Jason Nako
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Mai & JasonWedding Site
3.2009- role Art Direction, Lead Visual Design
- project Logo Design, Site Design
The design of maiandjason.com is based on the classic historic past of Santa Barbara. The aged paper and photo treatment are based around a found picture of the Old Mission where the couple is getting married. Slate blues and grays accent the site which are the wedding colors.
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Bar Great HarryPrint
6.2009- role Art Direction, Lead Visual Design
- project Flier Design
BGH needed a tough, masculine flier design announcing their brewery events. The vintage boxing direction was a solid solution for the impression BGH wanted.
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Inline ConnectionBranding
2.2009- role Art Direction, Lead Visual Design
- project Logo Design
The logo is made up of a stylized "I" and "C". The implied motion and symmetrical points of the mark reflect the concept of making a connection.
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SplunkSplunk Replay, Weblog Reports
4.2008- role Art Direction, Lead Visual Design
- project Application Design, .net App Design
Splunk specializes in large-scale, high-speed indexing and search technology for IT infrastructures.
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Splunk Replay is a Flash-based, data visualization tool that "replays" your Splunk'd logfile activities in an animated layout. Replay generates animated barchart graphs using two extracted fields from the events it receives from Splunk. For example, if you have Splunk eat wiki data, you can plot the wiki user and wiki page they are editing, and then animate those relationships over a given time range.Right
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Weblog Reports generates visual displays of web data. Users can view data of traffic, browsers, content and referrers as line, bar and pie charts.
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Yahoo! SportsEditorial Site
1.2007- role Art Direction, Lead Visual Design
- project Site Redesign, Book Design
2008 Webby Award Winner - Best Sports Site
In preparation for the 2007 Super Bowl, Yahoo! Sports wanted to redesign their website and create a new sports experience. The goal of the redesign was to provide everything the everyday sports fan wants while having a bold, clean, visually appealing look and feel.
The redesign focused on bigger photos with stronger emotional impact, the ability to customize variations of secondary stories including breaking news, top headlines front and center and personalized fantasy information the user can access from virtually any page.
Today Yahoo! Sports is the #1 sports website beating out rival ESPN.com
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"Trends and Observations: An Examination of Today's Sports Experience" is a 42 page book that captured a snapshot of the sports world during the redesign. The book was designed and handed out to members of the sports team in order to generate discussions and inspire new ideas. The book covered examples from sports photo presentation to personalization to stats and data displays.
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High Gear MediaSite Redesign
4.2009- role Art Direction, Lead Visual Design
- project Site Design
HGM brings together a powerful technology platform, deep editorial expertise, and a unique model of publishing multiple automotive media sites to address every interest and lifestyle.
The site redesign focused on a slicker, modern look and feel. A saturated direction combined with elements of speed, gave the site a more intruiging impression.
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Yahoo! Fantasy SportsCollege Bowl Pick'em
12.2007- role Art Direction, Lead Visual Design
- project Site Design, Logo Design
College Bowl Pick'em was a brand new fantasy game for 2007. The pick'em game introduced a new feature giving the user the ability to drag and drop games into Confidence Points slots. The design of this game was approached from the ground up and every element of game play was carefully examined. The game debuted with over 300,000 participants.
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Tee Bee DeeNO BULLSH*T Ad Campaign
2.2008- role Art Direction, Lead Visual Design
- project Ad Design
Tbd.com is a social networking site for people over 40. They needed a series of ads that would work with a "No Bullsh*t" concept. I came up with this idea of a BS Meter that would allow for various funny quotes to be switched in and out.
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Yahoo! Fantasy SportsBranding
1.2007- role Art Direction
- project Branding
In the past, Yahoo! Fantasy Sports individually designed the look and feel for each of its fantasy games. In 2006, a consistent look and feel was applied to Yahoo! Fantasy Sports and continues today. Focusing on textures and environments rather than players was a conscious decision due to legal restrictions of using professional player images within the games. The advantage to having the family of games under a common visual umbrella is that it helps Yahoo! Fantasy Sports reinforce their brand recognition.
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Yahoo! Fantasy SportsFantasy MMA Pick'em
5.2007- role Art Direction, Lead Visual Design
- project Conceptual Site Design
This conceptual fantasy game was designed to illustrate how a pick'em game could be applied to a mixed martial arts event. The design of the game was approached much different from a standard pick'em game. Instead of relying on typical form fields to select winners, this game focused on giving a stronger visual queue to fights and allowing selections to be made by clicking on fighters. Bonus points would be awarded if the user could not only select the winner, but also choose how and when the fighter would win.
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Yahoo! SportsGilbert Arenas Editorial Feature
4.2007- role Art Direction, Lead Visual Design
- project Mini Site Design
This conceptual piece was designed for Yahoo! Sports to examine a different way to present editorial interviews. The look and feel of the cover mimicked more of a print direction than online.
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Ghostface Killa Poker
2.2007- role Art Direction, Lead Visual Design
- project Site Design, Logo Design
GFK Poker brought together hip hop and hold'em. Rather than playing for money, gfkpoker.com allowed online poker players to compete for vacations, concert tickets and VIP backstage passes. The site also let users play against some of their favorite hip hop artists.
