Ethos Coffee is taking on the stagnant behemoths of the coffee industry by delivering superior coffee beverages to customers with a fleet of tricked-out 2008 Scion XB coffee cars. The ethos coffee caR, which is making its debut in Kansas City, USA in early 2008, is an ingenious example of product development and marketing ingenuity. Nick Pugh designed the graphics, Xarkos at Wicked Minstrel provided sounds, and Zagar.biz produced the flash web site.

Freedom Of Teach is well known among entertainment industry artists as the premier source of quality realistic anatomical reference models, sculptors tools and instructional DVDs. The site is used both as a point of sale for FOT products as well as a showcase for more than 30 artists related to Freedom Of Teach. Master Sculptor Andrew Cawrse, designer of the FOT product line, hired us to produce a content management system and front-end development for a ground-up redesign of the site.

Nick Pugh is an artist whose range of creative outlets is as broad as his work is original. Not only does he produce conceptual design for film, but he has built a 500-HP, gold-plated streetrod that runs on natural gas. We had the pleasure of producing the XML-driven, 100% Flash-based interface to Nick's specifications and integrating it into a customized CMS.

Mark Goerner is a production designer. GRNR.com showcases Mark's impressive conceptual design artwork and photography. Fancygraphics designed the site and I provided front-end development and CMS integration.

Alp Altiner is a multitalented artist. He creates matte paintings for film, character design, 3D art, comics, and toys. His work has been featured in instructional videos and books. I provided him with a customized CMS solution that allows him to quickly organize and publish his voluminous work for his fans. The CMS includes: Image Galleries, News, Links, multiple mailing lists and more, all tied into a multi-user, multi-level administration toolset.

Scott Robertson is a world-renowned entertaiment designer, industrial designer, publisher and educator at the Art Center in Pasadena. His web site includes a fully-integrated CMS that allows his staff to easily update not only image galleries, instructional DVD's, educational workshops, mailing lists, an events calendar, and dynamic aspects of the layout itself, such as random header images. I worked in conjunction with Fancygraphics on this project.

James Clyne is a production designer and a truly amazing artist. Fancygraphics designed the site and I programmed it.

Imago Dei is a Humboldt, California-based painter. He needed an easy-to-use and flexible web site to present his voluminous life's work to the public. His CMS was customized to include the ability to assign an unlimited number of detailed images to individual artworks. Within a week of site launch, Imago Dei had uploaded and categorized hundreds of images of his art works, with no foreknowledge of web programming and barely any experience using the web in general.

Bionic Unit is a Studio City-based production studio. The client intranet facilitates efficient project management and streamlines communication between BU and its clients. The Project Management System allows for an unlimited number of clients and projects. Each client can login and enter comments on a given project, including approval of image comps and/or Zip files containing project materials. Files for each client are stored in separate, password-protected areas to insure security.

A web-based toolset for Ruth Boyle, a videographer who produces documentaries in third-world locations. Ruth needed a system that she could access from any Internet connection, to serve as a repository for video clip uploads as well as a library of material for her and her private clients. Video resources can be uploaded into the system and cross-categorized, as well as tagged with keywords, descriptions, transcripts, notes, copyright, source format, cutpoints, and both high and low resolution video clips. The system includes a database of countries, contributors, and contributor roles, all of which can be assigned to each clip. The application also features a Source Tape Generator, which exports ordered cutpoint selections from an unlimited selection of video resources as Final Cut Pro automated playlists.

In this redesign for photographer representative Alyssa Pizer, I provided front-end programming, a multi-user CMS, and data integration of 10 photographers with more than 600 images from a static HTML-based site. The CMS supports unlimited photographers, each of which can login and upload an unlimited images into their online portfolios. The master administrator can manage all photographers' portfolios, as well as a master category list, perform CSS edits, and adminsiter multiple mailing lists. The backend is designed to be as easy-to-use as possible so that photographers will login frequently and update their work. Graphic design provided by Drinkred,

This photographer's web site and CMS allows for unlimited categories and images, swappable splash page images, and contact form. By reusing underlying code I was able to provide a exceptionally high value and fast turnaround. The minimalist design showcases the artist's work.

Histrionics is not your typical web site, but more of a work of so-called "new media art" in that it invites the user to explore and discover the features hidden within. It was conceived by Jay Brown, Executive Director of Lijiang Studio, an artists community with two locations in China. Every aspect of the 100% Flash web site is controllable from the CMS; even the links that are associated with the animated birds can be changed. Hint: To view the Zoomify galleries, click on "Life."

Liberty Tree FDR is a non-profit organization that works to enable democratic reform through the organizing of events, campaigns and publications, thus increasing the presence of aggressive democratic activity in American culture. Zagar.biz worked with Northern California-based designer Heather Ault to convert Liberty Tree's static HTML site into a dynamic, CMS-powered resource that offers up-to-the-minute news and opportunities. Features include Events, Democracy Alerts, Community Projects, and programs for localizing democracy and democratizing elections and education. All of this data is integrated into a site-wide search engine as well as an RSS feed.

Kelly Mulloy is an LA-based artist. She produces hand-made textiles that have been featured in magazines and are available in boutiques throughout the US. Site design by Fancygraphics.

MaleContraceptives.org is a project of the nonprofit Global Male Contraceptive Coalition. The Coalition’s sole objective is to speed the development of safe, effective and convenient contraceptives for men. I took an existing HTML layout and integrated it into a custom CMS which includes online surveys, mailing lists, search engine, and links to news articles with abstracts.

A DHTML-powered multi-document summarization application for a data mining platform. The application imports platform-generated XML document clusters containing tens of thousands of topic-sensitive news headlines. Per the client's request, a Google News-like dashboard provides categorization, "breaking news" and searching functionality. Any number of newsworthy topics can then be selected for on-the-fly aggregation. The frequency of publishing activity within the news topics topics is displayed with links to the articles themselves along zoomable timelines.

The usefulness of the tool lies in the ability to determine when certain news topics receive the most media attention.

Art History Timelines is a pet project of mine from 2004. My objective was to create a repository of art images and integrate it into a dynamic timeline that plots out the dates of artworks. One feature that makes this project unique is that the user can select multiple art genres and instantly generate a composite timeline. The backend toolset provides extensive categorization capabilities and cross-referencing of images, artists, writeups, and metadata. The database includes a trove of high-res Dada imagery, in particular the photos of Man Ray and the work of German Dadaist John Heartfield.