New NC State TV Spot
Here is the latest TV spot created by LGA for rebranding of NC State. I think it’s an excellent spot and I’m really lucky to work with such a great group of talented people.
Tim Maiura || BLOG
Labs & explorations in new media.Welcome to NC
It’s been a while since I’ve written on here but I’ve been quite busy. After graduation, I moved to Charlotte, NC and started a full time job at Luquire George Andrews, a leading advertising, marketing and PR agency in the south east, as a new media designer. It’s going great and I really enjoy working with some of the best in the industry.
The new media team has been working on some great sites and I’ve been learning a great deal from everyone.
Some of the things we’ve been working on recently are using WordPress as a CMS, learning PHP, and really hitting HTML & CSS hard. Some of it has been quite challenging but I’m glad I’ve been learning it.
I’m going to try and write about new products and experiments in new media, as I feel it’s my job to contribute to the Internet world.
There are a few cool new products out there that our Technology Director has shown me that are pretty cool and showing where the world is going. First, there is Jott. It’s a service that allows you to record a message and select who you’d like to receive the message. It then translates tour speech into text and emails the recipients.
The second is Evernote, a program that acts as a memory bank. You can store pictures, text, web page captures etc. You can then search the stuff and Evernote will show you all related items. For images, it detects writing and letters, both written and printed.
What is even more cool is these programs can work together. For example, I think of a list of ideas for work and want to share my ideas with my coworkers. I use jott to record my message, and have that message sent to 3 other people as well as Evernote. 3 people get my message and so does evernote so that I can recall it later.
Frostbite Sports
The extreme winter sports site that I have been working on for the past five weeks is coming along great. The design has been approved and we’re moving on to the programing phase. Frostbitesports.com will be launched on May 1st, following a media night. I’m quite excited about the project as it’s looking great and it’s a lot of fun to work with great content.
iPhone Remote application
I’ve recently discovered the iPhone Remote application for my mac. So far I’ve only come up with one word to describe it: amazing. While it’s not something that will change anyone’s life (at least for now), it certainly is fun to play around with. I feel the application has a lot of great potential and is something Apple should be looking into. I’d love to see the iPhone and computers communicating more.
I’d love to see the iPhone being used in such programs as Photoshop as a touchscreen tablet since those fancy Wacom tablets that do the same cost so much. Programs such as this are taking the phone to the next level and are a great preview of what type of applications are to come with the release of the SDK, which I can’t wait for.
You can get the application for you mac here: http://code.google.com/p/telekinesis/
Fun with webcams
I’ve been working with Flash and a webcam to allow users to “paint” a piece of art using a sort of motion capture. It seems tough to get a real accurate motion capture by just analyzing pixels, but it’s the way I’ve gone for this experiment.
Extreme winter sports web site
A few weeks ago my department head asked if any one was interested in designing and developing a web site for a senior photo class next quarter. I was quite intrigued with the thought and decided to meet with the students and their professor to see what they were requiring. The students have spent all winter quarter photographing and gathering video of nine different extreme winter sports such as skiing, snowmobiling, and snowboarding.
After seeing a few videos (they’re using a helmet camera in some of the footage) and some photos, I became just as excited as the photo students. The site will showcase the nine different sections they’ve focused on, with a slide show with audio and video for each section. They’d also like to show the different footage at full screen, which I think will really help the viewers focus on the content of the site and have the web site its self stay in the background.
They’d also like to have the local media involved for the launch of the site in May. I’ve excited for this as well, as I hope to drive a lot of traffic to the web site through promotion in the media as well as possibly submitting it to award sites.
Portfolio site finally up
Finally, after a long week of staying up until 5 a.m. everyday, my portfolio site is finally up. The weird thing about this portfolio site, is that it’s the first time I’m quite happy with the design and programming. I kept it nice and simple on the design side. It was fun looking through all the work I have created over the past 4 years. I’ve grown tremendously. Thinking back to high school, I just wanted to make cool websites with nice graphics and make the internet a better place. I never dreamed I’d know how to use as many technologies as I do now such as Flash, 3D, and motion graphics. I also think about how choosing RIT was the best decision I’ve made so far.
Anyways, check out the new portfolio, feel free to comment on it on here or drop me an e-mail. Send it to everyone you know too!
Kobalt Music Publishing
Kobalt Music Publishing, a record distributor approached Mass Transmit and asked us to create an email template design for them to release their newest artists and allow people to hear sound clips. Working with my creative director Rich, we came up with a great design that incorporated Kobalt Musics’ brand very well and introduced the artists in a fresh way.
