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  • CarrosYa.com Fans

    CarrosYa.com Fans

    Some custom fans for a festival. This is a mockup. The fans will be printed later.
  • CarrosYa.com

    CarrosYa.com

    A new place to research buy and sell your car online. Part of a larger promotional campaign.
  • 2009 Wallpapers

    2009 Wallpapers

    This series of wallpapers used our new series of waves which was meant to reflect sound and radio waves.
  • Mega Mousepad

    Mega Mousepad

    Our radio station's 2009 mousepads
  • Orlando Most Wired

    Orlando Most Wired

    Orlando 5th Most Wired city
  • Mega New Full Page

    Mega New Full Page

    Following the steps of our daily half page newspaper ads, this full page magazine ad highlights the same artists our station focuses on playing on CD covers.
  • Wisin & Yandell Newspaper Ad

    Wisin & Yandell Newspaper Ad

    Some things were never meant to be. Case in point, I created this ad for an upcoming concert that never happened. Still, it was a nice design. I put this together in Photoshop. There's a simple brush on the bottom left which I drew by hand, then scanned.
  • College Blitz

    College Blitz

    A game I developed while at The Orlando Sentinel. I drew all of the artwork for the project as well as the programming for the game. Created using Flash, the game is based on space invaders, but allows you to play through the season of four of Florida's teams. It uses XML to load the data about who's playing so it can be updated easily every season.
  • Nascar Standings

    Nascar Standings

    An infographic which helps people figure out the standings for Nascar races. This Flash project uses an XML file to build itself. Therefore it can be updated easily for any subsequent races.
  • Witness to War

    Witness to War

    This SND (Society of News Designers) award winning project features photos taken by one of Orlando Sentinel's photographer who accompanied army personnel during the second Gulf War. The interface builds itself out of an XML file and
  • Streetball

    Streetball

    My very first flash project for The Orlando Sentinel. Although not dynamic, I developed the scrolling navigation at the bottom for the first time for this project. The photos also rotate automatically every few seconds.
  • Football Depth Charts

    Football Depth Charts

    These infographics were done as part of a special section from The Orlando Sentinel that had a "gaming" theme, therefore I used a "chess metaphor in the interface. The board and helmet were made with swift3d and the game built in flash. This is a good example of having to fit a lot of info in a tight space.
  • Columbia: What Went Wrong

    Columbia: What Went Wrong

    This project featured some excellent artwork from the Orlando Sentinel art department and sought to explain what caused the shuttle's Columbia's demise. It's a good example of a simple infographic.
  • Columbia: The Year in Photos

    Columbia: The Year in Photos

    The Orlando Sentinel ran a retrospective featuring a year's worth of photos. A simple project with some twists.The thumbnails used are extremely tiny so it was hard to crop them correctly. Also, as you scroll on the thumbnails, their opacity changes slightly.
  • Living with Disabilities

    Living with Disabilities

    A photo essay that highlights the problems with Florida's disability assistance program. A pretty simple flash project with a lot of photos that needed to be organized into a tight interface.
  • Oreja de Van Gogh Full Page

    Oreja de Van Gogh Full Page

    Oreja de Van Gogh visited Orlando at the Hard Rock Cafe and we ran a full page ad on El Nuevo Dia to promote the event. Designed in Photoshop.
  • Million Dollars Direct Mail

    Million Dollars Direct Mail

    A direct mail piece for a million dollar giveaway the station did. Done in Photoshop.
  • Space Popcorn

    Space Popcorn

    My very first game in Flash. It's a asteroids based game that I originally planned to make into a portfolio. The game was never finished, but it used a lot of techniques I learned for the first time here.
  • Santa Christmas Invite

    Santa Christmas Invite

    My little santa illustration made a comeback this year, featured in our employee party invitation, this time he plays a guitar.
  • Toca De Todo Full Page

    Toca De Todo Full Page

    Design for an ad to run on Yellow Pages and other publications for Mega 98.1FM, my company's Orlando Radio Station. Did the photo shoot with the CD's on a greed screen background and the layout in PhotoShop.