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Eric

Van Holtz

Freelance Web Developer,
Okay Dev (Founder), Van Holtz Co (Owner)

Detroit, MI, USA

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Crescent Space

Client: Lockheed Martin

Crescent is a new subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, created to offer subscription-based lunar communication services. The website brought Crescent out of stealth and helped them begin competing for contracts in an emergent, yet competitive marketplace on day one.

Anthropic

Agency: Geist

Making AI safe for humanity. In 2020, key members of OpenAI left to form Anthropic, a public benefit corporation with a laser focus on AI safety. Anthropic believes that AI has the potential to radically change society, and that ethical standards are required to minimize the dangers and maximize the benefits.

B/D® JAMS

Agency: BASIC/DEPT®

A weekly-ish playlist curated by the employees @ BASIC/DEPT®

Geist

Agency: Geist

A digital-first brand studio in Portland Oregon, USA. Building hybrid design systems that connect brand expression and product experience. They humanize technology, making brands people love to interact with.

Hyphen

Agency: Geist

With Hyphen, repetitive tasks are put on autopilot, allowing restaurant staff to focus on the human elements of hospitality and culinary creativity. Developed by veterans of Instacart, Sweetgreen, SpaceX, and Apple, Hyphen is an automated makeline designed to increase efficiency and food safety in modern kitchens. Shortly after the launch of the website, Hyphen raised a $24 million Series A, and saw an additional $18 million follow-on investment by Chipotle’s Cultivate Next venture fund.

Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts

Agency: Studio Mega

Mike Kelley was one of the most influential and fearless artists of our time. Kelley’s work, spanning across a broad range of genres and style, was irreverent and subversive, yet deeply insightful. His projects challenged the American class structure, reinterpreted pop culture and sparked youthful rebellion.

Oregon Community Foundation

Agency: Smith & Connors

With five regional offices, 45 years in service, and almost 100 staff members, Oregon Community Foundation is the state’s largest public foundation. OCF’s website is more than just a source of information. It’s the the first impression of potential donors, a portal for young scholarship seekers, an entry point for overworked nonprofit staff to find grant opportunities. We completely rethought the website experience to make visitor pathways efficient, delightful, and fast. And of course, we made the site easy to update and flexible, so that as communications evolves, so can the website.

onX Maps

Agency: Parliament, This, Built

onX Maps is leading the trail in private and public land mapping data. The web and mobile apps can be used for hunting, hiking, fishing, backcountry, land boundaries, watersports, camping, and more. The website presents an equal balance between supportive imagery, video, features, and information. Video backgrounds, carousels, and informative overlays were developed to display the many uses of the onX app.

ICON Motosports

Agency: Parliament

We built a website that could showcase their inspired product design, bikes, videos, and more with all of the speed and attitude of their brand and riders. ICON is a Portland Oregon based company and industry leader in protective motorcycle gear. With seasonal product releases, epic video productions, and limiter stories there are no dead ends to the amount of content on the site. The ICON websites are the hub of product information for their customers, brick & mortar and online retailers. ICON Motosports was comprised of two additional brands ICON 1000 and Raiden (no longer available). Each is geared towards a specific theme – street, modern, and adventure. All three brands needed to be able to live on their own while still being Icon. We developed three websites under one code base that are all functionally the same, but each being styled independently from one another.

HSSTUDiO

Client: Haydenshapes Surfboards

Agency: Parliament

Haydenshapes is pioneering new technologies in the surf industry. Hayden changed the game when he introduced futureflex, a manufacturing technology which uses carbon fiber to strengthen the edges of the board. He wanted a web app just as unique that allowed his customers to craft their boards to be the perfect shape, size, density, and design. The UI overlays a 3^d environment where you can rotate and zoom in on the board you’re creating. See changes to the board in real-time, even see how the light shines off the surface of the board based on the type of polish selected. The web app takes all of the information you’ve entered and creates a dynamic product ready for purchase. You can do all of this from a computer, tablet, or mobile device.

Parliament

Agency: Parliament

Parliament is a design agency located in PDX. They target specific industries they’ve defined as: Things with Wheels, Hook & Bullet, The Great Outdoors, and Surf. They can really do it all. Parliament has a beautiful collection of photography assets and the website does a really nice job showcasing that content, especially in their Journal posts. Pre-designed and developed content modules give the website a ton of flexibility. They all have available layout, theme, and style options too. There are behind the scenes features like custom landing pages that are used to target potential clients. Also, an entire job applicant management system where you can rate each candidate, write notes, and have easy access to their information.

Workspace

Agency: Van Holtz Co

Late nights developing websites wouldn’t be the same without my home office. Modalero, a Pacific Northwest company, custom built the standing desk featuring oak and semi-transparent black epoxy with embedded led lighting. The wood wall paneling with shelving and led lighting was custom built and installed by my father as a gift. I’ve treated myself to some premium hardware after successful years as a freelance developer.