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A Chart is Worth 96,000 Collisions
Gigabyte upon gigabyte of data is collected every day in our high-tech society. Unfortunately it's virtually useless in its raw form; it needs to be analyzed for patterns and/or "exceptions" to patterns. When studying the over 96,000 automobile collisions that took place in New York City during an entire year, data visualization can help.
Scraping for Real Facts
With the meteoric rise of hoaxes, rumors and "alternative facts," it's more important than ever to find reliable sources of information (i.e. real facts). One reliable source is fact-checking websites. But I don't want to have to check each site multiple times a week, so I use a technique called web scraping to conveniently send the most recent updates from multiple fact-checking websites to my inbox. Oh, and BTW, it's even possible to web scrape in a way that's legal and ethical.
Projects
fStop Images
fStop Images is a royalty-free photo agency. It is unique in that the image collections are centered around designers (who also happened to be photographers) instead of around generic categories.
The initial site development and launch were managed by the client, Berlin-based FontShop International. The site concept and graphic design were developed by San Francisco-based Punchcut. Technical design and implementation were done by (at the time Geneva-based) me.
CDweb
The CDweb Extranet was a central location for Boehringer Ingelheim's corporate design (CD) guidelines. A content manager could edit, preview and publish guidelines and related design elements such as logos and templates. External consultants and design agencies could submit content for approval and publishing by the content manager. By storing guidelines in a Web-based format, CDweb reduced the time and cost of editing and distributing CD documentation to the appropriate Boehringer Ingelheim employees and affiliated companies worldwide.
Kids' Books Bolivia
Kids' Books Bolivia was the name of a series of multilingual children's books, researched and written by undergraduate students of the SIT Study Abroad Program, who spent a semester in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
The WordPress-based website highlighted the books, authors and news. I developed a responsive theme, a few simple plugins, and I managed content in English and Spanish (using the WPML multilanguage plugin).
ERA
ERA was a concept and set of tools to simplify the corporate design development process. The acronym ERA stands for Elements, Rules, and Applications, and the concept describes the relationships between graphical applications (like brochures and business cards) and the elements they contain (like logos and grids).
ERA was conceived by Paul Paulousek and Charly Frech. I worked with them at MetaDesign, and I implemented a client/server system allowing designers to develop corporate design guidelines and publish them on the web.