This is a flyer I made to celebrate the 2nd year of Jazz Anew (a weekly dance party dedicated to jazzy-electronic music in all it’s many wonderful forms).

In 2003 (like most graphic design nerds) I became obsessed with Kenzo Minami’s work. His gratuitously excessive vector designs are totally my bag. So I wanted to see what I could come up with while attempting his style of piece. I remember it took a good while to complete, but it was still a lot of fun. It was all created in Flash, because I really wanted to animate it eventually. There is just never enough time.

Check out his site, and be sure to keep a towel close by to wipe up your drool.

Click on the labels with red text to advance through the timeline. Once you have viewed a section, you can view it again at any time.

These are 2 animated Air force timelines that I created while under contract with American Research Institute. This particular Air Worthiness Course ended up winning the 2005-2006 STC (stc.org) Distinguished Award for Technical Communication In the Training/Tutorials division.

So for the past 2 years I have worked as a Multimedia Specialist for RTI International in the Digital Solutions department. The job was really spectacular, I worked with a super-talented team of folks. In those 2 years, we worked on basically 3 projects (to give you an idea of the scope of the projects).

Some of my tasks included Graphic User Interface design, simulating software apps and operating systems with Flash, prepping Flash components to function inside the 3D simulation environment, creating 2D mock-ups of potential tools within the sim, as well as tons of various graphic design tasks.

The down side: all of that work was very protected government property. So don’t expect to ever see anything here. Just trust me it was the best professional work of my life, and you DEFINITELY want to hire me full-time based upon that. =)

So anyway, here is one of only a couple of things that I can show off (and even this may bring about a C&D letter). This is a vector drawing of the S6 Signal Corps insignia created for RTI International.

This was created in Flash, because it is to later be used in a Flash environment. For extra fun (and because I desire your pity), below are the two source images that I used to make my version.

I know it seems all “meta” and stuff, but this was a printed banner used to sell panoramic printed banners at Mustang car show. The client needed a sample banner that also acted as a sign used at the car shows.

This is a flyer that I made for the sequel to our winter-themed dance party, the Winter Wiggle. The image of the girls came from a swanky 1960′s women’s clothing catalog.

These are a couple more design for the Battle Atlantis online card game. The top image was the villain of the game, and the bottom image is an Escape Pod design. Both were hand drawn and then colored in Photoshop.

This was the base graphic that I used for most of my designs for Signal Festival 2006. Later on I’ll post some of those projects on the site. Due to time constraints for the festival that year, those designs are all pretty much just spin-offs of this design.

This was a large printed banner that was displayed at Signal Festival 2007 and all the lead-up Electronica Viva events. If I remember correctly, it was 6 feet by 2 feet in size.

Click on the screenshots to view the full demo in a new window.

Here are a couple of animated demos that I created a few years back for Net32.com. All of the text is contained in XML so that the client can easily make updates.