Travis Neel designed this website!
April 29, 2009
In typically self-effacing fashion, Travis Neel has posted no credit for web design anywhere on sweetthea.com!
Travis dedicated hundreds of hours of consultation, programming and design to build us a ‘Web 2.0′ -ready website, patiently and deliberately educating Thea and I in the vagaries of social media and site management. At all hours, even on weekends, he made himself available for questions, suggestions, ideas, and clarifications, managing our expectations and artificial deadlines until the site was truly ready to go live and function flawlessly. For which I have to say, Hooray for Travis!
I have known Travis since I was involved with Music West, a large international trade show, conference, and music festival in Vancouver. He was involved in many groundbreaking internet initiatives while at Music West – the first install of ISDN in East Vancouver, the first ever-live webcast from this city (Noam Chomsky at Queen Elizabeth Theatre March 1996), and a ‘live’ broadcast of several rock bands from the Town Pump, through compressing MP2s and uploading through C-Fox radio satellite signal, in 1995. He helped bring internet guru John Perry Barlow to Vancouver, and helped coordinate a seminar for all the Canadian record company presidents, where they were apprised by professionals of the upcoming digital revolution and how it would eliminate the need for retail (they collectively scoffed).
Since then Travis has done a lot of work in new media, but usually independently, and often for arts groups - the Vancouver Folk Music Festival and the Vancouver International Film Festival, for example. Maybe he comes by his artistic sensibility genetically – his grandmother on his mother’s side was acclaimed totem pole carver Ellen Neel - thousands of people photograph her totem pole in Stanley Park every year – and his father is a well-respected engineer and music producer. For two years he travelled extensively in British Columbia, educating teachers in rural native schools in computer use, and has been involved in many other First Nations projects, from creating multimedia presentations to DVD authoring, building websites, and even creating his own art.
Always aware of current trends in new media and social networking, Travis is a gifted talent that we most certainly appreciate as a designer and a friend. He doesn’t really seem to have a homepage dedicated to selling his services, but appears online in various forms in various places. If you are interested in working with him, perhaps the best way to contact would be just to email him.
Again – thanks for a great job, Travis!
sounds like a cool guy.
i’d like to meet him.