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My very first SlideShare presentation!

Dave — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:41:49 +0000

Looky here! My first ever SlideShare.net presentation! It’s a little ditty I created to help our traditional media buying folks transition over to the brave new world of online banner ads and all the specs they have to understand and bring into their Work Orders. It’s pretty basic, and it assumes I’ll be talking through some of the details, but it’s hopefully still somewhat informative… and maybe a little entertaining.

An Intro to Online Media File Types

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Saint Clare’s – Site Redesign

Dave — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:03:26 +0000

Summary: Create a full website redesign to build off of the Saint Clare Health System’s rebranding and refocusing. A new brand was developed, built around a sky blue color scheme and the phrase “Turning Promise into Practice”. The website relied heavily on that sky blue aesthetic, and brought in a triadic color scheme for emphasis elements. The new design had to be clear, professional and a lot more usable than their previous design, and reinforce the new focus of turning promise into practice for their patients.

Tech: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Actionscript
Role: Lead Designer / Flash Designer
Link: www.SaintClares.org

The future of “Print”?

Dave — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:33:58 +0000

Wow. Talk about deep content. This little visualization of what Sports Illustrated could turn into on is completely “Game ON!” (sorry, had to do it) This is exactly the type of thing that has so many people excited about the prospect of some sort of Apple “Tablet”. Really nice work Time, Inc. and WonderFactory!

But I tell you this… to create a magazine like this would be no small endeavor. To have content that runs this deep would require a whole lot of people working real hard, probably around the clock. But imagine if Wired magazine were like this? Or how about US News and World Report? Or maybe online news magazines? Like the Huffington Post?

Google Wave

Dave — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:32:04 +0000

Can’t speak for it’s actual usefulness, as I don’t have an invite yet… but from the videos I’ve seen (good overview video below) it looks like it could be a really amazing new communications shift. Almost like going from paper letters to email… but I’ll hold off judgement until I actually get to try it out. :-)

Total Surface Area Required to Fuel the World (until 2030)

Dave — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:08:30 +0000

According to the US Department of Energy (Energy Information Administration), the world consumption of energy in all of its forms (barrels of petroleum, cubic meters of natural gas, watts of hydro power, etc.) is projected to reach 678 quadrillion Btu by 2030 – a 44% increase over 2008 levels. That’s a lot of energy. Saw this really interesting article that tries to project the total surface area required to fuel that 2030 world with ONLY SOLAR PANELS!

Below is a surprisingly sparse diagram. It’s kind of amazing to me how small the little squares are! Makes me think solar panel production companies would be a good thing to invest in! Germany, Japan and China seem to be in a really good place to reap the rewards of forward thinking… and dare I say it… socialistic government subsidies and legislation? Maybe a little socialism sprinkled on top isn’t the end of the world?… maybe it’s even the beginning of brave new world? Oh I’m sorry, government help in an industry is the wrong way to go… you might as well hand the country over to the pinko commies! Oh wait, what would you call the help we’ve been giving the corn / high-fructose / ethanol industries for the last 30 years? How about the auto industry? Savings and Loans? How about the financing industry in the last 2-3 years? Oh yeah, and what about that pesky military industrial complex our tax dollars have been funding? …so confused…ARGGG…don’t know who to hate…RRRARR…tree huggers…socialists…bankers…farmers… FOX News can you help me find a target for my rage?

And things don’t look quite as easy for wind turbines:

Siftables

Dave — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:14:13 +0000

David Merrill demos Siftables — MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables — cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?

Some game-changing wearable tech

Dave — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:08:13 +0000

Off-the-hook with some off-the-shelf tech + some crazy programming. I can only imagine where this will be in 2 or 3 years. Sort of mind blowing… and of course, being in the interactive space of the ad biz, my mind immediately seeks to ideas of how to get an integrated message across in this platform!