Arutai Studios

L a t e s t

Ben Dewey

Benjamin Dewey, Comic Artist

Benjamin Robert "Ben" Dewey is a Portland-based comic book artist and illustrator, who has produced work for Archie, Comics Alliance, Dark Horse, Marvel, as well as his own Melee Comics. Mr. Dewey is a proud member of the Portland artist collective Periscope Studio.

Mr. Dewey needed an online portfolio to showcase his prodigious talent. We created a digital sketchbook to display the work —complete with comic-board trim lines. As visitors carousel through pages, the sketchbook adapts its dimensions to accommodate the artwork. And yes, the font is Comic Sans.

HTML - CSS - Javascript

www.benjamindewey.com

O’Brien Constructors

Rebecca Winn, New Projects

O'Brien Constructors LLC is a Portland-based general contractor that specializes in projects with high client involvement and design team integration.

Ms. Winn wanted a polished website that adequately displayed the breadth and depth of the experience that O'Brien Constructors brings to the table. We featured their top 16 projects, integrating 176 images to best display the work they have accomplished with their 222 partners over the past 25 years. Portraits of company personnel were taken byAmy Ouelette.

HTML - CSS - Javascript

www.obllc.com
W e b s i t e s

Steel Pond Studios

Travis Pond, Sculptor

Robert Jefferson Travis Pond is a steel sculptor based in Portland, Oregon who fabricates birds, beasts, fish, gardenwork, seating, tables, pet housing, railing, security bars, and decorative hangings for individuals, families, companies, organizations, and institutions.

Mr. Pond needed a professional website that could effectively display his work to future clients. We compartmentalized his prolific output into ten distinct categories. Individual projects were then arranged along a flexible grid. Javascript was used to open project images and simplify navigation.

HTML - CSS - Javascript

www.steelpond.com

Yianni Doulis
Architecture Studio

Yianni Doulis, Principal

Yianni Doulis Architecture Studio is a Portland, Oregon-based firm focused on sustainable residential, commercial and public design.

Mr. Doulis wanted a website that best displayed his depth and breadth of work as a green architect. We created a spare site, structured upon a grid, which allows his beautiful work to speak for itself. The site features two portfolios: one for his architectural projects and another for the pieces he creates to inhabit those projects.

Adobe® Flash®, HTML

www.ydarchitecture.com

The Illustration
Conference No. 5

Von Glitschka, Technology Chair

ICON is a professional organization that promotes illustration, gathering the industry’s best and brightest talent to present and talk about their work, their business, their lives, and their passion for illustration.

Mr. Glitschka needed a solid website for his content-rich event. Much care was given to credits and references for the host of illustrators who graciously donated their artwork to the site. Top banner art is randomly selected and displayed from a large folder of donated artwork.

HTML - CSS - Javascript - Adobe® Flash®

www.theillustrationconference.org

Jason Greene

Jason Greene, Painter

Jason Greene is a Portland-based painter with past experience as as an archaeological illustrator and an interactive exhibit designer.

Mr. Greene wanted a website that comfortably displayed the breadth and diversity of his work. The flexibility of the portfolio engine allows each piece to be viewed both individually and as a member of a collection. The hand-painted logo adds a bit of the artist's own character and style.

HTML - CSS - Javascript

www.greenelbow.com

Jessica Helgerson
Interior Design

Jessica Helgerson, Principal

Jessica Helgerson is a Portland-based interior designer specializing in environmentally sustainable commercial and residential interiors.

Ms. Helgerson wanted a slick and modern website to better showcase her practice. We created a clean and simple website that is chock-full of information on green design. Each page features rich imagery from her various projects. A new self-contained portfolio displays the information that previously occupied 92 pages.

HTML - CSS - Javascript

www.jhinteriordesign.com

Amy Burgess Jewelry

Amy Burgess, Owner

Amy Burgess is a Portland-based custom jewelry maker of great skill and creativity who enjoys working in natural stones, gems, crystals, sterling silver and gold..

Ms. Burgess needed a website that portrayed her more as a professional artist and less like a part-time hobbyist. We created a boutique-like site featuring gorgeous photos of her work. The pieces were titled, alphabetized, and separated into distinct categories for better browsing. Newer photography was taken byAmy Ouelette.

HTML, Javascript

www.amyburgessjewelry.com

The Artist
Mentorship Program

William Kendall, Coordinator

The Artist Mentorship Program (AMP) exists to create musical opportunities for homeless and at-risk youth in a safe and healthy environment.

Mr. Kendall wanted a website that both attracted youth to the program and also targeted potential donors. Donors need a site that appears established. But, make it too slick and we risked alienating the kids who benefit from the program. We created a solid website composed of pages that appear hastily thrown together.

Adobe® Flash® - HTML

www.artistmentorshipprogram.org

Cascade Contracting

Adam Reed, Principal

Cascade Contracting, LLC is a Portland-based, craftsman-quality contracting company whose mission is to create beautiful, quality work at a fair price. Solid guys who do beautiful work.

Cascade Contracting wanted an elegant website that would establish them as a high-end contracting company. Each section features big, juicy photographs of their exquisite work. Interactive before-and-after insets are featured in many of the projects.

HTML - Adobe® Flash®

www.cascadecontracting.com

TS Whalen

Todd Stuart Whalen, Photographer

TS Whalen is a Portland-based, itinerant photographer and monument portraitist. A fine-art mentality working in a commercial field.

Mr. Whalen requested a bare-bone site featuring his past, present, and future work. The three portfolios function linearly: one image after another. Dead ends and the inevitable back-tracking was circumvented by a loop back to the common landing page.

Adobe® Flash® - HTML

www.tswhalen.com

Avgerakis Homes

Sockeye Creative

Avgerakis is one of the most sought-after design build companies in the Pacific Northwest. Since 1978 Avgerakis has been committed to the highest level of quality with innovative design and construction.

John Fisher of Sockeye Creative designed the site for this high-end builder and needed it brought to life. Through a combination of XHTML, CSS, and healthy dash of Javascript, we created an elegant site featuring the top-quality, state-of-the-art construction techniques and innovative design of Avgerakis.

HTML - CSS - Javascript

www.avgerakis.com
P r e s e n t a t i o n s

Adobe Stock Photos
Take Creative License

Euro RSCG Edge

Adobe Stock Photos is a royalty-free image service that provides a convenient way for creative professionals to search across multiple image libraries at once and purchase royalty-free images.

Steve Newman of EURO RSCG needed a digital mash-up animated to promote Adobe Stock Photo's Take Creative License Contest. The layered Photoshop file was reverse-engineered and separated into its basic elements. A cursor was animated to engage the viewer and move the elements around.

Adobe® Flash®

view project | www.adobe.com

Rudy Reys
Hero Living

Euro RSCG Edge

Rudy Reyes, martial arts expert and Marine war veteran, offers a philosophy and conditioning program that balances mind, body, and spirit to help you unlock your potential and allow you to live your life like a hero..

Tian Mullholland of EURO RSCG wanted an introductory animation for the Rudy Reyes website that was truly heroic in look and feel. We created a slow-paced, almost regal animation which complimented Andy Batt's beautiful photography. In addition, we created an interactive timeline depicting Rudy's amazing story.

Adobe® Flash®

view animation | view timeline | www.rudyreyes.com

Keep the Drive
All Hail The Rebel

Euro RSCG Edge

Keep the Drive is a national teen-led movement promoting smart teen driving which was created to actively address the #1 killer of teens in the United States today: car crashes.

Steve Newman of EURO RSCG wanted an animated introduction for the Allstate Insurance Company program that attracted youth and got them excited about the program. He wanted the piece to feel like a classic Saul Bass movie-opener. A driving soundtrack of Taiko drumming gave extra punch to the transitions.

Adobe® Flash®

view project | www.keepthedrive.com

YRT2
Home Headquarters

Euro RSCG Edge

YRT2 provides customers with integrated community and inside-the home technology products and services over state-of-the-art fiber optic networks.

Todd Greco of EURO RSCG wanted a presentation that would both inform and suitably impress prospective clients of YRT2. An interactive cut-away home that describes technology points throughout the house was created as both a stand-alone and a web-accessible presentation. The sky color in the presentation reflects the time of day.

Adobe® Flash®

view project

Top Position
More Clicks For Less

Lucid Blend

Top Position is one of the UK's leading pay-per-click consultancy companies— reducing your cost per conversion and delivering more clicks for less.

The Top Position project introduces prospective clients to pay-per-click advertising. The movie goes on to explain how Top Position can help them to meet their specific marketing goals. The cartoon character was modeled in a 3D program and then imported into Flash for animation.

Adobe® Flash®

view project | www.topposition.co.uk

Stalwart
A New Paradym

Lucid Blend

Stalwart is an innovative IT engineering firm focused on securing and converging applications — voice, video and data—and access to those applications through wireline and wireless.

The Stalwart project introduced prospective clients to a company consisting of elite IT engineers who are rabidly opposed to sales and marketing people. If you work with Stalwart, you talk directly to your engineer. They have no time for middlemen. We tried to make the army of marketeers look as slick as possible.

Adobe® Flash®

view project | www.stalwartsystems.com

PCSafe
Adware Filter™

Lucid Blend

PC Safe's Adware Filter is a toolbar that detects and eliminates spyware and adware; offers the only search toolbar that removes undesired websites from your search results using SearchSafe technology.

The AdwareFilter™ project introduces prospective users the toolbar that detects and eliminates adware, spyware, hoistware, hijackers, worms, key-loggers, dialers and other malware. The look-and-feel for the movie emulates the basic design of their main competition, MSN.

Adobe® Flash®

view project | www.pcsafe.com
F a c e t i m e

Arutai Studios

Matthew Wayne Johnson, Principal

Arutai Studios is the home base and creative playground of Portland-based web designer and front-end developer Matthew Wayne Johnson.

Employing over a decade of experience in the industry, Mr. Johnson strives to create engaging websites and online marketing presentations for individual artists, companies, agencies, non-profits, and movements. Mr. Johnson serves alternately as consultant, lead creative, art director, designer, information architect, project manager, copy editor and research fiend.