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Left: "Panaco is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company that utilizes state-of-the-art 3-D seismic and advanced drilling technology to recover reserves that were previously bypassed or overlooked. Our second annual report for them was produced following a year of financial losses. In spite of this, they had persevered, made the most significant discovery in the company's history and were expecting their cash flow to more than triple . Since the company's 1999 results, like the fields in which they work, bore some deeper exploration, we focused the report's message on looking below the surface. To support the concept, we paired photos of surface operations at the company's offshore platforms with 3-D seismic images, cropped from large TAKE FIVf AND VifW SOMf CUTTING fOGf OllfCtiON. GAlY lANKfOlO • OUfCtOt
format inkjet prints, of relevant oil and gas deposits." Mark Geer, art director/ designer; Molly Glentzer, writer; Robb Kendrick, photographer. This page: "Times 3 Productions is a film production company established by commercial director Gary Lankford. Times 3 serves well-known East and West Coast advertising agencies and clients such as MCI, Adobe Systems and Gillette . We developed a flexible identity system featuring a series of characters that combine metaphors for time and the film industry." Mark Geer, art director; Mark Geer/Heidi Flynn Allen, designers. The Papal Concert to Commemorate the Holocaust. "This identity was developed to accompany music packaging and promotion for a historic concert held at the Vatican by Pope John Paul II." Mark Geer, art director/designer.
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Left: "Denzel's Martyr Complex. Is he too good for his own good?," Tom Carson ' s The Screen column in the February 2000 issue of Esquire. " This is an idea that could have flopped . Art director Rockwell Harwood suggested the concept and Roberto loved it. He was told that the character in this painting needed to look exactly like Denzel. It wasn't something that the editors were enthusiastic about until they saw the painting ." 16 X 22, oil on canvas . This page: A 1998 self-promotion piece. "One thing that Roberto noticed after he did this painting was that wherever he stood, it looked like Christopher Walken was staring at him." 9 X 10, oil on board . "Defending the Faith . Dogma is just the latest reminder that one man's sacrament is another man 's heresy," Tom Carson's The Screen column in the December 1999 issue of Esquire . " This is Roberto ' s humorous attempt to portray the struggle of the way we perceive religion and Christ." Rockwell Harwood, art director; Esquire, client. 24 X 20, oil on canvas .
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This page: Trade show display, annual report for LAM technology, 1999. Suemy Hikaoka, designer; Paul Schulte, art director; Paul Schulte Design, design firm . MIT's Technology Review, 1999, "Mining the Genome" (finding a pattern in genetic database). Kelly McMurray, art director; Kelly Design, design firm; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, client. Right: Chicago Mercantile Exchange 1999 interest rate calendar. Melissa Gattuso, designer.
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Alto ids Overview: The objective of this site was to
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Disney's Magic Artist Studio Overview: Disney's Magic Artist Studio is a sequel to their popular 1996 product release . Like many of Disney's offerings, this prod uct is innovative, creative and designed to empower imagination. It gives children a chance to create with a technology-based palette and make images that they can later convert to slide shows, stickers or Bipbooks. It also includes Stamp, a feat ure that contains 3,000 frames of Disney characters, props, m usic and background scenes . The CD gives children the tools to create in a state-of-the-art, free-form environment that features 8oo x 6oo resolution color graphics, 3-D-enhanced versions of popular artist's tools and sound and animation effects . Allard Laban, producer Jason Brumbaugh/Bret Nelson, associate producers lmagebuilder Software, software development Mary Jo Laroche, production manager Ann-Bettina Colace, lead artist Yukako lnoue/Matthew Mead/Carrie Mead/ Pete MitcheiiNickie Pellouchoud, artists Jason Chayes, 3-D artist Creative Capers, animator Charlie Brissette, music composer/sound designer Disney Interactive, project design and development/client
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