Well, it has been one heck of a week…there’s nothing like pulling a late night, followed by an early morning, to get a rush job out the door on time. But business is good and I can’t complain!

Today I’m finally uploading some new work to the portfolio section of this site. As most of the high-profile jobs I’ve had lately are web-related, the Multimedia page is gettin’ the love today. Lots of new web banners and a few new Flash interactive elements, so make sure to check them out!

I wanted to especially call attention to two of the websites I’ve worked on lately, which are both up on the Multimedia page as well:

WWW.PARKVIEWMOM.COM
A microsite for the Parkview Women’s and Children’s Hospital, designed by B&Y and built by yours truly. If the term “scope creep” ever truly applied to a project, it was this one — I had to wrangle several rounds of changes into the site as I was building it, but still managed to get it done in about a week, which I’m pretty proud of. If you’ve got a baby on the way, you should definitely check it out!

WWW.ERICPEAT.COM
This one I’m particularly proud of. My younger brother Eric is a senior telecommunications major at Ball State; he’s graduating in May and needed a radical website to promote his reporting, anchoring, and writing work to potential employers. Enter the web designer older brother.

I came up with a single-page site based around a hefty Flash element, and I’m really happy with how the finished site looks and runs. It sounds like it’s also been garnering some good word of mouth for Eric. You should see it in action — especially if you happen to work in the t-comm field and are looking to hire a talented young reporter!

That’s all for now — I’ll drop some more work updates next week. Until then, live long and prosper!
Bp

The annual ADDY graphic design awards took place a few weeks ago at the University of Saint Francis. I’ve had stuff in the ADDYs since 2007, but was never able to get my hands on the elusive Gold award for some reason. Entering is also somewhat expensive, so I didn’t submit any of my freelance work this year, which are probably the projects I’m most proud of. But several B&Y projects I had worked on came home with some wins, so I can finally say I’ve won a Gold ADDY!

Actually, make that three.

GOLD, CONSUMER WEBSITE: STARCRAFTMARINE.COM
I built the main homepage Flash element for this B&Y-designed site, one of many that I’ve done over the years. Such as the one I did for:

SILVER, CONSUMER WEBSITE: PARKVIEW.COM
I also did this homepage Flash element for Parkview’s site, which won a Silver.

GOLD, PUBLIC SERVICE CAMPAIGN: DON’T TEXT & DRIVE
Another Parkview job I worked on while I was at B&Y, the Don’t Text & Drive campaign took home a well-deserved Gold. I designed this microsite and built its Flash campaign viewer, as well as the three web banners that are featured therein.

GOLD, NATIONAL CONSUMER CAMPAIGN: BIOMET SIGNATURE KNEE SYSTEM
The Signature campaign was pretty big, nabbing a Gold as well. Shown here is one of the two Signature microsites I designed and built Flash pieces for, and this will be up in my portfolio soon.

SILVER, WEB BANNER: 3 RIVERS INTERACTIVE QUIZ
I was pretty proud of this one and was bummed that it didn’t grab a Gold — it’s not often that you see a choose-your-own-adventure banner such as this. Ah well. The banner asks you three questions about banks vs. credit unions (guess which it’s in favor of), and tallies your score at the end. You can see it in action in the Web Banner section of my Multimedia page.

Speaking of which, I’ve got a ton of new multimedia work to upload to the ol’ portfolio, which I should be able to get to later this week. So stay tuned for new stuff!
Bp

Well, I’ve been full-time freelance for about two point five months now, and I have a serious problem. I am way too busy.

Granted, this is the sort of problem that you want to have in a job that pays by the hour, so I’m not complaining too hard. But I do have a lot of new work that I need to add to the portfolio section, and some awards and experiences that I want to blog about here — just haven’t got the chance yet.

I think I might set a designated Bp Blog time once a week to make sure I can keep up with the updates on a regular schedule. But for now, I gotta get back to work.

Stay tuned for an actual update next week, and as always, thanks for reading!
Bp