I do freelance all over the Chicago area. Clients include; Daily Planet, Moxie Post, Bridges Media Group, Arc Worldwide, Lift, Gertrude, Editworks, Nogginaut, Invision Media, and Plum. The work I have done work ranges from personal, to experimental, to professional, to corporate, and beyond. You can check out my portfolio at www.digitalhitchhiker.com
Jul 2, 2009

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I took a shot at datamoshing for the latest Greyscale Gorilla’s 5 Second challenge themed, “Old Video Games“. Datamoshing is basically a compression technique that artifacts your video and creates digital glitches. There …
Jun 12, 2009

In an unrelated design note I picked up a new bike that other day. It’s a 54cm classic 1966 Schwinn Super Sport. I was looking for something that was a little faster then my old bike and since a single speed has less bike components they are usually lighter and …
Jun 11, 2009
There are a lot of blogs that look at web design trends and logo trends but few that look at trends in motion graphics. I thought I’d take a stab at it and look at a few of the more recent design trends in the motion graphics world. Trends in motion graphics just seem …
Jun 9, 2009
I was asked to relaunch the web presence of Daily Planet Ltd with a new website. The previous website was a flash site which made it hard for Daily Planet ltd to update it at the pace that was needed. Daily Planet Ltd needed a site that was clean, user friendly and that …
Jun 8, 2009
A few of us at Daily Planet worked on this quick little teaser animation for the HTC Touch Diamond.
Jun 1, 2009

I recently had the opportunity to work with Gertrude Inc to help them “breath new life” into Binaca. Gertrude Inc is currently rolling out an integrated ad campaign for Binaca, with revamped packaging, print ads, guerrilla marketing and television. This final step …
May 26, 2009
A new website recently went live for freelance Art Director,
Peggy Carroll. Peggy took care of the design for the site and I handled all of the coding. It was a pleasure to work with Peggy and I hope to work with her again on other projects.
May 1, 2009

Just finished a new 30 second spot at Daily Planet. The Daily Planet team used only photos to create this high energy spot for the Chicago Sky. Check out the spot in the motion section.
Apr 29, 2009

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Took some time today to put together a submission for Greyscale Gorilla’s 5 Second challenge themed, “Hero”.
For more information on the five second projects check out greyscalegorilla.com
Apr 24, 2009
I posted up a couple of new boards I did at Daily Planet. They ended up going with a different concept someone else at Daily Planet did.
40 Year-Old Virgin, Almost Famous, American Beauty, An Inconvenient Truth, Back To The Future (1 & 2), Brick, Children of Men, Crash, Cube, Donnie Darko, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Juno, Hackers, Little Miss Sunshine, Mallrats, Matrix, Garden State, Kid Stays in the Picture, Spy Kids, Super Size Me
+/-, 63 Crayons, A-Trak, A.C. Newman, AC/DC, All Girl Summer Fun Band, Arcade Fire, Architecture in Helsinki, Ark, Atmosphere, Beastie Boys, Beatles, Ben Folds, Bikeride, Black Milk, Bloc Party, Changes, Chk Chk Chk, Chin Up Chin Up, Common, Cribs, Danger Mouse, Death From Above 1979, Decemberists, Doves, Dressy Bessy, Girl Talk, Girls Are Short, Go-Kart Mozart, Gorillaz, Hal, Har Mar Superstar, Harlem Shakes, Her Space Holiday, Jean Grae, John Vanderslice, Jurassic 5, Kaiser Chiefs, Kanye West, Klaxons, K-os, KRS-One, Koufax, Lupe Fiasco, MC Lars, Metric, Mika, Modest Mouse, Mos Def, Masta Ace, Mstrkrft, Murs, Nirvans, Outkast, Princess Superstar, Ratatat, Roots, Sage Francis, Shins, Slip, Sufjan Stevens, Talib Kweli, The Sw!ms, Tom Waits, Volcanoless In Canada, White Stripes
30 Rock, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, Big Love, Colbert Report, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Daily Show, Deadwoood, Dexter, Entourage, Extras, Eureka, Firefly, Freaks & Geeks, Grim Adventures Of Billy & Mandy, Hustle, Invader Zim, My Name Is Earl, The Office, Rescue Me, Sliders, South Park, Strangers With Candy, Three Sheets, Weeds, Wire