There were two main goals on this project – first, establish an economical solution for all the clients printing needs, and tap into the past. I really wanted to give this project a hands on aged appearance. So application was a big concern of mine. I cut manila tags to a dimension that could be used as business cards or clothing tags. two in one – saving money and time. I got crafty when I remembered that in 3rd grade I aged paper with tea. For this manila paper I used strong coffee. I got my own hemp twine to tie on the tags, and ordered a stamp, adding to it’s aged personality. The stamp also allows the client to implement the design on multiple applications.

video created for a website that sells iphone cases shaped like breasts. The cases were created to gain funds to help breast cancer.

3D Designer/ Animator

This video gives a virtual tour of McD’s new website. Can’t say I’m a huge fan, but the project came out pretty good.

Motion Designer

I teamed up with Rubbish to do the Title Sequence for this snow boarding video for Flow Snowboards. Rubbish was in charge of the creation of this video. They went on tour with the team do profiles on each pro rider involved…

Motion Designer

An animated interview with Mikey Rocks discussing his process behind making music. It was interesting hearing his process on working with the grid. Seems to be the universal design tool across all platforms.

Treatment, Design, Animation, Sound Design

Art On Track was an event sponsored by Fiji Water. They literally turned an entire train on the CTA into the largest mobile art gallery.

Motion Design, SPFX / Looks, sound design. | Art On Track website link

HYSTK Went down to Austin Texas for SXSW to watch some bands and shoot whatever gigs we could come up with. We ended up shooting this music video. I put together this behind the scenes video between helping out on set for the music video .  The next week I met up with Blended Babies, the producers behind this track, to interview them for some voiceover to edited over the footage I collected from the trip to Texas. Was an amazing time with sun, lego guns, friends, and green vibes. Make sure to check out my crazy friend at the end of the video. Best part!

Videographer, Director, Interviewer, Editor

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Shortly after the earth quake hit Haiti, I caught wind that a large group of my fellow artists were putting together a fund raiser for the benefit of Haiti’s need for water. I decided I needed to help the cause too, so I produced this video. I got a writer/interviewer, two other videographers, and an audio recorder to donate their time as well. It was a jammed packed show, and money was raised.

Producer / Videographer / Titles

Video commissioned by Schwa Restaurant. They wanted HYSTK to create a radical video that incorporated food experimentation.

Style Boards for video aesthetic, co Editor, co spfx.

Mr. TasTees created a line of assorted acrylic bow-ties. I made this logo-motion to go at the end of a promotional short story he made for his bow-tie line. My goal was to show off all the styles in a quick and corky manner.

Sound Design, Motion Graphics, Character Animation, and Concept. 

This is a project I created many moons ago. I wanted to create a mixtape that essentially went on a tour visiting Chicago artists, and capturing the essence of the culture in 1 short video. I got in touch with Mr. Tastees, who at the time drove around in an ice cream truck passing out T-shirts. I figured he would be a perfect segway or vehicle that could link all the artists together. So I came up with: “Mr. TasTees takes a crazy trip through his hometown Chicago passing out custom made jewelry to some of his favorite artists” Later we produced a pop up street fest which brought all the artists together to perform. Was a success!

Motion Design, Character Animation, Shot List / Direction, Producer, spfx,

Compilation of some design work I managed to gathered together into one post. Most of the work is pretty old. It’s just nice to keep some of the old work around to keep in perspective of where you came from.

Graphic Design

HYSTK created this video to promote Big Star’s new food truck before it hit the streets of Chicago. Got some nice time-lapses of the artist painting the truck.

Editor, Captured RED footage using Red Cine.

We documented patience who are apart of community living programs. According tho their interviews, they all seem much happier now in community living than from where they came from originally.

Titles + Closed Captioning + co Videographer + co Editor + Look’n Feel

Sports announcer from BIG 10 Network – Howard Griffith, commissioned me to create an intro and an outro logo-motion for his daily sports cast on twitt vid.

Design, Animation, Sound Design.

HYSTK created these videos for Bumble & Bumble + Solo-Salon. They were looped in store during events and installed as window displays. We had three things to take into account while creating these video: 1 – selling a product, 2 – promoting the services of the hair salon, and 3 – focusing on their culture.

spfx, Motion Design, Stop Motion, Assistant Editor. 

I was given the assignment to make this intro using the parallax technique. I was given these stock photos :( that I photoshopped for hours in order to separate their depth in perspective. Which ment i had to add, or make up details that were not in the original image. Good exercise. I would love to accomplish this technique again, if I had the chance to direct from the beginning. I hate stock photos first off, but it would be much easier to set up a camera on a tripod, then take several photos with 1 person at a time. Would be way easier to separate the dimensions.

Photoshop, Parallaxing, Motion Design