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Walker Channel
My role: Design, front- and back-end coding.
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Details: Created using Django framework, this site builds a robust system for housing the lectures and talks the Walker creates. It features a robust search engine, solr, and can import and serve video from a large number of external sources such as Amazon S3, YouTube, and Real.The multimedia hub for the Walker Art Center, built using Django.
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Walker Mobile Website
My role: Design, front- and back-end coding.
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Details: This project started as a 20%-time project at the Walker, but developed into a full-time project. The mobile site scrapes XML data from the main Walker site and presents it in a mobile friendly format.Mobile site for the Walker Art Center, built using Google AppEngine.
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School of Visual Arts, Masters of Design Criticsm
My role: Web design, front- and back-end coding.
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Details: Working with the Walker Design Studio, I created this site to upgrade the manageability of this new design education program. The site features a dynamically sortable reading room housing a library of design criticism articles. The site is built using a custom WordPress theme and plugins.Features faculty and student profiles, a library system for contributed essays, and an event calendar.
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My Yard Our Message
My role: Concepting, design, front- and back-end coding.
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Details: The project was divided into three phases: Design, voting, and application. In the design phase, we solicited visitors to design signs for yards, as a communal political gallery. Phase two asked users to vote for the 50 best signs. Phase 3 installed and mapped the signs across the Twin Cities.A non-partisan crowd-sourced political design project, centered around the 2008 Republican National Convention.
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Walker Cinema Teaser
My role: Design, media production.
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Details: Each month, I produce pre-roll teaser for upcoming film screenings, exhibitions, and other events. The treatment is simple to deal with the wide variety of films and mediums involved. This teaser shows while an audience takes their seats and waits for the main feature to begin.A pre-roll for the Walker Cinema showing special offers and upcoming films, updated monthly.
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Party People Pictures
My role: Design, architecture, coding, maintenance.
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Details: To add more posh appeal to the Walker's re-vamped After Hours party, I created this photobooth process. It takes a photo of our visitors, using a high-fashion ring flash on a DSLR, and automatically displays the photo on a walls in various spaces in the Walker. Photos are also uploaded to flickr in real time.A high-fashion photobooth for the Walker Art Center's After Hours Preview Parties.
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Northern Lights
My role: Web design, front- and back-end coding.
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Details: Working with Namdev Hardisty and J. Zachary Keenan to create an identity, I designed the website for this new Twin Cities based arts organization. The web site and uses typography as it's main design element. The site is built using a custom WordPress theme.Website and identity for an exciting new media arts organization in Minnesota.
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ZER01 Website
My role: Web design, front- and back-end coding.
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Details: After two successful biennials, ZER01 wanted to grow into a larger arts organization. I worked with them to create a website for the organization. This site split off the blog from the separate biennials. The site is built on WordPress MU and features a custom plugins and a custom theme.An updated and extensible site for this growing Silicon Valley based new media arts organization.
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Center for Independent Media
My role: Web design, front- and back-end coding.
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Details: The Center needed a website to highlight the achievements of their journalists and fellows. This WordPress-based site aggregated stories from around the Center's state sites and presented the most recent. Note: In 2009, the Center was renamed The American Independent News Network and this site was re-skinned.Website and identity for national non-profit news media organization in with roots in Minnesota.
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Eric Black Ink
My role: Design and all coding.
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Details: When Eric Black left the Star Tribune and began blogging for the Minnesota Independent, this site was created as his personally branded blog. Note: This site was archived several years ago when Eric joined MinnPost.Blogging website and identity for Minnesota political journalist Eric Black.
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Walker Teen Programs and WACTAC
My role: Web design, front- and back-end coding.
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Details: To update the site for Walker's unique teen programs, I split the existing site into two parts; the business side carries info for other teen educators; and the play side is the information station for teens engaged in the activities. The design takes this split literally with a bar that visitors interact with, hiding and revealing the sides of the site.A dynamic split personality site for the institution and teens behind the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council.
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Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes
My role: Web design, front- and back-end coding, video editing.
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Details: For the exhibition of the same name, this site features a lexicon of suburban and sprawl terms editable by users. The site also served as the staging point for a YouTube video competition in which visitors created videos about the suburbs. Videos were displayed on a custom, web-based TV interface in a suburban den-styled room in the exhibition.A YouTube video competition and editable lexicon for the terms of the suburbs.
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Walker Shop
My role: Visual design.
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Details: A visual overhaul to the Walker's online shopping experience. This update matches the revamped Walker Shop that debuted with the opening of the Walker's new addition in 2005.Updated look and feel for the Walker's online e-commerce site.
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Bloc Blonc
My role: Architecture, design, coding.
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Details: Working with collaborators Paul Wenzel and Beth van Dam, I created a project for a 4th of July Arts festival that asked visitors to create a virtual protest. Users created a sign on provided paper, recorded their protest movements on video, and left their sign as a reminder. The footage created on a constantly changing loop of protesters.A video-based time-lapse community powered virtual protest.
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Biography: Justin Heideman
As the headline says at the top of the page, I am a full stack web developer. That means I handle the three parts of the website creation process:
- Design: Coming up with the look and feel of the site.
- Coding: Turning the design into a working web page, creating the HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Back-end: Creating the server-side programming to talk to databases; Administering servers for security and other uses.
In addition to web-releated technologies, I'm fluent in the languages audio and video worlds; If it has a codec, I know what to do with it.
When I'm not creating websites, I enjoy cooking, cycling, and brewing my own beer.
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For hire
While I have a full-time job I enjoy at the Walker Art Center, I also also do freelance work. I especially enjoy working with art and journalism related projects, and offer a discount for non-profit clients (just ask). If you have a project, contact me. My typical rate is $100 per hour, and projects I take on are usually in the $3000-$10,000 range.
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Contact
Work related email:
work@fiddlyio.comNon-work email:
justin@fiddlyio.comPhone:
612-293-8840