I recently picked up Nate Berkus Associates and Entertainment as a great client and am proud to announce the release of our first project together, nateberkusdesign.com. This is a new site presenting the work of the interior design firm based here in Chicago. I used the Gaia Flash Framework for the first time with this [...]
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Sears Blue Crew HQ
I led a team of 3 Flash developers to create the Sears Blue Crew HQ experience. We used Away3D as our 3D library along with AS3Dmod to bend the screen. There’s a lot going on here; custom YouTube players, Twitter feeds, etc.
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Some Oldies but Goodies
I’m bringing some old projects from former portfolios into this site and putting them in the blog with historically accurate (kind of) post dates. I wasn’t blogging back in ’02, but I’m posting these items back there anyway. Here’s what I’ve added: “Snow Chase” Holiday Game LED Animation for Dayton Flyers Basketball Trebuchet Simulation Brewery [...]
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Caterpillar Progress Site Recognized in Step Inside Design Magazine’s 2008 Best of Web
Our Caterpillar Progress site made Step Inside Design Magazine’s 2008 Best of Web list. Read about it here or below. 2008 Best of Web: The Winners (cont’d) VSA PARTNERS Caterpillar’s signature-yellow construction and mining machines are icons of American industry: For more than 80 years, that equipment has been building the world’s infrastructure. In 2005 [...]
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PointRoll Banners for Caterpillar Progress
As banners go, these ones I did to promote the Caterpillar Progress site are pretty cool. They are your typical annoying ones that open over page content when rolled over. I did 3 different sizes of the ad. And I used the PointRoll Flash API for tracking.
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Caterpillar Progress Launches
I’ve been working on this one for the last few months. This is my first use of SWFAddress which is pretty slick, though we’re having some issues with URL redirects and frames that we have to use in the live environment. It works great in my testing environment though! This as a deep and complicated [...]
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The Peshtigo Home and Banners
Working with Design Kitchen I did the Flash portion of the Peshtigo’s site (a new building in Chicago). The building pop outs are defined in an external XML file. Fuse was used for animations as well as an external drawing class for other effects. I also did a series of banner ads of different sizes [...]
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Brookfield Zoo Explorer
Here is a nice piece I’ve been working on at DK for the next version of the Brookfield Zoo’s site. The cool part is the scrolling zoo explorer. Click the “Zoo Explorer” tab at the top left and then play with the scrolling functionality at the bottom left. I had to use a combination of [...]
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Oprah “O Ambassadors” Animations
Here are some zippy timelined animations I did with Design Kitchen for the new Oprah Ambassadors site. Technologies Used: Flash CS3
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Swingline ProFile
Working with Design Kitchen I developed this mini-site for a new Swingline product. Technologies Used: Flash CS3 / AS1
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