Arif Merritt
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Travelocity
Travelocity & The Amazing Race
Over the past 9 months (March 08 - Dec 08), I have been a contractor at Travelocity. During this time, I was commissioned to create a mini-site for a promotion between Travelocity and The Amazing Race for The Amazing Race's thirteenth season. Over a 3 week time span I created a few versions of the layout, created ads, flash applications and custom graphics for the campaign.
Also during my stay at Travelocity, I created over 300 online ads for major airlines who advertised with Travelocity, such as American Airlines, United, British Airways, Virgin America and many more. These included static and flash ads. Along with that, I created promo pages for regional deals for hotel chains and airlines.
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Travelocity X The Amazing Race

Bravo's Top Chef Contestant: Chef Tre Wilcox
Bravo's Top Chef Season 3 Contestant: Chef Tre Wilcox
Chef Tre, a featured chef from Bravo's Top Chef Season 3, commissioned me for his new website. The site has officially launched. I guarantee you will love this. Chef Tre's food is art work to say the least. Incredible color pallets coupled with a cornucopia of flavors. I created the perfect display for his art work; a full flash website using AS2 and XML, which allows him up update all of his content quick and easily. Throughout the site, the focus stays on the food... strong photography, clean lines and an unobtrusive navigation creates the atmosphere that you are in an art gallery.
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Unkommon Kolor
Unkommon Kolor
Unkommon Kolor has been a blessing in so many ways. It's a clothing line that my friends and I started early summer 2008. The stars must have aligned because for so many years my best friend & I have talked about meeting a group of people who have incredible artistic abilities and just as focused as we are. In such a small amount of time we've built a strong name for ourselves & produced some very original and incredible pieces. I'm one of the owners and designers. I'm also responsible for all of the online marketing. Everything we do over at Unkommon Kolor is produced in-house. The environment in an open, creative lab to just experiment with everything possible from fashion to music to graphics, animation and video production. Definitely keep an eye out for us.
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The Dallas Weekly
The Dallas Weekly
Friends, family & every relationship you make in life will lead to something greater; that is if you nurture it right. A few months ago, a childhood friend of mine decided to join the family business. This just so happen to be the largest African American newspaper in Dallas. They have been looking to grow their online presence, and I was blessed to be thought of to help out with this project. This is currently a work in progress, looking for a soft launch date of Jan 15. A few details of what I'll be doing: full interface re-design, content management system, information architecture, advertising, sales strategies to convert those print sales to print & web sales, video streaming & much more. This is going to be another incredible project in which I'll be working with some really talented business men and women.
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Love Visits
Love Visits
Love Visits is a graphic novel I illustrated after writing the poem....
Please check out more of my poetry at http://adamsside.blogspot.com.
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Katharine D. Interiors
Katharine D. Interiors
Katharine D. Interiors is a high end custom drapery company based in Frisco, Tx. For 2 years I doubled as the creative director and office manager. Over the years we've gone through 4 different versions of the website, and each time we've been rated as the top marketing drapery country in the North Texas area. Robert Allen recently approached us about selling their furniture on our website because of the high standards and quality that we always present.
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Jupiter
Jupiter
Jupiter is an experimental project features my after effects, photoshop, typography, flash and actionscript skills.
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Watermelon Democracy
Watermelon Democracy
Watermelon Democracy is a Dallas based clothing line. They came to me in need of a full flash website. I created it using Actionscript 2.0. I created it to allow them to update every element of the site using XML. I also created an online store using PHP and mySql with a content management system for easy updating.
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Running Yellow Lights
Running Yellow Lights
Running Yellow Lights is my laboratory. During my time in college I was given the nickname "The Scientist" because my art studio was filled with science equipment. I'm a poet, sculptor and painter along with being a multimedia designer & developer. Running Yellow Lights is personal outlet for displaying all of my wild experiments... I'm currently working on a 7ft tall glass touchscreen for my art show in June.
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