Brian Kiel

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• Honda Civic – Mobile ad

  Created a mobile landing page/microsite ad for Honda Civic with a responsive layout. Allowed one codebase to be served to all handsets regardless of OS. Included use of embedded HTML5 video.

• Avenue Fighter

  Constructed over two days at Adobe Flash Camp 2008. Avenue Fighter is a political-themed Twitter-controlled street fight done up in classic 8-bit Nintendo “Street Fighter” style.

• 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

• Kimera GPS

  Pronounced like “chimera”, and modeled after said word… Kimera GPS (“glyph pack system”) is the codename for a process I created wherein “font-packs” are compiled on-demand by the server and fed to dynamic display ads in the wild.

• Ask.com – In-banner Pinball game

  It looks a little chintzy, but YOU try fitting a physics engine, sound AND good graphics into a non-rich media ad. Final ad size fit nicely under the 40k limit… coming in at a svelte 37k

• Adidas – Boston Marathon – “What’s Your Reason?”

  A Flash kiosk application created for deployment by Adidas at the 2007 Boston Marathon.  When in place, allowed the user to enter their “reason” for running, take a photo (using the kiosk’s onboard camera), and receive a takeaway one-sheet containing (amongst other things) their photo, their reason, and a splash of Adidas branding.

• 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

• eBay – Oxford AS3 Codebase

  A reusable AS3 codebase, used to create dynamic display ads for eBay.  Packages up all of the service calls, load management, asset/font management, etc into a nice little package that’s fairly lightweight and super-easy to integrate into each project’s Flash creative.   Drops development turnaround time for dynamic creative from a couple weeks to about […]

• Earthlink – Sales loop video

  Flash animation created for use as a sales loop video at Earthlink events. + Flash development

• Roadtrip Dashboard 2010

  Hypothetical scenario: You’re about to take a one-way roadtrip from San Francisco to Omaha… Your girlfriend expresses concern… worried about you driving too much, worried about possible road conditions… Possible solution? My Roadtrip Dashboard!