Brian Kiel

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• Nike – “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”

  An interactive video rich-media ad which follows a woman on her morning run.  As she moves through the seasons, her wardrobe changes and a selection menu is displayed behind her.  At any given moment, the user can select from the product menu, see details about that particular product, and (if they wish) go directly to that product’s page on the Nike Store site.

• Methodist Health – mobile bestcare.org site

  Created a concise mobile site for Methodist Health System using the Javascript mobile framework jQTouch. Having looked at the analytics for the client’s site, I determined that the current mobile users had been visiting bestcare.org looking for a distinct subset of information. So, rather than try to cram all of the content from the standard […]

• Phenomblue – “Daydreamer” digital installation (Kinect)

  Using the Microsoft Kinect for sensor input, Adobe AIR for display, and a number of open-source drivers/frameworks for everything in-between, Daydreamer was a digital installation project that allowed the user to create music and visuals through moving their bodies. Along with the previously mentioned tools, I also utilized NITE & OpenNI (for Kinect data parsing), […]

• Sony Playstation – SOCOM: Hellweek

  Take a dozen Playstation gamers, fly them to the Naval base in San Diego. Film them going through Navy SEAL training Hell Week. Make a site about the experience.

• eBay Motors – Motors Mashup Unit

  A dynamic display ad that took data from the eBay Motors API and displayed said data using the Yahoo Maps API.  Geotargeting was used in ad trafficking, allowing the map to initialize at the user’s approximate location. + System architecture + public & private API integration + Flash development

• AS3 library to interface with Xbox’s Kinect – my new time-suckage

  I have a new source of time-suckage, and its name is the Kinect. Back in December, someone hacked Microsoft’s Kinect.. allowing computers to interface and receive raw data from the full-body motion/gesture sensing device. A week or two ago, in early January, another group created an AS3 solution. The solution consists of a command-line socket […]

• Sony Playstation – Jak II: “This is Jak’s World”

  Rich media with an in-ad game promoting the new Jak II Sony Playstation game.

• Blue Diamond & NBC – HTML5 pushdown

  Pushdown HTML5 unit for Blue Diamond Almonds & NBC.

• Republic Project

  Provided Full Stack Development services for Republic Project. Day-to-day technologies used were Flash, HTML5, Javascript, and PHP/MySQL. Republic Project was a startup that was later bought by DG | Mediamind, which later spun off it’s digital ad business under the name Sizmek. At Sizmek, Republic Project’s product was relabeled “Sizmek Social” I continued to support […]

• Indian Motorcycle – site

  A website created to promote the relaunch of the Indian motorcycle brand. Link to archived site here. + Flash development