Author: dennis
John Muir Health
Rebrand, website development, and design system for hospital and healthcare provider.
Safeway Foodflex
At the heart of this integrated interactive campaign is the FoodFlex application which allows customers to chart their entire grocery shopping history and make smarter choices.
Faggin Foundation
Federico Faggin was the co-inventor of the microprocessor, a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist, and also funds research into the scientific examination of consciousness.
Thomson Reuters
Social platform for an academic audience, with a strategy to make the experience less formal than typical Reuters materials.
She Just Stared at Me
She was in her late twenties, with flowing brown hair and clear pale skin. I met her on my morning commute. The 880 from Oakland to San Jose is one of the worst commutes in the Bay Area. Roughly an hour and a half of stop and start traffic with no rhyme or reason to why it stops, or why...
Condo Olympics
To rehab my shoulder I’ve been swimming in my Condo’s rooftop pool. First couple days I didn’t really swim. Just sat neck high submerged and moved my arm slowly up and down to see how far I could push it without popping it out again. Yesterday I swam one length, a slow breast stroke, just fast enough to keep my...
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand was super-trendy in the early 90s in Silicon Valley, so I picked up her first novel to see what all the fuss was about. Wow! It was the first time I really identified with a main character, Howard Roark, and saw so much of how the world works through this tale. Here Roark explains why he blew a...
McClure’s Magazine
User experience, site design, editorial content, social platforms and more for a satire and news site.
Cambodia
I was fascinated with Angkor Wat as a child, so when I had the opportunity to visit I took it. Hired a taxi to tour me around for three days. Turns out that Angkor Wat is more than just a temple, it is the ruins of what was once a very large city. I almost got in a fight while...
The Best Teacher I Ever Had
When I was about four years old, my parents gave me a toy piano. Up until that moment, I had been able to figure out just about anything, but it soon became quite clear to me that I had no aptitude for music. The piano was put aside – way aside – for crayons, building blocks, and comic books. I...
Clinique Cyberface
A series of interactive experiences ranging from desktop applications, to in-store kiosks, to web applications. Cyberface was truly ahead of it’s time, a vision of what was coming to the interactive space.
Banks & Credit Unions
Mostly while serving as Creative Director at Extractable, I was involved in designing numerous bank and credit union websites. It was an area of specialty and we won numerous awards from the Credit Union Marketing Association, such as Logix Banking and Security Service Federal Credit Union.
Product Photography
Specializing in small products of all sorts, from cosmetics, jewelry, industrial, to consumer electronics.