TRANSIENT POD A Design Collective
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Recent Work
Wizard Defense
A couple of the Transient Pod Design Collective members where involved with the production of a new Tower Defense Game created by BigPark Inc. Miles, who works at BigPark as the Creative Director / Director of User Experience recently had the wonderful opportunity to work with a talented group of designers and developers to create [...]
The Next: Creative Catalysts
Miles recently had the wonderful opportunity to work with The Next Institute, who’s goal is to be a catalyst for creative and sustainable enterprise. Companies like The Next Institute understand the market and growing need for designers in a leadership position.
Miles helped The Next Institute create and conceptualize pitches, while providing post production design services. [...]
VFS Curriculum Development 2007 -2010
Miles finds working as an educator an incredibly rewarding and inspiring experience. It provides you to explores your boundaries as a designer through research and curriculum development, while working with a group of developing design minds.
Course Outlines:
The User Experience course focuses on the fundamentals of User Centered Design, by focusing on observation, interviews, and persona [...]
Web Products & Brand 07/08
As a Creative Director at Fiver Media during 2007 -2008 I oversaw the development of all products for one of our major clients; The Bodog Entertainment Group. This included brand strategy, product excellence initiatives, interactive gaming & web experiences.
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Bodog re-brand
Miles worked as the Creative Director on this project . He created a top to bottom brand strategy to support international expansion. Steps included in the process where competitive analysis, perceptual mapping, brand characters / personality, and brand book (Positioning, Audience, Mission, Vision, Values, Attributes, Promise.) The project team was composed of myself and the [...]
Compentency Map / Performance Review Plan
As the co-manager of a team of 60, Miles developed a core competency map; professional development & performance review plan for Riptown Media; a company with 700+ employees
Collective Members: Miles Nurse
Thinktank & Connected Services
Miles recently created the Riptown thinktank. A user experience led team who collaborated with all members of product and business development with a focus on research, concept development, prototyping, and user testing. The goal was to explore new areas of user experience & revenue within the online entertainment space and develop conceptual plans for future [...]
Adobe Reel Ideas: Real Students
Miles recently got an opportunity to work with some of the folks from Adobe and VFS on the Reel Ideas Studio This is Adobe’s annual project at the Cannes Film Festival in which they introduce a select number of students to their software and have them film and edit movies in a [...]
User Experience Strategy
The Riptown User Experience Department was challenged by the founder of the Bodog Entertainment Group to create a strategy that would push the boundaries of the Bodog Brand and create the most compelling entertainment experiences available on the web. The task fell upon the user experience strategy team to create a pitch that would define [...]
Battle of the Bands
After pitching, hiring and establishing a mograph team at Riptown it was time for the Art Director & Motion team to take a big bite by creating a title sequence for “Bodog Battle of the Bands.” The Art & Design team did an amazing job with the visual treatment and pacing. The project was a [...]
Product / UX Strategy
Miles created a Product / User Experience Strategy for the Bodog Casino 2007. The concept was to create an experience that took us back to the early days of Vegas. The glory years where the “Rat Pack,” could be seen walking down the street. Where a night at the casino was as about the whole [...]
Project House Edge
As Miles and his team embarked on a journey to innovate within the on-line gaming world he knew redefining an entertainment product would be incredibly challenging. “Project House Edge” was an opportunity for his team to design a broad range of game products and supporting brand presence. The goal was to support establishing Bodog as [...]
Bodog Casino Redesign
Concepts for a new Casino Product re-design. The redesign was to include be more inclusive of women and use a new tag line “celebrate winning”
Collective Members:
Miles Nurse
Role: Senior Producer
Thrillbuzz Campaign
Miles partnered with the Riptown Casino marketing & business manager to create the “thrillbuzz” campaign. Included photo shoot, print mailers & microsites. The campaign had extremly successful CPA / ROI ratios.
Collective Members: Miles Nurse
Role: Senior Producer
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Riptown Redesgin: Bring your Passion to work
Miles spent the weekend working on a Riptown SLAM project. SLAM Projects also known as Deep Dives (made famous by IDEO) are projects in which you are given extremely aggressive time lines to accomplish huge amounts of design work. They are usually 2 -3 days in length.
Using this as our inspiration we decided to have [...]
Hydrotec Gear
An old colleague approached Miles and asked him create a simple logo for a line of waterproof outerwear he was creating. The product line was targeted at runners in the Vancouver area.
Collective Members: Miles Nurse Role: ID Designer
Sea to Sky
An RFP project for Tourism BC. MIles created a 30 second commerical piece that highlighted many of the outdoor landscapes available to the people of the Vancouver area. It was created as part of a pitch to land a potential contract from Tourism BC.
Process: To capture footage of at least ten outdoor areas along the [...]
"Wanted" : BCSPCA
Miles and a group of colleagues to on the challenge of creating a 30 second commercial piece for the BCSPCA that they could use a part of their current campaign: Prevention of cruelty against animals. The commercial was to address neglect and animal cruelty. We where asked to put a specific emphasis on the long [...]
Bushido
Bushido
The goal of this project was to promote a short movie titled Bushido and have it accepted into a Film Festival; concentrating our efforts on a Film Festival that celebrates Japanese styles. We facilitated this by designing a press kit produced to current professional standards that was consistent in reflecting the director’s message.
Solution: Design a [...]
The Power of You
Miles created the Brand / ID & Commercial for You H2O, A vitamin water energy drink
Collective Members: Miles Nurse
Role: ID / Motion Designer
Your Key to Sexual Safety
Contest Winnder – Blood Guts and Gore Horror Fest
Challenge: To create a 5 – 6 minute short horror movie within 48 hrs, that would be judged on four different categories. Use of Gore, Story, Prop, Originality.
Process: We wanted to maximize the resources and strengths of the team by shooting two scenes with an animated [...]
Roman Holiday
Critics Choice Award Winner | New Media Slam
Brief: New Media competition in which competitors are given 48hrs to create an online multimedia experience using a provided inspiration package. www.roman-holiday.org
Goal: To create an interactive online experience using a provided inspiration package. The package included a picture of friends in Rome on a Roman Holiday, a [...]
Six Phases of Design
Adobe Showcase Piece
Uses the new seamless Adobe Creative Suite, Miles created a 60 second commercial piece that was an emotional representation of the design process.
Process: Explored the challenges of working in 3D space within Adobe After Effects. Using graphics and text to represent various emotions a designer experiences progressing through design challenges from anticipation to [...]
Dynamic Wayfinding Signage
Goal: To improve wayfinding in shopping malls in the Vancouver area with a system that could be monetized in order to sustain itself.
Process: Observed, interviewed and surveyed users to determine a list of possible solutions. After compiling data and identifying clusters a solution was explored.
Solution: To create a kiosk and RFID system in which a [...]