Mightybytes

is a full-service creative firm that executes design-driven communications solutions for our clients. Design and solid storytelling are the underlying forces that drive all we do while our technical expertise and media-savvy approach are often what set us apart.

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Animation & Motion Graphics

A tween here, a keyframe there, ease-in, ease-out, we have animated various graphic and media elements along the x, y and z-axes for years. We have seen software packages come and go, but nothing takes the place of a good eye for composition and movement.

  • Logo & Identity Animation
  • Banner Advertisements
  • Transitional Video Elements
  • Lower Thirds
  • Type & Text Animation
  • Presentations

Writing & Content Development

Mightybytes subscribes to the philosophy that purposeful content is indeed king. We execute tactical yet savvy writing, research, and content development solutions to elevate a project's impact.

  • Creative Treatments
  • Promotional Materials
  • Marketing Communications
  • Education/Training Scripts
  • Web Content
  • Project Documentation
  • Information Architecture

Interactive & Web

Mightybytes is well-versed in creating a wide variety of web sites and interactive media applications. We are equally at home in the online or offline worlds. Some of the solutions we have devised include:

  • Web Design
  • Content Management Systems
  • Streaming Media
  • Games
  • e-commerce
  • Kiosks
  • Speaker Support Presentations
  • DVD/CD-ROM development

Design & Brand Identity

Everything that we do requires design and communication skills, but some projects need to transcend media formats as well. Need a postcard or brochure mailer to go with that trade show presentation? How about business cards or sleek packaging for your CD/DVD project? Our cross-media design expertise transcends colorspace and pixel resolution to arrive at stunning printed results.

  • Business Cards & Letterhead
  • Brochures, Postcards & Mailers
  • Promotional Materials

Programming & Development

PHP, CSS, HTML, XML, CFM, AJAX - we are a truly multilingual operation, at least in the development sense. We finesse all those acronyms into user-friendly applications to mine data, manage and serve content, sell products, and build communities.

  • Rich Media
  • Database Applications
  • Shopping Carts
  • Customer Relationship Management Tools
  • Content Management Systems
  • Games

Audio & Video Production

From scripting and storyboarding to shooting, composing, recording, editing, finishing and streaming across the web, Mightybytes offers a complete array of audio and video solutions in both high and standard definition.

  • Single or Multi-Camera Shoots
  • Green Screen, Compositing, & Effects
  • Editing & Finishing
  • Voice-over & Narration
  • Music, Sound Effects, & Audio Editing
  • Video/Audio Compression
  • DVD Authoring

Photography & Images

Often scores of stock images just can't convey what a single custom photo can in seconds. Mightybytes applies the same attention to detail and strong eye for composition on moving images as we do with still.

  • Food & Product Photography
  • People & Head Shots
  • Web Site & Collateral Imagery
  • Color Correction, Editing, & Touch-Up

Our

Folks


Tim

Frick

Tim has provided creative media services to an extensive client list since the early 1990s. His work has received numerous awards and has appeared in many publications, web sites, and television broadcasts as well as at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. He has held positions on the board of the Association for Multimedia Communications, the Advisory Committees of the Illinois Institute of Art’s Animation and Interactive Media Departments, and the Interactive Media Department of Columbia College. Tim is the author of Managing Interactive Media Projects, an interactive media process guide from Cengage-Delmar Learning. For more information, check out Tim’s blog or his profile on LinkedIn.

Travis

Chandler

Travis Chandler plays music, makes movies and works at Mightybytes, all of which he enjoys thoroughly. After nearly a decade of activity in the local music scene, he returned to school and graduated with honors from DePaul University’s Digital Cinema program, which he still remembers in a soft-focus-misty-eyed-flashback-montage kind of way . Thinking he was fully prepared by his schooling for any digital media challenge, Travis marched over to Mightybytes in late 2006 and has been learning completely new things nearly every day since. Despite the practical and technical challenges, his future plans include robot and zombie-assisted world domination. Also, Mightybytes may factor in there as well.

Whit

Nelson

Whit Nelson is a tenaciously detail-oriented web developer out of Minneapolis, where he obtained a B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota. He possesses extensive experience developing both user interface and backend solutions in multiple server-based languages. He is most often found in the server room, bathed in the eerie glow of multiple monitors, and can tell you the operating system of any device just by listening to its hum. Incidentally, he is also a writer and comedian. He has a delightful blend of Type A and Type B personalty traits, with a vibrant nose of dark berries, spice aromas and an excellent finish. Try him with the halibut.

James

Johnston

James Johnston loves music and sushi so much it hurts, but also really enjoys the oft-underrated moment of crossing items off his to-do list and is always appreciative of a job well done. He excels at keeping track of details, keeping people happy, and keeping the rest of his compatriots in line, all of which happen to be great skills if you’re a project manager or the leader of a band. Incidentally, James is both. He has worked his way into a position of responsibility everywhere he has been, from a nineteen year old talent relations and production assistant at MTV in New York, to manager of a popular Chicago recording studio at 26, and now project manager at Mightybytes. He also has significant audio and music production knowledge, which comes in handy in his role as lead singer for the band Bumpus.

Joy

Burke

Joy Burke has come a long way since her days making burgers at the Steak-n-Shakes in Effingham, Illinois. She has traded burgers for beziers and now spends most of her time making the world a more beautiful place one pixel at a time. Joy is a 2007 graduate of the design program at the Illinois Institute of Art where she won a Best in Show award for innovative design on her portfolio. When not creating award-winning design work, Joy likes to play soccer and piano, nurture her bonzai tree named Walter, and work the runway as a house model for Sassoon. Her favorite color is (C) 84 (M) 16 (Y) 6 (K) 8.

Warren

Rudd

Warren’s motion graphics demo reel impressed us from the first pixel that flew across the screen to the closing credits. His degree in motion design from the Illinois Institute of Arts’ Chicago campus allowed him to hone his tweening skills to a razor sharp point and upon graduation Warren hit the ground running with an active freelance career and internships at Radar Studios and Lift Motion Design. He likes to play with ideas and notions that stand on a foundation of conceptual depth and that certainly shows through in his work. Warren’s keen eye for design and masterful animation skills have made us look good on every project.

Ben

Simmons

A treasure trove of fine arts--fiction, film, oil acrylics, needlepoint landscapes, and so on--long hidden in his family’s rat-ridden attic, would serve as life-defining influences on a young Ben Simmons, sparking a passion that led him to study at Indiana University in Bloomington, where said passion resulted in Telecommunications Production and Classical Civilizations degrees. After graduation, Ben spent a year and a half in San Francisco working for DivineCaroline.com. Though he enjoyed his time on the West coast, something was missing for Ben and he realized that personal creativity needed to re-enter his world. So in the following months, Ben moved to Chicago, got a job at Mightybytes, and now proudly waves his creative freak flag surrounded by hearty laughter and resources from which to learn at every juncture.

Tai

Palmgren

Tai cut his XHTML, CSS, and ExpressionEngine teeth on sites he has built for various theater companies he has been a part of. A new member of the Mightycrew, he looks forward to further sharpening those teeth into laser-cut diamond razors. When not coding and designing sites, he teaches and performs with the theater and education company Barrel of Monkeys. A perfectionist, he feels a little weird about ending the first sentence in his bio with a preposition.