Brian Kiel

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• 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

• Protected: Harman Kardon – Drive + Play

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• 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 […]

• 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.

• Prestone – Rich Media Video Pushdown

  Pushdown rich media unit for Prestone. Involved video playback & a video selector allowing user to watch a second video once the first had completed.

• 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

• 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.

• telegraph.js

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

• 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

• 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 […]