Detail of la casa's homepage
Site for our dear friend Evita, a party promoter in NYC. This was a redo of her previous site. The old design did not reflect who Evita was and what her crowd would expect to see. I re-branded, redesigned and produced La Casa Evita. The final site projected a dark, mysterious but slick image and was inline with what would be visually expected from a nightlife industry site in NYC.
Previous design
Re-designed site
Introducing the iCock, iCock Mini, etc...
Just a little bit of fun around the introduction of the iPod. I followed the apple product releases of that time (2004/2005). These creations were modeled and rendered in Lightwave.
GUI detail
Part of the trend of trendy mexican eateries, Soho Cantina was my first project collaboration with the team at the Dene Group. They also launched PlateNYC that later became Soho Cantina East. Although the food was traditional the setting and location (fashionable Soho) required a more polished and trendy website.
detail of a postcard created for Cibar
On the footsteps of Ilo came Cibar a martini bar in Manhattan’s exclusive Irving Place neighborhood. For this site I also took all the photographs. Although we’ve updated the content over the years, the design and functionality remains as it was when we first launched. Thanks to a minimalist approach the site has weathered trends and still looks polished today.
Flash 6 goodness
Take Flash 6, TextField.getFontList(), HTML text support, a list component and a textfield: you have the STC fontBrowser. A few thousand users later we have a hit. It helped STC’s site rank higher and generated a buzz around the agency’s interactive production. Pretty nice considering that it was a very simple tool to develop.
Click here to use the original STC fontBrowser.
An updated version of the fontBrowser in AS2 and with a new GUI.
Following the success of the fontBrowser I developed the STC Timetracker an online tool to keep track time spent on tasks. Although a lesser success I still get emails from people using it today.
Detail of the 3D illustration
This render was used to illustrate the 2003-2004 holiday card for Great Spirits. Modeled and rendered in Lightwave. The reflections and “fast” Fresnel took for ever to render on my work computer, at the time an AMD equivalent to a Pentium 2.
Holiday Card Illustration
Flying cow render
Originally created for Great Spirits (now Castle Brands). This exploration was to be used to support the launch of a new Irish Cream drink. Can’t remember how we (STC’s brains) arrived at the flying cow idea, but I executed on it and did a quick model and renders in Lightwave. Although the idea didn’t “fly” with the client, I kept the flying cow as a visual element of wemakedotcoms. The original cow had green patches.
Original Cow
Inside Ilo
Ilo was my very first freelance flash project. A full site done in flash version 5 back in 2002-2003. I remember the drop down behavior was a struggle and I also spent extra time on getting the scroll bar to animate. I have noticed that the click behavior on the buttons of the scrollbars have stopped working (might be a backward compatibility issue.)