May 2010
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Wooden Crate Handout
For the launch of Vendio’s Sales Manager Inventory Edition service, a grab bag handout was needed for the Professional eBay Seller’s Alliance conference. I had used an illustration of a wooden crate for the online branding of the product, and wanted to extend that to the print marketing. The first idea was to print the information onto six sides of a cube. However, the piece was...
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Logo-Inspired Handout
Also for the eBay Live trade show, Vendio needed “white papers” for each of their six services. Knowing the customer base and the friendly, fun atmosphere of the trade show, I didn’t think that six data sheets were the right way to go. Instead, I found a way to present all of the important information in a single small, cool, folding design which fit to the...
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Spotted.at
The idea for Spotted.at began with Axl Rose. Axl hasn’t really been seen for a decade and a half, so when he started popping up at restaurants and clubs, I thought it was a good excuse to learn the Google Maps API and create my first mashup. The site was finished in one night. The next day, Mike Effle suggested that I switch from just Axl Rose to all celebrities. I went on and on ...
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The Floating Grill
On a Thursday afternoon, I got a call from Breadshop Bob who invited me to the second annual “Uncle Bob’s Pleasure Cruise” on Saturday, just before he moved to Sweden. Upon inquiring as to what food I could bring, Breadshop said that we weren’t able to bring a grill on the rented pontoon boats due to the insurance. “What if I made a grill float on the ...