Key Theory Web Design

First Federal Moolah Checking

One of the cool things about working for an agency like On Ideas is getting to work on a variety of great projects for different clients. In the fall of 2008 On Idea’s developed an animated spot for First Federal bank. I got to work on designing and producing the project with a great team of people. We designed storyboards and executed in After Effects. We focused on creating the commercial using simple animations and visuals. The campaign had good success and On Ideas has produced several more animated spots since then.

Well Happy New Year 2010!

The year is here and it’s that time of year when people start over, get inspired and set resolutions for the new year. I tend to set my goals high and usually achieve most but not all of my goals. Some people don’t make any of theirs so I feel pretty good with my track record.

There are many different resources online that can assist planning and setting your goals. Below are a few sites I found that seem worth looking into.

Five great resources for setting goals and keeping them.

• Top 10 New Years Resolutions – Get some ideas from others.
• Personal Goal Setting – MindTools.com has lots of good advice and resources for setting goals.
• Goal Setting Guide – Goal Setting Guide offers ideas for keeping goals.
• On-line Goal Tracking – Joe’s goals is a free little web app for tracking personal goals.
• Keeping your New Years Resolutions Advice – Advice for keeping new years resolutions.

Kenny Harper’s Goals/Resolutions for 2010

Well I’m sure I’ll set more goals through out the year but I’ve set some resolutions to work towards in this new year.

1. Continue working with my family on growing our business.
2. Post at least one post a week on my blog. Thanks to Project52
3. Finish re-branding KeyTheory and growing my on-line presence.
4. Focus on quality over quantity, take on fewer projects but make ‘em count.
5. Work on growing in back-end programming, I started as a musician, then designer, then coder, go programmer.

That’s it! So far I’m doing great, it’s only day 2 but I’ve worked on all five of my goals. Good luck with yours and Happy New Year!

2009 has proven to be quite a good year all in all. There’s been a lot of learning and growth and a lot of opportunities and changes.

Highlights of 2009:

• Content Management Systems for all:
  They’ve come such a long way in the last couple years. Now there isn’t many sites that I build that don’t use either Drupal or WordPress.
• Social Media Integration:
  Twitter, Digg, Facebook, YouTube have exploded and change a way a lot of people interact and market themselves. Although Web 2.0 has been around for awhile this year it went crazy.
• JQuery vs Flash:
  Javascript shorthand has made some really cool ways to have SEO friendly copy that can be interactive, animate and help improve a users experience.

What’s new for 2010:

• Key Theory Redesign will launch 2010… about time.
• New project for design community and knowledge portal.
• YouTube channel growth.
• Speaking events at The Art Institute of North Florida and FSJC.

AIGA is hosting its first custom toy show, Designers in Toyland, at the December Art Walk, December 2 from 5-9 pm at the 229 N. Hogan Street Studio.

This should be a great event to witness and catch some of the greatest Jacksonville artists put down their mice and pic up some toys. Yes adults working with toys… but they are not adult toys… that’d be a totally different show.

This is a benefit that will be exhibiting toys designed by over 80 different artists. A portion of the proceeds from the event will be donated to The Big Fun Box.

For those who don’t know what AIGA is, it is a professional association for design. http://www.aiga.org/

Jacksonville’s Chapter http://www.aigajacksonville.org/