Projects

While I can’t share a lot of my work because it’s confidential, here is a sampling of work that I’ve done in the last few years. I’ve been busy doing everything from Art Directing SuperBowl commercials, creating large format animations for billboards in Times Square, designing Ted Talk decks, teaching courses on LinkedIn Learning, hosting and appearing on podcasts and doing speaking engagements at design conferences. I’ve been a busy guy!

One of the biggest highlights of my career was to work as the Sr. Art Director on one of 2023’s hottest Super Bowl commercials for Workday. Some of the many awards we won include:

• Winner of the 2023 Cannes Gold Lion Award

• Winner of the 2023 Campaign US Super Bowl Ad Bracket

• Winner of the 2023 Grand Prix and Integrated Campaign awards

• Winner of a Silver award at the 2023 Clio Awards

• Winner of a Merit Award at The One Club for Creativity's 2023 awards

One of the more fun projects I was able to work on was designing a Ted Talk presentation for Stephen DeBerry, where he explains how both environmental and man-made factors have led to disparity by design in cities from East Palo Alto, California to East Jerusalem and beyond. This was challenging, because we had to work together to time his talk to the slides I created and get it just right.

My first speaking engagement at the Creative Pro conference in New Orleans! In this video, I show how adding a little movement to still images can spice up a presentation.

In this “Ask the Expert”, Anne-Marie Concepción chats with presentation designer and CreativePro Week speaker Jole Simmons.

In one of my favorite parts of the Creative Pro conference, 3 Minutes Max, I showed attendees how to quickly clean up their slides using one of PowerPoint’s features called “Design Ideas.” The catch is doing it all in 3 minutes, so I have a little fun in this one, trying to get it all done before the dreaded buzzer.

In another 3 Minutes Max session for Creative Pro, I bite off more than I can chew….I attempt to show attendees how to composite video and still images in PowerPoint in 3 minutes! While I don’t quite make it in time, I think I did a pretty good job of showing a complex concept that I came up with from scratch.

In yet another 3 Minutes Max session for Creative Pro, I show users how to stack animations in PowerPoint using animated gifs and traditional animation.

In this episode of the 365 Labs podcast, I talk to Boris about slide design, Silicon Valley companies, storytelling, and what you can do to improve your daily presentation design.

This was a fun exercise I did for an interview with Twitter, created in Keynote. The client was Adidas, and the objective was to promote their Boost line of shoes. I didn't spend too much time on it, but I still think it came out pretty well.

Here’s an example of something I have to do often…build a demo on a phone or laptop. This was created in Keynote as an excercise for Lyft.

Check out this video I created for Imperva's NASDAQ Opening Bell ringing ceremony in Times Square, New York City. It was the first time Imperva unveiled their new logo and branding, so that was an added challenge. I created it in After Effects and this is by far the biggest thing I’ve ever created (literally)!

A colorful, animated presentation for the Boston-based innovation firm, Imaginatik, designed in Keynote.

Here’s a video I did for Electro Rent, created in Adobe Premiere. One of the first videos I worked on, this was an exercise in file management, cutting music to movie clips, and hours and hours of patience.

Yet another cool deck I did for Imaginatik in Keynote. I really had fun with the animations on this one.

A video for Visit Oakland, created solely in Keynote. This is back before I learned Adobe Premiere, so it's cool to see how far I've come in video editing since then.