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Orchard Lounge
Orchard Lounge is the DJ collective of Spencer Lokken, Bethany Briscoe Lokken, and Ben Silver. Since they met in Chicago in 2000, this versatile trio has enlightened dance floors from Mexico to Maine with their highly unpredictable and eclectic sets. From headnodic downtempo & boogie to ominous and ultramodern house & tech, theirs is a democratic mission: to expose as many people as possible to the artists whom they admire and respect, create unique dance floor memories, and to cross traditional boundaries of turntablism/improv/electronic fusion.
Project Notes
This site was built with two great features that I had not employed before: ajax loading for internal content links and a fully responsive template created with css media queries and the jQuery Masonry plugin.
The site uses a fullscreen background slideshow that we did not want to reload each time an internal link was clicked, both for continuity of the slideshow and for loading speed. This was solved by using ajax to refresh just the content area whenever internal links are clicked, thereby speeding up the site and letting the background slideshow continue.
It was also important that the site look great on all devices so we decided to use a responsive template design. Using css media queries to call different stylesheets based on the browser screen size we were able to make the site look and function perfectly on everything from a full widescreen monitor to tablets and mobile browsers. Without too much extra code, it makes separate layouts for wide screens (greater than 1236px), normal (986 - 1235px), tablet (720-985px), mobile landscape (an iphone held horizontal, 480 to 719px), and mobile portrait (an iphone held vertical, 480px or less).
All media on the site also resizes with the screen size, and for smaller screens we added a mobile menu at the top to ease navigation.
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Eclectic MethodEclectic Method have long been at the forefront of visual-audio music production and performance. With live audiovisual dance parties, award-winning viral videos, and original dance music releases, EM is the quintessential artist of the digital generation.
Project Notes
In designing and developing this site, we had to ensure that all aspects of EM's work, both audio and video production, were showcased while keeping the frontside design easy to navigate and the administrator area intuitive for the client. Using Joomla and the excellent K2 component, I built a custom content system for the backside that allows the client to easily add and update tracks and all their associated content: videos, soundcloud embeds, credits, downloads and social links in a very simple format that ensures consistency for the frontside layouts.
Design: Learned Evolution »
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Adam ZerhouniTrust me, It's Art.
Adam Zerhouni is an up and coming painter from Baltimore, currently living and working in San Francisco. This site was built to showcase his work and promote upcoming events.
Project Notes
To create a unique and highly personalized feel for the site, all graphics on the site were painted or inked on canvas by the artist and converted to vector elements for use on the site. I used the perfectly minimal Galleria javascript image gallery to showcase the art, with the pictures being hosted on flickr in specific sets - allowing the client to organize, add and update images on the site by using the simple flickr interface they are already familiar with.
Additional Design: Adam Zerhouni
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Atlas Real Estate PartnersAtlas Real Estate Partners is a New York-based real estate investment management firm with an entrepreneurial focus. Atlas focuses on acquiring assets at a discount to replacement cost and comparable sales, in markets that offer the opportunity to increase returns through the execution of a value- enhanced strategy.
Project Notes
In designing this site, I focused on the client's goal of a simple, user friendly site that conveyed their corporate identity while retaining an appealing design aesthetic. This site uses the Joomla CMS with custom templating to allow the client to update property listings and other content easily.
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The New York Stem Cell FoundationThe New York Stem Cell Foundation is dedicated to accelerating cures for the major diseases of our time through stem cell research.
NYSCF opened the first privately funded stem cell laboratory in New York City, where NYSCF researchers and collaborating scientists conduct advanced stem cell research free of federal restrictions. The organization supports scientists engaged in stem cell research through the NYSCF Research Laboratory, NYSCF Fellowship and Investigator Programs, Conferences and Symposia, and the NYSCF-Robertson Stem Cell Prize.
Project Notes
This project was a major redesign of the organization's existing site, including an upgrade of the Joomla CMS. I developed a new custom template for the site, and the significant amount of existing content had to be transferred to the new CMS framework and reorganized.
Due to the varied audiences using this site, including scientific researchers, donors and laypeople interested in stem cell research, a major goal for this redesign was to find the most effective way to organize the content for all users. We achieved this through simplifying the layout and making the content more approachable, simplifying the content categories, adding landing pages with overviews of the major sections of the site and including section-specific menus to ease navigation.
We also increased NYSCF's internal efficiency by automating online donations and event registration. Protected pages hosting forms for collaborators and employees were also added, simplifying the distribution process.
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The Meta AgencyThe Meta Agency develops and manages the world's leading experiential interactive artists. Their artists range from live video remix DJs to architectural projection mappers, AV interactive Kinect wizards to 3D environmental sound-scapists, experiential event designers to live laser LDs. TMA represents the Talent Beyond.
Project Notes
This site was built using the jQuery Masonry plugin, allowing the artist posts to reorder responsively based on the users screen size, ensuring the layout always looks great and uses available space efficiently.
Since each artist needed to include multiple videos, I built a custom video gallery using the Vimeo API that automatically populates the video thumbnails and organizes them into a carousel below the main player area, all based on a list of video ids the client can update in the backend.
Design: Learned Evolution »
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Pants DancePants Dance is a music and events collaborative based in Brooklyn, NY. Pants Dance aims to discover the songs that blend the best parts of pop, indie- dance, house, and electronica, and leave you with a playlist that reminds you of all the color, sugar, and shiny lights in the world.
Project Notes
This site uses a custom content construction system on the backend and custom templating to allow the client to update and showcase their bi- monthly music compilations with streaming audio, images and descriptions for each post, as well as a streaming player for the whole compilation.
There is also a simple e-commerce section of the site built with Virtuemart and K2mart where the client can easily post and sell Pants Dance merchandise.
Additional Design: Pants Dance // Sam Dakota Miller
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Veracity ButcherVeracity Butcher is a multidisciplinary artist: born, raised, and based in downtown New York City. Though primarily an actor, she considers herself a renaissance woman: an aesthete. She believes life is for learning and intends to do just that for as long as she's lucky enough to live.
She is a full-time Off-Broadway actress, a part-time Bellydance instructor, artist model, writer, and graphic design hobbyist. She is trained in Opera (Mezzo-Soprano), Alexander, Linklater, and Laban.
Design: Veracity Butcher // Jurawa Design
Development: Jurawa Design
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