CurtisChristman@gmail.com Redmond, WA 425.999.0658
Visual design impacts everything from first impression through maintaining a loyal customer base. It attracts new customers and adds to experience and loyalty. It tells users about the quality of what they are using and influences how they are viewed by others. Visual design underlies peoples emotional attachments to a product or experience and makes it more memorable and desirable. From and interaction point of view, it improves time on task, reduces fatigue, improves memory, as well as customer and employee retention. These examples show a range of visual design from brand development to layout and interaction design. They are done with a variety to tools from Adobe Suite, to Image Libraries to 3D applications. My background in visual understanding includes 2 masters degrees and several years as a professor of design, color theory, story boarding, lighting, 3d modeling, and composition. I have worked with marketing, brand, product, legal, accessibility, and coached visual design over the course of my career.
I provided a photography series with design adjustments as a new look for sales efforts across several sales teams.
I provided a photography series with design adjustments as a new look for sales efforts across several sales teams.
This image was to show how the styled photo's can influence setting. It's easy to imagine this in print, or in a digital billboard. I provided collaborative direction on this piece.
Here the theme is extended to show additional settings, making the idea more tangible for the executive audience. I provided direction on this piece.
This image was published and used in customer facing materials that addressed the modern consumer experience and how technology is improving peoples lives in many ways. I provided collaborative direction on this piece.
A continuation of the previous ideas. This one was published as part of a series that spoke to Cloud platform. The building, reflection, and designed squares combined to cover inherent topics on organization, complexity, and innovation.
This series is an exploration for combining graphics, illustration and photography for sales materials that integrate with marketing campaigns, I provided design, adding value through collaborative direction.
This series is an exploration for combining graphics, illustration and photography for sales materials that integrate with marketing campaigns, I provided design, adding value through collaborative direction.
This series is an exploration for combining graphics, illustration and photography for sales materials that integrate with marketing campaigns, I provided creative direction to solidify and refine to the final look.
This series is an exploration for combining graphics, illustration and photography for sales materials that integrate with marketing campaigns, I provided creative direction to refine to this final look..
Microsoft Server System sub branding. This series was a competition at Microsoft between my internal team, Frog, and Methodology. These comps were the winning effort. These images were used to direct design to the final product splash and install screens.
An option that went along with the overall theme. I provided 3D rendering and worked collaboratively with a 2D designer on this series.
This was an animated hero graphic for a hospital chain. I directed the designer and produced the action-script for the on-line experience..
I created site page navigation along with a new look for a modern SharePoint site. This facilitated migrating to a new platform and played out across several global teams. the next few images are from pages on this site.
I created this page and advised on navigation providing one of the global teams a new landing page and navigation that streamlines and unifies the overall experience for global teams.
The site design and navigation is an update option to the partners team for site migration noted in a few slides. I have interaction design guidelines/wireframes for further conversation.
The site design and navigation is a visual option/update to the partners team site noted in the next slide. I have interaction design guidelines/wireframes for further conversation.
Showing some common icons that are part of a library I with over 1500 elements. My role was creative direction an choosing the platform for our library, which was shared across a company of 30,000 users including brand and marketing.
