Brief. Concept. Fire!

Unfortunately, sometimes it looks a little more like: “Brief. Worry. Concept. Stress. Uh, fire?” It’s a shame when the hustle, and the stress of the advertising world stands in the way of creating really great work. Sometimes all your campaign needs is a fresh mind unburdened by the stress of the 37 rounds of revisions that you’ve already been through with the client.

Homepage Takeovers, and Full Site Designs

Dreamworks - How to Train Your Dragon

Myspace homepage marquee for Dreamworks movie How to Train Your Dragon

Summit Entertainment - Twilight

Myspace homepage takeover for the movie Twilight

Nickelodeon

Microsite design for Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging
 

Nickelodeon - Wireframes

Wireframes for Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging microsite
 

Set Yourself Freelance

Sales Page for Set Yourself Freelance eBook

Elliott Samuel

Flash landing page

ABC - V

TV Guide Homepage takeover for the TV show V

ABC - Desperate Housewives

Zap2it Homepage takeover for Desperate Housewives

ABC - Dancing with the Stars


ABC - Hank

Zap2it Homepage takeover for Hank starring Kelsey Grammer

20th Century Fox

This is a microsite I created for the Australian release of the Night at the Museum movie. 20th Century Fox wanted a site that reflected the fun quirky character of the movie, and offered the opportunity to win free tickets and other prizes, and watch clips. This site succeeded in capturing information from a large number of visitors, and driving an unexpectedly large number of visitors to the main movie site. Fox was more than happy with the final product.

Universal Studios Hollywood

I created this site for the Halloween Horror Nights event at Universal Studios Hollywood. I did all the design, and Flash animation based on existing television and print media campaigns.

Universal Studios Hollywood - Wireframes

Wireframes for Halloween Horror Nights site
 

Commonwealth Bank

Commonwealth Bank wanted a new way to encourage consumers to start thinking about security practices for themselves, while promoting a new batch of security products related to the bank's online services. My colleagues and I came up with the idea of the security quiz, which I created and executed in Flash.

Text Pacific Publishing

Text Pacific Publishing, Australia's leading publisher, contracted me to create their new online corporate image. Before contacting me, they were frustrated with time and money they had exhausted working with two other designers on a new corporate website that wasn't meeting any of their objectives. After clarifying their objectives, I developed a new corporate website that they were excited and proud to move forward with!
 

Commonwealth Bank

I created this microsite for Commonwealth Bank, Australia's largest bank. The bank wanted to take advantage of the financial new year to promote new savings and loans products. They wanted a theme of celebration, hence the confetti and balloons.

Text Pacific Publishing - Wireframes

Wireframes for Text Pacific site redesign
 
As the creative director working for Australia's largest bank, it is a challenge to find designers that I can rely on, and who do work of the caliber I require for such an important client.

Finding Elliott, and working with him on numerous projects for the bank, has saved me so many headaches! He works quickly, comes up with great original ideas, and requires minimal direction from me, which is great! And our client loves his work!

Mike Dennis | Assoc. Creative Director, Ikon

Elliott has the skill, temperament, and ability to take a company’s vision and bring it to life with full functionality on the web.

A better teammate would be hard
to come by.

Robin D Richards | CEO, Blackboard Connect Inc.

Energizer

Kia Sorento

Rich media ad placements to tie into the Kia Sorento Superbowl spots

ABC

Banner ads for the ABC hit Flash Forwards, including synched banner units for the Flash Forward Wiki page.

Notorious BIG

Screenshots from a widget to promote the DVD release of Notorious BIG.

Summit Entertainment

Sagon Phior

Mitsubishi

Banner campaign for the 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart.

Commonwealth Bank

This is an interactive banner campaign I created for Commonwealth Bank, using Flash and ActionScript. Drag the missing piece into place!

Australian Labour Party

As much as mud-slinging politics make me cringe, I created this ad campaign for the Australian Labour Party before the most recent election.

Woolworths

Woolworths advertising supplement on the ninemsn website

Mazda USA

These are a few screenshots from different email marketing campaigns I designed for Mazda USA.

Electrolux

A simple banner campaign for Electrolux driving traffic to a promotion page.

Commonwealth Bank

Commonwealth bank replaced their voice-automated systems with live representatives, and wanted an ad campaign to represent this. Click samples 2 and 3, and have fun zapping answering machines!

Lincoln Vehicles

Part of a 2001 banner campaign for Lincoln Vehicles.

Mercury

Banner ads from 3 different campaigns for Mercury.

Commonwealth Bank

Banner ad campaign for Commonwealth Bank podcasts.

iMedia Communications

These banner ads promoted the iMedia Summits where media buyers and sellers come together to mix business and pleasure.

Commonwealth Bank

Commonwealth Bank wanted a banner campaign to represent all the value their customers could get out of a $4 a month checking account...hence the $4 vortex, which the client loved.
Elliott is an excellent designer with a great aesthetic sense and very high production standards.

He designed a website for me for the Australian Labor Party which won praises for the cleanness of its design. He also developed flash banner executions for the election campaign, which were highly creative whilst following the existing campaign very well. He is always reliable, genial and calm to work with.

Camilla Cooke | Managing Partner, Catalyst MDC

I am very happy with the work Elliott does on my site.

I find him to be highly qualified, creative, and patient with my lack of technical skills. Elliott is easily reachable for my follow-up questions, as well.

Alan O'Day | Singer/Songwriter, alanoday.com

Stop worrying about trying to find the right person for the job and give me a buzz: (310)849-5050. If you’re not a phone person, shoot me an email, and if you’re not an email person, give my contact form a whirl »

You see, the possibilities are limitless.

—elliott