Who am I?
My name is Chris Halaska and I'm a Senior Designer living in Sydney, Australia. I work mainly in digital but have an interest in all aspects of design and often venture into illustration, flash development and even fashion design. I am passionate about my designs and am always looking for new methods/technology to help deliver great work.
Talk to me
You can contact me through any of the following methods:
ph: 0438472277
'Coca-Cola' Summer Blast Game
Senior Designer
The 'Coca-Cola' Summer Blast Game was created to support the opening of 'Coca-Cola's summer 2009-2010 open happiness campaign. I had the task of designing the website and supporting banners, and directing the production of the game.
Created while employed at Ogilvy Interactive, Sydney.
MILO.com.au
Senior Designer
MILO is the nutritious energy drink that kids love. They needed a website to inform their customers about the product and its affiliated sports programs. I was given the task of designing and animating the website (which was also converted into a New Zealand version).
Created while employed at Ogilvy Interactive, Sydney.
Torso Clothing
Founder/Designer
In 2009, I started my own clothing label, Torso Clothing. Soon after, my t-shirts were featured in many design sites (like Design is Kinky and Buy This Shirt). As a result, I sold t-shirts online to people from Sydney, Melbourne, Detroit, Prague, and beyond.
As founder, I am responsible for everything associated with the brand including t-shirt designs, the website and marketing material.
Soothers Animation
Senior Designer
This animation was created to support a recent print campaign for Soothers. It was projected onto walls throughout Sydney to generate interest in the product. The animation was also to be used as the basis for TV and web executions.
Created while employed at Ogilvy Interactive, Sydney.
Personal Work
This is a piece I created to work on my photo manipulation skills, I decided to morph nature into fashion by creating a black dress out of roses.
WarnerBros.com.au
Art Director
For this project, I was in charge of designing the new Warner Bros Australia website. This project was very detailed and included many movie micro-sites, emails, animated flash panels, and promotions for Warner Bros.
Created while employed at Ogilvy Interactive, Sydney.
LuckyDog.com.au
Designer
Dogs are more than just pets, they are part of a family. Lucky Dog wanted to show they understand this fact with their website. I was responsible for the website design, flash animations and the illustrations that were used for the interactive flash game.
Created while employed at Ogilvy Interactive, Sydney.
Sunsilk Email
Senior Designer
Sunsilk has a classic look and feel, instantly recognisable in a sea of beauty products. I was given the task of creating a fresh new layout for the Sunsilk emails. The end result was clean, readable, and easily updatable.
Created while employed at Ogilvy Interactive, Sydney.
American Express™ Christmas Site
Senior Designer
American Express was keen to encourage their Cardmembers to use their Membership Rewards points over the Christmas period. I used a snow theme for this design and integrated 3D to bring a potentially dull site to life.
Created while employed at Ogilvy Interactive, Sydney.
American Express™ Micro-sites
Art Director/Senior Designer
This Microsite for American Express™ was designed to showcase the range of platinum cards and to present each of them as a personality.
Created while employed at Ogilvy Interactive, Sydney.
TNSW Repco Rally Game
Senior Designer
This banner was designed and built by myself to promote the Repco Rally for Tourism NSW. The user can and play with the car and interact to try and make it around the corner with a hand-brake turn. The client feedback was very positive and they menioned that it "sets the standard for their future online banners".
Created while employed at Ogilvy Interactive, Sydney.
American Express™ Dining
Art DIrector
American Express is accepted in most dining establishments in Australia, and they wanted to let this fact be known. They needed a site to inform Cardmembers about dining offers, reviews, affiliated restaurants and competitions they were running. AmexDining.com.au had two main sections: Dining and Fine Dining. Both designs were created by me.
Created while employed at Ogilvy Interactive, Sydney.
American Express™ Micro-sites
Art Director/Senior Designer
I designed a series of pages, focused on travel, shopping, and dining to showcase how American Express™ Cards can help you.
Created while employed at Ogilvy Interactive, Sydney.
Custom Vans
I was sick of the same styles of Vans shoes around the place and wanted something unique so decided to create my own. I purchased a pair of blank Vans and drew on them using fabric markers. I recieved alot of positive comments while wearing these.
Custom Vans
After the previous pair of Vans had been worn out I decided to create a new pair. This time I incorporated some colour and more elements from Japanese Tattoos.
Wallpaper design
After being inspired by the colours of the model's dress I created a rough paint effect to compliment the photo. This desktop wallpaper is available to the public, so if you're interested then feel free to email me and I'll send you a copy.
Illustration
I created this illustration while in College, I was experimenting with Illustrator and ended up with this simple design.
Wallpaper design
This wallpaper design was based on a sketch I created, I manipulated it in Illustrator and then coloured in Photoshop. It was also featured in the 2008 Semi-Permanent book.
American Express™ online banner
Art Director
This online banner was to promote that American Express had won the Smart Investor award. I came up with the concept and design of the banner.
Created while employed at Ogilvy Interactive, Sydney.