This is the first page. The objective of a blog with this title, “Obsessions,” is to share some of the reasoning that flows through the creative studio environment, and which influences much of our everyday lives. There must be power in the written word. That is not an ambitious plea; it is an imperative. Otherwise, […]
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.
Sexy Hair Concepts “ClubSexy” from Day For Night. Sexy Hair Concepts 2.0 introduced “Clubsexy”, updating the SexyHair brand and employing a fluid navigation table for the site. This site re-design represents a bold move towards experiential user interface design, leading the pack while the rest of the hair care industry follows. For more info: https://www.sexyhairconcepts.com
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.
CD | Download “On the Trail of the Latin House Lover” (Day 042) shows Rhythm Factory exploring – while getting lost in a pre-Autumnal – new musical territory. Composer/producer Eric Scott is at his most spatial here, opening with a meditational trilogy: the beatless “AESM (Light Remix),” melding into the percussive ambient mind-field of “The Stenotelegrapher” and resolving […]
CDR | Download NIGHTfonts, an imprint of Day For Night, came into existence as part of a greater mission; to create and distribute new typefaces that read well with concern for the limitations of screen-based viewing. “Control” (Day 047), the first family of NIGHTfonts, consists of 6 Truetype font faces available for Mac or PC: NF […]
Brand identity for “Wildass” – a creative consortium based in Venice, CA. The use of personal quotes and affirmations from the creative team forms the basis of the “subliminals” which flicker through the animation sequence. Art direction by Eric Scott (Day For Night). Music “Pykop/The Extra” by Rhythm Factory
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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, […]
CD | Download “Lullabies For Cats” (Day 051) compiles the avant-garde jazz-classical tracks of composer Eric Scott, from the period 1991-2002, fuses them into a 65-minute mix of concert-hall cinematica.
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
Sitework | Interactive Fiction | Non-Fiction On the surface, Day 071 “The True Wheel” is a metaphor for consistency and repetition within a symmetrical structure or framework. It borrows its title from the Brian Eno song off “Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy” in which a repeating, circular 3-chord sequence develops over a four-bar pattern, creating […]
CD / Download Rhythm Factory “The Case of the Chiming Clock” (Day 042) lifts the shroud, and reduces the fictitious, mystery-solving electronics trio to a solo artist. Producer and composer Eric Scott draws influence from the ambient (“Drumbience Modulator”), drum’n’bass (“Snake Charmer,” “Swing Kids Fly Off”, “®-018”) and breakbeat (“Gamma”) as much as straightforward techno (“Burst […]
Site | Identity Design A weathered alley-side storefront, re:Fresh is accessible in a mere 15 second’s walk (one click) from the home site. At the gallery’s entrance, a tenant directory displays the following roster of tenant options, alongside a stack of door buzzers. They read:1. re:Fresh Design Gallery2. TonStudio3. Poetic License4. NIGHTloops Audio Library5. The […]
CD | Download With “Primer” (Day 034), Rhythm Factory (producer/composer Eric Scott) replaces a darker outer coat of ambient IDM electronica, with a lighter, latex micropercussion as its dominant texture. Presenting a set of instrumental explorations: “Bianca,” “Microhomemusic,” “Auntie Nell’s Cash Skeleton” and “Quillocet” define the edges of the stage. Depending upon one’s interpretation of the word primer; […]
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)
