Geoff Lin
My name is Geoff and I am a multimedia professional with years of experience in Visual Design, Motion Graphics, Videography, Web, and Marketing Communications.
Welcome to my portfolio.
My name's Geoff Lin and I am a multimedia professional with years of experience in Visual Design, Motion Graphics, Videography, Web, and Marketing Communications. I am located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I have worked high tech, biotechology, and government/military sector using these skills. I have managed these efforts by working with various stakeholders in finding solutions for their objectives while managing different vendors to help produce my products.
I am well-versed in the iterative process of User Interface Design—user research, information architecture diagrams, wireframes, mock-ups, user scenarios, prototyping, and finally evaluation.
Here are the applications I am familiar with: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (and jQuery), PHP, Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, InDesign, Balsamiq, Flash(w/ Actionscript 3.0), Digital Photography/Videography, Apple Final Cut Pro, Quark Xpress, MS Office Applications (including Access and Visio)
I am also a former military officer and Veteran. On my spare time I enjoy the great outdoors, photography (they tend to go hand in hand), cooking and martial arts.
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This is a simple web portfolio that was kickstarted in Initializr for the HTML5 boilerplate. The site is primarily coded in HTML5, CSS, jQuery and PHP. The web form is essentially AJAX driven with some PHP. The entire site is responsive coded with some fluid elements put into it. A great deal of coffee went into making this too.
During some of my research, I found a great deal of different sites that were really inspirational. I found a lot of great examples which inspired some experimentation of my own.
Putting this site together wasn't entirely easy. Quite often I would run into pitfalls where some element wasn't rendering the way I wanted it to in a particular browser or some behavior not behaving right—which is normal for this type of work. But as they say, it's about the journey and not just the destination. Along that journey, I learned a good amount of tricks in CSS and Javascript frameworks. Much credit goes out to individual web developers who contributed content on Stack Overflow and other developer discussion boards. It's great to know there are like-minded web problem solvers out in the world.
HTML
CSS
proprietary scripting logic
Adobe Photoshop
Litmus
HTML email marketing that I have made for a variety of clients over the years.
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Illustrator
This is a remake of an animated segment on the popular children's TV series Sesame Street where it taught kids how to count to "12".
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Artwork for various role playing games.
Adobe Photoshop
A fictional futuristic poster for Golf magazine.
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Promotional poster for the US Coast Guard's training facility for their most advanced vessel and its systems.
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Sample architecturral interior renderings of an office building.
Adobe Illustrator
Vector greyscale diagrams that were used in a culinary school manual.
Adobe Photoshop
Tradeshow displays used for a software company whose applications are used in the scientific community.
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
A tri-fold brochure that gives an overview of the curriculum offered at a training center.
Adobe Illustrator
Concept postage stamps based on the work of famed Graphic Designer, Neville Brody.
Winning Design:
This stamp is the winner of an initial draft of 12 different concept stamp designs. It won based on visual "weight" balance and the symbology of print media with the abbreviated margins and color swatches that symbolize Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black—the "CMYK" subtractive colors used in print media.
Design Flow:
In this project, I originally designed a total of 12 designs for some
concept postage stamps. After an initial critique, the original
12 was whittled down to 6 stamps. From then, it went on to 4
stamps. In the final round of critiques, only one "winner" was
to be decided. The theme for this project was on
the art of typography. Furthermore, the goal was to also
study a well-known graphic designer and use their concepts into the
design flow. After looking through the works of a few graphic
artists, I found the works of Neville Brody to be the most
interesting.
Below are the designs that gained honorable mention after the review:
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
I produced (in conjunction with various writers) a trade publication for the biotechnology industry, highlighting the different advancements in biotechnology for various diseases.
Acrylic paint on Bristol paper
A 20-color combination scheme of the iconic view of the San Francisco skyline from Mongomery Street on Telegraph Hill.
