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Excerpt From Connfluence

I was recently featured in David Cushman’s magazine for ConnCreatives, Connfluence.

Kootenai River Inn and Casino

This is one that got away but we were happy with the spec work we produced. Kootenai River Inn and Casino, located in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, was looking to not only update their Web site but for a comprehensive marketing strategy to drive traffic and engagement in the Web site. Our proposal included social media [...]

Harbor View Steak Dinner Poster

The Harbor View Yacht Club has an annual steak dinner to raise money for charity. We volunteered to design and produce a logo and poster for the event. The simple illustration of a cuts of beef diagram combined with a yacht created a memorable icon for the annual event.
This piece was recognized with a [...]

Type Directors Club Web Site

We are an international organization for all people who are devoted to excellence in typography, both in print and on screen.
As part of Brian’s board duties, we redesigned TDC.org based on Roger Black’s new identity for the Club. The bold, clean design offers easy access to all fascists of the Club — from events [...]

SportsMD Video Intro

This short video intro was used as part of SportsMD’s 50 Most Common Sports Injuries video series. The type-dominant solution highlights several of the injuries in the series all arranged around the SportsMD logo which is revealed at the end.
Click here to see the video.

TransAct Annual Report

TransAct, manufacturers of retail POS printers, worked with Greg Voornas to craft their company story for 2004. Greg looked to the Brian Miller Design Group to create a clean look for the TransAct annual report. We used graphic elements that reflected their core business, like receipt-shaped text fields and bar code elements.
The project was [...]

MLB2Go.com Mobile Web Site

This mobile Web app was created as a side project of the Brian Miller Design Group. The useful and intuitive app displays RSS feeds of baseball news, individual team news and up-to-the-minute scores.

MGA Golf Annual Report

The Metropolitan Golf Association (MGA), a non-profit association of golf clubs, servers the tri-state area’s golf community. Its purpose is to foster sportsmanship, conduct tournaments, provide handicaps and promote the best interests of the game of golf.
Impressed with the sheer number of member clubs we listed them on the cover using silver, metallic ink. [...]

Grooves Magazine Covers

The Brian Miller Design Group served as the art director/designer for 10 issues of Grooves Magazine, the leading electronic music publication in the United States.
These covers were all produced with the tight budget and tighter timeline that comes with the publication industry, yet they’ve received several accolades including 4 from the Connecticut Art Directors [...]

GolfersMD.com

GolfersMD.com is a sub property of SportsMD Media — a brand emerging as the leader in online sports medicine. GolfersMD.com offers golf-specific health advice through articles, videos, a robust community forum, product recommendations and a sports-medicine doctor directory.
The Brian Miller Design Group created a clean and credible identity system for GolfersMD as well as [...]

MillerWhite School of Design

The MillerWhite School of Design, founded by Brian Miller and Alex White, offers resources for students and professionals interested in exploring the creative and technical aspects of graphic design. The site was created also by Brian and Alex to act as a repository of college art school information.
The site is built on the Wordpress [...]

SportsMD Store

The sister site to SportsMD.com, the SportsMD Store offers health and fitness items for sale. This fully integrated ecommerce engine is able to handle large volumes of traffic and is completely controlled by a robust .net content management system. Featured and sale items, coupon codes, restock items and inventory can all be tracked through the [...]

Nat Nast 2009

In 2009 Nat Nast, makers of luxury men’s clothing worn by Charlie Sheen and James Gandolfini, looked to reinvigorate their Web site by updating the look and enhancing the SEO. The Brian Miller Design Group obliged by producing a brand-specific look that utilized elements from their embroidery as well as more key-term rich text on [...]

GolfersMD Online Ads

GolfersMD.com is a sub property of SportsMD Media — a brand emerging as the leader in online sports medicine. GolfersMD.com offers golf-specific health advice through articles, videos, a robust community forum, product recommendations and a sports-medicine doctor directory.
These contextually-relevant ads highlighted several key features of the site. The consistent design treatment and humorous copy lines, [...]

Nat Nast

We were first approached by Nat Nast in 2005 and asked to redesign their existing Web site. The pages shown here are examples of how we gave the site a sophisticated, masculine and even retro look. The goal of the site was to highlight the beautiful clothing produced by Nat Nast. We continue to work [...]

GigMasters.com

GigMasters.com is the leading online entertainment booking service. In 2008 the asked the Brian Miller Design Group to redesign their site and their brand. The result was a sophisticated mix of fun and credibility — a trait not often associated with online booking services. GigMasters has exceeded their goals for the new site and we [...]

All Things Being Eco

All Things Being Eco is a side project of the Brian Miller Design Group. We’ve constructed a complete Wordpress-based ecommerce engine designed to sell green products. The site features nice details like a header that knows what time of day it is when you visit the site and displays a day or night scene accordingly. [...]

Delta/Atlanta Braves Fan Site

Working with Modem Media, we helped develop this highly-interactive fan promotional site. The partnership between the Atlanta Braves and Delta Airlines made it possible to purchase game tickets and airline tickets to see a game right on the same site. Additionally, Delta representatives would shoot your photo at a Braves game and upload it to [...]

Grand Theft Auto

As part of our ongoing relationship with Rockstar Games, we created this mini-site for Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories. The site utilized the distinctive packaging graphics and stepped people through the features of the game in an interactive and engaging way. Screen shots, movie clips and downloadable desktops could all be accessed by fans [...]

A&E Show Pages

We worked with A&E Television to produce dozens of show pages for their Web site. These pages took brand elements from the individual shows and applied them to an overall site template. The key was to have each page feel unique and specific to the show while maintaining a consistent user experience throughout AETV.com.

NBC Broadband Web Site

A year-long project, encompassing hundreds of pages, these designs were all created for a large broad band site to showcase all of the NBC Universal properties — NBC, USA Network, MSNBC, Bravo, CNBC, Access Hollywood, Universal Studios, etc. Users could watch video, contribute to a discussion or see upcoming shows and events all through a [...]

GE Online Ads

GE’s interactive advertising agency of record, Beeby, Clark + Meyler, was asked to create an integrated online campaign for ecomagination designed to engage the business audience and inform them about GE’s wide array of innovative products. BC+M worked with the Brian Miller Design Group to design an interactive video player that would live on media [...]

SportsMD.com

SportsMD Web design excerpt

TIG Re Wine Bottle

This wine label was created as a promotional give-away for TIG ReInsurance. The pure typographic approach was honored in the Print Magazine Regional Design Annual.
This project was featured in Print Magazine’s Regional Design Annual.

The SEO Balance

We attempt to explain the delicate balance between design, functionality and search-ability as they relate to our site.

Student Work: Sofia Hoflin

Examples of work done by Swedish-born, UB student, Sofia Hoflin.

Excerpt: Moving Beyond Your BFA

Excerpt form a ConnCreatives article about getting your masters degree.

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