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Client Portfolio content anchors: current online work, digital samples, various art conceptions | ||||
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HTML/CSS Websites and Interface Design | |||
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FLASH Websites with HTML Mirror Sites | ||||
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VIDEO for the Web, Compression and Streaming | ||||
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DIRECTOR Presentations and Games | ||||
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ARTISTS Atelier | |||
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PRINT Graphic Design and Pre-press, 10 years experience in print | ||||
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HTML/CSS Websites and Interface Design | |||
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Pure CSS sites - 6/05 to present | |||
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Lion Inc. - 3/05 to 6/05 | |||
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Freelance Senior Web Designer Consult with clients in the mortgage business to formulate a creative concept. Design web sites that drive the user toward predetermined goals. Code web sites using HTML, CSS, ASP, PHP and JavaScript. Develop applications in Flash using ActionScript. Some of the web sites I churned out. http://555mortgage.com http://firstunitedmortgagecorp.net http://revolutionizedlending.com http://lendmeahomeloan.com http://jumbomortgagesolutions.com http://justlistedinarizona.com http://schaefermortgage.com http://globalquestfinancial.com http://victorianmortgage.net http://lendfl.com |
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Recent Sites - 1/03 to 3/05 | |||
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Art Director/Designer/Production Artist These are sites produced in 2004 for clients in the Denver, Colorado area. In order to add visual beauty and utility, and save the client large stock photography costs, I have used a lot of my own photography on many of these sites. Medical Clinic Network • http://mcpn.org and http://mcpn.com/cehc Law Firm • http://fphw.com Northern Colorado Aids Project (volunteer) • http://ncaids.org Mile High Meth Project • http://milehighmethproject.com Landscape Architect • http://realdirtgardens.com Pickling Company • http://tinobellas.com Men's Support Group • http://manreach.info Real Estate Firm • http://premierlifestylerealty.com Text Book Sales • http://consplan.com Artist's Sites • http://soul-full-creations.com, http://soulpaintings.com, http://williamcraigart.com and http://courtneycotton.com |
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Chicago O'Hare Air Traffic Controllers - 10/01 to 06/03 | |||
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Art Director/Designer/Production Artist The Chicago Tower site is Photoshop intensive with whimsical animation and simultaneously provides vital traffic and safety information for commercial and private pilots. One of six similiar versions of the home page is randomly selected via javascript. After clicking the link below, press the "back" button on your browser to see the various incarnations. On the main menu, check out "pilot info", "safety", "links" and "cool stuff". http://bigairport.com/ |
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G. Thomas Ward Photography - 7/00 to present | |||
| Art Director/Designer/Production Artist Business website for a photographer who will be posting information and sample photography for eight very distinct segments of customers. Form follows function, Success here will be about stripping away and simplifying to create an elegant backdrop for the photography. At the same time, elements that must be visible like navigation need to make a real statement about creativity to distinguish us from a black box. They should be pleasing but not gawdy. Inspired by Eames, I gleaned a concept to design little "environments" for the photographs. Peaceful little white rooms distinguished from one another by specific shape and color iconography. The approach is minimalist, and very clean, with line art, subtle movement, and only a dash of color. The visit is enhanced by pleasant written advise, and by interactive photo galleries within each milieu. http://thepeoplephotographer.com |
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The Chicago Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber - 10/00 to 2/01 | |||
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Art Director/Designer/Production Artist The mission here is two part. First, is a complete redesign and overhaul for the existing Chamber website. Second, is to devise and erect a website for an immense three day expo called Alive. Interactive home and secondary pages, along with navigation strips are complete.. The first link below is the Chamber design comp. The next link is the Alive design comp. The last link displays five earlier round Alive design comps. and the site plan as presented to the client. These projects were cancelled due to lack of funding. http://glchamber.org/beta/ http://glchamber.org/alive/ http://glchamber.org/alive/rounds/ (large file size-use broadband) |
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The Chicago Smelts - Masters Swimming - 2/01 to 2/03 | |||
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Art Director/Designer/Production Artist I built and maintained these sites for my Masters swim team. I love a freebie like this because I can have a great deal of fun. The first site featured a random homepage generator, there were twenty. A sample homepage is linked below. It is equipped with cascading style sheets and seamless navigation. Smelts web has had a great impact on the team as an extensive information resource and meeting space. It has been a large boost to team spirit. The site at the second URL was for our swim-a-thon fundraiser which benefits HIV/AIDs and breast cancer charities. Its purpose was to create excitment, provide information and sign up participants, all of which it accomplished beautifully. The site, a bit over the top, is a jamboree of javascript and awash in amusing animated gifs. Click on the animation on the homepage to enter. http://chicagosmelts.org/index.htm (volunteer work) http://splashyourheartout.org (volunteer work) |
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britannica.com - britannica store - 6/00 to 6/01 | |||
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Designer/Production Artist As a freelance member of the britannica store group, I was valued for my wide range of expertise and my ability to switch gears on the fly. The bottom line enjoys the fact that I carry out html editing, image processing and web page construction at lightning speed. Designed and produced a direct mail piece that won praise from the client for its contemporary and colorful look. http://brit/britannica_webcomp1.htm http://brit/britannica_webcomp2.htm http://brit/britannica_directmail1.htm (large file size-use broadband) |
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National Safety Council - 12/99 to 1/00 | |||
| Art Director/Designer/Production Artist Developed the "Awareness in Motion" calendar area of the National Safety Council site. Created the calendar homepage and thirty pages which are linked to it. After design, typical web page production includes drawing in Illustrator, adding effects in PhotoShop, slicing and image processing in Fireworks, final tweaks in GoLive and uploading with Fetch. The end result was a unique, colorful, inviting interface for the client. They were very happy. http://nsc.org/aware/calendar.htm |
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Internet Startup - 10/99 to 12/99 | |||
| Art Director/Designer/Production Artist Designed website comps for this internet startup to use in its quest for venture capital. Developed business identity including colors, appearance and logo. Created a website with button navigation and interactive pop up windows with sound clips. The client received an attractive set of comps which clearly exhibit his idea. When viewing the comps: Click on the image of the guy with the neck tie to see the second and final comp page. On the second comp page the links "Bottom Line" and "walk you through" are active. http://stupaul.net/aeo/ |
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FLASH Websites with HTML Mirror Sites | ||||
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BBI - Electronics Consultants - 10/99 to 2/00 | |||
| Art Director/Designer/Production Artist Created a FLASH site with an animated intro, music and sound effects. The intro finishes at a menu which offers four options that animate to provide further information. Produced a HTML version of the site. Made a homepage which directs the viewer to the versions. Achieved a clean, high tech look for the client and animation which grabs the viewer in an exciting way. The client has not maintained the site so the link below is to a version at my local server. http://stupaul.net/bbi/ |
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Homworks - Antique/Fine art dealers - 8/99 to 11/99 | |||
| Art Director/Designer/Production Artist Built a FLASH site. Includes animated intro which leads to a menu of options which animate to provide further information. Also, the menu offers a link to a future e-commerce site. Created a HTML version of the same. Created a homepage which directs the viewer to the versions. The client was delighted with the use of color, images and fonts to create a warm and friendly identity. http://homworks.com/ |
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Scanlon Corporate Communications - 6/99 to 10/00 | |||
| Art Director/Designer/Production Artist Performed ongoing project work with this Chicago public relations firm and their clients including BBI. Used Director to created a CD-ROM promo piece for Scanlon which contained music and sound effects, animated copy and interactivity. This URL displays a Scanlon promo piece done in Flash. http://stupaul.net/scanlon/ |
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Mightybytes - 5/99 to 1/01 | |||
| Art Director/Designer/Production Artist Worked on the animation for the menu section of this FLASH site. Mightybytes is a web and multimedia design company with whom I have worked closely for two years. Check out the mightybytes website, its quite a treat. http://mightybytes.com (large file size-use broadband) |
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VIDEO for the Web, Compression and Streaming | |||
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Internet Start Up - 1/00 to 4/00 | |||
| Art Director/Designer/Production Artist A very interesting project which involved streaming video for the web. Produced four versions to accommodate the various segments of viewers. Made a homepage and a "smart" selection interface which was designed to take the viewer to the appropriate version nuisance free. The four versions of the video were QuickTime for 56k, QuickTime for high bandwidth and Windows Media Player for 56k and high band width. Produced the QuickTime for high bandwidth version using "QuickTime in FLASH". A button interface was built and animated in FLASH, the video was imported, and then the whole thing was exported as a QuickTime movie with a FLASH track. For the other versions, the button interface was duplicated using framesets. MediaCleaner was used to prepare and compress the various versions of the video. The video had to be compressed to 1/100 of its original size to be feasible for the web. Unix and Macintosh servers were configured so that the video would stream in real time. Also experimented with HTTP streaming. The end result was totally cutting edge interfaces and really great looking video for the client to present. http://motionize.com |
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The Jack Morton Company - 8/99 to 9/99 | |||
| Designer/Production Artist The client was Ortho-McNeil, a pharmaceutical company marketing a new epilepsy drug. Created a navigable, animated presentation in Director. The piece provided various information, contained an interactive quiz and served as an interface for video clips. It was for delivery on CD-ROM. A Director presentation of this type involves compositing Illustrator elements in a PhotoShop layered file. Individual slides are created and then batch processed to a 256 color palette in DeBabelizer. The slides are imported into director and then animated. The client was very pleased with the cheerful simplicity of design. Please navigate to this URL in order to view samples from the presentation. http://stupaul.net/ortho/ |
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Ameritech - 7/99 to 8/99 | |||
| Designer/Production Artist Created a presentation in Director for delivery via CD-ROM. The purpose was to motivate and inform a sales team. The theme of the presentation was Mission Impossible. The client received a lively and entertaining, highly motivational, presentation. Please surf to this URL in order to read more about the presentation and to view some samples. http://stupaul.net/mission/ |
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Jim Beam - 6/99 to 7/99 | |||
| Production Artist Made modifications to the Jim Beam pool game which was built by Mightybytes in Director. The changes included adding the Jim Beam logo to the table top. http://jimbeam.com/jb_web/games/game_intro.asp |
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Tweakn Art - ongoing distraction | |||
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Artist Purely visual brain food. Recipe's a secret. http://tweakn.com (large file size-use broadband) |
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Course of Design - at present | |||
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Artist Clean simplicity and elegance in design with a dash of fun is my endeavor. Recently I have been enticed by highly contrasted images set in dark blue duotone, along with applesque glass buttons, line art, subtle rollovers, small copy and a limited color palette. The first URL demonstrates what you might get if you ask me to help put your pic online for AOL. The second URL is a design comp for an adult site–no nudity or profanity–a classy solution in a segment that is lean on design. The last URL is a comp for an online portfolio made up entirely of copy and no graphics. http://stupaul.net/bozo/ http://stupaul.net/xxxray/ http://stupaul.net/matt/ |
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Image Manipulation - ongoing | |||
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Artist I am seduced by images. I take particular delight in images of people who are from an another time, or a different culture, or lifestyle. I like to restore and correct images, bringing them back to life. I like to add a little fun, to everything I do. Just a little something to catch the people who are paying attention. I can entertain myself for hours manipulating and retouching images, I have hundreds of filters for PhotoShop. I will never be through learning and that excites me and keeps me interested. Here are some cool things I did. http://stupaul.net/photoman/ |
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Banner Ads - Banner Ads - Banner Ads - 5/00 to present | ||||
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Art Director/Designer/Production Artist Carried out massive amounts of production work for various clients. Made hundreds of web banner ads, many animated. Corrected, transformed and processed thousands of images intended for various media. PhotoShop skills went from expert to guru during this battery of production. Most excellent practice. http://personalize.com http://stopdrlaura.com/difference/banners.htm (volunteer work) |
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PRINT Graphic Design, 10 years experience in print | ||||
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BrannBlau - 5/97 to 5/99 | |||
| Art Director/Designer/Production Artist/Pre-press Carried out pre-press for print. Worked from specs to keyline files for press. Developed expertise with Quark. Became masterful with issues involving layout, fonts, typography, color, separations, registration, trapping and printing processes. Promoted to Art Director on my team and my responsibilities expanded to include everything from creation to completion. |
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