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Goodbye Gannett

Goodbye Gannett

Today is my last day with Gannett and the GIADC. I have worked here for 7 years today. I am going to miss working with all of my friends in digital and campaign team, but I will definitely stay connected. I'll miss the super casual atmosphere and playing ping pong everyday. This was my first real design job and I learned how to edit photos, animate in Flash and Edge, design logos and ad campaigns. I have been looking for a new job for awhile and finally found a design position at EMC Insurance. I'll be joining a much smaller team and will get to do all sorts of design projects and do a lot more animation and video editing. My family has been super busy lately with baby Mia, selling our house, moving in to our new house and now me starting a new job. I'll have next week off to watch the kids and maybe organize the garage so we can park our cars in there. I start at EMC on the 17th and I am very excited! I'll be joining my friend Justin Bartz at EMC so I won't be too lonely, but I'm only 3 blocks away from my Gannett friends so hit me up for lunch anytime.

FSU Credit Union Ad Campaign

FSU Credit Union Ad Campaign

This is a campaign that I worked on with the GIADC Creative Campaign team. The creative was developed by me and Christine Thompson and led by Brian Tallman. I designed the digital/animated ads and Christine designed the print ads.

Lakeland College Ad Campaign

Lakeland College Ad Campaign

This is a campaign that I worked on with the GIADC Creative Campaign team. The creative was developed by me and Jon Kytola and led by Brian Tallman. I created the animated ads and Jon made the print ads. We took some of their existing branding elements and made it more iconic and eye-catching.

Jethro's BBQ ad campaign

Jethro's BBQ ad campaign

This ad campaign was originally proposed for Jethro's BBQ N' BACON BACON's grand opening but that was delayed and we ended up reusing the art for an April Fool's joke. It was created with the GIADC Creative Campaign team by me, Hayley Anderson and led by Brian Tallman. I designed the animated digital ads in Adobe Flash and animated HTML5 ads in Adobe Edge. I also illustrated the new front facing Jethro character.

The final ad that ran on April Fool's Day. Click to view it in action!

The final ad that ran on April Fool's Day. Click to view it in action!

Valley Popcorn Ad Campaign

Valley Popcorn Ad Campaign

This is a campaign that I worked on with the GIADC Creative Campaign team. The creative was developed by me and Kris Ahrens and led by Brian Tallman. I created the animated ads above and Kris made the print ads below. We had a lot of fun with making the color palette and writing some punny copy. 

Des Moines Menace Ad Campaign

Des Moines Menace Ad Campaign

This is a campaign that I worked on with the GIADC Creative Campaign team. The creative was developed by me and Hayley Anderson and led by Brian Tallman. I created the animated ads and Hayley made the print ads. View the HTML5 pushdown ad here.

Kroll's West Ad Campaign

Kroll's West Ad Campaign

This is a campaign that I worked on with the GIADC Creative Campaign team. The creative was developed by me and Jon Kytola and led by Brian Tallman. I created the animated ads and Jon made the print ads.

Manitowoc County Fair 2015

Manitowoc County Fair 2015

This is a campaign that I worked on with the GIADC Creative Campaign team. The creative was developed by me and Jolene Schultz and led by Brian Tallman. I designed the digital/animated ads and Jolene designed the print ads. We handmade the logo based off of different fonts and illustrated the fair characters.

Mobile transition ad

300x600 Flash ad

160x600 Flash ad

Big Brothers Big Sisters Ad Campaign

Big Brothers Big Sisters Ad Campaign

This is a campaign that I worked on with the GIADC Creative Campaign team. The creative was developed by me and Jon Kytola and led by Brian Tallman. I created the animated ads and Jon made the logo and print ads. We had a lot of fun with the 80's theme and I learned a lot making a fake bowling arcade game.

After this campaign sold they sent us some shirts!

McMahon's of Luxemburg Ad Campaign

McMahon's of Luxemburg Ad Campaign

This is a campaign that I worked on with the GIADC Creative Campaign team. The creative was developed by me and Christine Thompson and led by Brian Tallman. I designed the digital/animated ads and Christine designed the print ads.

Capital Ford Ad Campaign

Capital Ford Ad Campaign

This is a campaign that I worked on with the GIADC Creative Campaign team. The creative was developed by me and Katie Dondale and led by Brian Tallman. I created the animated ads and Katie made the print ads. I had some fun recreating the style of the Ford tv commercials. View the interactive ad at this link.

Sibcy Cline Realtors Ad Campaign

Sibcy Cline Realtors Ad Campaign

This is a campaign that I worked on for the GIADC Creative Campaign team. The creative was developed by me and led by Brian Tallman. I designed the headline logo, style guideline and all the ads and had some help from Cory Slifer on the HTML5 pushdown ad.

My Creative Process and Ice Cream Cones

My Creative Process and Ice Cream Cones

At work last week we had an hour to talk about our creative process and to try and make our own out of the crafts supplied. I saw fuzzy balls so I made an ice cream cone and related it to my work. Afterwards while searching for other people's creative process I found an agency that had an ice cream cone infographic! What a world.

Ice Cream Cone Creative Process

Ice Cream Cone Creative Process

http://www.kellerey.com/2013/08/08/infographic-our-creative-process-defined-via-ice-cream/

http://www.kellerey.com/2013/08/08/infographic-our-creative-process-defined-via-ice-cream/

Mayberry Homes Ad Campaign

Mayberry Homes Ad Campaign

This is a campaign that I worked on with the GIADC Creative Campaign team. The creative was developed by me and Miguel Contreras and led by Brian Tallman. I designed the digital/animated ads and Miguel designed the print ads.

Personal Avatar

Personal Avatar

Everyone at work got to make avatars based on a styleguide by Cory Slifer. This is me in summer and winter variations.

Buttons!
photo by Brian Tallman

LitaSell RE/MAX Ad Campaign

LitaSell RE/MAX Ad Campaign

This ad campaign was created for The LitaSells team of REMAX Alliance. It was created with the GIADC Creative Campaign team by me, Kris Ahrens and led by Brian Tallman. I designed the animated digital ads in Adobe Flash and Kris created the adscape print ad.

Print adscape ad designed by teammate Kris Ahrens

Print adscape ad designed by teammate Kris Ahrens