I’ve found my niche as a guy who understands web design and user experience as well as front-end development. I speak to designers with the voice of a developer, and I can develop websites with a designer’s attention to fine, stylistic detail. With both formal design training and high-level HTML and CSS skills, I’m a pretty useful guy to have around. You can reach me at saundersbd@gmail.com.
A logo for an internal brainstorming/idea generation workshop. The concept of the logo is centered around different layers of communication. The look and feel was applied to numerous presentation pieces and posters.
Work completed at Maddock Douglas under the creative direction of Noel Childs and Ross Leaver.
The assignment was to create a video of some sort that expresses my reasons for choosing design as a life-long love. I used After Effects to create an emotive kinetic typography video, expressing each sentence in a different way. The work was labor-intensive but rewarding.
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The Chicago Jazz Underground website is designed to be a social network for jazz musicians in the city of Chicago. It is based off the the idea that the community of jazz musicians in the city lacks a central hub from which to organize and connect to each other. The musicians and club owners would be able to use the site to interact with one another and form relationships to work out playing opportunities. The site also represents an official access point for people not related to the community, so that they can learn a little about what live jazz is about without jumping in head first. Visit the Website
This is a hypothetical identity created for the 2009 HOW Design Conference in Austin, Texas. The concept is based around old-feel wooden type cuts and consists of logotype, a promotional booklet and a website.
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A reconsideration of the website for NIU’s School of Art. This work has recently been updated to reflect my upgraded skill set. Visit the Website
If you haven’t seen Blade Runner, it is not an action movie. It tends to be more philosophical than anything and deals with such questions as what defines a human being. My version of the open titles is a quiet, introspective exploration of an anatomical drawing, looking at the anatomy of a human in the most formal sense.
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A series of three brochures about jazz legends Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk. The only stipulation is that they have to fit inside a standard #10 envelope.
The assignment was to create several spreads of an annual report for a given Fortune 500 company. I chose McGraw-Hill, the leading company in publishing of educational materials. The concept of the report centered around knowledge.
