Cameron Steele

Telephenesis is an online game of music creation and recreation. It is modeled after the parlour game "telephone", but uses music instead of phrases.

An artist uploads a piece of music and chooses a spot in the galaxy to place a star that represents their song. Another artist can listen to the song, recreate it in their own style, and place their own star.

When an artist recreates a star, a visible line is drawn between the original and the recreation so that listeners can browse through branching constellations of the evolution of a musical idea as it is interpreted by different artists.

Found Sound Nation is an internationally-recognized musical non-profit and collective of musicians. They develop music production classes for underprivileged youth, create art installations, and host large arts exchange programs.

I worked to build a website that showcases their many projects, festivals, and residencies. We tried to design something that feels large and alive.

Found Sound Nation was tasked by the U.S. Dept. of State to design an art residency and performance festival for musicians from around the world called OneBeat. I built both the public-facing website that showcased the artists and an internal application system that allowed them to browse through the thousands of applicants.

The review system is still in use by Found Sound Nation / U.S. Dept. of State, and other government programs have adapted it. I later turned it into another project; ApplyGem.

CloudCred, by VMWare, is an online professional network and a learning game. Players form into teams and contribute to their team's collective score by completing learning challenges in order to earn prizes.

I worked in a team of 5 as a front-end engineer to build the homepage and a number of live modules within the application like user profiles, search, and high-score listings. We used HTML5 and Javascript/AJAX.

ApplyGem is an organization and a business tool for creating application forms and reviewing applicants that I designed, built, and own independently.

My intent was to build something elegant, unpretentious, and highly-functional. I tried to design an interface that felt simple but somehow overtly pleasant.

Adobe hired a team of engineers that included myself in order to build out a consumer-facing page on their central website.

I worked as a front-end developer to build out designs according both to visual and code specifications. As part of the project, I also helped convert their existing content into a new content-management system that Adobe had built internally.

(Echosign is now known as Adobe Sign)

Colonie NYC is a popular fine-dining restaurant in New York City. They were looking for a unique online identity and menu.

I served as sole developer of both front-end and back-end code. I implemented a basic content-management system built for menu items and other content using PHP.