Role: Director of Design, Business Development

Team: Nicole Mangiola, Visual Design Assistance

Chronic medical conditions impact all aspects of patients' lives.

Digital Online Care Communities (DOCCs) are designed to support patients with these conditions in order to create communities, improve care, and conduct research.

Social isolation is a significant determinant of one's physical health.  In 2017 the surgeon general declared a “loneliness epidemic” sighting that “[As clinicians] we don’t often screen patients for loneliness” and that the data shows “The reduction in lifespan [for loneliness] is similar to that caused by smoking 15 cigarettes a day.”  We asked ourselves, “How might we design systems and technology to support health professionals in addressing this loneliness epidemic and the other effects of living with a chronic condition?” Our answer was the white labeled platform DOCCs.

The platform was successfully piloted with the aging HIV / AIDs population. By partnering with leading clinics we have rolled the study out across the US with overwhelming support from care providers and patients.

Role: Director of Design, Business Development

MeltingPoint Mobile provides large employers with an off the shelf mobile app and communications platform designed to engage their employee population around health, benefits, wellness, and community.

Our team at ClearCost Health observed that many great benefits programs offered to employees at large companies are going underutilized. Employees were overwhelmed by one size fits all communication.  When someone gets a new job and receives access to a whole host of services and support shouldn’t that be an exciting and intuitive experience? We set out to design a product that would personalize an employees experience when interacting with their companies benefits offerings.

ClearCost Health is a website and mobile app designed to offer price transparency in health care.  In other words, someone seeking a procedure, lab test, medication, or office visit can compare the cost of services across many providers in their network.

I am leading a UX and UI design revision of this product.  Leveraging quantitative and qualitative user data we identified potential ways to make the complex process of navigating the health care system more simple, affordable, and engaging.  These findings are informing database, UI, and communications design.

Role: Lead Technical Director

Creator: Evan Viera (Orchid Animation)
In-association with Bitfilms
 

Caldera is a short film that premiered at SXSW in 2012.  The film portrays a world through the eyes of a young girl suffering from mental illness.  We see a stable and mundane existence juxtaposed against the delight and danger of her uninhibited hallucinations.
 

Awards:
Grand Prize: Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival
Best Short Finalist - Bang Awards
Best Animated Film - Rockport Film Festival
Best Short - View Social Awards
Nominated for “Best Picture” - Maverick Movie Awards
Nominated for “Best Director” - Maverick Movie Awards
Award of Distinction - Prix Ars Electronica
Award of Innovation - Seattle International Film Festival
Best Animated Film - Rome Independent Film Festival

Director: Jacob Mazonson & Raf Anzovin

Agency: Arnold World Wide

Art Director: Kelly McCullough

Producer: McCabe Walsh

Animation Studio: Anzovin

One of a series of animations telling imagined stories that came straight from some of the most imaginative kids on this planet.  We worked with a number of kids to guide them through imagining and telling stories of a fantastical cruise.  The results included amazing voice over and a story that practically animated itself.

The video has over a quarter million views on youtube and well exceeded rating benchmarks for Travel content on Facebook and Instagram social media.

Producer / Director: Jacob Mazonson

Animation Studio: Anzovin Studio

Client: American Canoe Association

Canoes, kayaks, and stand-up paddleboards were involved in 20% of all boating casualties when this PSA was made (U.S. Coast Guard 2013 Recreational Boating Statistics). In partnership with the American Canoe Association we created a video aimed at empowering kayakers and canoeists to take responsibility for their safety on the water. 

The PSA is the most popular video the ACA has ever produced at over 40,000 views.  Based on this video the ACA partnered with Jacob and Anzovin Studio to win a grant to produce another production animated survivor stories tolled by the survivors themselves.

Director: Jacob Mazonson

Agency: Arnold World Wide

Art Director: Kelly McCullough

Producer: McCabe Walsh

Animation: Tamara Hahn

One of a series of animations telling imagined stories that came straight from some of the most imaginative kids on this planet.  We worked with a number of kids to guide them through imagining and telling stories of a fantastical cruise.  The results included amazing voice over and a story that practically animated itself.

The video has over a quarter million views on youtube and well exceeded rating benchmarks for Travel content on Facebook and Instagram social media.

Director: Jacob Mazonson

Animation assistance: Roslyn McMurray

So often 3d computer animation is a style rather than a medium.  To stretch my technical and creative abilities I set out to develop an animation style that leverages modern tools while drawing upon the spontaneous anything goes methods of traditional techniques.

Getting away from the screen is important from time to time.  This is a custom designed and fabricated swinging bench made of black accacia and powder coated steel.