Chris Halaska
Digital Creative
YouTube Map My Summer
YouTube asked Three Drunk Monkeys to create a summer campaign which allowed users to share their summer experiences online. I created designs for the YouTube channel as well as many standard and rich media banner placements. The site was awarded FWA Site of the day and a Merit for Interactive Interface Design in the One Show Interactive Awards.
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Soothers Summer
Soothers wanted to relaunch in Summer with a fresh look and feel. I created this art direction which was adapted into online banners, a myspace page, and a website skin for Nova.
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Coca-Cola Summer Blast
The 'Coca-Cola' Summer Blast Game was created to support the opening of the 2009-10 open happiness campaign. I had the task of designing the website, supporting banners, and directing the production of the game.
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Nestle
I was tasked with creating the design for Nestlé Australia's new website. This project needed to accomodate for hundreds of pages filled with varying content and have a professional look which showcases all the new brands and information that Nestle has to offer.
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UBank Live Fast Typography
This UBank campaign encourages young people to Live Fast and Save young. I created the type treatment for this campaign which was used for online banners and a landing page.
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MILO
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).
Flower girl
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.
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Torso Clothing
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.
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Soothers
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.
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Personal Poster
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.
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Warner Bros Australia
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.
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Lucky Dog
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.
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American Express micro-site
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.
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American Express micro-site
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.
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American Express micro-site
This Microsite for American Express™ was designed to showcase the range of platinum cards and to present each of them as a personality.
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Panadol Optizorb
This website was created to support the launch of the new Panadol product, Optizorb. The microsite included a competition which gives users the chance to win $75,000 worth of prizes by completing a word puzzle.
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TNSW Repco Rally Game
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".
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Sunsilk
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.
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Cornerstone Technologies
I designed this website for Cornerstone Techonolgies to showcase their work and services.
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RSL Australia
This website for the Returned & Services League Australia involved designing an easily accesible website with an online store component.
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Personal Poster
This poster was created by drawing the character on paper, then recreating in Illustrator.
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Personal Poster
I created this illustration while in College, I was experimenting with Illustrator and ended up with this simple design.
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Personal Poster
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.
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