MARC DURBIN

This image of Norwood Tower in downtown Austin is one of my favorites. Taken by photographer Jim Innes for a website project we were working on, it turned out to be an unexpectedly dangerous assignment. On the night of the shoot, Jim donned a climbing harness to get to the top of the nearby Bank One building. And because it was so windy, we had to chain him to the roof to keep him from flying off. Norwood’s building manager Nancy Burns, on cue, switched the lights on in every office on all 15 floors, and Jim got our money shot.

Website page design for Builders Update. Site involved a team of programmers in the U.S. and a team in India and took more than three years to develop. Backend is ASP.NET with extensive client and server-side scripting.

Photo-illustration of copywriter Adrian Alexander. Taken at the University of Texas in the art building’s freight elevator with an old Nikon film camera and edited in Photoshop.

Promotional flyer designed for Builders Update to hand out at sales meetings as a means of service introduction.

Website page design commissioned by Norwood Tower featuring a dynamically-interactive stacking plan for commercial real estate brokerage firm Colliers Oxford. Available lease space is shown from a variety of perspectives, together with relevant technical specs. Backend code written by Seth Johnson with interface design contributions from Dawn Larned.