March 2008. MediaTracks contacted me again to do a horizontal version of their ad. I had done one for them about a year ago. [see below]

Here is the ad mocked up to show how it’d appear on PR Week’s site.

In the time since I did the last ad, Adobe bought Macromedia and released Flash as part of CS3. I learned some new animation tricks and applied them to this ad, which just made the effects look really wonderful. Here is the original horizontal ad I put together for them in 2007.

Jan 2007

MediaTracks Communications, a radio advertising company in Chicago contacted me to do an ad for them for PRWeek. Here are the boards I came up with after talking to their president and getting some copy from him. All custom drawn art in Illustrator CS2, except the logos which came from the client. They had to be tweaked slightly to render legibly at this size.

I really like the way this turned out. I used a few tricks to simulate the rotating globe. Below are the storyboards.

Storyboards shown to client

Right: no-Flash version

… comes another format called VMD (Versatile Multilayer Disc). Found out about it from some guy on the Amazon discussion boards who thinks this’ll supplant Blu-ray. At 5GB per layer, this is scarcely better than standard DVD’s 4.7 GB. It uses a cheaper red laser and would take 8-10 layers to hold what a dual layer Blu-ray disc holds. Sorry guys, this sounds like a loser even before getting to the starting gate. Technically underwhelming would be one way to describe this. Complete financial ruin might be another. At 20 GB for a standard disc, this is even less than the loser in the last format war, HD DVD, which holds 30 GB on a dual layered disc.

After the Blu-Ray vs HD DVD format wars, people are not going to put up with another format. I don’t see any major distributors and studios rushing to sign up any time soon. As for the cost savings, Blu-Ray players and discs will fall in price in the next few years, negating any cost benefit to this crap VMD technology. When DVD players first came out, they were $500 too and DVDs were $30. See here for timeline of the DVD player.

article on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versatile_Multilayer_Disc

a pair of websites for 2 art galleries down in the Miami area. completed beginning of 2008. designed externally, built w/ PHP. Features include a Flash image gallery and a custom-built event calendar, both of which can be easily updated by the client with little or no technical knowledge.

All in all a very successful site. Hundreds of people have joined their mailing list.