Dan and his San Francisco-based boutique agency, Sp3d, was commissioned to conceive, design, and produce a 30-second television spot for “When Ants Invade” which alerted people to the dangers of home pesticide use. Pesticides kill bugs—and everything else! The PSA and billboard campaign was commissioned by the Bay Area Stormwater Management Agencies Association (BASMAA). Concepts that promoted responsible insecticide use were presented on storyboards. Sp3d created the TV ad by blending photo compositing and 3D animation—and won a Telly Award!
Dan
Spare the Air PSA
Dan and his San Francisco-based boutique agency, Sp3d, was commissioned to conceive, design, and produce a 30-second television spot for “Spare the Air” which alerted commuters to days with bad air quality.
The public service announcements were financed and managed by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Dab created a series of cartoon characters and hand-drawn scenes for animation, based around storyboarding for the TV spot. The PSA was broadcast throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
Negativland
Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. Negativland has released a number of albums ranging from pure sound collage to more musical expositions.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, they produced several recordings for SST Records, most notably Escape from Noise, Helter Stupid, and U2. Negativland were sued by the band U2’s record label, Island Records, and by SST Records, which brought them widespread publicity and notoriety.
Dan started out as a rabid fan of Negativland to being a contributing satellite member of the band for the past 20 years. Dan’s work is primarily graphic design and art that reflect the fantastical made-up sound collages that Negativland is known for. Dan has done countless projects for Negativland, ranging from CD packaging, posters, logos, book covers and more recently, fine art—only a few are shown here.
Datawatch
Datawatch Corporation is a leader in providing information optimization products and solutions that allow organizations to deliver the greatest data variety possible into their big data and analytic applications.
Dan and Bob have consulted with Datawatch on projects that include updating and rebuilding the company website, producing promotions, and upgrading and repairing the website’s backend.
High Start Group
High Start Group is a consulting company that helps their clients accelerate the success of their innovations by leveraging its unique customer-centric and data-driven approach. HSG works closely with them to rapidly conceive, validate, and launch products that customers will love.
Dan was HSG’s creative director and worked with a wide variety of their clients, including AT&T, Vivox, and Santander. In addition, Dan created HSG’s brand and designed the company website and collateral materials. Bob is HSG’s Senior Web Developer, handling the backend of the consultancy’s many clients.
AT&T UC Services
AT&T UC Services gives customers the ability to unify their communications delivered over the AT&T network. It is accessible from almost any device, enabling employees to collaborate and communicate in real-time regardless of location.
Users can work virtually anytime, anywhere, on virtually any device. The service transitions from one communication method to another and improves reachability by displaying rich presence indicators of an individual’s status and allowing a single number to call multiple devices
Dan and Bob consult with AT&T UC Services to design, build and deploy the beta testing program.