My role: UX, design, development.
Details: A complete overhaul of the existing site added compatibility with mobile devices, for display and multimedia playback. The site was built using existing a mix of existing in-house content management systems and with WordPress.
Popular eclectic indie rock station.
My role: Design and all development.
Details: This site was redesigned from the ground up using a responsive grid framework, making it work on phones, tablets, and all devices. Includes integrated forum, blogs, and e-commerce system. The play section of the site features a kid and tablet friendly game allowing one to digitally dress paper dolls.
Contemporary responsive layout meets contemporary children's sewing patterns.
Details: To add more posh appeal to the Walker Art Center's After Hours preview parties, I created this photobooth-on-steriods. It takes a photo of visitors, using a high-fashion ring flash, and automatically displays the photo via several projectors. Photos can also be uploaded to flickr, facebook, or other sources in real time. You can have the Big Red Party Button at your wedding, prom, or other event.
Visit site View PhotosMore than just a photobooth, available for weddings, proms and parties.
My role: Design and development.
Details: This site features a database of Jerome grantees as well as grantee news and events. The site is easy for the Jerome Foundation staff to update and manage. I worked with another Drupal developer to build the grant application portion of the site.
Flexible web presence for one of Minnesota's venerable arts foundations.
My role: Web design, front- and back-end coding.
Details:
Utilizing an identity system designed by Matthew Rezac, the third iteration of this biennial's website housed more artists, artworks than ever before. This WordPress-based site features several customizable templates, mapping, and a mobile theme.
The website for the ZER01's third biennial in San Jose, CA.
My role: Design, front- and back-end coding.
Details:
Created using the Django framework, this site builds a robust system for
housing the lectures and talks the Walker creates. It features a robust search engine, solr, and can import and serve video from a large number of external sources such as Amazon S3, YouTube, and Real.
The multimedia hub for the Walker Art Center, built using Django.
My role: Web design, front- and back-end coding.
Details:
Working with the Walker Design Studio, I created this site to upgrade the manageability of this new design education program. The site features a dynamically sortable reading room housing a library of design criticism articles. The site is built using a custom WordPress theme and plugins.
Features faculty and student profiles, a library system for contributed essays, and an event calendar.
My role: Concepting, design, front- and back-end coding.
Details:
The project was divided into three phases: Design, voting, and application. In the design phase, we solicited visitors to design signs for yards, as a communal political gallery. Phase two asked users to vote for the 50 best signs. Phase 3 installed and mapped the signs across the Twin Cities.
A non-partisan crowd-sourced political design project, centered around the 2008 Republican National Convention.
My role: Design, media production.
Details:
Each month, I produce pre-roll teaser for upcoming film screenings, exhibitions, and other events.
The treatment is simple to deal with the wide variety of films and mediums involved. This teaser shows
while an audience takes their seats and waits for the main feature to begin.
A pre-roll for the Walker Cinema showing special offers and upcoming films, updated monthly.
My role: Web design, front- and back-end coding.
Details:
Working with Namdev Hardisty and J. Zachary Keenan to create an identity, I designed the website for this new
Twin Cities based arts organization. The web site and uses typography as it's main design element.
The site is built using a custom WordPress theme.
Website and identity for an exciting new media arts organization in Minnesota.
My role: Web design, front- and back-end coding.
Details:
To update the site for Walker's unique teen programs, I split the existing site into two parts; the business side carries info for other teen educators; and the play side is the information station for teens engaged in the activities. The design takes this split literally with a bar that visitors interact with, hiding and revealing the sides of the site.
A dynamic split personality site for the institution and teens behind the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council.
My role: Web design, coding, video editing.
Details:
For the exhibition of the same name, this site features a lexicon of suburban sprawl terms editable by users. It also served as the staging point for a YouTube video competition in which people created stories about their suburb. Videos were displayed on a web-based TV interface in a suburban den-styled room in the exhibition.
A YouTube video competition and editable lexicon for the terms of the suburbs.
As the headline says at the top of the page, I am a full stack web developer. That means I handle all aspects the website creation process; from design, development, to operations. I especially enjoy gnarly layout problems, hacking things with javascript, and writing back-end python
In addition to web-related technologies, I'm fluent in the languages audio and video worlds; If it has a codec, I know what to do with it.
When I'm not creating websites, I enjoy cooking, cycling, and brewing my own beer. I don't particularly enjoy painting, electrical wiring, or other house projects, but I also do those when I'm not making websites.
While I have a full-time job I enjoy at Minnesota Public Radio, I also take on occasional freelance work. I especially enjoy art and journalism related projects, and offer a discount for non-profit clients (just ask). If you have a need, contact me. My typical rate is $100 per hour, and projects I take on are usually in the $3000-$10,000 range.
Work related email:
work@fiddlyio.com
Non-work email:
justin@fiddlyio.com
Phone:
612-293-8840
