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For this project I mostly used Illustrator. I used a little bit of Photoshop for the final composition. I used the Mesh tool in Illustrator as the main details. I used the shape tool to create squares which were then morphed into the right shape with the mesh tool. I used the pen tool when creating the “SPY” text. In order to make the colors match the original image I used the Eyedropper tool to pull the correct color. After getting the correct colors I experimented with the appearances. I used a color multiply and hard light appearance on the lens to make it partially transparent and effect the color of the objects behind it. The highlights on the lens were difficult but ended up looking best with the screen effect and hard light effect. I used a lot of opacity changes. The small white details on the triangles at the top were just lines made with the line tool. I used a line effect to make them squigly.
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Real Object
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My illustration consists of hundred of shapes and thousands of lines. I designed each shape based off my reference images shadows. The hair for my head and face was extremely time consuming but worth it. The hair on my face consists of three different layers, a light layer, a bush layer, and a detail layer. The light layer was to display hair on my face that isn’t black, like below the lip. The bushy layer was used to fill in the face with shades. The detail layer was used to make the image look more realistic. These same concepts were using on the hair where I messed around with the appearance of each object and shape. The eyes were difficult to work with because I used a clipping mask to make sure everything stayed inside the iris and the eyeball.
This illustration was created when I was learning how to use Adobe Illustrator.
A project created for my Typography class at Kennesaw State University.
These t-shirts were designed for a graphic design club I was in during highschool.
I took 6 images of a valley in Colorado and realised that it was not perfectly aligned to create a panorama. I decided to work with what I had so I stiched the images and recovered the missing content.
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I created this poster to test my skills with Photoshop and designing for print. The poster is for the release of a new season of The Walking Dead. I wanted to create a design that I had never seen before so I took my DJI Mavic Pro drone out and photographed a street from straight above. I added zombies “Walkers”, destroyed tanks, graffiti, and road markers to help tell the story. The basics of the story are to not trust the man who claims to run a safe location.
A client of mine provided me with her business card and asked me to rebrand her company. I designed a new brand around the name of the company while trying to keep it as simple and professional as possible. I created a logo, business card, and social media headings for the brand.
After my first trip to Japan, I was looking through photos I took and got annoyed with the crowds ruining my shots. I brought my favorite images into Photoshop and edited out the people and replaced them with clones of the areas around them.
A minimalistic business card I designed following the design of my website.
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A 2.5' x 6' vertical banner I designed for the Hoopler start-up. The banner was brought to events that Hoopler hosted at bars to promote the app and the company.
CoxOne is the employee intranet for Cox Communications. I completed two full year contracts for Cox Communications, as well as an internship.
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I worked for two of Kennesaw State Universities' colleges as a Webmaster Assistant. The two colleges were the University College and the Honors College. I was tasked with completely redesigning and rebuilding their websites. The websites I designed for the university are no longer live. After Kennesaw State merged with Southern Polytechnic all university websites got rebuilt again.
During my senior year of high school, I took it upon myself to coordinate large-scale group trips for my friends. These trips grew larger and more extravagant each trip. When I first started college the trips started to bring in a lot more unique attendees. The largest trip I planned had 32 attendees and a budget on its own of almost $10,000. This trip was an all-inclusive trip that included meals, transportation, housing, and some activities. $1,465 was spent on food for the trip and the meals were carefully calculated to accommodate all attendees.
The next trip I am planning is a month long trip to Japan with 5 friends. The trip starts December 6th, 2018 and ends January 1st, 2019. I have planned out the entire itinerary for the trip and planned the housing accommodations for everyone. Researching the flights daily for this trip inspired my idea of the Avian Air project.
Hoopler was a startup that I had worked on for three years with a friend and a small team. We acquired $45,000 in investments and used that money to have a prototype app and a basic Beta version of the final app developed by an agency in Atlanta. After restructuring the company we decided to attempt a crowdfunding campaign in order to obtain the funding necessary to continue running the company. Unfortunately, our estimates for funding kept rising as we learned more about the technology limitations and eventually we had to cease operations. The information below shows the full crowdfunding campaign that we created. The campaign compiles a majority of the companies history and ideas into an easy to read format.
With Hoopler, you will never again have to waste your time or money visiting an empty club or an overpacked coffee shop, or searching for your friends. Hoopler Hoot is a small counting device that uses Bluetooth sensors to detect how many people are present at venues or other locations where it is installed. It also has an HD video camera that captures a live view of participating establishments.
Hoopler Hoot, an advanced engine for the Hoopler App, streams data and video that is accessible entirely from your iPhone or (soon) Android device. With the Hoot and App, you can view live information about the locations, including how many people are detected, if your friends are there, activity on the HD video feed, and more.
Together, the Hoot and App allow you to preview the popularity of a destination before you spend time traveling there, and before you spend money on parking or entrance fees. Hoopler helps you make the most of your valuable free time and create more enjoyable memories.
You decide how Hoopler can help you. Hoopler can provide real-time insights into any type of social gathering place: Bars, Clubs, Coffee Shops, Cafes, Bowling Alleys, Restaurants, Parks, University Campuses, Sporting Events, Concerts, and much more. Where do you want to go?
Maybe you like crowds. Maybe you don’t. Either way, we’ve got you covered. If crowd size doesn’t matter and you just want to hang out with your friends, with Hoopler it is easy to find and keep up with them. How often have you worried about getting separated during a bar-crawl? Those days are over.
We want to make going out easy for you, no matter where you are.
We live in an age of instant results and we believe that everyone has the right to benefit from our technology. We designed the Hoopler Hoot and App to benefit everyone, including the venue owners. Establishments can already be listed in the Hoopler App, but Hoopler Hoot offers advanced capabilities such as automated check-ins and check-outs, and live video feeds for App users.
We have two separate plans for how we want to develop the Hoot – our initial goal and our stretch goal. Which one we choose depends on how much our Indiegogo campaign raises. If we reach our initial funding goal, the Hoot will be powered by Raspberry Pi computers. If we reach our larger, stretch goal, we will work to get the Hoot developed for large-scale production.
The Raspberry Pi computer is very affordable in terms of development, and creating prototypes is very easy. It is well suited for small-scale production of the Hoopler Hoot. However, our roll-out to new cities with this approach will be a lot slower than if we could mass produce the Hoot. It will also be a lot more expensive in the long run compared to mass producing the Hoot.
The initial goal includes the Raspberry Pi-powered Hoot, which will count the total number of Bluetooth signals at a location and display that number on the Hoopler App. If we exceed the initial goal by at least $10,000 we will add a live camera to the devices, allowing you to view the locations from the App before going there.
Our stretch goal of $50,000 will allow us to experiment with mass production of the Hoot. This opens up the Hoot to unlimited customization in design and functionality. It also means that each device will be more affordable, allowing us to expand far more quickly to your favorite cities.
The mass produced design will count the total number of Bluetooth signals at a location and display that number on the Hoopler App, and also include a wide-angle HD camera lens that will allow you to take a peek inside a location before you go there. The device will be water resistant, allowing usage at outdoor venues. The colored triangles on the face of the device will be RGB LEDs, which will change color based on the current function of the device. If a room is dark, the LEDs can be turned White to give a brighter view. If the location reaches "HotSpot" status, the LEDs will flash Red. Participating locations could use this feature to offer discounts as long as they remain in "HotSpot" status.
The Hoopler App and information are completely free for you. This means you can create your own profile, add your friends, view the number of people at venues, and check-in/out of any venue on the App. Venues do not have to have the Hoopler Hoot to be on the Hoopler App. Users can still interact with these venues, but only venues with Hoopler Hoot installed will be able to provide automatic check-ins and live video feeds to the users.
The Hoopler Hoot will be distributed to venues for a couple months as a free trial. As we expand to new geographic areas, we will contact venues to start their trial and experience Hoopler. Venues that would like to start their trial early can purchase one of our Venue Perks. After the free trial is expired, the venues will be charged an estimated $30.00 per month for one Hoopler Hoot device and full access to their statistics online. Larger venues that require more than one Hoopler Hoot will receive discounted rates for additional devices.
With Hoopler Hoot, we set out to disrupt the “Check-in App” approach that is already being implemented by hundreds of other apps. None of these apps give a realistic count of how many people are at a location, and the inaccurate information is not useful for people deciding where to go.
The problem with “Check-in Apps” is they hope people will click that they are at or leaving a location, or will click “I’m Going” on an event invitation. But, not enough people actively check-in/out with these types of apps to be even remotely accurate.
At Hoopler, we care about providing live and accurate information. Hoopler Hoot eliminates the need to manually check-in/out by instead providing counts based on Bluetooth sensors in the vicinity, giving App users a more accurate representation of the number of people present. A further benefit of Hoopler Hoot is its ability to offer a live peek of activity inside the location.
Here's a breakdown of the perks you can choose from when you support this campaign (select your perk from the sidebar at the top of this page).
MORE INFO: (1) Your name will be displayed on the official Hoot "Thank You" webpage. (2) Your contribution will go towards your States total contribution for the Launch Events.
MORE INFO: (1) When the Hoopler App BETA is completed you will receive an official backer identification tag on your profile if you create your account with the same email as your IndieGoGo account. (2) Your name will be displayed on the official Hoot "Thank You" webpage. (3) Your contribution will go towards your States total contribution for the Launch Events.
MORE INFO: (1) Receive a Hoopler branded tumbler cup. (2) When the Hoopler App BETA is completed you will receive an official backer identification tag on your profile if you create your account with the same email as your IndieGoGo account. (3) Your name will be displayed on the official Hoot "Thank You" webpage. (4) Your contribution will go towards your States total contribution for the Launch Events.
MORE INFO: (1) VIP access to an official Hoopler launch event. Every contribution to our campaign goes towards the contributors State's total contribution. The amount of contributions determines the size, date, location, and gifts for each states launch event. We withhold the right to merge neighboring states events together if total contributions are low. (2) When the Hoopler App BETA is completed you will receive an official backer identification tag on your profile if you create your account with the same email as your IndieGoGo account. (3) Your name will be displayed on the official Hoot "Thank You" webpage. (4) Your contribution will go towards your States total contribution for the Launch Events
Austin Luppowitz, Co-Founder, Tech & Marketing Lead
Web & Graphic designer, founder of a group vacation organization for university students, founder of a successful YouTube channel.
@Aluppo LinkedIn | @Austkl1 Facebook | @Austkl1 Twitter
Jake Keller, Co-Founder, Business Lead
Videographer, founder of the film production studio Acorn Studios, Drummer and Song Writer.
@Jake-Keller LinkedIn
Carol Keller, Co-Founder & Adviser
Product Development Specialist including Marketing, Graphic Designer, Corporate Branding and Business Advisor. Worked for Motion Capture/Entertainment Studio, Publishing House, Social Services Sectors and several start-up companies.
@Carol-Keller LinkedIn
Mark Adams, Investor & Adviser
Certified Grief Recovery Specialist, hospice volunteer, retired elementary school educator and previous ceramic tile construction business owner.
@Mark-Adams LinkedIn
Beth Howard, Investor & Adviser
Workplace culture change and behavior-based safety consultant, leadership development coach, corporate trainer, speaker, and certified Somatic Coach.
@Beth-Howard LinkedIn
Polar Notion, Developers
A development and design shop that believes beautiful solutions can produce remarkable results.
@Polarnotion Twitter
The BETA of the Hoopler App is already available for iOS and is coming soon to Android. The BETA allows you to add your friends and manually check in/out of venues. We are still adding more locations so feel free to request a location anytime! We have A LOT planned for the app and will be rolling out new features soon!
A prototype of the Hoot is being developed right now! After the prototype is developed and built we will look at our funding from your contributions and make the decision of what model we decide to build. The cost of developing the software, building the devices, and distributing the decides are being taken into account in our Indiegogo campaign goals. Our developers in Atlanta have already quoted us an estimated price for the software and we have done extensive research into the build with Raspberry Pi computers.
We have been working on the idea of Hoopler for the past couple years and have just recently developed a BETA of our App for iPhone's. Soon after we released the BETA of the Hoopler App, we started researching ways to make it much more useful to our users, and we came up with the idea of the Hoopler Hoot.
We need your help with the Hoopler Hoot. Your support will allow us to allocate more time and money towards the development our device, and ideally mass production and distribution. Luckily because of the low cost per device, we will be able to expand to new areas with minimal investment. With your help, we will be able to complete production and distribution and make Hoopler useful to hundreds of millions of people across the country, and eventually the world.
So why should you support us?
If we reach our goal, we will host an event in every state that contributed. The event size, location, date, and gifts are dependent on the amount raised by each state.
For example, if our home state of Georgia raises the most money, Georgia's event will be hosted at a larger venue, and earlier than other states.
*If we receive small contributions from some states, we reserve the right to merge that state’s event with a neighboring state.
*Note: This is not a lottery. Any state with a decent amount of contributions will have an event. States that contribute more will have a larger event because we will have to host more people. We will not be providing any form of transportation to people who want to go to an event in another state.
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