Clean and efficient way to update and pass along my CV. I have played around with a coupole of different approaches with this. It just seems like I was always locked into a PDF once it was written.

With this version being completely lightweight and highly customizable, I think I found a great solution.

Over the years, I have looked into every mail campaign service out there to handle my email campaigns and newsletters to my design clients. Most of the services out there are either more feature rich than I need them to be or to poorly put together for the price they were charging. I had pretty much given up hope until I came across Mail Chimp.

I won’t lie, one of the first things that got me about Mail Chimp was its design. It is simple, colorful, playful, and especially easy to use. What’s not to like about that? Aesthetics aside, Mail Chimp had just the amount of features I was looking for.

I created a series of email campaigns to get a much more polished message to the press for Stoked: Big Air Edition. My goal was simple: make journalists intrigued and impressed at the professional approach of our campaign.

The Result
Using Mail Chimp’s dashboard feature, I could easily track the results of the campaign. I checked in within the first 30 minutes after sending and saw some pretty amazing results.

Not only were the emails being clicked on, but the press releases and coverage was immediately hitting the internet. Good design matters.

Hitchcock is a mobile storyboarding application for the iPhone. Instead of tediously drawing each panel, you use photos. This is a no-brainer for me. I’m already using my iPhone camera for location scouting. Now I can have a working storyboard before even leaving the location. The process is simple. Launch the app and import photos via your photo library or shoot photos straight from the camera.

Each picture becomes a “panel” in your finished board. You can rearrange panels, set their duration, add characters (silhouettes), add markup arrows and text, record audio, keyframe pans and zooms. Wow. But by far the best feature of this app is that it gives you an animatic of your board. At any point you can hit play and see how your shots cut together, complete with recorded audio and camera moves. This is an invaluable feature for anyone storyboarding with time constraints (like a :30 commercial spot for example). When you’re finished, you can export the whole thing to a PDF and email it to the client or crew.

I used this app to storyboard a trailer for Stoked: Big Air Edition. Flawless. I had to coordinate video and personnel from Austria as well as Seattle. In the end, having a mobile storyboarding app made the process move 4x faster.