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current projects
Adobe
AIR 1.0
AIR 1.0 has launched. That little tripod mark seems to be everywhere right now. My fave (ab-)usage shows up in a commission from the brilliant eBoy: AIR launch poster

Desktop Brand (r)Evolution
I still haven't posted screens of the now fairly ubiquitous CS3 work, and already we're now well under way with CS4. I hope to post some screenshots of the CS3 era work soon... there's quite a lot to it.

CS3 Update: HOW Magazine has given Adobe a Packaging Merit award for our CS3 work. Congrats to us!

Orange Photography
Orange Exposure shedding another skin
A massive redo of OE is underway... our credo this time around is Elegance through simplicity. Really it's about realizing what is truly important in a retail customer experience, and building it while halving the corporate-chatty-chat content and polishing some of Jack's raw engineering trickery.

Orange is undergoing a bit of brand (d)evolution... Orange Photography will be the Orange brand for both the consumer business (formerly OE) and fine art photography.
recent work
XD Tree
XD Tree
Marcos is a thoughtful and worldly character, yet towers over your average man. More »
AIR
AIR
The difficult challenge of branding a new technology platform was brought in-house and landed on my desk. Adobe's AIR (Integrated Runtime) is a platform melding the unique authoring and functional capabilities of Flash, Flex, and web-based technologies for online and offline applications. The mark's form was informed by the melding of the separate technology platforms into one friendly and dynamic whole. More »
XD Bunny
XD Bunny
Jon is a mysterious man, a man of contradictions, a man of the unexpected. And he has bunnies. More »
XD Skittles
XD Skittles
Even the most complex work with the most complex people is made happier with treats. More »
XD Figs
XD Figs
Clever project names make for a classic still life. More »
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