Technical Producer
project title
Minimal Wave Website / Forum
client
Minimal Wave Records
date
2010
categories
E-Com Website / Forum
primary role(s) for this project
- Art Direction + Design
- Creative Direction
- Client Engagement + Management
- Social Strategy
- CSS + EE Developer
additional team members
Alec Cumming - Lead Developerproject links
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Vinyl Magazine Archive
Website UI + Layout Documents
project notes
Designed and built a new E-commerce Website and Forum for Minimal Wave Records, using Expression Engine + FoxyCart + Twitter + Google Search integration. The website has been fully optimized and google indexed, in accordance with the most effective SEO methods.
The layout was partially influenced by the idea of the record cover, since many of these releases are records, and we wanted to make sure the record and the artists were clearly represented before anything else. Another factor in the design came from weeks of roaming through tons of classic 80s magazines like The Face (Neville Brody), iD (Terry Jones), and most specifically Vinyl (Max Kisman), the dutch music magazine that featured many bands found on the site. A few of the colors and other elements where influenced by the faded pages when looking at our old issues, and the 4 color printing of the era.
One highlight of the site is that many people can now put faces to the bands/records that they have known and loved over the years, and also learn a lot more about other things the bands were involved in.
Additionally the MW Forum was updated quite substantially to give the content some room and air. Now you can easily find and read through the thousands of post about the genre without straining your eyes.
project title
MTVNLand Website
client
MTV International
date
2005
categories
Website
primary role(s) for this project
- Concept Development
- LAMP / CSS Development
- Technical Producer
- Art Direction
additional team members
Kristofer Widholm - Lead Developer - LAMP / AJAX / XLST / Component Developmentproject notes
MTVNLand is MTV International’s Creative repository. It hosts over 10,000 videos of creative work done by all of the teams around the globe including the On-Air Promos, Teasers, Trailers, Promotional Materials, Commercials and so on. It also host all documents associated with the music, rights and other notes associated with each piece of content. The minimalist aesthetic here was done specifically to highlight the content, and not the website itself - the idea being “a glass of water”.
project title
International Telescope AMS
client
MTV / Nick / VH1 International
date
2005
categories
Website / DAM
primary role(s) for this project
- Art Direction + Design
- CSS / JS / HTML Development
- Technical Producer
project notes
The International Asset Management System hosts large format content for regional distribution, using North Planes Telescope as a back-end. This design was an exercise in re-interfacing and re-engineering the out of the box interface, to allow for a more logical and streamlined asset gathering and downloading for the 100 thousand + hosted assets. This new template design also influenced the NPS team to modify their own out of the box interface, iconography and layouts with the newest Telescope release.
project title
MTV Plastikulture
client
MTV / Motorola Mobile Games
date
2004
categories
Website / Mobile Games
primary role(s) for this project
- Concept Development
- Character Development
- Logos + Iconography
- Technical Producer
additional team members
Playcom - Primary Design + Art Direction, Site and App Development, Concept Development, Character DevelopmentKate Sawall - Producer, Content Production
project notes
Plastikulture was the result of our teaming up with Playcom, to create a really clever online and mobile games franchise for Motorola and MTV. The Plastikulture website was unique in that access and content were restricted in certain areas with secret codes that you acquired through playing the various mobile games. The idea behind Plastikulture, was that there existed a parallel world to our own, where our plastic waste ends up and starts to live a life of its own. Your average typical plastic family - the Polyethyls - where the siblings T-Ruth, Roland and Aki deal with the everyday issues of your average plastic teenager, while evil (bumbling) antagonist Fex plots his secret schemes for domination of the plastic city.
project title
MTV Exquisite Corpse 03
client
MTV International
date
2003
categories
Art Direction + Sound
primary role(s) for this project
- Concept + Strategy
- Art Direction + Design
- Music + Sound Design
additional team members
Amy Kim - Website ProducerOleg Troyanovsky - International Campaign Producer
Large Animal - Flash popup implementation
project links
project notes
We did the design and the music and sound effects for the MTV Exquisite Corpse 03 campaign website. Exquisite Corpse (aka Exquisite MTV), was the theme of the 2003 MTV Global Image campaign.
The goal of the website was to allow visitors to understand and watch where each part of the 16 different Exquisite Corpse videos came from, and also watch the full videos. Each video started with a color, and had 7, 1 second parts (for a total of 8 seconds). Each 1 second part being created by a different international team, then passed to the next, which were then "sewn" together.
project title
Extranet
client
MTV International Digital
date
2003
categories
Website
primary role(s) for this project
- Art Direction + Design
- CSS + HTML Development
project notes
The MTV International Digital team in NYC needed to have a single place to keep contact info for hundreds of international team members and several dozens standards and practice documents, essentially a catch all for day to day connections. I designed and built this hand coded system in a week for them to use.
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