National Geographic published a study of life statistics. Interesting by itself, I knew that it could reach a larger audience through an interesting public service announcement. I started with storyboards to come up with the kinetic type concept, and moved to Adobe Audition to work with audio from my hired voice over talent. From there, I created a timeline in After Effects and began to build my assets. Text was built directly in After Effects, while the other objects were imported from Illustrator and Photoshop.

Stage 5 Staging is a leader in industrial theatre and live venue stage equipment. When creating their website, it had to be modern, but easy to use. The featured area on the homepage rotates with jQuery to show images from their most recent productions as well as include a customer testimonial to help build their business. As the designer and developer, I started building the design and wireframes in Adobe Illustrator. They were then sliced and exported to Dreamweaver, where this website was coded and uploaded.

Think Outside the Box

Publication layout has always been a passion of mine. The interactive PDF to the side was designed for use on the Apple iPad and iPad Mini, and could easily be converted into an app if necessary. I took the role of designer and copywriter for this project, using Adobe’s Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to achieve the best functionality. I took advantage of some new features inside InDesign CS6 to create alternate layouts in the same document to save time and achieve maximum efficiency.