Brian Kiel

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• RandomHours

  The successor to 58hours.  Where 58hours was devoted solely to Radiohead (and coded according to the single-band premise), randomhours is able to handle data for countless bands.  I basically took everything that I’d learned about data-organization

• Ask.com – AskDeals.com

  A microsite where visitors could record video of themselves (via their computer’s onboard camera) singing along with the AskDeals jingle track and share the resulting video.  The home/landing page of the microsite played an seamless & endless loop of all submitted tracks.

• Blue Diamond & NBC – HTML5 pushdown

  Pushdown HTML5 unit for Blue Diamond Almonds & NBC.

• Phenomblue – Mr. Manager mobile app

  An internal cross-platform smartphone app for use by Phenomblue employees. Aggregated several internal services and provided a web-service-fed employee directory. Also implemented push notifications.

• 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.

• Breville – brevilleusa.com

  Flash elements created for the showcase and menu navigation areas of the Breville USA website. My very last lines of code and bugs quashed for Avenue A | Razorfish involved integrating the Flash with their existing JSP-based eCommerce system. Link to archived site here. + Flash development + Platform integration

• Nike – dynamic display advertising

  Dynamic display advertising campaign created for (the online) Nike Store.  Applied concepts of polymorphism and runtime compositing to create a lightweight shell which pulled in the proper visual and text assets depending on the configuration received from the server.

• TBWA – tbwa.com

  Corporate home for TBWA Worldwide.  Flash configured itself via a configuration file, which was generated by a TBWA-made CMS admin area.  Map/location section utilized Flash Remoting (AMFPHP flavor) to sort/filter through the huge number of TBWA offices before drawing to screen for the user.

• 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), […]

• Nissan – “Future Z” microsite

  In the early 2000’s, Nissan was set to relaunch its fabled “Z” model. Chiat was tasked with creating the microsite to build buzz and provide enthusiasts with a few tasty media bits prior to the launch of the 350Z. Link to archived site here. + Flash development