HelloThere
Welcome to Illyan Seem Design
I am a digital designer living and working in New York City. Over the past decade I have worked on video projects for network, corporate, and independent film clients, print design and marketing for small businesses, and am now focusing my attention on web design and search engine optimization. Welcome to my website! Here are just a few of the services I provide:
Services
Standards-Based Web Development
Design and development of hand-coded, standards-based websites using valid, semantic (X)HTML with full CSS layouts.
Flash Development
Design and development of dynamic XML driven Flash sites.
Search Engine Optimization
Optimization of content, code, and internal links; editing and reformatting of content for the web.
Copy Editing
Organization, structure, and semantics.
RecentWork
Designer Lily McCullough of The Macro Company brought me on to develop a portfolio site for art director Graham Turner. Dynamic Flash was just the thing to bring Lily's design to life. Content updates are super simple thanks to the XML back end.Ingredients: Flash, ActionScript, XML, Javascript
Acupuncturist Chandra Hood wanted a clean, simple website to provide information for her patients. The layout and typography focus on making the content both legible and readable, and we incorporated statuesque anatomical sketches that reflect Chandra's background in Western biomedical science.Ingredients: Photoshop, XHTML, CSS
Schnapp Studio brought me in to assist in the development of this Flash site for nascent advertising agency Rivet Global. I had a lot of fun bringing the unique design and interactive concepts of Rivet's in-house artists to life. FYI, pinatas and alcohol are a dangerous combination!Ingredients: Flash, ActionScript, Photoshop
This is a prototype for a Flash-based trigger point acupuncture training manual. The user can navigate the body to select a muscle, and then watch video examples of any point in that muscle being released. The application is XML-based to allow for easy updating as new video becomes available. Apps like this are a great use of technology, and I'm a fan of any project that uses Flash for education.Ingredients: Photoshop, Flash, ActionScript, XML, Poser
This was a first pass at a redesign for the marketing heavy Now Music site. This project is dead in the water, but would have provided some interesting Flash challenges. The design was inspired by a car stereo.Ingredients: Photoshop
I was contracted by Special Ops Media for the redesign and development of the main content area of JPMorgan's Institutional Americas home page. A clean design and semantic, list-based markup made this redesign a success.Ingredients: Photoshop, CSS, XHTML
New York acupuncturist Anastasia Hall wanted her website to have a clean look that incorporated her photography. I used oceanic blues and subtle gradients for a cool, spa-like feel, and assisted her in preparing content for the web.Ingredients: Photoshop, CSS, XHTML, Javascript
A logo! Yay! I've always wanted a logo and now I have one. You might think as a designer I would have gotten around to this earlier, but prior attempts proved unsatisfactory. This little guy arose organically--one might say he was born--and I have a feeling he'll be sticking around for a while in one incarnation or another. His name is Meesi. Please be nice to him.Ingredients: Photoshop
Documentary filmmaker Cal Skaggs of Lumiere Productions wanted a simple title sequence for his compelling documentary about army reservists called to active duty in Afghanistan. I set the title in Interstate, and used a few dissolves to build momentum. The film was onlined in 1080i by my good friends at Frame:Runner and will be airing later this year.Ingredients: Photoshop, After Effects
Working with legendary designer Bob Gill once again, for this Lumiere Productions documentary title sequence. I was responsible for interpreting Bob's story boards into an animation that would achieve his and producer Cal Skagg's vision. The outcome, for this documentary about journalists in the most dangerous and repressive locations in the world, involved text in six languages animating on with a typing-on effect. The size and overlap of text elements, and timing of the dissolves, were key to this animations success.Ingredients: Photoshop, After Effects