Season Two starts June 7th, and to get you excited we’ve got a new Z Rock page design: http://www.ifc.com/zrock/.
The kids love it.
As you loyal friends and readers already know, I’ve been designing pages/video players/graphics for IFC.com for over 2 years. I am happy to say IFC.com has been nominated for a Webby for Best Movie & Film site!!! YAY! I am so proud of these folks; a girl couldn’t ask for a cooler group of people to work with.
Please vote for the People’s Voice: UPDATE: IFC WON THE PEOPLE’S VOICE! HOORAY!!!
HOORAY!! Hours upon hours and days upon days of blood, sweat and tears (or at least several achey wrists and fingers) have finally come to fruition! I am so proud of the latest incarnation of IFC.com.
I worked with a fabulous team, many of whom I met in person for the first time only last week at the launch celebration! My responsibilities included the design of the Media Lab Studios pages, both the main page and the templates for all upcoming contests, as well as converting most of the Web Series pages over to the new templates. As if that wasn’t challenging enough, there was plenty of opportunity for new creativity in designing the customized background images.
Some selected works:
The Stagg Party
Little Big Planet
Z-Rock
Absolut Indies
Getting Away With Murder
Get Hit (my favorite background image)
And, somewhat unrelated, Facebook apparently knows me all too well, but consequently fails at actually advertising to me. Yes, I am aware of the new IFC.com. And YES, I LIKE FREEZEPOP ALREADY!!
its not *quite* finished (still want to add some more content to it) but its at a good place now for me to put it out there before i leave for south by southwest.
some details you may find mildly interesting:
- contains over 700 lines of code, though a more efficient programmer probably could’ve done it in much less
- rss reader dynamically grabs headlines from this blog
- projects and info are all stored in a separate XML file (which I will use to create a text-only version eventually)
- full page flash positions content with respect to browser dimensions
- executes the MovieClipLoader class to preload the image files
- uses the tween class to move the bottom content up and down, but timeline animation for the heart transition
i have the tendency to hate my portfolio designs after about a month. let’s see if this one stands the test of time.
update: IFC updated their website and left this and Rooftop Films out of it 
. screenshots will be available in my next portfolio design.
i just finished up this quick project for IFC called IFC Flashback. like so many other pages i’ve designed for IFC, it uses a Brightcove compact tabbed player embedded in an html page. i had a particularly great time working with the logos they gave me to create a retro look for the page, and different styles for each decade. check it out and watch some greg the bunny episodes while you’re there. 
last year I was lucky enough to be able to redesign the entire sportskool.com website. and, if you saw the original design, you’d know this was no easy task. but, after several months of work by an amazing team of people the site looks pretty freakin awesome!
things about this site that rock:
- the backgrounds for the sports pages & home page (designed by yours truly)
- using one single title Brightcove player per page. usually i work with bulky players, it was refreshing to have some breathing room on this design.
- the Brightcove/Storymaker slideshow on the sports pages.
while i was working for brightcove, i helped design a little tool called Aftermix. i worked closely with both the lead designer and the developers to design the user interface for the titles, transitions and effects menus. well, thank you Jaime for informing me that Aftermix won an MITX Award for “Best Rich Media Application.” nice.
congrats to the entire Aftermix team, they are great guys and i miss working with them!
i’m excited to show off that finally, after 10 years of having only outdated business cards with pictures of mulder and scully on them, i have business cards!!! i designed them in illustrator and photoshop, and used www.overnightprints.com to print them. i am quite happy with the results (really cheap too). however, i do notice that the glossy coating on black ink tends to show fingerprints… maybe i won’t get glossy next time.
I was designer and developer for www.blueh20group.com. (actually it’s been live for a while but I was so busy I forgot to brag.)
I built the site using HTML and CSS, and one flash animation on the home page. This flash piece required a bit of actionscript to set the timer function and to fade out each frame before going to the next, even when clicking through in non-sequential order.
One snag I ran into: I wanted to use a serif font (times new roman) on several elements of the page, including the menu. For some reason though, in html this font renders differently than it does in photoshop, at least on a mac. What’s going on here? is there another serif font i should be using?
Anyway, thanks to bluewater communications group for being awesome clients! I’m very happy with the final result. I hope you like it
i am working on making a new logo for myself. i’m not an expert in logo design or typography, let alone trying to summarize myself in one simple lockup.
it is hard. this is what i have so far:
i’ve been using these sites for inspiration:
logopond
vecteezy
got some kinda negative feedback on my portfolio today… apparently my colors were clashing. whatever.
anyway, i realized i wasn’t terribly excited about the direction i was going in… i decided to strip the design down to the pieces i was really excited about and start again. i think it will be better now
felix made this awesome site, a design rss feed aggregator. i'm addicted.
he also suggested checking out squarewave. can't tell where they are located, he says they are in boston though.
