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Global Cultural Futures

admin — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:13:57 +0000

Global Cultural Futures is a project initiated by Helmut K. Anheier and Yudhishthir Raj Isar that aims to document the impact of globalization on culture. I was commissioned to create a website that enables the experts who compile the project’s data to converse and share their findings.

Willem Augustus

admin — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:50:20 +0000

Portfolio for design duo Willem Augustus. Willem Augustus is Willem Henri Lucas and Davey Whitcraft, professors of typography and book design at UCLA and OTIS, respectively.

The two had an idea for a portfolio with no images—instead, any one of the pair’s many multilingual friends lend their voice to an audio description of the project in question.

http://whlucas.com
http://www.newtypographers.com/

8bit-collective

admin — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 21:12:17 +0000

The 8bit-collective is a community website dedicated to the sharing of chiptune music. Chiptune musicians repurpose legacy computer hardware, video game consoles and other toys in order to compose original music.

Since the site launched in 2005, interest in modern chip music has exploded. The community has evolved rapidly and so has the boundaries of its content. At the time this was written (2009) the site is home to 9,000+ registered users, and its forums serve as a hub for chip musicians to converse online.

The site was developed with a friend, Jose Torres, in the course of a few rather unpleasant caffeine fueled nights during my junior year of high school. I was responsible for the site’s design, CSS styling as well as the PHP and MySQL development that enabled user interaction and file sharing.