet lacks a decent international news source. To correct this oversight, I built the framework for a news network. The project remains dormant, but I'm left with a pretty sweet newspaper CMS and a whole lot of memories. (Side note: I don't know French. I hope l'Internationale means what I think it means.)
PHP and MySQL were used to build a custom content management system that allows global correspondents to write articles for the paper. The plan was to build a network of friends and contacts around the world who would summarize the news in their locale.
Whenever I ride, I'm wearing my Banjo Brothers messenger bag. When I got the chance to make a 20-second product ad, I had to pimp the thing. It will carry more than my back can handle. I still find interesting trinkets at the bottom from time to time. This film was made in After Effects.
The Underground Network, a Christian youth ministry, needed a site. The church was targeting urban teens and 20-somethings, so I gave them a rough, grungy website built in XHTML and CSS. The ministry has since gone underground, but the site was effective at getting the word out.
A movie promotion created in Flash? Sure, how about one for the best sci-fi noir film starring Harrison Ford and a bunch of creepy androids ever? Blade Runner was cool, but the book was better.
The scene that always stuck with me from the film is where Mr. Deckard zooms in on an image with no pixelization, finding subtle clues in the details. Now you too can play detective by zooming in on the photograph to find out all you ever wanted to know about Blade Runner.