Author: ncb1
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Branding and Print Layout: Teluria
I have been working with a startup alternative health product line, Teluria Health. I have been doing graphic design for product labels, online listings, and advertisements. The primary logo was designed with client’s description of elements to include, and refined to a vector file in Illustrator. It is intended to convey a sense of spirituality,…
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Classroom Learning Materials
I created some print assets for teaching Spanish in middle school grades. To support a lesson plan introducing bilingual STEM vocabulary, I assembled some print assets for students. The theme of this lesson is visiting a science museum, so I created a booklet with colorful photos from a real museum, bilingual text, and a glossary.…
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Video Editing: “Backlit” Interview
I was invited to collaborate with a fantastic production crew on this series produced by Women In Film and Video New England (WIFVNE) and High Output Academy. I was the editor on this project, doing edits in Premiere and motion graphics in After Effects. Over 3 hours of content with Mel Nesteruk, a gaffer and…
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Kinetic Text: “Whisper”
The idea for this project originated around a small entre-acte on a Regina Spektor album: a short whispered dialogue between Regina and a younger girl, the track is called “Whisper”. I thought it would be charming to animate this dialogue, using kinetic text and motion graphics in After Effects. Since the theme is about waiting and…
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Motion graphics: Corporate product training
I was asked to create a series of training videos for FirstHand, about some products for health care providers. This is a small segment about hand hygiene. I created drawings in Illustrator, incorporating their logos and branding, then animated in After Effects.
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Artistic: Cinemagraphs
Many years ago, I took a certificate program at Emerson College. The classes I learned there really did give me a lot of new skills, particularly with motion graphics and editing. One of the small lessons we did was about creating a cinemagraphs. Being a longtime Boston resident and public transit riders, one of my…
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Video Editing: LawFlix Kickstarter
Evan Law is the founder of a program called LawFlix, a multi-media study guide to help law students pass the bar exam. He had already written several legal thrillers, each storyline demonstrating principles that would appear in bar exams. He hoped to make feature movies out of these stories and incorporate it with study groups,…
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Animated Logo: FirstHand
I recently completed a training video for the company FirstHand. As an intro to this training video, I wanted to help establish the brand by creating a short, catchy animated logo. I worked in After Effects, preparing some assets in Illustrator, and making a short audio loop in Garage Band. FirstHand provides a system of hand…
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ASAM Corporate Motion Graphics
One of the corporate freelance clients I worked is the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). The first project was the improved layout for their infographic for a slide pack and print, and I wanted to explore their other instructional materials. One of the assets in their PDF documentation is a flowchart about pregnancy and addiction.…
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ASAM Corporate Infographic
The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) needed some customized slides for an upcoming training series. We needed to convey a visual comparison of various statistics, to quickly make an impact during the presentation. I decided to use Illustrator for this project, as it would offer me the alignment, pattern, and text tools I’d need.…
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Design: Department Signage
I have some great ties to Berklee College of Music, having been a student and an employee there. I had the opportunity to edit a great music video for the college, and these were some other small projects I thoroughly enjoyed creating for them! These were some graphics I designed for the Music Production &…
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Educational: Motion Graphics teaching photography
This is a small excerpt from the online course “Making Science and Engineering Pictures“, which I’ve posted a little about already. In this sequence, I took a screenflow about using some photography software and heavily edited it to follow the narration, and added motion graphics to demonstrate the lesson. The illustrations were done in Adobe…
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Web design
A look back at websites I’ve designed, first with Dreamweaver, then working with WordPress. A few for clients, many for my own pursuits as a practice ground first.
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EdX Production Notes: part 2
Part 2 Production Notes about the EdX course “Making Science and Engineering Pictures”, a free online course taught by science photographer Felice Frankel. (Part 1 of my production notes are here.) Robin Heyden was the Educational Consultant on this project, and shortly after the course was completed, she and I sat down to a skype conversation about the creation…
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EdX Production Notes: part 1
I was privileged to work over the last year developing an online course with MITx. This was my first introduction to the world of MOOC’s, Massive Online Open Courseware, and the edx.org platform. The model is a fresh take on education, allowing thousands of students across the globe to enroll in courses offered by leading institutions. The…
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Video editing: Berklee Wadhams Scholars
This piece was commissioned by my wonderful colleagues in the Music Production & Engineering Department at Berklee College of Music. They took several of their best students to London, England in the summer of 2013 to meet with producers, engineers, and musicians in professional sessions at Abbey Road and British Grove Studios. A…
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Creative Split Screens
This is a tutorial series where I teach, step by step, from total beginner to more advanced After Effects techniques. It was originally published on udemy.com, but I am making some content available for free on youtube, this is a playlist of public tutorial videos. Overview of Creative Split Screens Part 1 Overview of Creative…
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Print Layout: Art Catalogue
For this project, an art gallery wanted to print a full-color 16-page booklet highlighting the work of one of their artists. I went to the artist’s studio, took photos of several of his paintings, and some photos of the artist himself. I processed the photos in Photoshop, cropping to the edges of the paintings, correcting for…
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After Effects Animation: Entity of Creation
This animation was all done in After Effects, utilizing kinetic texts and complex layers of images prepared in Photoshop. See production notes here.
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After Effects Animation: Reeling for the Empire
This is a main title sequence based on a short story by Karen Russel, in which Japan’s Meiji-era silk industry exploits women in a very surreal and disturbing way. In this main title sequence, I wanted to establish a sense of place, time, characters, and an unsettling mystery. As the art director, I took several things…