My name is Heather.
I'm an artist that likes to use computers.

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Knight News Innovation Lab

The Knight News Innovation Lab accelerates the transformation of the way news is discovered, analyzed and delivered by introducing and encouraging smart and practical technology innovation.

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David H. Brooks

David H. Brooks is a really funny man and very talented director. He's clients have included Saturday Night Live, Volkswagen, ESPN, ABC and Doritos.

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Intelligent Information Laboratory

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Dayna Malow

Dayna Malow is an incredibly talented singer and songwriter. I created this site to showcase her talents, sell her music and stay in touch with her fans.

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Allstate Roadside Services

Allstate Roadside Services needed a website that communicated their custom solutions, dedication to customer relationships and high-tech capabilities. I was brought on board to head up the design and development of the site.

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Aught Seven

Aught-Seven was a digital studio specializing in satirical entertainment properties. While employed there, I created a cartoon web series known as Officer Bob.

My aim with this site was to capture both the satirical and cynical by utilizing "easter egg" jokes, visual puns and societal commentary.

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Manatee Comics

Manatee is an automatically generated webcomic system that attempts to complete a common English expression in a funny or thought provoking manner. To this end, the system mines the internet for sentences, tallying words that occur next to one another. This statistical information then guides the construction of a humorous or insightful phrase that is set agaist the back-drop of a related photograph.

n2

n2 is a social search algorithm that connects users to the "right" friends when asking a question or looking for advice.

A crisp, modern color palette along polished textures create a "high-tech" look and feel. I also created a series of illustrations to better communicate n2's core functionality.

The MediaMatic Show

The MediaMatic Show is a computer generated variety show built on top of the News at Seven technology. News at Seven automatically builds news and entertainment shows; it intelligently and autonomously extracts and modifies text, information, and media from across the web, then scripts an entire multimedia presentation, complete with animated, talking anchors.

Itsy Bitsy Gourmet

The flavors of Gene Autry

These are a series of illustrations I created for a large project. I created them to explore illustration styles so that we could pick a direction for the final project. As such things go, we ended up going with a fourth direction. That project is still in progress, so no details, as of yet. I'll post updates in the future.

Bone & Bell Poster

I created this illustration to advertise a Bone & Bell show at the Hideout.

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Highlights Kid's Footer

These are background images used for the footer of the Highlights Kid's website. They are based on original illustrations by the incredibly talented Troy Cummings. They change seasonally, so I adopted Troy's drawing style and adapted the drawings for the changing seasons.

Billy the Kidney 7 inch cover

I created this illustration for a Sirs 7inch record cover.

Knight Lab Technologies

I created this illustration for the Knight Lab's home page.

Tin Man Labs Logo

Tin Man Labs is a new Austin-based company specializing in technology innovation and consulting.

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Be Sweet To Me Single Illustration

I created this illustration for a Bone & Bell Valentine's Day single I recorded/released (February 2012.) You can download the single for free, if you like: http://www.besweettome.com.

Organ Fantasies Limited Edition Illustrations

Bone & Bell recorded and released a 7 inch EP (May 2012). I created a series of drawings for 50 limited edition records. They are illustrations of imagined organs, representing each of the songs.

Lion Poster Illustration

I created this illustration for a Bone & Bell poster.

Thanksgiving Poster

I created this illustration for a Thanksgiving Party that I threw.

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Allstate Roadside Services Animation

This piece was created to act as a place-holder splash page. I developed the "line" concept to reflect the customized solutions and flexibility that Allstate Roadside Services offers it's clients. A particular challenge was to create a concept that could extend to the full corporate site and into other marketing material, as well. Ali Lawrence, a terrific animator, was a co-animator on this project and on the flash headers and footers used on the Allstate Roadside Services Corporate site.

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iMethod

I worked with McKinney - Chicago, a great Chicago agency, to create this iMethod's web campaign animation. It was great fun to work on, as I had just purchased Flash CS 4 and finally had an opportunity to use the new "bones" tool.

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News At Seven

News At Seven is a system that automatically generates a virtual news show. Totally autonomous, it collects, parses, edits and organizes news stories and then passes the formatted content to artificial anchors for presentation.

Once it has assembled and edited its material, News At Seven presents the content to its audience using flash animated avatars and text-to-speech (TTS) technology. The result is a cohesive, compelling performance that successfully combines techniques of modern news programming with features made by possible only by the fact that the system is, at its core, completely virtual.

You can read more about News at Seven here.

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Norton Anti-Virus Christmas Campaign

The piece was created in conjunction with Juice Interactive, a talented Chicago agency. The microsite and banners were used to advertise Symantec's holiday marketing campaign (2008.)

FYI: it's not longer live on Norton's site, so I'm playing it off my servers. The "Buy Now" buttons don't go anywhere.