Illinois Department of Tourism: Poster Microsite


This was a cool little microsite that I developed which brought in poster images through XML and placed them on a spinning carousel for the user to interact. The site was developed in Flash CS3 using AS3.0 as the programming language. Once the user clicked on a poster the poster would come forward and more details would be placed on the screen as illustrated above.

BOSCH: Banner ad concept


Nice banner ad design in this concept, I had the job of cleaning up the graphics and making this banner look more realistic. This banner had a real simple execution with a clear CTA.

BOSCH: Banner ad concept


This was a pretty cool concept utilizing a drifting car driven by Vaughn Gittin Jr. which at the smokes out the entire screen then reveals the BOSCH spark plug. Very clean and nicely executed banner ad.

BOSCH: Banner ad concept

Here is another banner ad concept that was sent to BOSCH for their SPARKTACULAR campaign. It starts off with a simple interactive button which sends off a single spark that activates the spark plug, the plug then shoots up and animates with a group of spark plugs that continues to fly in a highly energetic fashion only to reveal the line of spark plugs offered by BOSCH.

Where Your Customers Are: How Facebook, Twitter and Others Break Down by Age

Facebook, the largest social media network, recently reached 300 million users worldwide — roughly the population of the United States. So do your homework before you approach your customers online. Here’s how users on the top social media sites broke down by age in August 2009.

3 trends that will Shape the Digital World over the Next Decade

We’re often consumed by what will change over the next few years, but taking a longer view can be more interesting and instructive.  Some of the world’s smartest people are hard at work developing amazing things that will dramatically change the way we interact with technology and each other over the next decade.  Here are a few of them:

1. Virtually free and unlimited bandwidth and storage: This is so important that Chris Andersen (of “Long Tail” fame) just wrote an entire book about it: “Free“. Storage and bandwidth, already fairly substantial, are improving performance and cost efficiency even faster than processor speed is .  The marginal cost is falling to practically zero. Continue reading

BOSCH: Banner Ad Concept

This is yet another banner ad concept created for BOSCH to utilize for their campaign. This actual ad was developed and launched for a period of 2 weeks. it was developed in Flash AS3 with AS3.0 coding.

BOSCH: Banner ad concept

Here is a banner ad concept I came up with for BOSCH in which we utilized the spark  from the spark plug as a light while going through a cave. As you go deeper into the cave the user will encounter various facts about the product till finally they enter the CTA which reads: “SPARKTACULAR.”

Blackberry Rich-Media Microsite

Worked with an Interactive Agency located in the west-side of Chicago in developing an interactive tutorial microsite for for Blackberry. This site was developed in Flash CS3 and was coded in AS3.0. All the designs were completed in-house and I worked alongside the Creative Director and the Art Director in completing this site. This site encompasses the 3 different phones Blackberry had on the market at that time.

A.Okay Official – Retail Website Design

This was the initial design for a local Urban Boutique located in the Lakeview side of Chicago. This site was a fully functioning e-Commerce site with a very robust back-end inventory engine. This site resembled the entire look and feel that the store brought to its patrons on a day-to-day basis.

Concept design for Wrigley

Worked alongside an Chicago Agency in developing a new concept for Wrigley’s product called the “5” gum. In this concept we wanted to incorporate the nightlife aspect to the “5” Gum experience as a whole.

10 Successful Steps to Converting Ezine Subscribers to Clients

A business website may inevitably attract a lot of traffic and can have the potential to create clientele from the traffic attracted, but without a proper Ezine subscription process, the odds of creating clients from web traffic is low.

Websites rarely attract clients without offering resources that would be of interest to a specific audience. And even when there is an abundance of information, visitors to a specific website don’t always purchase the service or product being advertised. Continue reading