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Ian Latchmansingh


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Ian Latchmansingh is a graphic designer in Jacksonville, FL. He specializes in web design, user ergonomics and posters.

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  • I’ve made it there.

    I recently had my work  in Times Square on the Reuters electronic billboard system. I did this for ADCOLOR; an advertising industry coalition to promote diversity in advertising media. SBS Studios has been a sponsor of the ADCOLOR Awards for three years now. You can read more about our collected thoughts on the project here.

    My credits include all 3D Design and Motion Graphics, with the direction of Shane Santiago and Gary Mack (Creative Director of the NBA).

    A big part of our ideology here is that “we can do better than that.” This time, I’m not so sure we could have.

    I’ve been to New York and while I’ve always found it fascinating, at the same time it’s very intimidating. I knew as soon as we were asked to take this on, it was going to be a personal challenge to me to show NYC that I can handle her. It meant pixel-perfect attention to detail and developing a set of skills I’d have to acquire as I worked. I was so determined to make this a masterpiece that I’d actually slept in my office on cushions from our Ikea chairs.

    Why was this anxiety necessary? I’d been to Times Square and seen plenty of motion billboards that received less love than this one; and New Yorkers have developed banner blindness, so this would still go relatively unseen despite being on one of the larger, more complex systems in the area. I realized it wasn’t New York that was exciting me; I was anxious because it was ADCOLOR.

    — Me

  • 2011 Jacksonville ADDYs Preview

    So, I recently started working on all of the print collateral and creative direction for the motion graphics (with Drips Black). I’m drawing a lot from early space education films, NASA information, vintage space infographics, and a lot of Disney Tomorrowland ephemera, as well as some aesthetics developed from Disney Imagineering attraction design (one day, Ian, one day).

    The theme is “ADDYs in Space” and I hope to do it justice. Here’s a sketch I’ve been tooling with that will morph into tickets and invitations. The poster is going to be much more epic.

    For your entertainment, here’s a little-known fact about Walt Disney World’s Tomorrowland “Mission to Mars” ride:

    Mission to Mars officially opened in March of 1975. Its first show was to a packed theater, and guests watched with wide eyes as their simulated ship was locked, fueled, and launched. Darkness (representing hypersleep) gave way to a view of the approaching red planet — and this is where the trouble began.

    As the planet’s surface neared and Martian canals came into view, some guests were startled to see gigantic tripod-like vehicles walking through Martian cities, apparently armed with enormous heat ray devices. Although these elements of the experience had been added by Imagineers in the hope of depicting a plausable alien civilization, they were so realistic and imposing that some guests forgot that they were experiencing a simulation. A riot broke out inside the attraction. Parents wrapped wet handkerchiefs around their children’s mouths to protect them from Martian death gas. One visitor from rural Kentucky hauled out his squirrel rifle and began taking pot shots at the images on the movie screen. Women screamed. Men fainted. Babies cried. Embarrassed teenagers pretended they weren’t with their parents.

  • I won four Gold W3 Awards.

    Yep. Four Gold. Not to mention seven Silvers. SBS Studios is killing it this year. Check them out here:

    2010 W³ Gold Awards:

    2010 W³ Silver Awards:

    For a complete list of winners, please visit www.w3award.com.

  • Mowgli + TSI, together at last.

    Gig courtesy of Sara Basse and Landon Cole. Thanks to everyone who made it out!

    Latest tracks by mowglisounds

  • I’m starting an Etsy shop.

    So, I’ve amassed a great deal of old things that I truly have no use for. Not in a way where I’d make a cool “Hoarders” episode, but in a way that I could let a few things go have fun in some other apartment. However, many of these are also new acquisitions. Presenting the Play Nice – Summer 2010 Collection at http://www.etsy.com/shop/playnicewithus.

  • Mowgli – Crank dat Eileen

    New live mix by me (Mowgli) with my new Novation Launchpad.

    Jay-Z vs. Phonat vs. Lil Wayne vs. Justice vs. MGMT vs T.I. vs. Dexy’s Midnight Runners vs. Soulja Boy vs. Arcade Fire vs. Jungle Brothers vs. The Stooges Brass band. 7 minutes and 43 seconds.

    Download Mowgli – Crank dat Eileen

  • SOTRU: My Community in One Picture

    So, my friends and clients at State of the Re:Union are asking readers and listeners to submit a singular image that represents their community – be it handmade or not – for a collection on stateofthereunion.com, with a featured image daily coming from their twitter account as well as their facebook page. I guess my first sentence summarized this project pretty well so I’m not sure there’s a need for this one.  Anyway, if you feel like snapping some cool pictures of Jacksonville from your roof or making a painting of the homeless man who’s been drawing on my sidewalk with chalk feel free to send any and all submissions to brenton@stateofthereunion.com. He’s the man.

  • Lion in a Coma

    A frame-by-frame Flash animation of Animal Collective’s “Lion in a Coma” from Merriwether Post Pavillion by Ori Toor of Shenkar School of Engineering and Design.

  • ADCOLOR 2010

    AdColor, the organization that promotes diversity in the advertising industry, tapped SBS Studios to design and build their 2009 Awards site. This occurred again in 2010. The annual AdColor Awards are attended by nationally renowned media and advertising icons. The 2010 AdColor Awards are held in Miami and we wanted to communicate the vibrancy and energy of South Beach. The site features social media components, 3D animated headers that I art-directed with The Studio, NYC, and a nominations app built with Tribal/DDB.

  • Poor Places

    I’ve compiled a short list of the North American Third World. Thanks to Google Streetview, you can all experience parts of the United States that have been long forgotten:

    THE SALTON SEA

    CABRINI GREEN

    EAST ST. LOUIS

    FLINT MICHIGAN

    SOUTH CENTRAL

  • Sunbears! and Shangrala Gig Poster

    Here’s the latest and hopefully the last iteration of this gig poster.All are welcome, and there will be no shootings.
    Buy your tickets here. September 8th!

  • Google Patents Glitch

    Ok, so, call me what you will for searching this term, but:
    When you search Google Patents for the term “farts” you get an ungodly amount of results. Why?
    The OCR used to add this data is flawed, and thinks the P’s are F’s.

    Bravo. I’m going to go contest my design for my adjustable feed angle farts feeder immediately.

State of the Re:Union

State of the Re:Union

NPR VIA CREATIVE EMPIRES

Getting to work with poet & playwrite Al Letson on his city-centric documentary-style radio program has been amazing. We launched version 1 of State of the Re:Union for Jacksonville's episode in late July of 2009 and set the bar a little higher for public radio web sites.

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National Quality Forum

The National Quality Forum

Pantheon via SBS Studios

Healthcare Industry roundtables just got sexy. I was responsible for design down to the smallest details and functionality direction. Built on the world-class Ektron CMS.

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Tidan Hospitality Group

Tidan Hospitality Group

VIZERGY

Tidan Hotels maintain a range of properties in Canada and the United States. Working with them to provide individuality but brand identity across their portal and 11 child sites was a daunting task, but ultimately very rewarding. Every site has its own ambience that reflects their respective regions.

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Florida Public Archaeology Network - Northeast Region

Florida Public Archaeology Network - Northeast Region

FPAN

Being based in the most historic region of the state, the Northeast Region of the Florida Public Archaeology needed to set the standard for sites in their field. They were given a complete facelift with added functionality via ColdFusion. This site also spawned a sister site - Coquina Queries - which houses an on-line version of a 500-page educational course for elementary school students.

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Siufaga Beach Resort

Siufaga Beach Resort

Vizergy

Siufaga is located in American Samoa, so I needed to absorb their native art and translate it to the western world. This elaborate type treatment and throwback to Samoan heritage really made the re-design of their website complete.

Healthcare Outreach Network

Healthcare Outreach Network

HON

The folks at HON needed a pro-bono package to get their organization off the ground, so they could literally take flight and begin missionary medical work in the third world. This logo did what Johnson & Johnson never could - win a legal argument over the use of the red cross symbol.

frssh

frssh ™

Old City Web Services

One of my former employers decided to create an RSS feed for our internal affairs, which allotted everyone a username and a post to update. It was a richer form of micro-blogging that came out about 3 months after Twitter launched. Go figure. The service's more robust features eventually became available to clients.

Lincolnville Festival

26th Annual Lincolnville Festival

Contest Winner

This was my entry for the poster contest when they resurrected the Lincolnville Festival in St. Augustine when I was attending Flagler College. Out of nearly one-hundred submissions, this was chosen to go to print on posters, shirts, and other items memorializing the return of the festival to downtown Lincolnville.

2008 Jacksonville AIGA Portfolio Show

2008 Jacksonville AIGA Portfolio Show

Contest Winner

This is the winning entry that went to print for the AIGA Portfolio show that year as I was graduatiing from Flagler. That's two posters, two wins. In this round we had contestants from all over North Florida and SCAD.

Drift Magazine Poster

Drift Magazine Poster & Interview

Drift Magazine by The St. Augustine Record

I was originally scheduled to run for the first issue, but got pushed back to the second. There was a feature article on myself and I decided to do a new piece for the 2-page, 4-color, pull-out. The article can be read at Drift's Blog

mashup video

Mash-Up Instructional Film

Personal

I did this a couple years ago to get familiar with basic editing conventions, in the style of a late 1970's instructional film.

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I was born in New York in the mid 1980s.

You may notice an abundance of web design work in the portfolio, as I was previously a Graphic Designer for Old City Web Services, a boutique web agency situated in St. Augustine. I then became lead designer at Vizergy in Jacksonville, specializing in hospitality internet marketing. I currently work for SBS Studios as an Interactive Designer.

I have a B.A. in Graphic Design from Flagler College where I also studied Fine Art..

I am proficient with Adobe products (that includes Adobe/Macromedia). I develop the majority of the content on my sites using XHTML, but I've worked with PHP and Coldfusion as well. More technical qualifications are availble on my resumè.

If I had to describe my style, I'd say it's very bold.

As hobbies, I enjoy DJing and doodling.

Accolades

1st Runner-Up Flagler College Portfolio Show Spring 08 from the Harrington Design/Arts Alliance
Editor's Choice - CSS REMIX
Winner - 26th Annual Lincolnville Poster Competition
Winner - 19th Annual AIGA Jacksonville Portfolio Review Poster
Feature Article in Drift Magazine

I've been featured on CSS Mania, Screenalicious, LightonDark, and Christopher Scott's Best and Weirdest of Web Design '06 for my previous personal site, creativeprogeny.com

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