A Collection of Works
- Client: Carroll College
- Date: Fall/Winter 2006
- Type: Web/Flash
- Service: Design, User Interface, Flash, ActionScript, Photo Manipulation
Kris was charged with the task of creating a Flash-based holiday greeting card. The project was simple: Capture a check-listed set of elements that showcase Carroll, and construct a Flash movie. It was a great honor to create something that went out to thousands of alumni and friends on behalf of President Hastad.
Have you seen Kris' resumé yet?
If you haven't, you really should check it out to see some of his experiences, like being the student rep on the Presidential Search Committee at Carroll College or vice president of Carroll's student senate, among many other things.
- Client: Carroll College
- Date: Summer 2006
- Type: Web
- Service: User Interface, Information Architecture, XHTML, CSS
Kris was approached to help with the production of the newly re-designed Carroll College Web site. His role was taking individual pages, breaking down the information that would be displayed, and creating a user-centered page.
- Client: Carroll College
- Date: Summer 2006
- Type: Web / Flash
- Service: User Interface, Flash Animation, ActionScript
While Kris was helping the redesign of the Carroll site, he was asked to develop a sort of virtual map. Using Flash, he came up with a working solution that loaded fast, was intuitive, and got the job done.
- Client: Elite Clubs (via DP3)
- Date: Summer 2005
- Type: Print
- Service: Design, Marketing Research
A promotion proposal to Elite Clubs of South Eastern Wisconsin, the pitch hinged on membership price would cost you less than a single consumption product a day (latte, for example). Smart, double-meaning marketing.
- Client: DP3 Marketing
- Date: Winter 2005
- Type: Web
- Service: Design, Branding, User Interface, XHTML, CSS, PHP
A duo-tone, grid creation, the Web site for DP3 Marketing has won over 6 online design awards. A splash of JavaScript and Flash enhance the PHP structure for easy updating and smooth presentation.
- Client: Cash Back Events (via DP3)
- Date: Spring 2005
- Type: Web
- Service: Design, Branding, User Interface, XHTML, CSS
Focusing on the epicenter of design, CBE was built around the left column. All business profile information and imperative knowledge to pass on is accented there.
- Client: Easy Sign-Up (via DP3)
- Date: Spring 2006
- Type: Web
- Service: Design, Branding, User Interface, XHTML, CSS
Knowing full well that the main interface pieces would be on the individual sign-up pages, ESU was built around visual cues. Error messages, phone numbers, and required fields are accented the most.
- Client: Lori Bauman (via DP3)
- Date: Winter 2004
- Type: Web
- Service: Design, Flash Creation, ActionScript, Photoshop Touch-Ups
Lori requested a Flash site to accent her artistic flair. Consequently, effects taking her work, re-tooling it in Photoshop, and applying blends and fades in Flash created a great background that made the rest of the site easy to work with.
- Client: Art of Exposure
- Date: Summer 2005
- Type: Web
- Service: Design, Branding, User Interface, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP
Are of Exposure is a photography business that does incredible work. AoE focuses on weddings, which is very elegant. The design chosen matches the Victorian, elegant environment Tammy is in most of the time.
- Client: DP3 Marketing
- Date: Spring 2005
- Type: Print
- Service: Design, Indenity Branding
DP3 likes to promote the people working in the company, not just the company. An angle inspired by Bright Corner, these cards were designed to feature each employee with a short bio and his/her personal contact info on the back.
- Client: DP3 Marketing
- Date: Winter 2004
- Type: Print
- Service: Design
When DP3 used to focus more on the print industry, it serviced the auto dealers of South Western Wisconsin. To promote itself, two postcard mailers were designed to emphasize the benefits of marketing.
- Client: Cash Back Events (via DP3)
- Date: Spring 2006
- Type: Print
- Service: Design, Marketing Research, Identity Branding
Cash Back Events is a side project of DP3. To get the word out, several types of print promotion were created, along with identity and collateral like business cards and letterhead.
Writing Examples
Along with designing and coding, Kris has done a substantial amount of writing. He has been involved at one time or another as an editor of a school newspaper, contributing column writer to various Web sites, detailing his capstone project, and writing lesson plans for a XHTML/CSS lecture series. Below you'll find some selected writing pieces. They vary from blog entries to an advertising campaign plansbook.
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Advertising
Working a group of five, Kris helped bring energy and creativity to the project. This PDF is the final copy of a plansbook proposal to the Waukesha Business Improvement District (BID). The BID were to take the campaign they felt was best, and actually implement it into their current advertising. His group received an A and won the competition.
Download Plansbook
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Technology & Society
This was a final project for the Communications class on technology and its affects on society. It was a group project consisting of 5 members. Our group chose to examine social networks. Final grade: AB.
Download Online Social Networks Analysis
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Economies of Developing Nations
Politics303 was an exciting class on Globalization and Economies of Developing Nations. It was fascinating. The final paper due for the class was an extensive 20-page analysis of a topic of the student's choice. He chose The Commitment To Development Index (CDI) and how efficient it is at scoring developed nations. Final grade: 147/150 - A.
Download Final paper
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Book Review - Of Paradise And Power
Robert Kagan is a well-known conservative author out of Washington DC. His book Of Paradise And Power is a comparison of American and European foreign policy. It was one of two books Kris was to review in his International Relations class (the other being Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat). Final Grade: 29/30 - A.
Download Book Review
Client List
Kris has been involved in the development process in over 18 Web sites with tasks ranging from the designing to the programming. Some of the sites he was the sole member working on all aspects towards a completed site, and some of them he had a smaller, specific role. His client list is broken down by place of employment.
- DP3 Marketing
- Cash Back Events
- Easy Sign-Up
- Lori Bauman, Artist
- B&E General Contractors
- Avalon Hills
- Citizens Against Pornography
- Chapman
- Contexo Media
- Harvard Business School Cyberposium 11 (2006)
- Fifty Something Meet
- FinSeven
- Gideon Taylor Consulting
- I Am Sovereign
- Skilled2Succeed
- Intranet Redesign
- Student Senate
- Interactive Carroll Map (Flash)
- Holiday Greeting Card from the president of the college, Dr. Hastad (Flash)
Freelancing
- Art of Exposure Photography - Door County, WI
- Jeffery Davis Photography - Door County, WI
- Saguaro Day Spa - Door County, WI
- DrinkDirtCheap.com - Milwaukee, WI
- Sturgeon Bay Cinema Six - Sturgeon Bay, WI
