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September/October 2003 Sixteen Dollars www.commarts.com

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Jim Erickson Left: "Cowboy and Bronc. The great American West will always be a sought-after photographic subject matter. It's sometimes too beautiful to express with words. Robin Wiltshire, a true Aussie and American cowboy, walks towards a horse that seconds before delivered a lightning-speed kick that narrowly missed the brim of his crisp hat. Man and horse on the Montana range." Mark Hoffman, producer; FatCat Digital, post-production composition and colorization .

"Alabama Twins. A Mother book project. Casting while on the road , I met Mrs. Johnson at a small Baptist church. When I showed up, her 'boys' were there to be recorded also. She was awfully proud of her boys."

This page: "Money-The Universal language . I think this was a gift, luck, which sometimes happens. A personal travel picture from the streets of Bangladesh." " From a book project, Mother. A Peruvian widow with recent memories." Anthony Lindsay, first assistant.

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Interactive Annual 9: Advertising

Alto ids Overview: On this site, fans of the mint get a

taste of the humor unique to this brand through greeting cards, wallpaper and online games.

• 5-level Flash structure • 300,000

visitors per month

• Site administration tool allows the client to update content

"Refreshing graphics and loads of fun for the whole family."

- David Lai

www.altoids.com

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Interactive Annual 9: Information

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Minutes: Inside the Towers

Overview: Chronological breakdown of the

destruction of the World Trade Center constructed from architectural plans, BlackBerry transcripts, telephone logs and first-person interviews with survivors, families of victims and eyewitnesses.

• Interface and graphic artwork is under 310K; audio files easily stream with a 56K connection • 3-D representations of the towers were produced using Adobe Dimensions

• Audio narration by New York Times reporters used as the backbone of the presentation •Took 3 people

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"This site/et puts an astonishing amount of information into a tiny interface, without ever losing the human touch that the subject demands. " -Joe S hepter

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Interactive Annual 9: Self-Promotion

I Must Create Overview: Self-promotion site for creatives in

the advertising and design fields is clever and easy to view.

• Graphic assets are loaded dynamically, keeping the base Flash file size small • Optimized for small screen resolution • Quick visual snapshot of 13 print ads and 5 television spots • Site theme and navigation based on

PMS

colors

www.imustcreate.com

"Flying Pantone chips and a brilliant color palette; how can any designer resist?"

-David Lai

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Interactive Annual 9: Self-Promotion

Typorganism Overview: This site uses sophisticated

programming to deliver simple interactive games that encourage new ways of looking at typography.

• Flash based • Heavy use of ActionScript for interactive elements • Back end utilizes

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Java and

MYSQL

• Chat feature

"The use ofa collection of interactive experiments for self-promotion is not new or groundbreaking, but the visual and interaction design is understated and avoids being trendy."

www.typorganism.com

-Julia Whitney

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handful of experiments that explore a unified theme; all are beautifully designed-several are astonishing."

-Joe Shepter

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Jing Jing Tsong

Location: Hawaii and Colorado . Wherever I can set up my laptop, scanner and sketchbook.

Duration: 15 years design, 2 years concentrating on illustration .

Staff: 2, my husband and myself, Jing and Mike Co. Education: Pennsylvania State University, BA with an emphasis on graphic design.

Cultural Influences: Raymond Carver's short stories, Glenn Gould playing Bach's "Goldberg Variations," J.M Basquiat's pa intings, Tibor Kalman, Joe Frank 's Work in Progress, kids' drawings, the street, the people I surf with .

Environment: A messy table in my bedroom .

I sit by a sliding glass door that has a coconut tree almost within reach, there are wild turkeys running around the street and the laptop is playing the radio show "Sounds Eclectic" (out of Santa Barbara , California) .

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Philosophy: Turn the radio, TV and computer off so you can let your mind wander.

Make mistakes .

1. "Pete Metzger, the design director, asked for an image that would illustrate how town and city boundaries in the Los Angeles area are not clearly marked.

When buying real estate, those boundaries affect property prices in substantial ways.

The man in the illustration shows his frustration and confusion at the ambiguous signs." Pete Metzger, Los Angeles Times, art director.

2. "Popular culture's obsession with being at the 'it' cocktail hour, with the 'in' crowd, delighting in the latest culinary trend, while flaunting the latest couture, is endlessly amusing . This is the first in a series of social gatherings where the characters are trying their darndest to keep up."

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