Brian Kiel

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• telegraph.js

  Javascript framework for creating scroll-based, programatic tweens. More information to follow, once it’s formally released.

• 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 […]

• Canyon Design Group

  Created a WordPress-powered site for a design group in LA.  It’s that’s navigable via either desktop & iPad.  http://canyondesigngroup.com

• 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), […]

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• 58hours

  Initially thought up as a project where I could use a ColdFusion beta (I’d never even touched CFML), once the ColdFusion beta expired, it then became a project for me to learn PHP and mySQL… I then later went on to make a (throwaway) port of the site in order to learn .NET.

• Hello There

  Combine Adobe AIR with Bluetooth with BlueCove (a lightweight server capable of relaying said Bluetooth data) and you get the, (maybe) cleverly-named “Hello There”. When running, it constantly scaned for Bluetooth devices in-range & made note of their device ID.