Sure-Wood Forest Products-iAssist App
Project Sure-Wood Forest Products-iAssist App
About this project
iAssist is the first "App" I ever created for the iPod back in 2006. This was a project I inititiated as part of a re-purposing agenda I decided to pursue. I had created a very strong instructional piece for a instructional brochure that I wanted to distribute in a variety of formats. This instructional app showed a user the step-by-step process of retrofitting a wood baluster staircase with iron balusters.
Skills involved
This project was mainly done in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. The Quickstart guide was produced in InDesign and produced as a PDF with Acrobat for download distribution. I did all the product and how-to photography. I also designed the iAssist logo.
Extra information
As my first "app" and my first non-music use of an iPod, this was a exciting project. This project helped to set us apart from our competition since few people were doing iPod apps at that time.
Sure-Wood Forest Products-Website
Project Sure-Wood Forest Products-Website
About this project
The Sure-Wood website was created to be both a showcase for all the companies products as well as a tool to inform, educate, and instruct. This was a dynamic site set up so that it could one day be easily transformed to enable e-commerce .
Skills involved
Site was designed with Photoshop and Illustrator. Dreamweaver was used for programming the php for a MySQL database. Adobe Flash was used for some elements of the design. I did all the product photography for this site along with most of the lifestyle imagery.
Extra information
This site is no longer online. Sure-Wood was purchased in 2007 by a competitor.
Sure-Wood Forest Products – PTP Module
Project Sure-Wood Forest Products – PTP Module
About this project
This module was produced for the Sure-Wood Forest Products website to educate DIY’ers about the elements of an Post-to-Post staircase system. As users moved their cursor over the image of the staircase,products used inn the construction were highlighted and the product description and options appeared in the box on the right.
Skills involved
This module was created with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Dreamweaver. The interaction was done with javascript rollover effects.
Extra information
I did all the product photography and profile drawings for this project.
Sure-Wood Forest Products – OTP Module
Project Sure-Wood Forest Products-OTP Module
About this project
This module was produced for the Sure-Wood Forest Products website to educate DIY’ers about the elements of an Over-the-Post staircase system. As users moved their cursor over the image of the staircase,products used inn the construction were highlighted and the product description and options appeared in the box on the right.
Skills involved
This module was created with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Dreamweaver. The interaction was done with javascript rollover effects.
Extra information
I did all the product photography and profile drawings for this project.
Sure-Wood Forest Products – Stairparts 101
Project Sure-Wood Forest Products – Stairparts 101
About this project
This interactive module was produced for Sure-Wood Forest Products website. The purpose was to educate DIY’ers on stair part products and their use.
Skills involved
This project relied heavily on Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. The main section was built in Photoshop and then exported out into Dreamweaver. I did all the product photography used in this project as well as taking most of the beauty shots of our products in lifestyle settings.
Extra information
This piece was well received by our distributors since it helped to sell the product. It also helped to train our own employees at Sure-Wood about the products we manufactured and sold.
Rapid Web Based Training-The Home Depot
Project Rapid Web Based Training-The Home Depot
About this project
This Rapid Web Based Training course was produced while I was at Sure-Wood Forest Products for The Home Depot. I was in charge of producing the script for the fifteen 90 seconds segments. . The project was distributed to all Home Depot employees across the nation through their online training series. The main footage was shot at the Home Depot Headquarters in their video studio. I also designed the set for the project.
Skills involved
This project utilized the full Adobe Creative Suite. The production book required InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator, Flash and Dreamweaver. The production book I created detailed all the insert images and b-roll footage for each segment within the script. I photographed all the inset images and also shot all the b-roll footage and edited each segment to fit the time frame. Video editing was done using iMovie.
Extra information
This was a great project to work on an I’m sure it greatly influenced Sure-Wood Forest Products being named Home Depot Vendor of the Year that year.
