DVD, CD and Internet Web Site Development

2005
New Media/New Work”, My role;  Curated the videos to accept and designed the DVD packaging for the video collection.

2004-5                       
Burning Issues II – The Role of Fire in Ecosytems”, (DVD) U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, Washington D.C.  Grant for project: $340,000.                         

Burning Issues II, a DVD about the role of fire in the natural environment, funded by the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management and the Science Education area of FSU. This is an expansion of the award winning Burning Issues CD we produced with a redesign of the original project and the addition of new ecoVentures sections.

My role: Art Director: responsible for all of the graphic design and production Burning Issues II (DVD). Designed the introduction splash screen and all of the print and packaging for the DVD. Released, Fall 2005.

2003-4          
Interactive Media Science Projects, Science Education, FSU
http://www.fsu.edu/~imsp
                                   
My role was: Website designer designed the interface and programming.

2002-3          
Fire in Wildhorse Basin”. Wyoming Bureau of Land Management
Grant for project:  $69,000.  2001 -  2003
 http://www.fsu.edu/~imsp/wildhorse           
           
Fire in Wildhorse Basin is an interactive web site to teach students in middle grades
(5-9) about the role of fire in natural ecosystems, the use of fire in ecosystem management, and the techniques and strategies used to rehabilitate ecosystems that have been damaged by wild fire. Produced by the Science Education area of FSU and funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior, State Office of the Bureau of Land Management in Wyoming.

My role: Art Director: produced all aspects of the site including overall design, graphics, flash and html programming.

2001-2                    
Silent Invaders” - A web site about Invasive Species. Funded by the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior, $100,000
                 www.blm.gov/education/LearningLandscapes/explorers/lifetime/invasive.html
                       
Silent Invaders, Developed by Florida State University's Science Education Department in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, to engage middle school students in learning about invasive plants and animals. The website includes a colorful and informative field guide to the top 20 most troublesome plant and animal species, an invasive plant control game, videos offering basic background information, and an educator's guide.                        
My role: Art Director: produced all aspects of the site including overall design, graphics, flash and html programming.
             
1999-2001   
“Burning Issues - The Role of Fire in Ecosystems”, U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management. Grant for project: $270,000.           

Burning Issues is an award winning multimedia CD ROM to help middle school  students learn about the role of fire in ecosystems and explore the exciting but dangerous world of wild land fire management practices. It includes 5 panoramic views of natural ecosystems, links to an extensive field guide with more than 300 slides, videos, interviews, interactive games, and a simulation program used by fire managers. Produced by the Science Education area of FSU and funded by the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management.

Each year from 2001- 2004 over 7,000 discs have been distributed including one for every middle school child in Colorado.            

My role: Graphic Designer including overall design and graphics production.

1997           
The On-Line Learning Environment”, Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee. This was a web site based on a cultural center  with virtual exhibitions, interactive access to virtual exhibits and live video conferencing of lectures and demonstrations for students to explore and to enhance their classroom activities and enrich their education.
                       
The website was developed as a prototype and was demonstrated at the opening of
the museum, and used as an important component of a Knight Foundation Grant that was awarded to the Museum.

My role: I designed the interface, produced the panoramic VR’s of the virtual exhibitions and worked with a programmer to complete the web site.

1996                       
Future of the Book of the Future Website:  grubini.com

My role: I co-designed and produced this website with Chris Schmitt. This includes the interface design and all the technical programming. Chris Schmitt is the author of several books on the web.
           
Future of the Book of the Future web site wins Como Award for excellence in web content and design, 1997.

Future of Book of the Future web site wins High Five Award for excellence in Design, 1996