Welcome to the online portfolio of Graphic Designer and Illustrator, Daniel Munzing.
{Examples of My Work} // Print, Interactive, Disruptive ect....
Rock Posters // Design
& Illustration.
What can I say? I love design, illustration and music. With that said, designing rock posters is something I love to do. For the past few years I've been designing posters for Higher Ground as well as other bands, venues and promoters around Burlington, VT. For larger views, click the posters to visit my poster blog.
OVX is a teen group run by VT Dept of Health giving teens a voice to stand against Big Tobacco. I've been heavily involved in redesigning the OVX website. The strongest feature of the site (designed, developed by yours truly) is the central flash component that is front and center on the homepage. Getting all the Flash programming to work properly was a little bit of a pain but in retrospect it was worth putting in a few extra hours to make it work smoothly. In the end it was a lot of fun to work on. Thanks to Matt D. for the animation help! Click here to view the site (the site is currently maintained by VT Dept of Health).
Below are screen shots of how the flash component sits within the site followed by a subpage.
Stowe Mountain Resort is one of the premier ski resorts in the East. I had the opportunity to design and develop a microsite that aims to help Stowe generate more vacation package sales. The site allowed users to get to know Stowe by creating a custom day itinerary as well as create a Stowe photo album which can be printed, saved or sent to a friend.. Thanks to Modern Riot for help with the database design. Click here to view site.
Below are additional screen shots of various functionality within the site.
Kelliher Samets & Volk- VT Dept of Health - Nikoteen// Concept, Flash, Design
& Illustration, Sound design
Nikoteen is one of my favorite concepts I've come up with yet. Initially a small companion site to OVX (see above), Vermont Dept of Health asked us to come up with an alternative way to inform tweens/teens about Big Tobacco marketing tactics. The premise of Nikoteen is that Big Tobacco is trying to target teen/youth culture by publishing an online magazine that glamorizes tobacco products. Each section of the site parodies different faccets of teen pop culture. The entire campaign is a parody of both Big Tobacco and corporate America's take on tween/teen culture. There are faux horoscopes, faux quizzes, faux celebrities, faux sports stars and best of all: Smoke & Mirrorz, the Big Tobacco funded boy band. I even got to record a song and pretend to be in a boyband with Matt and Bill (who also helped design and write this campaign.) Click here to veiw site and be sure to listen to the Smoke and Mirrorz song in the music section! (FYI VT Dept of Health maintains this site.)
Below are screen shots of various Nikoteen subpages.
Closed and open states of a Holiday Pointroll banner for cellular phone provided Unicel. I hadn't used Flash in a while so I the challenge was making the banner look half way decent without making the code that drives the banner overly complex. In the end the code got pretty complex (at least for my skill set) but I managed to keep my head wrapped around it.
New Breed Marketing - 2008 University of Vermont Summer University//Art Direction
In the University of Vermont dorms there is a poplar student run closed circuit cable station that plays movies. We developed these short spots to try and spread the word about Summer School. The spots were so popular they ended up being shown on NESN during NCAA hockey games. Use playlist on right of player to view all videos. Thanks to Bruce and Dan at Cabin 46.
New Breed Marketing - UVM - 2008 Summer U Handbag by Flashbags // Design, Illustration
When I worked at New Breed there was a company called Flashbags down the hall and it was run by a group of really fun loving woman. Regardless I was psyched to get a chance to work with them and design a bag for UVM Summer.
I designed the 2208 UVM Summer University website. It featured student testimonials as well as a psyedelic flash header. Unfortunately this website ran in a custom CMS so I can't repost it. :(
New Breed Marketing - Various UVM Marketing Materials// Illustration, design
When I worked at New Breed I spent over a year working mostly on the UVM account I made a lot of fliers and posters for various events and programs. Below are some of my favorite.
New Breed Marketing - UVM CE - Disruptive Marketing// Concepting
While at New Breed, I was always looking for new ways to reach students who tend to ignore more traditional marketing tactics. Below are some of the non-traditional I came up with.
Hiring break dancers with a big Summer University sticker on their mat in front of the library got students attention .
To spread the word about UVM Winter session (a mini semester during Winter break), we collected ice shavings from the UVM Hockey rink to built snowmen around campus in September (wwwway before any real snow hit).
We actually hired a student to longboard around campus at night and spray eco-friendly chalk stencils that featured Summer University branding.
My Dearest Darling -Promo Photo // Art Direction & Photography
Album art & Facebook/Myspace icon for a music project I was working on.
Fine Art // mixed mediums
Yes of course before I was designer (or a musican) I used to draw and I sometimes still do.
