I have dedicated my career to the pursuit of cutting edge vision and innovation in the areas of Project/Creative/Art Direction, Cross-Media Design, User Interface, Information and User Experience Design, Animation and Digital Storytelling. I am always interested in opportunities that pursue vision, innovation and direct action for a better tomorrow. My talents include:
- Entreprenuerial & Team Leadership
- Visual and Written Design Innovation & Ideation
- Hands-on Digital Design and Creative Service Productions
- Motion Design using Animation, Photography, & Videography
I admit that I am a generalist in a world of specialists, but what that brings to the table is a diversity of experience, a breadth of skillsets, and a unique approach to problem solving, product building and media design / production oversight.
As a START-UP ENABLER:
I help individuals build new entities in the face of economic and scalability challenges.
As a BUSINESS GROWTH ENABLER:
I help mid-sized companies position themselves for growth,
or redefine themselves in quickly changing times.
As an INNOVATION ENABLER:
I help large companies design and produce media efficiently and effectively,
adding talent where and when it’s needed most.
I have designed and developed products and experiences for all markets and industries...
What follows is a selected list of past / current clients and the project types I have completed. As a cross-media designer, producer and project director, I have helped companies from every market segment, of every size, and are intimately familiar with the following markets for both Consumer and Business to Business positioning: Technology (both hardware and software), Food Services, Media, Aerospace, Medical, Manufacturing, Industrial, Entertainment, Media, Social Services, Government, Energy, and Financial…
LARGE CORPORATIONS
Applied Materials – corporate website, intranet
Apple – product demonstration CDROM, prototyping
Borland / Enprise – web animation, videography, animation
Capitol Records – CDROM game, prototyping, videography
Consilium – corporate website & secure intranet, 3d graphics
Creative Labs – animation, user interface, CDROM, prototyping
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. – user interface graphics, prototyping
Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal – advanced online research, prototyping
Cisco – Animation, Writing, User Interface, Conceptual Design
Fair Isaac – marketing Flash CD-ROM
FP International – corporate website
Grolier Interactive – CD-ROM game
Hewlett Packard – product CD-ROM, animation
Intel – corporate presentations, animation
Iwerks Entertainment – GUI design, prototyping
Komprise – advertising, branding, web design, animation
Lockheed-Martin – GUI design, product videos, prototyping
NetApp – corporate video, product materials, advertising
Novell – GUI design, DigitalMe online service design, prototyping
NHK Japan – 3d graphics, NASA real-time mars landing simulations for TV
Oracle – presentations, animation
Plantronics – Animation, Videography, DVD / CDROM
Rock Shox – 3d graphics production
SCO (Santa Cruz Operations) – corporate video, animation
Siemens – CD-ROM product demo, videography
Thorn/EMI – CD-ROM game, videography
Xcerra – videography, animation
Zoran, Inc. – CE hardware and software reference designs
MID-SIZED BUSINESSES
TO SMALL ENTREPRENUERS
AllU.S. Credit Union – marketing, advertising, videography, animation
Airport Access – logo, web, animation
Artstruct – web, video, logo
Atlas Peak Olive Oil – marketing
Banks Marketing – tools
Cabrillo Music Festival – projection design, photo re-touching , animation
Cyber Talk – online television demo, character animation, VR
Dago Red – marketing tools, videography
Daniel Steel and Machine – web, video
Duke Empirical – marketing
Dramatis – website
Enfish – product flash demo, animation
Equity Stone – corporate presentation
Everymail – website, presentations
Electric Pencil Designs – print graphics, marketing
EnvisionMedia – Creative Writing, flash design, animation
Eon Interactive – executive production, web site & CDROM design
EVB – ecommerce
Fraser Design & Fraser Advertising – web sites, CDROM, illustration
Freedom Sky Ranch – web
Harmonyus – marketing, video
Humans Being (Feature Film) – blue screen o-direction, scene production design, special effects animation, compositing
iHighway – website, brand identity
IMF Solutions – corporate website, brand identity
Librx – web site, brand identity
MediaX – CDROMs, websites, print work, video game graphics, brand identity
Mendocino Film Festival – marketing
National Impact – website, brand identity
New Music Works – animation design & production
PrairieFire – web
Parkfield Blue Grass Festival – web
QuadState – web site and logo animation
Santa Cruz Guitar – website
Spruce Technologies – corporate demonstration DVD
TeleVere/Digital Lightbox – corporate websites
The Buzz – childrens educational CD-ROM
TelePost – media supplier, tradeshow booth, corporate video, print, web site
Viditel / Santa Cruz Networks – web sites, brand identity
V6 Ranch – web
Varian Kennels – web
Williams Roofing – animated TV commercial
and many more…
“Confidence is what Gaben brings to our company. Professional graphics. Insightful strategies. Instant Scalability. We are confident any time we turn to Gaben that he is going to further our objectives, meet and exceed our expectations, and deliver on-time and on-budget.”
–Kristal Furchau, Marketing Director, Efficient Drivetrain, Inc.
Harnessing creativity and collaboration
to build a better world
