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Box
Roll: Designer | Time Frame: 7 months | Tools: Various About:
From August 2016 - January 2017, I was the in-house designer at the Wellington-based production/design company StoryBox. During my time there I worked closely with the small team on a wide variety of projects:
Pre-Vis work: Creating renders and interactive visualizations of work we pitched to clients.
Graphic and Interaction Design: Created assets, page layouts and interactive content for various projects.
Pitch Prep: Created many different pitch packages/presentations for various clients and funding bodies.
These projects ranged from external client work to full-on in-house art/theatre projects. We worked with clients like Safe Kids Aotearoa, New Zealand Rugby Union, Wellington Water and NZ Transport Agency. One of these projects getting nominated in the 2017 Designers Institute of New Zealand Best Design Awards, in the spatial design category. During my time at StoryBox, I gained invaluable experience in communication and collaborative design.
Projects
These are just some of the projects that i worked on and went live during my time at StoryBox:
Water
Puzzle
The water puzzle was a small scale interactive installation commissioned by Wellington Water to help bring attention to the places people can be wasting water in their homes. Story Box in collaboration with Clemengers BBDO designed and built two 3D rotation puzzles that were located around Wellington for eight weeks during the summer of 2016-2017.
On this project I created various 3D renders of the potential designs using substance painter and Maya, mocking up layouts for the puzzle and revising the pitch documents that we presented to the client.
More Details:
Water Puzzle Project Page - StoryBox
Safe Kids
Whare
The safe kid’s Whare was a spatial installation commissioned by Safe Kids Aotearoa. Designed to teach kids and parents about the potentially dangerous objects and hazards found around one home in a fun and interactive way.
On this project, I assisted with the layout and the design of some of the interactive elements.
This installation received a nomination for a Designers Institute of New Zealand Best Awards in 2017.
More Details:
Safe Kids Whare Project Page - StoryBox
Best Awards 2017 - Best Awards
Wellington 7s
Noise Patrol
For the 2017 Wellington Sevens, the NZRU Approached StoryBox to come up with and run several activation’s to help promote the 2017 Wellington Sevens using their slogan of "Bring the Noise".
The concept was to create as much noise as possible, so we designed and built large handheld megaphones to scatter around Wellington creating a competition to see who could generate the most noise.
On this project, I help design the megaphones and create the custom vinyl wrap to go over them.
More Details:
Noise Patrol Project Page - StoryBox