Adam Chromicz

Code and Theory thought up a new and fun way to show the evolution of the Dr Pepper brand throughout their 125 years. To celebrate this anniversary, Code and Theory designed and built a timeline that allows users to upload the interesting content they find relating to themselves and Dr Pepper.

Starting in September '09 I began teaching at the Academy of Art in the Masters of New Media and Web Design program. This is a great opportunity to both reexamine the fundamentals of my own understanding and help focus the ideas and interests of those entering the field.

My friend Tony Paves got me involved in developing Mix Master Mike's new website. Tony convinced the client that you didn't need flash to create an eye-catching, image heavy site.

To bring foxsports.com into the new decade, Code and Theory did an IA / Design sweep across the entire site and the front end development to make sure those designs became fully realized..

Some notes on creating an SVN (subversion) repository on your Media Template Grid-Server account and connecting to it via eclipse on OSX.

Code and Theory is the agency of record for Dr Pepper. For sculptor Pepper, the San Francisco development team had to build a 3D sculpture tool in Action script 3 and an API to save, share, and manipulate the sculptures.

I have been working at Code and Theory's San Francisco office since March 2008 as a developer. Primarily this involves rendering pixel perfect implementations of complex designs across browsers and platforms. With the demanding nature of high-end advertising and the growing awareness of clients regarding the communication potential of social media and open-source API's I learn and adopt new tools and API's regularly and easily.

I worked with another developer here in the San Francisco office to develop and iGoogle widget and the WAP version of the site. Both are challenging tasks with their own unique difficulties.

This a very public kind of art that can illuminate a populations relationship with a building they encounter daily perhaps their entire life. Unlike video projection orsimple lighting, PIGI Projection can be so architecturally specific that the result seems less of a projection than a new skin.

In order to highlight the Hwange area of Zimbabwe as having one of the few remaining viable populations of Painted Dogs, Painted Dog Conservation constructed a large Interpretive Hall with adjoining Painted Dog Rehabiliation Facility.

The Iganyana Arts Centre is a centre in Dete, Zimbabwe dedicated to capacity building for local craftsmen. The centre receives snare wire taken in by local anti-poaching squads and turns it into craft products for sale at the centre and throughout the world.

The Fish Therapist is a light site for a swim instructor in the San Francisco area. It was meant to be playful and fun and bring the user in by presenting them with a fun quiz attached to the notion of each persons inner fish.

Painted Dog Conservation has a 5 day bush camp for the surrounding rural schools. At this bush camp, children learn about the ecosystem that surrounds them so that they will understand the behaviors that will harm it.

YourPrint was a mobile phone application that let users mark the topography of the city with their photos by walking and claiming parts of the city. The users had to traverse the city and the parts of the city where they wanted parts of their photos to show.

This program was a year and a half full time study at Univeristy of Sydney, Australia. I applied to this school while working for Painted Dog Conservation in Hwange, Zimbabwe. The programme involves everything from basic video editing to Mobile phone applicaiton development.

The ICAM degree was a Bachelors of Arts degree undertaken in California from September 2000 to June 2004. During these four years I was able to learn most major visual software packages such as macromedia and adobe.

This project brought life to an old discarded piano and developed a new interface for piano performance. The augmented instrument uses mechanics and electronics to create acoustic music. The project also explores the relationship between movement and sound.

This rendering is of an Mbira, a traditional instrument found throughout africa but perhaps perfected in Zimbabwe. I did the modelling and texturing in Alias's Maya software using Mental Ray to render it.

During the years of 1994 - 2000 I lived in Harare, Zimbabwe and attended the Harare International School. This school was in the development process throughout the years I was a student therefore students were instrumental in helping in this development. The school followed the North American AP curriculum.