David Kaloyanides, certified specialist in criminal law and defender of alleged federal criminals, is one of the most badass people I’ve ever met. When I did meet him, however, his website just didn’t do him justice. We fixed that.

I worked with him to design and build a site that would effectively display his record, his approach, and perhaps most importantly, his commanding personality.

Check out the live site at federalcrimesdefender.com.

I am so proud of this project. When the video production company Enjoy Human decided they wanted to radically revamp their site for 2010, we sat down together and planned everything out thoroughly. They knew they wanted something sleek, clean, and designed for widescreen monitors. But beyond that, they didn’t get too hung up on the trivial aesthetics like a lot of clients do (“Can we get the icons in cornflower blue?”), and instead focused on how to effectively present their impressive body of work. There were no last minute direction changes, no jumping from a horse to an elephant in mid-stride so to speak. The clear focus of all parties resulted in a clean, intuitively usable design, and some of the most beautifully efficient code I’ve ever produced.

In addition to designing and coding the site templates, I set up a high definition Flash video player that would handle varying aspect ratios. This player is integrated into the surrounding page in such a way that the page will adapt to the dynamic size and shape of the player. The video library is powered by wordTube, a Wordpress plugin I co-developed.

I created a custom Wordpress plugin to power the homepage featured content slideshow, which is a Flash AS3 application I built from scratch. Enjoy Human 2010 also uses a thumbnail generation plugin I built, originally for Antiquiet.

Check out the live site at enjoyhuman.com.

Justin Dettle reviews extreme heavy metal music for Antiquiet. He’s got so much to say, we decided to give him his own blog dedicated to metal. I threw this together one weekend, after commissioning a badass logo from the very talented Wes DeSoto. Designing this site was so fun. The stone texture is a photograph I took in my backyard.

Visit Heavy Dettle

It’s about time I add this one. I created Antiquiet in 2007 with Johnny Firecloud. I designed it (we’re on our fourth version), I built it, I write for it, I shoot video for it, I edit video for it, I record and edit live sound for it, I throw events, design flyers, design ads, sell ads, traffic ads, I manage our SEO- which is great- I do business development, I administer the server, the works. I don’t know why this wasn’t the first thing into my portfolio, but when I say I can do it all, Antiquiet backs it up.

View Antiquiet Live

I was a bit of a swiss army knife on this project. I built the initial HTML/CSS shell (please view my work here; the live version has been hacked apart a bit since, but I’m proud of the code I delivered). I also did some extensive AJAX work on the Drink Recipes page, and I built the hybrid HTML/video jQuery feature panel, which was a strangely complex custom order; The client wanted it to open with a Flash video, play through that video only once, and then seamlessly begin sliding through a series of panels assembled dynamically from the contents of flagged WordPress posts.

View it live on Pandora

I helped The Visionaire Group develop a ridiculously audacious, envelope-pushing Facebook Application to help support the theatrical release of the Lion’s Gate film Crank 2.

Going far beyond the typical boundaries of promotional Facebook Applications, we set up a series of fourteen complex obstacle courses. Users would get a new one each day for the two weeks leading up to the movie’s opening day. Any brave users who completed all fourteen challenges would be entered into a drawing to win a cash prize.

At any time, you could see which of your friends were playing the game, and how many challenges they had successfully completed.

When a user would accept a challenge, the game would go through a series of shocking Facebook updates of various types; different combinations of status updates, photo uploads, photo tagging, video embeds, friend adding & group joining.

Everything was done according to Facebook’s terms of service, with all necessary user confirmation & permissions granting.

The challenges ranged from the relatively tame, such as posting a shocking viral video, to the disruptive, such as announcing via status update that you “hooked up” with a randomly selected member of the opposite sex from your friends list, all the way up to some downright offensive ones I’ll let you find on your own.

(MOSTLY) FUNCTIONAL DEMO

Since the game was built for a relatively short, very time-sensitive run, many of the features broke after the campaign ended. However, I’ve set up a demo for perpetuity, with those parts disabled. Feel free to take on any of the challenges, if you dare. Those still work.