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Cellsouth 3D Environment
Cellsouth 3D Environment
2008, Young and Rubicam
These two screens show two different 3D angles completely illustrated by my hand using Illustrator and Photoshop.
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Postive News Network
Postive News Network
2008, Young and Rubicam
This is where the only news you hear is positive.
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Danimals
Danimals
2008, Young and Rubicam
This pitch involved setting up an immersive environment for kids to explore and play a game in relating to a particular movie series that people go nuts over.
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Xerox
Xerox
2008, Young and Rubicam
These screens are of a pitch to Xerox involving a creative spin on particular capabilities of their services. Each character represents document types and attributes personalities to each document's characteristics.
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Atari Refresh
Atari Redesign
2006-2007, Atari Inc.
These designs are something special. One of the biggest projects I undertook at Atari was the prospective new design of a much larger, more interactive web presence for the company.

Each of these designs represents a different phase of the process. Each was executed with painstaking care to try to deliver the most polished, refined visual concept possible.
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Atari 4th of July
Atari 4th of July
2007, Atari Inc.
This is a creative design I did for a 4th of July promotion at Atari. I had free reign to make it as bright and colorful as I wanted, which you see wasn't too much of a problem. Once I was done with the design I coded it for the web and created a one-off version as a newsletter. Quite a few of the designs I do are usually adapted to things such as newsletters or advertisements.
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Atari Site Refresh
2007, Atari Inc.
These images are all of the Atari main site refresh. I lead the project to design a new header for the Atari website without disturbing the original code and subsequently undermining the entire code base. I designed and coded the header graphics to change for each season and selling point.

http://www.atari.com/us/
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Atari Landing Page
2007, Atari Inc.
These images are of the progression for the new Atari.com landing page. They were each designed with the specific purpose of conveying all necessary information from all of Atari's branches.
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Situation Marketing
2008, Freelance
This is a fun little project I did for the theatre group that runs plays like Spring Awakening. They wanted a showcase for their related projects. It is being built mostly in Flash.
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Virb Design
2007, Personal
This is a small piece of what ended up becoming a large Virb project. Once I began I was obsessed with creating a certain feel. You can see how far I got with the site by following the link.

http://www.virb.com/of_echoes
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Atari Halloween
2007, Atari Inc.
This was a promotional duo for a special Halloween promotion at Atari. I had no limitations so I went all out trying to design something haunting yet communicative.
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Jenga Landing Page
2007, Atari Inc.
This design was a landing page for the new Jenga game Atari launched to make full use of the Wii controls. I wanted to give the site a fresh and fantastic look...and I wanted to use blue.
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Atari Create
2007, Atari Inc.
This is the design I did for a wonderful project Atari had. The purpose of the site was to allow the public to use tools Atari would provide to create their own games. The main goal of the design was playfulness as the target demographic was young.
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Atari Sneak Preview
2007, Atari Inc.
This was a fun little piece that marked a turning point in the way I approached design when given free reign. I was asked to make a site with a "sneak preview" feel for press packages. I came up with this design to showcase one of the games Atari was publishing for the press. It turned out to be a huge success and people loved the atmosphere.
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Atari Thanksgiving
2007, Atari Inc.
These are promotions for a holiday special at Atari. One is a newsletter and the other is a landing page for the promotion. I designed and coded both in less than a day.
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Atari Tool
2006, Atari Inc.
This was my very first project at Atari. I designed an interface for a software that would control gaming information for the PSP. This project took two days of straight Photoshop work.
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East Coast Garage
2004, Freelance
This is a site I did freshly out of school for a specialist car shop in Orlando. The site was essentially a large gallery. I created it using HTML and a third-party Flash gallery.
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HMS Website
2008, Freelance
This was a site I designed and coded for a government contractor that specializes in bringing veterans of war "from battlefield to business." They wanted a design that was fresh and completely devoid of any stuffiness.

http://www.hmstech.com
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Disney College Program
2006, MindComet
These designs were for a particular section of Disney's website. The design was created with the idea in mind that Disney was just starting a new large push into their big Dreams promotion.
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Hershey's Poker
2006, MindComet
These images are from a poker application that Ireskinned to fit Hershey's Reeses Pieces colors. It was a proposal in a large document sent to Hershey's at their request for prospective work.
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HGVC
2006, MindComet
These designs are of a large redesign for Hilton Grand Vacations hotspots. They wanted a new newsletter template and a new featured management system for guests to login and determine how to spend their vacation points.
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SPEED TV
2006, MindComet
These are separate designs done for different SPEED Television promotions. SPEED TV was one of our biggest clients at MindComet and working on their projects always gave an opportunity to go all out.
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SPEED TV Eleanor
2006, MindComet
This design is an example of going all-out. MindComet wanted to pitch to SPEED a complete redesign of their site. Each designer was asked to pull out all the stops and design something no one had ever seen before for a website. This was my submission. A number of my ideas were actually used in the final design for the site.
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Sports Time Ohio
2006, MindComet
These designs were for a brand new site called Sports Time Ohio. It was a site to feature content for all of Ohio's sports. I designed the TV/web interface and the chat module for this particular assignment. I was among three of the leaders who determined the look and feel of the site.
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NYScope
2007, Freelance
These designs are for a New York based apartment broker. He wanted something to showcase whatever places he had for rent in a blue city-friendly theme.
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Student City
2006, MindComet
This particular site (StudentCity.com) had a lot of open source applications behind the scenes. My job was to create skins to some of these applications like the gallery. Aside from that I also handled all of their other request such as newsletters and mini-sites. I was project lead for StudentCity and GradCity.
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Magician Poster
2008, Freelance
These images are a two-stage process of designing a poster for a magician in an old daguerreotype style.
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Pixel Magic Posters
2006, MindComet
These are some of my favorite designs as they came after working 48 hours straight to meet a tight deadline set by the client. The client wanted large posters of their particular product in a vibrant feature that had crisp, clear text.

They were so happy with the results they immediately asked me to do a few other things for them including designing their print materials such as their letterhead and folder designs.
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Atari Business Cards
2007, Atari Inc.
This is a business card I designed using Photoshop and InDesign. It was created for general business use with the fun twist of having a catch-phrase and gaming information written along with the contact info.
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Thrice Promotion
2002, Personal
This was an ad I created for a promotional tour of three of my favorite bands. The ad was supposed to have a mass-appeal, clear quality to it.
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Generation Y
2006, MindComet
This is a manifest cover I created for a publication that was being pushed while I worked at MindComet. The book was about how to market to youths in Generation Y. I portrayed the letter to be shiny to convey the quality of bling we all love so much.

Oh, I had three hours to do this.
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Pheroze T-shirt
2008, Freelance
This is a simple T-shirt design I did for a friend's band. His band has a heavy water theme and he fancied killer whales.
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Atari 35th Anniversary Logo
2007, Atari Inc.
These logos were created for the celebration of Atari's 35th anniversary. I created them using a mix of Photoshop and Illustrator to achieve the desired results.
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Logos
2004-2007
These are a few different logos I've put together for different Freelances each with their specific needs.
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Frnge Logo
2007
This is a logo design for a collaborative web development resource pool. I wanted to invoke a "world of tomorrow" futurist view circa the 1930's, but I wanted it to look like it was worn and not so new.
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Note!

The things you'll see in this section are repurposed from the other sections that are already categorized by project type.

So unless you're looking specifically for advertising-based stuff I recommend browsing through the other sections!
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Pixel Magic Posters
2006, MindComet
These are some of my favorite designs as they came after working 48 hours straight to meet a tight deadline set by the client. The client wanted large posters of their particular product in a vibrant feature that had crisp, clear text.

They were so happy with the results they immediately asked me to do a few other things for them including designing their print materials such as their letterhead and folder designs.
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Atari 4th of July
Atari 4th of July
2007, Atari Inc.
This is a creative design I did for a 4th of July promotion at Atari. I had free reign to make it as bright and colorful as I wanted, which you see wasn't too much of a problem. Once I was done with the design I coded it for the web and created a one-off version as a newsletter. Quite a few of the designs I do are usually adapted to things such as newsletters or advertisements.
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Atari Halloween
2007, Atari Inc.
This was a promotional duo for a special Halloween promotion at Atari. I had no limitations so I went all out trying to design something haunting yet communicative.
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Jenga Landing Page
2007, Atari Inc.
This design was a landing page for the new Jenga game Atari launched to make full use of the Wii controls. I wanted to give the site a fresh and fantastic look...and I wanted to use blue.
The Means




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Atari Thanksgiving
2007, Atari Inc.
These are promotions for a holiday special at Atari. One is a newsletter and the other is a landing page for the promotion. I designed and coded both in less than a day.
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SPEED TV
2006, MindComet
These are separate designs done for different SPEED Television promotions. SPEED TV was one of our biggest clients at MindComet and working on their projects always gave an opportunity to go all out.
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Student City
2006, MindComet
This particular site (StudentCity.com) had a lot of open source applications behind the scenes. My job was to create skins to some of these applications like the gallery. Aside from that I also handled all of their other request such as newsletters and mini-sites. I was project lead for StudentCity and GradCity.
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Magician Poster
2008, Freelance
These images are a two-stage process of designing a poster for a magician in an old daguerreotype style.
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Pixel Magic Posters
2006, MindComet
These are some of my favorite designs as they came after working 48 hours straight to meet a tight deadline set by the client. The client wanted large posters of their particular product in a vibrant feature that had crisp, clear text.

They were so happy with the results they immediately asked me to do a few other things for them including designing their print materials such as their letterhead and folder designs.
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Thrice Promotion
2002, Personal
This was an ad I created for a promotional tour of three of my favorite bands. The ad was supposed to have a mass-appeal, clear quality to it.
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Civil War
2007, Atari Inc.
This is a background I created for a friends' Civil War project. Pictures of atrocities of war were used blended with mixed media assets to create an artistic vision of war. I went between Illustrator and Photoshop using some of my own photography.
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Sin City Steve
2004, Personal
This is a vector illustration I did for myself in my spare time. I wanted to achieve the Sin City style look. Based off of Frank Miller's art I created myself in the world of Sin City.
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Coheed and Cambria Wallpaper
2005, Personal
This is a wallpaper I did in my free time for one of my favorite bands just before the release of their third album. I uploaded it to the web for anyone who wanted to snag it.
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"When it Comes" Digital Painting
2005, Personal
This was my submission for a Crestock competition. The stakes? TWO 30" Mac monitors and a new Mac Pro. I was up against some epic competition during this contest but that didn't daunt me.

We had to use at least one of the stock photos they provided. I didn't think about it at the time, but my submission started taking the form of one of my old paintings that I did in school. You can see that older work under "Art."
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Forest Apocalypse Digital Painting
2005, Personal
This is a piece I did for myself drawing inspiration from another one of my favorite bands. I wanted to convey a surreal quality of spying on a world perhaps you weren't meant to see.
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Distant Bluffs Artistic Piece
2003, Personal
This is an artistic piece I did at the dawn of MySpace to customize my profile.
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Nightmare Apocalypse Artistic Piece
2007, Personal
This is an artistic piece I did for fun in my spare time that actually became part of a much larger piece that eventually became part of my Virb page.
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The Sun and the Moon traditional art
2003, Personal
These are a color pencil and a painting based off of the same concept - a boy sits in the clouds watching the sun boil in the ocean and the moon catch on fire.

A later rendition of this same concept was my submission into a competition years later.
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Dynasty Paul Digital Drawing
2004, Personal
This is a sketch I did of one of my friends who was obsessed with a beat-em-up video game called Dynasty Warriors. I cast him as his own character in the art style the game was based off of.
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A Few Sketches
2002-2008, Personal
Here are various sketches I've done over the years. Long before I became a designer I drew for my creative outlet.
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Climbing Shoes!
2006, Personal
So, once upon a time I was a heavy mountain climber. I bought these shoes off the internet that had a great reputation, but when they finally came in I realized how hideous they were. This sort of yellow-green puke color. So I decided to change up the way they looked with a couple of red and black felt-tipped markers. The final result was actually wonderful and no one could tell what the original color of the shoe was.
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Kaneda's Bike
2003, Personal
This is a 3D render of a rather famous motorcycle...at least to Japan junkies. I completely modeled it from scratch and did a few test renders at different settings to see what kind of cool effects I could get.
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The Juggernaut
2003, Personal
This is a model I created in 3D Studio Max to test my skills at modeling human-like figures in 3D. It happens to be of my favorite comic book villain.
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