Adobe

CS4 updated and refined the desktop system introduced for the Macromedia-integrated Adobe CS3 era. Visual improvements to the ever-growing system were many - sharper, crisper, brighter - but this release also marked the official yet quietly in-progress introduction of what would become Adobe's new corporate typeface, Clean.

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dentity, logo mark, and icon development for Adobe's AIR (Integrated Runtime). Air is a development and distribution platform melding the unique authoring and functional capabilities of Flash, Flex, and web-based technologies for online and offline applications.

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CS3 was an epic renovation of every Adobe and Macromedia product identity found throughout the desktop. The primary challenges were to develop a system which would successfully merge the Macromedia and Adobe product lines in a way which would tie the product icons together to work side-by-side harmoniously.

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(post in progress) Series of posters and screen-display signage promoting lunch-time XD group presentations. After several years of quietly working under-the-radar, the central design organization is reaching out to the rest of the company. The identity and character of the speakers is represented in the artwork as their favorite lunch-time objects.

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Short film capturing the work of the Adobe Experience Design Team (XD). A demo reel of sorts revealing the revolutionary interaction patterns and application design methodologies created by the team.

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Construction and treatment definitions for a new Flex component skin system. Aeon's clean, crisp minimalist design features CSS-controlled parameters for color and transparency to allow dynamic visual hierarchy as well as a very clever highlight layer for gloss or matte surface treatments. Application speed and rendering performance improvements were realized through drastically simplified drawing code (by half, relative to Halo).

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Adobe Illustrator rendering exercise; concept livery illustration featuring one of my favorite brand/package-design identities. The chassis is a LMP-class Courage C60. More »