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 […]

• 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 – 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.

• 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 […]

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 […]