In the fall of 2008 (July-December) I spent a semester studying abroad in Australia. Based at the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Victoria, this site chronicles my exploration of the country-continent of Australia. Its design was based on the Version 5 Mercury Studios with tweaks to exemplify its difference as a separate mini-site. The site includes a Blog and Photo Gallery with descriptions and photos from around Melbourne and Australia.

2008

Website

HTML, CSS, Flash

For another one of my classes this last year, we were put the task of creating a website in flash. With a team of two others we designed and coded a redesign of a medical and business consulting company, Lifecare Systems of New England, LLC. The original website was built in HTML, but to complete the assignment we had to use Adobe Flash and ActionScript 3.0 to create a website with multiple pages and externally loading content.

2008

Website

Flash

Justin Richards, Suzette Ferdinand

In January 2008 a new version of Mercury Studios was unveiled. Deeming the last version too dark and too un-updatable, the new version took a new look and structure. Lightening up the dark grey colour scheme from v4 and adding in the red of Mercury Cartoons past the new design was in my opinion more atheistic and definitely easier to update. In the course of the year bloHG was also started and incorperated into the site. (Links to flash movies will open pages, not flash content—all movies can be located on current site).

2008

Website

HTML, CSS, Flash

Mercury Studios V4

For this design class project we created three poster sized images based around a single word with two words in it. Each poster was to represent a category, Text and Image, and then the third was to combine the two. My word was blackmail (comprised of black and mail). I used black for the Text themed poster, mail for the Image themed poster then blackmail represented the Text and Image combination.

2007

Posters

Photoshop, Illustrator

For my major class this year we were to create a shopping website. We choose a product to sell and created a product gallery, paypal buy feature, video advertisement, integrated flash video and working feedback page. I Used javascript and Flash to create some of the more advanced features of the site, yet had an option for those without Flash or JavaScript. My website sells video games from all generations. Note: no products are buyable.

2007

Website

HTML, CSS, Javascript, Flash

For my design class we created a fake company out of a random selection of word, my words consisting of backpack blue red lazy and house. Out of that came lazy red homes a custom house building business for which I created this logo. Looking to emphasize elegance and structure in this logo I used slim, yet blocky lettering for my fonts. Next we had use our logos to create a system of items for our company. I created a bussines card, envolope, letterhead, folder, brochure, van and hard hat (some of which are pictured).

2007

Logo

Photoshop, Illustrator

Version 4 of Mercury Studios presented the content of the newly termed Mercury Studios in its first HTML iteration. I had been using HTML is passing through the years (to hold to previous Flash sites and movies) but only at this point in time had truly come to use HTML and CSS. While trying to aim for a Silvery/Black color scheme, the site came out too dark and was later redesigned for that reason. The site contains much the same content as it does nowadays, and was organized pretty concisely for a fairly clean look. (Links to flash movies will open pages, not flash content—all movies can be located on current site).

2006

Website

HTML, CSS, Flash

Mercury Studios V5

For my final of my first web design class I created this website that is all about the players of Manchester United (circa 2006). United Playa’s had to conform to as many of the design features we had learnt throughout the semester. Including all of the players from the time of creation this project was probably bigger than I expected it to be, but the coding on the other hand was pretty simple.

2006

Website

HTML, CSS, Flash

http://4thegame.com/