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Charts and graphs can be made more understandable and engaging through the use of colors and good design. Here are a few of the many I’ve had to design or pretty up over the years.

For SafeMotherhood.org, which I also did the site design and build for. The rest are Jupiter Media Metrix, now a part of Forrester Research.

The colors match the site design at the time, if you’re wondering why some of them are so gaudy.

This is a sample of some work I did at Nethod/EuroRSCG back in 2001, dug out of some old Zip disks. Remember those?

Nethod specialized in interactive services for the pharmaceuticals industry and I made stuff like this e-Blast (Flash email) and a few CD-ROMs. For a number of technical reasons, people don’t do Flash emails anymore.

Prevnar is some sort of vaccine for infants. The maker wanted to announce that sales have exceeded $1 billion, so it’s their “Billion Dollar Baby”.

click to view Flash animation
WARNING: You should turn off your sound to avoid the horrid musical selection.

for an iTurf.com Flash ad during the bubble. I spent a couple of days drawing this in Illustrator with a Wacom, my first tablet. Before iTurf, I had never seen a Wacom before. There’s a set of storyboards that goes along with this, and a finished Flash ad (that bears zero resemblence to the original boards). I’ll try to find those.

CLIENT: Family Care International, a non-profit in NY focusing on women’s reproductive rights and health education in developing countries. I was their technical consultant, database manager (FileMaker), as well as their tech support guy and all around computer handyman.

above: site/UI/IA redesign. Their previous website was poorly organized, hard to use, unattractive, and relied heavily on image rollovers and non-editable GIF text. Maintainability was a big issue, so I re-engineered the site to bring it into compliance with current standards and gave it a more modern look, as well as modularized code for easy updating by anyone with basic HTML knowledge.

view initial concept 1

SafeMotherhood.org: initial proposal and pitch for a complete re-engineering of site, IA/UI design, rebuilt all code from scratch to ensure optimal performance, did all the graphics production work, image manipulation and cleanup, re-created charts for ease of use, etc.. In other words, I did everything from start to finish.

FCI has since been redesigned by someone else, but Safemotherhood is still the same as when I left it. The design is very dated now. I did these in 2001.

I redesigned this for Janice Martin, a bridal gown designer in PA. This design is about 3 or 4 years old, so it is starting to look dated. She is in the process of updating the site for 2007.

I wrote a Javascript popup image loader that reads in the filename passed from the HTML. It automatically resizes the window to fit the image so I don’t have to create a different page for each of the blowups of the gowns and dresses. You may use the code for your own site if you wish. I also wrote a script to randomly show a different homepage image each time a visitor comes to the site.

This was made for the Las Vegas, NV InterOp 2001 Tradeshow, to be projected onto a wall. ReefEdge was a startup that developed wireless network security solutions.

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These are some icons for their ReefEdge PDA client.

THIS IS NOT CLIPART. PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS GRAPHIC.