I’ve been working in online media since mid-1990s, when I was first introduced to HTML. When I attended the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley I focused on Multimedia production. I have been working as a full time freelance web designer and multimedia producer for over two years, and have worked with dozens of media and art independents, film productions and companies, small businesses, consultants and organizations across the Bay Area and around the US. You can view some of my work by browsing the categories below:

The Sharing Solution is a book written by two Bay Area locals, Janelle Orsi and Emily Doskow. It is a practical guide teaching people how to share resources, like cars and tools to housing and childcare, and how to create and maintain successful sharing arrangements while addressing common concerns about liability, communication, and more.

The website presents the book and gives a bit of explanation about its contents and the ideas behind it, but mostly serves as a blog and a companion to the book, with new ideas, tips and stories about sharing and sustainable living. The posts are tagged according to different topics pertaining to sharing and allow the site users to browse and research a specific point of interest, as well as simply read through the blog and learn new things.

Joe Sibol is singer-songwriter local to the Bay Area. His recent album, “Haunted Moon” has just been released digitally. Songs from his debut album, “The Great Music” were featured on MTV’s “Laguna Beach”.

This work-in-progress website was designed to match the look and feel of his new album and the album’s artwork, and replaced the old site which accompanied the first album. The site targets both promoting the album as it offers a chance to listen to the album and buy it, and also serves as to complement the purchase of the digital album by offering lyrics and pictures. In the future the site will be updated with more interactive features and social network connections, as well as news and gig dates.

WeInformers is a new online media platform for journalists from Uganda, allowing them to post and share in-depth reporting from Uganda, which is often hard to get from the more traditional media resources.

The design is still work-in-progress, but a lot of work was made to enable a big group of writers, photographers and editors to access and update the site on a daily basis with large amounts of content. An existing magazine template served as a basis for the website, and then was modified and adjusted to fit the layout that the site editors envisioned. The next phase of the project is turning it into an African news hub from which international media outlets will be able to purchase stories and multimedia reports.

Eric Goldbrener is a writer, producer and a composer. In his personal website he shares his thoughts about politics and news as well as his experiences of the rich cultural life of the San Francisco Bay Area.

The idea in this website was creating a hub for the various online media applications Goldbrener has been using. He blogs about various topics, tweets about his daily life and the culture of San Francisco, and expresses his views of the news using his account on de.li.cious. The site hosts room for two different blog pages, one about politics and society and the other about entertainment and nightlife, and both blogs are matched with a sidebar, which displays Eric’s latest tweets and latest de.li.cious bookmarks, respectively.

This Is Not American Idol was born as a project in the Advanced Multimedia class in the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley.

The idea of the project was to use WordPress as a CMS and create an online portal / magazine. I took the opportunity to have fun with a little hobby of mine, reality talent and singing shows. It was made a year before Susan Boyle became an house hold name, and I wanted to feature some entertaining talent shows that were not American Idol from around the world. I found a magazine theme for WordPress, made a lot of code modifications for it and enjoyed creating a poppy, light design for it.

ESC-Chat is a blog dedicated to the Eurovision – the European Song Contest, the longest running television event in the world. The site is managed by an international team and includes editors and writers from the UK, Germany, the US, France, Portugal and Ireland. The blog team covered the 55th edition of the show, held in Oslo, Norway, in May 2010 and these days are following the first preparations for the next edition, to be held in Germany, the 2010 winner.

The site was designed in cooperation between a German graphic artist and myself, and was built and developed by me. Some special features in this site are the color-coded horizontal and vertical menus, and integration of several blogs, a forum and a chatroom.