Present and past client list has included projects for the following: Disney Online/Buena Vista Internet Group, Touchstone Television, NATPE, Talk About It.org/Epilepsy Foundation of America, The Herb Alpert Foundation, Scanner (Robin Rimbaud / Scannerdot.com), UC Irvine, Steve Soffa, Michael Chiklis / Extravaganza Entertainment, Air Venice, Bandwagon Media, the Swim~ label, Pink Flag, The Phelps Group, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Invidi and the Andrew Lakey Art Studios.
All projects bearing creative attributions to “RE:fresh” play part in the Aurora Nova web universe and its mythology, and are the intellectual property and product of Eric Scott / Day For Night.
…2 years earlier, I didn’t know much yet about the web. To better understand it, I wrote, conceived and designed this thing, and titled it an “Internet Journey-by-Rail.” I needed some inner clarification, while developing the abstract for the connected relationship between separate Days of the catalogue (for which I am presenting 100 total) and […]
The NightLinkRail model is really about the generation and spreading of ideas via the web. It’s a numbers game. The bigger it gets, the more plausible it looks; and the more people who see it, the more people will hopefully talk about it… “Hey, I’ve just seen the craziest thing…It’s just too deep to be […]
The real beef is this – because I keep on asking myself, “How might we view Situationism as most truly relevant today, when we are becoming further immune to Guy Debord’s definition of a society deceived by spectacle? His later admonitions had more to do with a full, but depressed appreciation for how society appears […]
NIGHTlinkRail, an experimental sitework launched in 1997 by DayForNight.com, is a network composed of 100 individual train stations. It parallels the online catalogue of the Day For Night musical imprint, in the form of a series of Railway Stations along what I’ve been referring to as “An Internet Journey-By-Rail.” After descending via escalator into the […]
Subverting the public space of the web has been Day For Night’s m.o. since 1995, when it began to create NIGHTlinkRail, NoelCrane.com and numerous web presences for the show ALIAS. The objective of such diversion was to distract and amuse, to subvert and shake. Since, this has become absorbed into the “Integrated Spectacle” — […]
Words, to describe pictures of people who use words and pictures, to describe places and things. The Situationists were a league of French political artists during the latter 20th century, whose slant on social reform took the form of a surreal post-Dadaist manipulation of word and text. Often, their détournements (diversions) involved the supplanting of […]
I have limited attention and like to work on only one project at a time. But often, I’m required to manage many more, and so my attention is continually being divided between what I feel I should be doing and what I prefer to be doing. So, each week at Day For Night, Thursday is […]
I don’t know exactly what it all means, or what might happen next, but… I definitely like it. That has generally been the assessment, or ethic, of all Day For Night work produced, usually at the moment of completion. Occasionally, I make attempts to re-contextualise my finished results. So, too often, the work is finished, […]
Day For Night originated in 1991 as a recording imprint and independent-projects label, based out of Santa Monica, California. Promoting multimedia while emphasizing a lightly-branded, personalized design style, Day For Night CD releases to date include works in contemporary music and new media released on CD, CD-R and the web. In nearly-equal parts, the Day […]
Day For Night has evolved primarily by means of accretion of music-based projects, articulated via an ongoing artistic monologue, and interpreted through audiovisual design; As inspiration enters this process, ideas are formed and recorded early in any media for an immediate response; This tension created by this intuitive-intellectual response informs the Day For Night catalogue, […]
The People In Progress sitework launched Labor Day 2002 – a completely new look for this Los Angeles-based non-profit organization. Inspired by the success stories related from the men and women recovering from substance abuse and alchohol addiction under this program, Eric Scott explains how he created 4 original short films and designed the new Flash-based site. “It […]
Brand Experience, Digital Strategy & Custom Site Design Official brand strategy for the show site during the third and fourth seasons included revamping the site’s look with a Flash UX and producing new features such as the Docuventary clips (with Greg Grunberg’s in-character mock interviews of the cast members, hunting for “spoilers”). Additional brand development included […]
Season 3 & 4 Motion Design / Animation “Felicity” opening title sequence from season 3 & 4 of the television series. Motion design by Rob Frazien, Eric Scott (Day For Night) and Toni O’Bryan, for the Golden Globe award-winning WB series created by J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves.
Web Animation ALIAS “Sometimes The Truth Hurts” Animation from Day For Night. D 15 Original website intro produced by Eric Scott (Day For Night) with show theme music by J.J. Abrams.
![NIGHTlinkRail :: Sitework [Day 019]](https://www.dayfornight.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Nightlinkrail-Street-1-300x300.png "NIGHTlinkRail :: Sitework [Day 019]")
The site formerly known as Day For Night v. 1.0 has now migrated over to its permanent new home, the fictitious domain of NIGHTLinkRail.com. Click on over to take a mystery tour, and experience unprecedented travel delays and scenic brickwork from this link. A splendid wait is still guaranteed for all. https://NIGHTlinkRail.com NIGHTlinkRail: Travel Planner […]
Art Workshop Event “Record the world in front of youand in the edges of what youcannot or will not see.” – Eric Scott Excerpt from the brief for Tomato‘s workshops: The workshops are a way of immersing yourself suddenly and intensely into the process and conversation that goes on within tomato. Several members of tomato […]
Brand Experience, Digital Strategy & Viral Web Sites ALIAS “Sometimes The Truth Hurts” Animation from Day For Night. The official show website for the first season of “ALIAS” (ABC-TV) is now archived at the following link: The viral campaign created by Day For Night is altogether another story, a thrill ride of treasure hunts, steganography, […]
Book | Words & Images by Eric Scott For “Manifesto” (Day 017) Day For Night rethink sub-urban planning, in a typographic journal and overview of Day For Night. Post-Situationist propaganda films covers the walls of NIGHTlinkRail, hammering on about the overthrow of cultural leadership and the entertainment channels that fuel “big news.” Post-revolution theories abound; albeit tongue-in-cheek, while […]
Interstitial Video NIGHTlinkRail.com, the web portal for “Internet Journey By Rail” launched its brand in association with Day For Night.com in early 2000 with this Flash website introduction by Eric Scott. Music by Kunstfabriken “Come Beat!” (Day 072) For more information: https://www.nightlinkrail.com
Art Direction / Print & CD Packaging Design Zebra Records compilation made up of song contributions from Chaka Khan, Brenda Russell, Vince Mendoza, Lori Perry, Gino Vanelli, Toots Thielemans, Al Jarreau, Mark Portmann and The Yellowjackets. Zebra Records, the brainchild of label owner Ricky Schultz, brought a new label re-launch campaign to the attention of Eric […]
Art Direction / Print & CD Packaging Design Zebra Records, the brainchild of label owner Ricky Schultz, brought a new label re-launch campaign to the attention of Eric Scott was at the time working full-time as art director. The creative brief included updating the label’s brand and designing a unifying look for all the releases with […]
Art Direction / Print & CD Packaging Design The Zebra Acoustic label re-release of music written by Charlie Chaplin, who is long remembered as a golden era film actor, but often overlooked for having composed music for the cello. The recordings were performed by Thomas Beckmann and Johannes Cernola. Zebra Records, the brainchild of label owner Ricky Schultz, brought a […]
Art Direction / Print & CD Packaging Design In 1997, the successful “Tambu” campaign and tour were followed in 1997 by a collection of the Toto’s archival “XX”. This collection of unreleased, rare and live tracks from the band’s career necessitated the journey through a vault of photographs, recordings and collectibles, in search of the […]
Art Direction / Print & CD Packaging Design 1997 proved to be a strong year for Toto‘s Steve Lukather, when Sony Music International, in association with representation Fitzgerald-Hartley, devised a solo identity for the singer-guitarist, in the form of “Luke.” (1997 | Sony Music International SAMPCM 4355)
