Roger Landman - Part 2

LR Management Group – Armscor

LRMG custom e-learning courseware built for Armscor. Some of the features include interactive graphics that enable learners to view different insignia on the lapels of uniformed members of the SANDF to help visually indentify different ranks. Learners are tested through a module that requires them to interactively build insignia using the available components.

Original not available due to client intellectual property

Year: 2008

Responsible for:

Development (Flash)
Graphic design input
Illustrations

Not responsible for:

Editorial (instructional design)
Navigation framework

LR Management Group – Afrisam

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LRMG custom e-learning courseware built for Afrisam. It’s one thing to start a project from scratch, but I think it’s extremely important to be able to adapt one’s work to an existing framework. While at LRMG, I was assigned several ‘mid-construction’ projects to edit and update their e-learning applications. One of the challenges that this project presented was getting to grips with the ‘code logic’ of the original developers.

Original not available due to client intellectual property

Year: 2008

Responsible for:

Development upkeep (Flash – implementing edits, updating content)
Graphic design updates
Illustration updates

Not responsible for:

Instructional design
Navigation framework
Original development

Laragh Courseware – Software Simulations

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Laragh Courseware builds custom courseware and provides outsourced e-learning development for SkillSoft. The software simulations I developed at Laragh were some of the most complex as we reconstructed entire user interfaces in Flash so that they behaved as they would in the real application.

Original not available due to client intellectual property

Year: 2007

Responsible for:

Animation
Development
Graphic design
Illustration input (for SkillSoft)
Image manipulation

Not responsible for:

Instructional design
Navigation framework

Roger Landman’s Portfolio – rogerlandman.com

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Being invloved with digtal products, it’s only fitting to express one’s work digitally too. The most important thing I wanted to get across with this portfolio is usalibty. The main page starts with my bio and immediately links to my social networks such as LinkedIn, for a more fomral breakdown of my career so far. Along with that is a ‘call to action’ to contact me, followed by the actual content divided into eight categories and three examples within each category. Effectively it’s a one-page showcase that provides you at a glance with all you need to know. By keeping it simple and using lighter background colours, the colours from the actual work gain the most attention on the page. Content is king.

Year: 2013

Responsible for:

Development (HTML)
Editorial
Graphic design
Image manipulation

Not responsible for:

Framework (WordPress)

Web Animated Comix – webanimix.com

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WebAnimiX is a website aimed at publishing comics that are designed exclusively for digital consumption. Divided into three main areas of development – the WAX engine, the website, and content creation – my partner and I have spent over five years shaping WebAnimiX, learning incredibly valuable lessons all the way. We recently shifted focus from our Flash-based engine in favour of a JavaScript platform, which allows us to target touch-enabled devices and platforms that do not support Flash.

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Year: 2008 – present

Responsible for:

Original concept
Development input
Editorial input
Graphic design input
Illustration
Image manipulation

Not responsible for:

Framework (WordPress)
Core navigation engine (WAX engine or JavaScript engine)

The Cape Film Guide – filmguide.co.za

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The Cape Film Guide website is a companion to the printed publication. I coded the HTML in the old-school way (entirely by hand in a text editor) with zero budget and a 24-hour deadline. What I enjoy about this site is its simplicity. It has only the basics and yet still ranks in the top ten (often in the top three) search results for the search phrase “film guide”. This despite the fact that the site hasn’t been updated with new content in several years. I credit this to the basic SEO checklist being fulfilled and the lack of any fancy-fair.

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Year: 2005

Responsible for:

Animation (logo)
Development (HTML)
Graphic design
Image manipulation

Not responsible for:

Editorial

Torrential

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This is a logo I designed for a Torrent downloading service. Seeing as the company offered a digital ‘product’, I created the logo so it could be used as a desktop icon and later as an app icon. I opted for a greyscale version with a strong black and white profile to avoid the logo looking like a barcode 🙂

Year: 2011

Tradition Midstream LLC

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My first attempt at using the crowd-sourcing website Crowdspring.

Year: 2012

The Engine Room Technologies

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A logo I created for a small Java development studio. I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to create an e-shaped cog, thereby merging the initial letter of the company name with the concept of an engine. Being a digital company, needing to adapt the logo to a favicon and desktop icon was also an important design consideration.

Year: 2011