Oh man, have you ever just had that dream job that you got to explore and play and push yourself? HRC was my 2nd job as a designer and it could not have been better.
As a designer it doesn’t get much better. Contracting to the military this job had limitless potential and projects.The more I created and pushed myself, the more I was able to accomplish and the more people asked me to solve their design challenges.
The Graphic Design department had fairly recently switched over to computers from manual tools. The ‘old guard’ had retired and I got to step in and expand the offerings and abilities. There were only two of us and with our different design sensibilities we had it all covered.
We moved into multimedia production, the above short video I created as a trailer that went before other projects. I did this in Daz (whatver it was before Daz) Carrara. I was developing interactive multimedia front ends using video, cgi, and Adobe Flash.
Sigh, remember Flash?
I still say Flash got a bum wrap.
But, these videos fail to show all of the functionality I was able to put into them and at such a small file size. It was heaven.
They feel a bit clunky now, but at the time…lol…
This was for AMEDD, it went on the front of a resource book that was developed using HTML. Which *GASP* was controversial at the time because there was a web development team and using HTML was seen as developing web pages. It took some explaining that the project used HTML, but was only going to be contained on a CD (remember those?) and distributed to soldiers. It had the advantage of consolidating and organizing a lot of materials needed and making them accessible.
The live links also assured they could, with a live internet connection, get to the updated resources on the web.
The above banner was developed for our Continuity of Operations plan, an advertisement that resided at the top of our Sharepoint (new at the time) site.
This was one of my favorite projects. As part of the Visual Information Center we were developing and pusing our branding. This was part of the effort, developing a presentation we could pass out so people knew where to go for services. We didn’t have much of an intranet at that point.
This was an accomplishment, again using Carrara and Adobe Flash I had to figure out how to make this easy to update. Flash had a way to link to a text file in a folder that became the solution.
I used Flash to develop several projects, unfortunately I can’t show all of them.
I went to locate more design work and was disappinted to find a lot of it has been lost. I remember a couple of big hard drive crashes and the backups I did have disappeared somewhere. Sadness.
A few pieces I could find were brochures or presentations…lol..
I miss this job.
