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Microsoft Pioneer Studios
A series of visualizations and user-experience walkthroughs were produced for a project developed in Microsoft's temporary design shop in New York City. Project focuses on the current state of media, cloud computing, and publishing.
Stop Torture in Health Care Campaign
This campaign promotes accountability for and to prevent all forms of torture and ill-treatment in health settings. I worked with OSI to flesh out its identity and branding. Using Drupal, the website serves as a discussion platform for policymakers.
The Drawing Room New York
The Drawing Room New York Hair Salon is an award winning salon located in the heart of Soho. Well known for their expertise and stunning hair architecture, the salon needed maintenance and some revamping on their website to showcase special features.
KEIKI Micro Community Gardens
A startup community garden that uses open source technologies to extend the practice of growing into new spaces. Care and activity for each gardener is measured in accordance to real-time data that is extracted by a smart plant sensor using Processing and Arduino.
Clothing Traceability
The Clothing Traceability project visualizes the clothing supply chain – essentially where and how a garment is made, and the people involved throughout the process. I provided the aesthetics, layouts, and developed the microsite myself. Visit clothingtraceability.com.
Playtech
Playtech is a bi-annual game jam where a college game designers present their interactive games to visiting high school students. The event serves as a time to both user-test new gaming concepts as well as engaging with urban youth in a creative way.
Soliya TEDx Presentation
Soliya (recently merged with the UN) will be giving a TED talk that covers their on-the-ground experience using new media technologies to foster cross-cultural understanding. Soliya also holds a partnership with the Saxe Neuroscience Lab at MIT. More coming soon!
Design for Social Good
In May 2009, in a classroom with no windows, was the birth of Design for Social Good. Two years later, it magically blossomed into a company that no one thought would get to be so big. Check out our Drupal 6 website and blog.
Interaction Studio and Labs
As a way for me to inspire and instruct, my interaction studio and labs at Parsons The New School for Design serve as a facility for undergrads in the Design & Technology program to stretch the boundaries of interactive play on/for the web.
GOOD Causes
I truly believe an apple a day keeps the doctor away. In 2009 when Najlah Hicks and I paired up to form Design for Social Good, the apple became the signature image of the creative deeds we provide for our global audience. (Campaign premiered at the 11NTC Conference).
Algorithmic Animation
Investigations of the curious space where drawing and computation meet. From the earliest moments of the computer, developers have been striving for intuitive and meaningful ways to capture and explore gesture digitally. Look at these apps built with openFrameworks.
Qoorate
Reinvents current review and ranking technology on the web. Qoorate stretches the interaction between content producers and users by allowing account holders to be curators of any topic. This project is still in development and has not yet been released.
Mass Market Television
As the main interaction designer for the website redesign of Mass Market, corresponding and working closely with the primary production vendor and the client was critical. Mass Market is a visual effects, design, and animation studio located in Lower East Side of New York City.
Coalition for the ICC
We had about five days to do this. As a project brought to Design for Social Good, an annual report was due for redesign and print in just a matter of days. Working morning to night, the necessary assets were creatively and cleaning placed together in this beautiful publication.
futureflair
Founded by Laetitia Wolff, futureflair is an international creative conduit that specializes in design strategy and cultural engineering. This website which showcases a variety of creative works uses a custom Wordpress theme to help display an assortment of project galleries.
Drupal Gardens
You might qualify Drupal Gardens as the Wordpress.com for Drupal. Maintained by Acquia, Drupal Gardens are hosted completed on their servers. You don't have to install anything. Before the launch, a number of designers were asked to help provide available themes.
Amazon Aid Foundation
Did you know 25,000 square kilometers of the Amazon is being cleared each year? Using this micro-site that was designed and developed by me, AAF brings light to ongoing stunts by on-and-0ff site humanitarians and filmmakers. Learn more about this awareness effort.
Consequences by NOOR
A special exhibition launching at COP15 in 2009 when the world's attentions was drawn to the event hosting thousands of international delegates, scientists, journalists and activists. Logo and online blogging platform were designed in a one-month turnaround.
Sophie of Saks
Working with the School of Fashion at Parsons The New School for Design, this online collection, archive, and collection presents Sophie Gimbel's influence on American fashion. The site was built using Wordpress. All photography was by Lolly Koon.
Streaming Culture
Streaming Culture is the live broadcast of lectures from artists and educators about their research. Connecting classrooms, and creative communities coast-to-coast, this project was extended for another year beyond its intended lifespan due to its loyal audience.
Center for Transformative Media
CTM is dedicated to the invention, critique, and understanding of transformative media practices, including gaming, social networking, creative mobility, data mining, and participatory learning. Branding and web design done in a two-week turnaround.
Raw Thoughts
I've never succeeded in completing/filling an entire sketchbook. But maybe my ambitions have finally hit the max. Look at this album of doodles and raw thoughts straight from sketch. If you like these, then check out the rest of the sketchbook.
Do 1 Thing
Colleague Najlah Feanny Hicks had a great idea. Every year she believed people could come together and do 1 thing that really mattered. As an ongoing annual media event, check it out as well as the branding that I pulled together for her.
The Art of Craftmanship Revisited
Parsons The New School for Design and Moët Hennessy • Louis Vuitton teamed up and held a competition to spread awareness of the importance of craftsmanship. Working under both creative teams (Parsons + LVMH), I branded the event which took place Fashion Week 2010.
Behind the Mask
The world always judges the book by its cover. If the book shows no clarity or appeal in its aesthetics, then delivering the content and message is tough. That was the main obstacle working with BTM, an NGO based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Shape of Change
This online utility serves as a navigable archive of American and Iraqi visions of change. Spearheaded by Melanie Crean, SOC was visually conceptualized and created by a small team of individuals, including myself who provided the styleframes for the online interface.
Art|Sci @ UCLA
Art|Sci promotes the evolving “Third Culture” by facilitating the potential of collaborations between media arts and bio/nano sciences. Back in 2009, we explored how their old Drupal 5 framework could be redesign to meet version 6 with updated modules and custom theme.
ACE
ACE works with NYC's homeless, provides job training, work experience and a support network to help program participants establish economic independence. Within a span of a few months, the organization's name, brand, and website were re-developed.
Nokia Game Jam
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Zahi Hawass
A menswear line developed by Lora Flaugh and leading Egyptologist Zahi Hawass. After studying both the works and world of Dr. Hawass, the online concept was drafted and detailed in a series of styleframes that eventually led to the site's Drupal construction.
Institute of Executive Development
Experiments with mirroring this 10,000+ user intranet to a Drupal 6 framework. New integration included manageable multimedia features and polling widgets. IED is based out of Palo Alto and is currently still experimenting open source possibilities.
NSAIE
Small budget. Big vision. NSAIE works with tribes and organizations across the United States to improve the life of the American Indian elderly population. A Wordpress microsite was built to help deliver their message and connect the various tribes.