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IMVU Banner Ads for MyYearbook âFree Lunch Moneyâ Campaign
Project Description: Two banner ad directions created for specific placement using custom sizes 245x87, 393x100, 588x60, 866x318.
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IMVU Chat Roulette Theme Landing Page
Project Description: Based on another designers idea for a chat roulette page design I created a landing page which allowed viewers to click through a slideshow of various avatars.
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IMVU General Avatars Banner Ads
Project Description: Most of the art in this project came from other IMVU designers or I appropriated after digging through internal servers. These test banners were created to see if viewers were particularly attracted to certain avatars more than others. I also intentionally avoided making them overly sexy (such as by avoiding showing overly exposed cleavage or a guy grabbing a girls butt) to better understand if customers were actually attracted by the virtual characters and environments or just the potential of having virtual sex with strangers. The logo is also faded back so it's less prominent and the avatars stand out (or âpopâ) more.
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IMVU Geo-targeted U.S Cityscape Banner Ads
Project Description: Developed as a test to appeal to audiences in specific U.S. cities. Makes a real-world connection while promoting virtual world benefits.
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IMVU Homepage Main Image Variation Mockups
Project Description: IMVU had amazing designers (some might say “illustration artists”) working in-house and occasionally I'd grab art from them to format and present for potential use on the homepage. Other times I’d assemble collages using art from various sources to represent ideas from internal marketing, management, and dev folks to consider using on the homepage. We would then test - such as wether showing an individual avatar posing closeup or showing couples in activity scenes generated more clicks. Eventually there were probably another dozen or more “hero” images I worked on while involved. This work was really inspiring design wise. Just looking at some of the original avatar compositions and background art other designers came up with plus being able to collaborate with them on compositions - really really cool stuff!
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IMVU âAvatarâ SEO Keyword Focused Landing Page Design
Project Description: Here's one of six pages created to capture natural SEO search traffic for specific terms. Checking on the url after a few years I noticed the design is still used and has only received minor updates. :)
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IMVU âBacheloretteâ Theme Banner Ads
Project Description: Playing-off the TV show “The Bachelorette” which was getting a lot of press at the time. Not an actual tie-in promotion related to the show though.
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IMVU âBeach Girlsâ Theme Banner Ads
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IMVU âBlonde Kissâ Banner Ads
Project Description: With animated hearts.
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IMVU âChictopiaâ Banner Ads
Project Description: Banner ads created for specific placement and audience appeal on Chictopia.com.
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IMVU âConfiguratorâ Banner Ads
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IMVU âMake Lover Not Warâ Banner Ads
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IMVU âNew Years Confettiâ Theme Banner Ads
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IMVU âPoolâ Theme Banner Ad
IMVU âPoolâ Theme Banner Ads
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IMVU âPromâ Theme Banner Ads
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IMVU âScenesâ Concept Banner Ad
Project Description: My concept with this ad was to show activities avatars can interact in, such as dancing, riding motocycles, or playing games within the virtual environment.
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IMVU âSpring Fashionâ Skyscrapper Banner Ads
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IMVU âUnleash Your Styleâ Free Credits Offer Banner Ad
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IMVU âWhite Dressâ Banner Ads
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IMVU âWinter Coupleâ Seasonal Theme Banner Ad
Project Description: Using animated falling snowflakes to grab attention plus look timely/relevant during the winter.
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iNetDVD.com Logo
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IMVU âAvatarâ Movie Theme Campaign
Initial Banner Ad Test Variations
Project Description: After going through several alternate looks for the avatar â including different poses, clothing, and background environments â we settled on going with this direction and tested a few different headline and button text combinations. Based on the direction landing page tests were also done and eventually the IMVU homepage included the design in the main image rotation.
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IMVU âDress Up for Grown Upsâ Campaign
Initial Banner Ads
Project Description: Here we initially tested a few different taglines, models, clothing, and backgrounds using the 300x250 format. After determining which combination produced the best results additional ad sizes were created. Eventually localized versions for ten different geo-tarted audiences as well. Versions were also created to blend in with specific web site placements so they didn't stand out as being ads too much.
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Dahbé Cosmetics Logo Mark
Initial Sketches For Consumer Product
Project Description: This was a short project for a startup I worked on while in college. Creating the playful gestural illustrations was fun. After creating several of the elements by hand through various analog techniques, I cut them out and pasted-up my favs by hand to create somewhat abstract forms related to beauty, fashion, and cosmetics. Then I shot composites using a stat camera. The stat camera was one of those big cameras that included a long rail, perhaps ten feet, with a swivel mount to place your artwork on and a rotating door leading to a dark room with only a red light and a focus window to view your artwork on before placing a large piece of Agfa or Fuji film for exposure. You could put a magnifying loop on the focus window while cranking a gear about waist heigh to fine tune the distance of your artwork and sharpness (I usually just eyeballed it though). Final presentation was a 24x36 film negative spray-painted metallic gold on the back then mounted on poster board. It looked kinda shiny and slick I thought at the time. Once in the early â90s I applied for a job at Bijan on Rodeo Drive in L.A. and was called in to interview personally. This is one of the pieces the interviewer walked out of the room with to show to someone I never met before returning and asking to see more. After that I always figured maybe I should save this technique for a potential future project.
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