agency life
As an Art Director at agency.com, I worked on a handful of clients including Grainger, Answer Financial, Visa Inc. and HP/Compaq. During my tenure, I grew from creating and directing design work to helping nurture client relationships as the design lead.
interactive graphics
Early in my career, my work in print was about breaking down the most important things you need to know to understand a story. As storytelling moved to the web I jumped at any chance to add interactivity as another tool to help tell the story.
Quokka Sports/NBC Olympics
I animated a sequence of weightlifting moves from Olympian Cheryl Haworth. The interactive graphic featured two animations choreographed with video and captions that detailed the science behind her moves.
My role: illustrator
Team: Grover Sanschagrin, director/sponsor
John Caserta, creative director
Rob Miller, producer
Bill Mowery, designer
Nader Nejat, Flash Action Scripting
Sam Maxwell, writer/sport expert
Ben Johnson, writer/biomechanist
Dragomir Cioroslan, sport expert/Olympic coach
QuokkaSports, site design and development
Winner: Information Design
Communication Arts Interactive Design Annual 7
chicagotribune.com
I’ve twice created interactive maps for the Chicago Auto show coverage as well as occasional interactive web content to expand stories and series that ran the print edition.