Alan Schaffer

Design is practical imagination.

Summary
After the Y2K but more intensively since 2007, my main focus has been the study and practice of digital interactions. Multimedia artist and designer exploring the field of interaction and visual communication. Passionate, collaborative, positive, tactical and methodical. A fast learner and problem solver with clear vision for supporting creative solutions. I can help you Think, Design, Plan, Manage, Prototype or Produce the next digital experience.
Services
  • Concept Development
  • Strategic Consulting
  • Branding
  • Art Direction
  • Project Management
  • Branding and Identity
  • Web Construction and Design
  • User Experience
  • Front-End Development
  • E-commerce Experience
  • Information Architecture
  • Interface Design
  • Interactive Installation
  • Interactive 3D environment
  • Game Strategy
  • Game Development
Work
  • Animorphous
  • BLVCK America
  • DIRT
  • Dis Magazine
  • Dove
  • Diesel
  • Elisa Palomino
  • FAUX/real
  • IED
  • Lillian Schwartz
  • Minitek
  • MODE30
  • NEAT//NYC
  • Pepe Jeans
  • Push consulting
  • Pourton de moi
  • RMMA Arquitectos
  • ShiftSpace
  • Swapple
  • Telfar Clements
  • TJMS Partners
Softwares & Languages
Ableton Live Adobe creative suite Cinema4D CSS Final Cut HTML JavaScript Max ProTools Quartz SketchUp Unity3D WordPress
Contact
Current Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Languages: English and Spanish
Email: schaffer.alan@gmail.com
Number: + 1 (347) 962-0124

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Education
MFA Computer Arts
School of Visul Arts, Computer Art & Programming
Web Programming, UI/UX, Video and Audio, Interactive Installation, New Media studies.
Activities and Societies: Class representative
2009 - 2011
Project Management
- Basic @NYU
- For Artist @SVA
- Information Technology @NYU
- Mobile Apps @NYU
2009 - 2012
Graphic Design
Istituto Europeo di Design, Undergrad
Layouts, Typography, Photography, Color Management, Semiotics, Wireframes, Prototyping, Motion Graphics, Web design.
2004 - 2007
Experience 2008-2013
Freelance Web-master & Cunsultant, NYC.
Web Product Development, MODE30.
Game Developer & Interface Designer, Animorphous Inc.
Digital Artist Assistant, Lillian Schwartz.
Computer Lab Assistant, SVA.
Web Designer, ShiftSpace.org.
Publications
2012 Badlandsunlimited,"Ad Book", ibook.
2012 Badlandsunlimited,"How to download a boyfriend", ibook.
2012 Dismagazine.com, "BeniYork", Digital Collage.
2012 Cloaque.org, "Bling Love HD", Co-operative artwork.
2011 The Nantural Way,"Pixel Nature", Photography.

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Push
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HTML5 + CSS3 + Wordpress
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DIRT
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HTML5 + CSS3 + JavaScript + Tumblr
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RMMA Arquitectos
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HTML5 + CSS3 + Wordpress
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Swapple
Font-end developed with:
HTML5 + CSS3
4 channel real-time video manipulation performance
Performance installation presented by commission with:
Soliloquy III | P.P.O.W. Gallery | New York City | 17 September 2011
Performers: Joshua Seidner, Alexander Abel | Sound and Video: Collective BLVCK AMERICA
Photo: Charles Billot | Costumes: TELFAR
UV Nile is an immersive, start-stop performance that draws connections between spiritualism, exoticism, false-idolatry and themes of tribal unity in 90's rave culture. The piece casts the gallery space as a house of worship; the performer as a high priest; and each spectator as a congregant. Throughout the night, collective BLVCK AMERICA projects multiple layers of live video and sound to isolate the most escapist elements of contemporary nightlife. In response, Joshua Seidner, prompted by constant and intermittent siren interruptions, borrows aspects of Egyptian initiation ritual, go-go worship, and glossolalia to offer both himself and a younger disciple as an objectified, mummy-wrapped, father-and-son of the cloth. Slowly transforming a secular experience into one of mystical reverence, UV Nile uncovers oft-overlooked connections between nihilistic artifice and holy abandon that characterize much of underground club culture. Duration 2h.
Developed with:
MAX5 + Touch OSC
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Joshua Seidner
Video Screenshots
Ready-To-Wear Fall/Winter 2013 Interactive App Presentation
@NEW YORK GALLERY
January 12, 2013 - February 23, 2013
Opening Reception: January 12, 6 - 8pm

For this latest outing, TELFAR returns to the idea of urban protection with a range of unisex pieces made from durable materials like denim, cotton and flannel. These archetypal basics have been quilted in various ways as a primary form of insulation, but also to create new forms and silhouettes that straddle the divide between the functional and ornamental.

In accordance to new digital trends, the collection will be presented across various media platforms. The gallery space will feature prototype all-white garments, displayed on special commercial fixtures produced by Lizzie Fitch with Nick Rodrigues. These include a mannequin, display racks, as well as a gaming station for the interactive video game, 'TELFAR Style,' designed by Alan Schaffer.

The virtual game mirrors the gallery set up and players are invited to alter the collection according to their own styling needs, changing the color and coordination of individual pieces. Hosted simultaneously on the DIS Magazine website, the game will play throughout the duration of the exhibition. At the closing, winning player looks will be selected and the white prototype garments dyed and styled accordingly to activate them from their latent state. These transformed pieces will be presented in the TELFAR runway presentation that will take place during New York Fashion Week in February.
Press:
Developed with:
HTML5 + JavaScript
App:
TelfarStyle
3D Interactive online store
Concept and App currently in development.
Developed with:
Cinema4D + Unity3D + JavaScript
Interactive 3D installation
InInternetWeTrust, is an interactive audio-visual installation, where the user explores a 3D Virtual environment. Aesthetically, the piece references the immersive nature of virtual spaces, the domestication of media production and consumption, and the unfulfilling realization of our SCI-FI utopias. Physically, the installation places the participant at an alter-like structure in front of a television screen, requiring the user to kneel or sit. The digital spaces reflect some of the latest changes occurring in culture, transforming many societies into cyber-societies through the process of virtualization.
Developed with:
Cinema4D + SketchUp + Unity3D + HTML5
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IIWT

search allows you to be creative in finding and discovering models to promote your brand. The powerful search engine enables creativity through its facial feature search. A client can search, for example, cheekbones: Kate Moss, eyes: Constance Jablonski, Location: Paris and get results instantly of all fashion models that match the search query.

Clients can manage every phase of the production process from inspiration to idea execution and archiving on a cen­tralized collaborative platform. The application offers an end-to-end experience integrated with apps that stream­line workflow. On the MODE30™ platform you can be creative, collaborative and productive.

Technological innovation is having an impact on the fashion and luxury business globally. Advertising and PR Events are the primary methods for communica­ting brand value. MODE30™ addresses this global context by being the online platform for marketing brand image. If you work in fashion, advertising, as a rep agency, PR, production, casting, or beauty, you can make your connections and network stronger with the MODE30™ platform.

The MODE30™ videos are private, none of the brands are affiliated with MODE30, LLC, and photographs or illustrations are copyrights of third parties. The videos are for demonstration purposes only and are currently restricted to the public.
NEAT//NYC is a New York based brand. Inspired by underground sites for the reform urban human. Brand synonymous of nonconformist attitudes and experimental ideas.
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Video in HD
Developed with:
After Effects + Mandelbuld 3D
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HTML5 + CSS3 + JQ