Headstand Media

Caterpillar, Inc. desired to explore moving a portion of their extensive parts catalog from a paper only, to an interactive CD-ROM computer-based solution back in the early 1990’s. Randal Birkey worked with Lou Morelli in producing an interactive CD-ROM demo for Caterpillar, Inc. to evaluate. The graphics were done in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, then moved into Macromedia Director for sequencing and interactivity programming. Morelli provided the programming for the “hooks” into the parts database.

Randal Birkey was commissioned through a Denver design firm in the 1980’s to prepare a series of illustrations on “How Gold is Made,” for use by their client, Santa Fe Pacific, then Newmont Gold, in printed brochures, posters and other corporate communication tools. The series was modifed several times over the years to reflect changes in ownership, as well as enhancements to the process.

Randal has prepared the Flash slide show below to enable easy viewing of this series of illustrations as an educational tool.

Flash Design for Web Design

Headstand Media is skilled in the creation and production of Flash animation media files for use in web designs, computer presentations, interactive applications and CD/DVD’s. We also can write ActionScript to connect your Flash files with databases and XML feeds.We also prepare Flash files to be “search engine friendly” so that any used in the file is indexable by Google.

We also produce Flash based slideshows for displaying photo galleries, illustrations, or other visual elements, especially within web designs and web pages. An example of a Flash Slideshow based website can be found at Molly Grace Photography. Another example of an effective use of Flash on a website home page and vendor page is found at J. Marshall Design.