As a member of the team at Big Minnow we designed and launched a rich website for Selling Architect, an enterprise sales presentation management software. My contributions included; development for all the Flash animations, creation of the jQuery/Ajax-powered navigation, and user interface design.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Coda

Technology:

XHTML, PHP, CSS, XML, ActionScript, jQuery

Date:

2009

Launch Site

This website was created to explore typography, and typographic elements in relation to the font family ITC Officina (Sans-Serif and Serif). The site was built in Flash, and uses the 3D Positioning properties. The Particle System ActionScript Class that I wrote for this website can be downloaded from, factory.christopherhein.com

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Coda

Technology:

XHTML, CSS, ActionScript

Date:

2009

URL:

Launch Site

A redesign of the popular WorldNews.com, was designed with a dark color scheme to give it a powerful feel. The site was designed in PHP, with XML feeds that are read with XSLT for the display. The site contains a database driven user’s back end that features Save, Print, and Like functions for articles.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver

Technology:

XHTML, PHP, CSS, MySQL, XML, XSLT, JavaScript

Date:

2008

URL:

Launch Site

The Habitat for Humanity website was redesigned to create a much more inviting and rich environment for everyone involved with the great organization. It features an interactive Lightbox style module functions for the sign-up and contact, smooth content builds, and a simple image gallery.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Coda

Technology:

XHTML, CSS, ActionScript

Date:

2009

URL:

Launch Site

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was exhibiting many of Henri Matisse’s great paintings, and they wanted an informational, simple, clean site to highlight what was being showcased. The site features an image gallery of his most famous works, and an online store section for the SF MOMA books.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver

Technology:

XHTML, CSS

Date:

2008

URL:

Launch Site

The EA Sports Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2010 video game website included a new user interface and content presentation layer for the release of the new version of the game to market. The site was designed using XHTML Strict and features, CSS rollovers, and dropdowns.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver

Technology:

XHTML, CSS

Date:

2008

URL:

Launch Site

Unlike the other projects in this portfolio that focus on consumer products the “How-to” website is intended to be a step-by-step website with a simple to use interface. The Flash website is an example site to guide users to enable Internet tethering on the iPhone 3G, and 3GS, it features simple easy to follow steps to walk you through the installation and implementation of internet tethering.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Coda

Technology:

XHTML, CSS, ActionScript

Date:

2009

URL:

Launch Site

This is the kiva Homepage design done in a group

SF-Love Community website to get people together in San Francisco

Every year in San Francisco Magazine they feature an article about the best things to do in the foggy city. This project allowed me to redesign the look of the 2008 article to exemplify the striking night life as well as the bright day scene.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXPress

Date:

2008

For the product branding campaign project I created the company Crémelisse, an ice cream company with an edgy, alluring, erotic theme, featuring the tag line “Lick. Repeat.” The all-inclusive campaign included; designing a magazine ad, window poster, packaging design, and website. More can be found on the pages following.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Date:

2009

For the Crémelisse packaging I wanted to move away from the normal ice cream tubs, so I designed them as Japanese style take out boxes. The brightly colored cartons cleverly repeat the full tag line, “Lick. Repeat.”, when placed next to each when they are displayed side by side in high end grocery stores like, Whole foods.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Date:

2009

The Crémelisse ad promoted the alluring, erotic theme of the tag line “Lick. Repeat.” To exemplify the brands edginess, an illustration of a mouth licking the tag line words was implemented to maintain continuity throughout the branding campaign.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Date:

2009

To bring the whole Crémelisse campaign together I designed a website that continues the erotic theme and tagline, as well showing the packaging, and ice cream displayed.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Date:

2009

This magazine spread is a creative demonstration of context and intent playing together as the graphics reflect symbolism of my design career thus far. The symbols include an open sketch book to symbolize myself as always learning, a pencil to symbolize the ideation phase, and a tablet pen to symbolize the digital design phase.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Date:

2009

The full-page magazine ad campaign for the Häagen-Dazs ice cream features original photography and product placement to highlight the value of the product tieing it with the theme, “Gift from the Gods”, and “Czar of all mangoes”. The warm colors entice the buyers to look at the details of the product and leave an impression that they’ll carry with them to the grocery market.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXPress

Date:

2008

The full-page magazine ad campaign for the Häagen-Dazs ice cream features original photography and product placement to highlight the value of the product tieing it with the theme, “Gift from the Gods”, and “Czar of all mangoes”. The warm colors entice the buyers to look at the details of the product and leave an impression that they’ll carry with them to the grocery market.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXPress

Date:

2008

Guy Kawasaki wrote the book Hindsights to help people by talking about other people’s experiences in business, love, and personal lives. The theme and design of the book cover and posters represent as a present to be cherished by the readers of the book.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXPress

Date:

2008

This piece is a part of a campaign for Pantone based on the tagline “Because the World Isn’t Black & White”. The ad is displayed as it is used on location. The common theme throughout the campaign highlights the question, “what’s his color?” in three different media types including; a mailer, a website, magazine, and environmental advertising.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Date:

2009

The second part of the Pantone campaign shows all three of the photos used in the in the Pantone campaign implemented in a magazine spread. As an integrated advertising campaign a swatch mailer piece guides readers to recognize and pick out colors from the ads and record their choices on the corresponding website.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Date:

2009

The third part of the campaign features a redesign of the Pantone website which reflects all the elements of the “Because the World Isn’t Black & White” campaign, and contains the interactive submittal form that is connected with the swatch mailer piece.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Date:

2009

This was a typographic Poster for Digital Typeography

A typeface designed by Eric Speikermann along with this Typeface

This SciFi Channel commercial spot is a motion graphics design and is intended to be played in between TV segments to preview up-coming shows, and entice the viewer to continue watching the SciFi Channel.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects

Date:

2008

The Seductive RGB brochure features original photography supporting the theme of “sex, love, and pain”. The goal was to express RGB and CMYK color spaces, through visually provocative imagery. Each individual image reflects the three distinct colors and their emotions; e.g. red tied to sex, green tied to love, and blue tied to pain.

Software:

Photoshop

Date:

2009

This compound image was created by combining original photography and an original illustration enhanced by the use of HDR techniques to highlight details within the artwork.

Software:

Photoshop

Date:

2009

This National Geographic magazine cover portrays the theme “What is Global Warming coming too?” by the use of two animals from very different environments melded together using original photography enhanced by Photoshop to create an imaginary animal the meerguin.

Software:

Photoshop

Date:

2008

Critical Mass is a bicycle group that can be seen monthly riding in the many cities nation wide, this advertisement was designed for the San Francisco chapter and portrays the larger then life theme by the use of a large bicycle wheel toppling down one of the city’s steepest streets. The ad was from original photography and enhanced using Photoshop.

Software:

Photoshop

Date:

2008

This magazine cover was created as a composite of two images including a model photographed in a studio with an outdoor environment and enhanced to be consistent with the color palette of the magazine.

Software:

Photoshop

Date:

2008

The Fountain Head ad was created for the launch of a new social network specifically for Photoshop users, professional or amateur. This image consists of vector illustrations to create a composite image that blends the 2d and 3d worlds in a modern fashion that reminds the viewer of an M.C. Escher art piece.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator

Date:

2008

The digital imaging representation of musical notes was created by combining many elements that were shot using digital photography that were highly modified and enhanced to create an imaginary space and original artwork through the telling of a story of digital music creation.

Software:

Photoshop, Illustrator

Date:

2009

This image was shot with a model in a studio to encompass the feeling of depth in the mood, and the subject’s eyes using an asymmetrical composition to develop a powerful scene.

Software:

Photoshop

Date:

2009

Lens:

Canon EF50MM

Aperture:

F / 2.8

In this composition the subject was shot to create a sense or urgency by the subjects expression, It was shot within a studio photography under studio lights, to get the high contrast and pull the viewers eye from left to right.

Software:

Photoshop

Date:

2009

Lens:

Canon EF50MM

Aperture:

F / 1.8

Headlight’s is a series of images shot throughout a day in San Francisco, then composited together into a grid to display contrasting cars features from different time periods and conditions, within different settings to ground the ideas of innovation and evolution.

Software:

Photoshop

Date:

2008

Lens:

Canon EF50MM

Aperture:

F / 1.8

This image of the Roman Colosseum, was shot to show the contrasting light of the colosseum during the night. The HDR image was created by compositing 7 varied time exposure shots to develop a highly detailed and textural composition.

Software:

Photoshop, Photomatrix Pro

Date:

2009

Lens:

Canon EF28-105MM

Aperture:

F / 13

The image of the famous Basilica was shot during a beautiful summer day in Paris, with great light highlighting the architecture. The high contrast of elements in the image makes the dome appear to come off the page due to the wide range of colors.

Software:

Photoshop

Date:

2009

Lens:

Canon EF28-105MM

Aperture:

F / 16

This composite was created using 15 separate shots of a building that was illuminated by changing colored lights on the face of the building. Each shot was captured in 45 second increments requiring long exposures to capture the colors and maintain balance of color across the 3 x 5 matrix.

Software:

Photoshop

Date:

2009

Lens:

Canon EF28-105MM

Aperture:

F / 3.5

This composition of inanimate objects was shot with a single high contrasting studio light to create rich shadows, and deep blacks that draws focus to the humanist element, the hand reaching in the bowl.

Software:

Photoshop

Date:

2008

Lens:

Canon EF50MM

Aperture:

F / 5.6

This project was to produce a powerful driven musical piece under no restriction at all, in any genre, that used musical theory, as well a as well thought out arrangement of musical notes and effects within the Logic workspace.

Software:

Audio

Date:

2009