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Nike Final Four Event Website (creative direction)
The second site we produced was a live event for the 1997 College Basketball Final Four championships in Indianapoils and Cincinnati. There were two teams, one in each city, who took photos, wrote text and prodcued the materials for their events. These materials were...
Nike Spring Training Event Website (creative direction)
Once vivid became NIKE's "web architect of record," we created a series of special sites for them. The first site we helped produce was a quick documentary for the 1997 Baseball Spring Training in Tampa, FL. was an authentic site about the excitement and joy of...
Spotlight Conference Website (design)
SPOTLIGHT was one of the most prestigius conferences about interactive media. It was probably one of the few that is worth the time to attend and also one of the few that really addresses the issues of the day. This was a small site but includes great coverage of the...
Silicon Valley Elderhostel Website (design)
I designed and built this site for my mother's business. She ran the Silicon Valley Elderhostel for a few years with her friend pat Tappan. People got a lot out of it but it was way too difficult to make it work financially. 1997
Centerview Intranet Interface (design)
Center view Software required a unique interface to their Intranet-based database query product, Database Neighborhood. They needed something that clearly organized complex, and often repetitive information but that didn't appear dry or boring. They wanted an...
Kodak Picture Network (proof of concept)
Kodak approached vivid to create a proof of concept for a new, Internet-driven business unit for Kodak. This service, later launched as the Kodak Picture Network, allows customers to send-in their film to Kodak for developing and have their images appear on the Web....
News Limited Classified Ads and Website (design and strategy)
This Australian interactive classifies publisher needed a strategy for integrating their classifieds ads from their newspapers into a cohesive, Internet-savvy solution. The solution had to offer not only easier use, but new features, new business models, and new...
Swissbank Website (design and strategy)
vivid consulted with Swissbank's investment division, SBC Warburg to develop the strategy for a worldwide Internet presence that served both the domestic banks' consumer customers, their worldwide wholesale and investment customers, as well as the needs of their...
Bell Atlantic “At Your Service” (design and strategy)
vivid designed and built this online service for Bell Atlantic as a locally-relevant directory of the Internet for customers of its Internet service. Bell Atlantic needed a dynamic, flexible set of Web management tools to build a customer-savvy product that would...
Gulliver (proof of concept) for Vivid Travel Network
vivid created several prototypes and finished tools for this travel network. The tools allowed affiliates to establish their own travel destination sites and included administrative tools, merchant interfaces, and customer views and controls of the information. These...