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Way Over Budget Productions

Michael — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:37:58 +0000

This upstart events production agency is throwing all kinds of parties. From TV, fashion, advertising, and music—they’ve got it covered. Their diverse themes allow invitation designs to be created in a diversity of styles.

Aroma Espresso Bar

Michael — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:26:03 +0000

I spent four months diving deep into coffee culture and Israeli phenomenon known as Aroma Espresso Bar. This place has a magical magnetism that sucks in the Israeli population from across Manhattan. Using their established brand image, I design for both print and web for the US division of Aroma.

Photographer Romy Suskin

Michael — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:00:45 +0000

http://romysuskin.com
Romy Suskin is a Los Angeles based photographer who primarily shoots portraiture for everyone from artists to musicians. Working with Romy and MMA Creative Group, we created an identity and aesthetic which I then used to design and program her website. The identity was also used to design her business cards and letterhead.

Technologies used: JQuery/PHP/HTML/CSS

Juncture LA

Michael — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:00:23 +0000

Juncture Website
“Juncture is a participatory, public space, media environment about historical memory, cultural identity, and collective recognition in Los Angeles. The core content component of the environment is the Remapping-LA interpretive media database, containing thousands of historical images, videos, and sounds enriched by layers of metadata including temporal and geographical information, descriptive texts, and extensive tagging…”

“Junction is a colaboration between REMAP/UCLA, California State Parks, Walt Disney Imagineering, and CENS/UCLA.”

I took part in this project after being involved with REMAP during my final semester at UCLA. My contributions included creating some of the original interface mock-ups, being part of creative discussions, and producing the designs for publicity (website/postcard). On the website you can find more information about the project itself.

The concept for the website was to closely tie the design to the project itself and the themes of space, time, and community. I also wanted to showcase the vast image and data library of Los Angeles history put together by REMAP. This lead me to create a website that randomly picked an image from a small selection of the library and overlaid information extracted from the meta data from that image. Each time you visited the website you would be therefore transported to a new marker in Los Angeles history.

I kept with this same concept for the postcard and choose two images that I felt most representative to the project. The backside contained further location information and used graphics to convey a sense of physical architecture.

The project was documented by creating a “memory map” that contained snippets from various quotes and photographs take over the course of the project. These snippets were put in a grid styled reminiscent of late 20th century road maps.

The opening and exhibition was a success, attended by the mayor and other community leaders. There are plans to work on future projects with REMAP in the near future.

Articles:
UCLA Today

Explorations in Typography

Michael — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:00:12 +0000

This book was inspired by my fascination for maps, particularly the subway maps I’ve encountered in the various cities I have traveled. I really love how the use of color and symbols creates a universal language for the millions of people who use public transportation daily. I used the idea of different subway lines for the various sections in the book.