Selected work
Selected work: Crain’s| Ad Age | Music | Multimedia | Miscellaneous
Crain’s Chicago Business
Company profiles:
Total Attorneys for Fast 50 feature
Lime Energy for Fast 50 feature
Digitas for Best Places to Work in Chicago feature
Clune Construction for Best Places to Work in Chicago feature
CME Group for Worst Corporate Boards feature
Stepan Co. for Best Corporate Boards feature
People profiles:
Groupon.com’s Andrew Mason for 40 under 40
Gapersblock.com’s Andrew Huff for 40 under 40
Other:
Market Facts Introduction 2006 | 2007 | Full 2009 section (pdf)
5 good ideas from Jason Fried of 37 Signals
Adveristing Age
Opinion: A member of the class speaks back
One of the first pieces I wrote for Ad Age (1994) was advice to marketers on how to speak to — and with — my generation.
My take on the future of advertising (in April, 2000)
I think a lot of this still holds up. What do you think?
The Web Price Index (PDF) A Neal Award-winning series about the costs of Web development
CyberCritiques
A sample of columns (PDF)
A review of interactive ads — written in Haiku
Search all of my writing from Advertising Age
Music Features and reviews
Polyphonic Spree (Creem Magazine)
Was (Not) Was (Creem Magazine)
Kiss (Sun-Times/LiveNation advertorial-PDF)
David Byrne (Billboard.com-PDF)
Ludacris (Billboard.com-PDF)
Third Eye Blind (RollingStone.com)
Multimedia projects
Market Facts 2008, A Society Area Business Editors and Writers award-winner for Best In Business and Alliance of Area Business Publication Silver winner for Best Multimedia story.
SABEW Judges comments: “A wonderful example of how to use multiple multimedia to enliven what could have read like an almanac. The judges were especially impressed with the interactive maps of the Chicago metro area, which conveyed a tremendous amount of information in an easy-to-use format, and the alderman’s video tour of Lincoln Square. The whole package not only conveyed a sense of real authority but an appreciation for what multimedia tools best served each particular type of information.”
Best Places to Work SABEW award-winner for Best In Business
Judges Comments: All in all, a great example of how the Web can take a cliche assignment and infuse it with color, depth and authenticity.
Miscellaneous
I wrote a chapter about managing multiple sub-contractors in Web development for “Buying Web services: A survival guide to outsourcing“
I was interviewed about my work with GIS and interactive mapping as a story-telling tool for ESRI’s ArcWatch newsletter.
