I'm a Web Developer, Designer, and Artist stationed somewhere in between JPL, Art Center College of Design, the Norton Simon and Cal Tech.
I provide the following services: web / software development, user experience design, user interface design, content strategy, information architecture, branding, visual design, and art direction. I primarily work with clients in the music, fine & commercial art industries, along with film production and advertising agencies.
Below is a selection of Recent Client projects with a focus on fun design, animation and user experience:
Artist site I both designed and developed for the musician Dwilly. Had lots of fun with animation, transitions, and the overall vibe!!!
Branding and Website for GEMS - Goodear Music Supervision, saviors of many a commercial via music knowledge unparalleled in the industry (they're good friends ๐).
I created their new logo, along with a series of colorful patterns. The site references album cover design and packaging, looking at the Japanese Obi Strip in particular to communicate the fact that GEMS provide music supervision services and are not a production agency.
Website design for the indy record label Future Classic! Fun design in a newsfeed style format ๐. Built in VueJs with wordpress as CMS.
Promotional site for Sydney / Los Angeles Label Future Classic's collaborative recording studio with Dropbox. This site was built to announce an ongoing residency they are initiating for un-signed artists!
Website properties for pioneering electronic producer, Harley Edward Streten AKA Flume. Art direction by Jonathan Zawada!
Development on this microsite for global agency FF Creative. Built in VueJs with PaperjJs integrated for the fun cursor effect!
Website for the most stylish cannabis brand on the block - Besito / "Little Kiss". Built with React.js. headless CMS is wordpress with a custom api theme. Static deployment to Netlify.
Art direction by Ely Kim!, Photography by Jimmy Marble.
Splash page for Bay Area cannabis brand. Design and Art Direction by ALTR Studio!
Website for Trojan Jamaica Records! Art Direction by Julian Gross!
Web design and development for Musician Karen O! Custom font derived from Ms. O's handwriting developed for the site. Art Direction by Julian Gross!
Did development & fun web animations for this promotional website for the band - Yeah Yeah Yeahs! Design and art direction by Julian Gross, and original album artwork by SSION!
Microsite for woke jade face roller brand. Static front end built in React.js deployed on Netlify using Shopify's storefront api for purchasing. Art direction by ELY KIM!
I art directed and designed this Print & Web Zine - which is a collection of essays by female musicians speaking to the challenges they have faced in the music industry. It was edited by Jennifer Clavin of the band Bleached. All profits went to Planned parenthood - so keeping production costs to a minimum was a huge incentive!
Programming for V.1 of this art project by Sebastian Pardo. It displays 5 random images a day & never repeats. This was a fun puzzle that I ended up solving server-side. Configuring an Ubuntu server running Node.js on top of NGINX - The application is built with Express.js and utilizes a chron job triggering a server task every 24:00:00 PST which manually moves files from one folder to another. Also you can witness the switch in realtime thanks to Socket.io!
Digital sketches, explorations & experiments!
Due to the fact that it doesn't exist (to my knowledge) I thought it would be great to have an interactive version of this amazing book: Sanzo Wada's Dictionary of Color Combinations.
Design and development for personal photography & content repository - + - Exploration in developing a high content site without a database system. Featured on http://brutalistwebsites.com/.
I love the TCG Magic: the Gathering... It's probably my favorite operating system. This site started as a way for me to share links and other aspects of the game with curious friends. I do have a lot of ideas for different web things I want to explore such as a message board, deck builder, etc... so this project also serves as a great sandbox to try new development features out on! First experiment is using the awesome platform Are.Na as a cms... it works great.
Designing with code allows me to explore web animation, typography, sound and interaction in short form, self contained websites. Clickholes.com is a running collection of these experiments.
Art project incorporating 119 15x19 Paintings, print and digital catalog.
A fun splash page for a crazy font I developed in the style of classic english crust punk!
I designed & developed this website as the digital invitation for family and friends to celebrate my marriage to my wife Lana. We presented the evolution of our relationship with an animation of emojiโs!
Exhibited at Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, Rental Gallery NY, LACE Contemporary Exhibitions, TRUDI Gallery, Los Angeles.
I collaborate with quite a few agencies and designers, and am commissioned for portfolios / archives when clients want to get out of the "Squarespace box". It's always fun collaborating with other creative people and bringing my UX / Ui and development skills to the table.
Smaller scale custom portfolios for artists.
Website development for San Francisco design studio ALTR! Art direction by Kim West / design by May Nyuyen / development by ...Me.
Did Design and Custom Wordpress Development for New York contemporary art Gallery - Nicelle Beauchene. We also rebuilt the entire media library dating back to 2008, as the images from the previous site were too small! Built in Wordpress with a theme framework i created using SASS for styling and Pug -> PHP to generate templates, deployed to a Digital Ocean droplet which I configured.
Website design, development & SEO optimization for Los Angeles based contemporary art gallery Tif Sigfrids. Rebrand coming soon! in the meantime check this version: https://tif-sigfrids.dmbk.network
Portfolio / Archive site for photographer Bruce Weber. Collaborated with Brendan Sheehan on development. We built the front end in react using Wordpress for the CMS. Design & Art Direction by Frank Collective.
Website Design and Development for production company based in Brooklyn NY. Built in Vue.js with data api powered by Wordpress.
Website design, development & SEO optimization for Costume Designer / Wardrobe Stylist Danielle Kays.
Participating in projects that are not exclusively digital has always been important to me, I have found that throughout the years making a variety of work in different media has had a profound influence on how i approach both problem solving and general concepts. Below are some samples of both design projects I have completed and some art that I've exhibited.
At Move Design I collaborated with principles Peter Spreenberg & Samuel Lising along with the other designers in creating this early generative design application...
Zero One was the opening event for the seminal 2001 exhibition, 010101: Art In Technological Times at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. With Move Design I designed the print and online invitations and assisted in developing an array of dynamic visuals for the event.
Childcare is a DIY skate-crew brand that attempts to take a semi - educational role as itโs hallmark. I collaborated with artist Matthew Chambers and the gang to create a variety of logos, decks, and wheels. We even teamed up with a crew out in Budapest to release these โEurozone meets Americanaโ wheels!
Website design and development for critically acclaimed Los Angeles Kaiseki restaurant n/naka.
Front / Backend Development for B2B Microsite. The application is structured as a front end client built in VueJs deployed on Azure with a headless Wordpress API - (cloud hosted on Digital Ocean) - serving as the CMS. Creative / Art Direction & Visual Design John Moeller @ Winc.
Co-Developed this custom Wordpress site with Brendan Sheehan. Art Direction & Design by Frank Collective.
Here are a couple larger & or B>B / Business oriented projects I did mostly development & a little design on.
