Kelvin Gumbs l Interactive Design

New Neighbour Orientation

noreply@blogger.com (Kelvin Gumbs) — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:51:00 +0000

Client: State Farm Insurance
Project: Web-based Tutorial (State Farm Intranet)
Date: 2007

New-hires of State Farm Insurance must complete an orientation session in order to familiarize themselves with company culture, rules and practices. The process of training new employees was with the creation of this online learning module.

The user is asked questions as they proceed through the module. A running total of correct answers is calculated and presented to the user at the end of the module.

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SFEA Website

noreply@blogger.com (Kelvin Gumbs) — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:40:00 +0000

Client: State Farm Insurance
Project: Microsite (State Farm Intranet)
Date: 2006 - Present

The State Farm Employees Association (SFEA) provides the State Farm's employee population with discounts and other highly valued perks. They were in need of a website to aid in the communication of their featured events.

I created this microsite as a customized solution that successfully communicated their message and highlighted the diversity of the employee population.

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Integrated Media Awards

noreply@blogger.com (Kelvin Gumbs) — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:36:00 +0000

Client: Centennial College
Project: Interactive Presentation
Date: 2006

The Integrated Media department of Centennial College hosts an event that features the best student work of the year. The committee needed an interface that showcased each featured students' projects.

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Fantastic Land

noreply@blogger.com (Kelvin Gumbs) — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:31:00 +0000

Client: Independent Project
Project: DVD Game
Date: 2006

The Amazing Adventures of Mathematics in the Fabulous Fantastic Land is a prototype of an educational game on DVD. It was an experiment in exploring the interactive potential of video DVDs.

The viewer is presented with a series of math problems. In order to progress through the game a minimum number of questions must be answered correctly.

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HBC.com - Xmas Edition

noreply@blogger.com (Kelvin Gumbs) — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:29:00 +0000

Client: Hudsons Bay Company
Project: Website
Date 2005

As a production artist with Fuel Advertising I worked on the Christmas 2005 edition of the Hudson's Bay Company's website.

I created the animated introduction that is used to feature several selected products within a limited amount of screen real-estate.

In addition I made regular updates to the content as well as created graphics and edited images for publishing on the web.

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Email Marketing

noreply@blogger.com (Kelvin Gumbs) — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:27:00 +0000

Client: Hudsons Bay Company / Zellers
Project: Email Marketing
Date: 2005

To advertise an exclusive event for preferred Bay and Zellers clientele, I created this evite using a combination of HMTL, CSS and graphics created using Photoshop.

The HTML page was distributed via mass email to the preselected candidates.

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The Asylum

noreply@blogger.com (Kelvin Gumbs) — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:25:00 +0000

Client: Independent Project
Project: Interactive Narrative/Game
Date: 2005

The Asylum is an interactive narrative in which the user can explore a fictional environment.

The characters within the story will react differently depending on the decisions the user makes.

This project displays examples of content development, character design, interactive script writing, programming, animation and sound design.

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Electronic Paper

noreply@blogger.com (Kelvin Gumbs) — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:23:00 +0000

Client: Centennial College
Project: Presentation
Date: 2005

This project is an executive summary that I produced. It's function was to provide the viewer with a general overview of the new and emerging technology known as electronic paper.

In addition to researching and writing the content I also made use of animation to further communicate the message.

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Caribana 2003 - The Movie

noreply@blogger.com (Kelvin Gumbs) — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:22:00 +0000

Client: Independent Project
Project: DVD
Date: 2003

Caribana 2003 – The Movie was my first attempt at making a full-length documentary. At the time I was project manager of UrbanGOAT.com and I felt the film would be an excellent way to promote the website, expose the artists featured in the film and sharpen my video editing skills.

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Urbangoat.com

noreply@blogger.com (Kelvin Gumbs) — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:24:00 +0000

Project: Website / Online Magazine
Date: 2001 - 2004

I founded UrbanGOAT.com in 2001. It was an online magazine that focused on the music, art and culture of the urban environment with a special focus on Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

As the project manager and creative director I designed the website (and redesigned it in 2003), developed written and image-based content, produced online videos, coordinated a core-team of contributors and solicited material from various freelance journalists.

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