Portfolio

Creative Recommendation Tool

Client: Google

My Role: Design, Illusration & Development

Using Google's new Material Design, I designed and illustrated an online tool that would provide Help Center article recommendations about the DoubleClick product suite. See the live site here: richmediagallery.com/tools/recommendation-engine

America's Best - December Cover

Client: America's Best Companies

My Role: Design & Layout

A flashy New Year's Eve inspired cover for America's Best Magazine's issue about New Year's Resolutions for small businesses.

America's Best - September Cover

Client: America's Best Companies

My Role: Design & Retouching

A Photoshop collage inspired by The Beatle's Sgt. Pepper's album cover. America's Best Magazine focused on advice and resources for small businesses.

Bearded Jew Apps Website

Client: Bearded Jew Apps

My Role: Design & Code

Bearded Jew Apps needed an unorthodox website to showcase their mobile apps. Although the company never took off, I'm quite proud non-traditional design of the site.

Popup Video Template

Client: Wildfire Interactive

My Role: Design & Code

A Youtube template that allowed the brand to display different advertising messages on the right hand rail during different points of the hero video's playback. Taking cues from VH1's PopUp Video program, the template was meant to provide a more unobtrusive and effective way to display relevant advertising during a video's playback.

Deal Taker Facebook Page

Client: Deal Taker

My Role: Design & Code

A Facebook campaign centered around Black Friday that required some Photoshop collaging of their main prizes.

Dollars and Sense Feature

Client: Strings Magazine

My Role: Page Layout

A feature story about antique violins and their prices. Just one example of my multi-page typography work.

Education in America

Client: America's Best Magazine

My Role: Illustrator

America's Best Magazine needed an illustration for an article about education in America. Major themes included lack of resources to students and volunteer opportunities.

Auditions Illustration

Client: Strings Magazine

My Role: Illustrator

A "Gong Show"-style illustration for violin article about overcoming nervousness during auditions.

Deduction Junction Illustration

Client: America's Best Magazine

My Role: Illustrator

A School House Rock-style illustration about common pitfalls of tax deductions.

Instrument Loans Illustration

Client: Strings Magazine

My Role: Illustrator

A straight-forward violin illustration for an editorial about instrument loans.

Most Wanted Violins

Client: Strings Magazine

My Role: Photo Retouching

I retouched some playful visuals for a feature story about most wanted violins.

Loan Sharks

Client: America's Best Magazine

My Role: Illustrator

An illustration about loan sharks and the feeling of being dead in the water.

Online Shopping

Client: America's Best Magazine

My Role: Illustrator

A straight-forward illustration about the raise in online shopping amongst twenty-somethings.

Music Memorization

Client: Strings Magazine

My Role: Illustrator

An illustration for an article about memorization and immersion as tools for learning sheet music.

Umbrella Lawsuits

Client: Strings Magazine

My Role: Illustrator

An illustration for an article about umbrella lawsuits.

Wacky and Tacky

Client: America's Best Magazine

My Role: Illustrator

A potpourri illustration for an article about interesting and odd business facts.

Stage Presence

Client: Strings Magazine

My Role: Illustrator

A humorous illustration about strage presence in orchestral and chamber music.

Facts and Stats Article

Client: America's Best Magazine

My Role: Illustrator & Layout

A tribute to the Game of Life that mentioned different small business facts and trivia.

Flaxman Library Button

Client: Flaxman Library

My Role: Illustrator

One of my favorite illustrations to date. The School of the Art Institute's Flaxman Library needed an assortment of 'cool' buttons to use in their street marketing.

Morning Squeeze Video Contest

Client: Florida Orange Juice

My Role: Design & Code

Florida Orange Juice needed a fresh and spirited way of advertising their new video contest on Facebook.

George W. Bush Interview Contest

Client: Crown Publishing

My Role: Design & Code

Crown Publishing offered an exciting opportunity for individuals to interview President George W. Bush for his new book Decision Points. They approached Wildfire Interactive to design and build this video contest for them.

Guy Kawaski's Enchantment Facebook Page

Client: Guy Kawaski

My Role:Design & Code

Guy Kawaski approached Wildfire Interactive for help with advertising his new book Enchantment. I quickly put together this Facebook page for him.

Acoustic Guitar's Holiday Cards

Client: Acoustic Guitar Magazine

My Role: Design & Illustration

I really enjoy the challenge of design unique holiday cards that are non-denominational. Here were two that were printed during my time at String Letter Publishing.

New Echo Media Website

Client: New Echo Media

My Role: Design, Code, & Branding

New Echo Media needed a high-end website to show off their mobile app business.

Scientific Illustrations

Client: Personal

My Role: Illustration

While attending The School of the Art Institue of Chicago, I had the opportunity to study many differnt animals at Chicago's Field Museum. Here are some of the results.

Power and the Passion Feature

Client: Strings Magazine

My Role: Design, Illustration & Layout

For their feature on Beethoven, Strings Magazine unfortunately did not have access to a large photo for the cover page of their feature. I came up with the cover illustration and carried the theme throughtout the feature.

The Psychology of Customer Service Feature

Client: America's Best Magazine

My Role: Design & Layout

A loud and impactful feature about the psychology behind the service industry.

10 New Years Resolutions

Client: America's Best Magazine

My Role: 3D Illustration

A 3D Illustration constructed in Maya for America's Best Magazine's feature on New Year's Resolutions for small businesses.

Sizemology Article

Client: America's Best Magazine

My Role: Design, Illustration & Layout

A decision matrix illustration to decide if your company is a "Big Box" store or a true small business.

Stanford Facebook Ticket Giveaway

Client: Standford University

My Role: Design & Code

Stanford University approached Wildfire Interactive to design and code a sweepstakes to encourage attendance at their football games.

Beware the Savage

Client: Swanson Tool Co.

My Role: Design & Layout

Swanson Tool Co. needed an impactful ad that would stand out against the otherwise boring pages of tool catalogs.

Tajmaholic T-shirt

Client: Personal

My Role: Illustration

When visiting India, my friend begged me to act like a tourist can come back wearing a stereotypical Spring Break t-shirt. This is what I imagined it would look like. I printed out the shirt for his birthday.

Technical Illustrations

Client: Swanson Tool Co. & Strings Magazine

My Role: Illustrator

A collection of various technical illustrations that I constructed over the years. Adobe Illustrator is great for making sure complex tools, like the Swanson Speed Square, can be drawn accurately.

TomTom's Facebook Holiday Giveaway

Client: TomTom

My Role: Design & Code

Tomtom leveraged Wildfire Interactive to build a daily reveal giveaway for their Black Friday holiday campaign.

Usher VIP Facebook Giveaway

Client: Usher VIP

My Role: Design & Code

A contest created for Usher to encourage ticket sales as well as purchases of his new cologne.

Waterpik Facebook Photo Contest

Client: Waterpik

My Role: Design & Code

Waterpik leveraged Wildfire Interactive to design and build a video contest with the winning prize being a bathroom makeover.

Webroot's Facebook Landing Page

Client: Webroot

My Role: Design & Code

Webroot leveraged Wildfire Interactive to design and build sweepstakes contests and raise awareness for their new Internet security products.

All the King's Men

Client: Lollapalooza

My Role: Illustration (2007), HTML & CSS (2014)

After visiting Vegas after my 21st birthday, I became fascinated with playing card iconography. This majestic and hypnotizing pattern was printed as a 8' x 4' poster that was displayed at Lollapalooza in 2007.

In 2014, I'm revisiting the project and remaking the piece in CSS and SVGs. The work in progress version can be seen here

Generation Y Branding

Client: Generation Y

My Role: Design and Branding

Generation Y, a San Francisco nineties cover band, wanted a logo that was both eye-catching and reminiscent of grunge rock. I choose branding that would evoke 'caution tape' so that their flyers would stand out in local shops.

Big Kahuna Photography Logo

Client: Big Kahuna Photography

My Role: Branding

Big Kahuna Photography specializes in beach and surfing photos. I played off the idea waves and a camera shutter when designing the logo.

Gravity Studios Logo

Client: Gravity Studios

My Role: Branding

Gravity Studios liked the idea of channeling a LED device for the logo of their music studio.

The Plague Book Cover

Client: David Kraine

My Role: Layout Design & Art Direction

David Kraine wanted a gritty and sci-fi feel to his first book about the end of the world and colonizing new planets.

The Night Before the Night Before Christmas

Client: Jay Dee

My Role: Layout Design & Art Direction

A playful Christmas story, The Night Before the Night Before Christmas required experimentation with grid patterns to bring more life to the text.

Vsauce Website

Client: Vsauce

My Role: HTML5 & CSS3 Development

I worked with a team of talented Google developers to code a cutting-edge responsive website for the Vsauce Youtube Channel. I was responsible for the HTML5, CSS3, and light Javascript development of the site. See the live site at vsauce.com

Warp-Spasm Website

Client: Frank Harmon

My Role: HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript Development

Frank wanted to add some funky CSS3 animations to the gallery of his portfolio site. See the responsive sight live at warp-spasm.com