jr Soap Co.
I designed this site for the bassist of the band The Matches, Jon DeVoto, who've since split up. Upon seeing The Matches play live in Hartford, I stumbled upon Jon's vegan, hand-made soap at the merch tables and somehow started talking HTML. The design is based on the unique packaging of each bar of soap, a different fabric for each bar, a different fabric for each page.

Sidenote: I would like to retouch this a bit as my skillset has grown and this site is all flash, however the site is no longer maintained. :(

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Harbor Health Services, Inc.
The design of this site is still in keeping with it's previous appearance, I simply retouched the menu and layout. For example, the site was very narrow, only about half the width it is now, and the pages scrolled on forever. Now, everything is a bit more accessible, and organized.

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Maximus Lease Finance Group
This client requested a full redesign of what they had, however they liked certain elements, such as the laurel wreath icon, which I incorporated into their logo. With the redesign came new content, and enhanced service integration through the use of online credit applications.

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Dani G Therapy
This site was built from scratch, well the design of which was born from a wish to distinguish the client's brand from a generic VistaPrint template, while remaining clean and easy-to-use. We want to express the feeling of tranquility, peace, and a sense of healing, without looking too much like a spa. We're still currently playing with the color scheme as the lotus flower is quite popular.
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Master of None, LLC

This photography portfolio was based off of a 1950's style resumé and incorporates such features as a jQuery slideshow on the homepage, Google calendar module on the events page and a jQuery Gallerrific gallery. The calendar allows users to view, print, and for the client, add events to the site. The gallery showcases, and makes it easy to navigate through, the numerous examples of the client's talent.

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Hello World discusses, as in Text Rain chapter one of Windows and Mirrors by Bolter and Gromala, how technology should act as both a window to a digital world and as a mirror that reflects how we interact with that world. The devices that we surround ourselves with daily must create an experience by presenting information and drawing our attention inward while it must also be effective to allow the user to appreciate the technology as it works.

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Distributed analyzes how the computer was once thought to be limited in it’s use as an instrument in the applications of logic as discussed in “Distributed Narrative” by Dr. Jill Walker. In contrast the computer has now greatly improved communication all over the world, expanding the ways in which we further interact, allowing for the creation of the distributed narrative.

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Computers As Theater, which borrows its title from a book by Brenda Laurel whose selection “The Six Elements and the Casual Relations Among Them” directly influenced this site, considers how the digital experience is like an individual theatrical production, in that each breaks down to the same components for an effective aesthetic performance. The elements of drama are the very elements of human interaction.

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Remediation examines how the entertainment business always strives to take the masses somewhere new and experience something they’ve never done, a struggle that has continued on since the Renaissance. In their book “Remediation,” Bolter and Grusin, discuss that by combining media elements one may present information in a uniquely refreshing style yet we use more media to diminish the obvious presence of it.

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Games As Stories explores the cyberdrama as it bridges the gap between technology and art, as discussed in “Cyberdrama” an article that references the work of Janet Murray, Ken Perlin and Michael Mateas on the subject with responses from peers. The essence of a cyberdrama is the ability to explore an entire digital world and be able to affect it as if it were reality or change it to suit our desires.

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Representation deals with how digital photography gives the individual an “excuse” to explore their world and themselves freely as Dr. Jill Walker writes about in “Mirrors and Shadows.” The creation of the digital camera has brought out the artist in all it’s owners. This device has taken the former taboo of selfportraiture and made it perfectly acceptable if not a habitual part of life.

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Technology As Hope references the first chapter To Whom It Ought To Concern of his literary work “Shaping Things” by Bruce Sterling and takes a critical look at our oppressive impact on nature. Sterling discusses the relation of technology to the environment and vice versa, then projects a solution to our obsolete technical materials including “cradle-to-cradle recycling.”-Sterling

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Interactivity is a culmination of the previous essay-sites, that reviews the impact of the computer on the current generation and how it has become the predominant medium. We praise the computer as the ultimate venue for expression, yet we must be “critically aware of our technology”-Sterling realizing what we can do with it, in addition to what it can do for us.

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