Henry Kuo
About Me
there's a fairly accurate pic of me.
i drive a black 07 STi.
i love to create art.
i have a cat that used to be toilet trained.
there's a lot more, but like you care.

drop me an e-mail

I grew up on the Vic20 and Commodore 64. Jumpman, Archon, and Ultima were classics, but my favorites were Impossible Mission, Questron and Modem Wars.
NYSee
multimedia art
design, interface, video, video editing, lingo, database

accepted into SIMPLICITY - the art of complexity, Ars Electronica 2006

"The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious." - Lester Bangs
Untitled Paintings 1
paintings
oil
1992

Technically, I've had my work shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the calligraphy I did for Ambac's 25th anniversary party that took place in the Egyptian room.
Toyota
site
design, interface

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain
Alex Berg Photography
site
design, interface, actionscript

I grew up in Baton Rouge and have lived in Manhattan, Brooklyn, LA, San Francisco, Oakland, and Honolulu. Currently residing in LA.
Untitled Paintings 2
paintings
oil
1995

During my prolific high school basketball career, I had my own Kuo fan club. I averaged half a point per game.
Lily's Jewelry
site
design, interface, photography, actionscript, php

Featured in Make Your Small Business Website Work

"The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it." - Edward Albee

site
design, interface

Some of the best things I've eaten. Tripe sandwiches, street vendor, Florence. Coco Puffs, Liliha Bakery, Honolulu. Cuban sandwich, Chez Henri, Boston. Yams, Moonlight Cafe, Baton Rouge. Foie gras, D'artagnan, New York. Meatloaf, Cafe 8 1/2, Honolulu. Salmon burgers, Chef Chung.
Red Landscape
floppy disk demos
design, interface, illustration, motion, video editing, photography, lingo

July 1999 - PRINT Digital Design & Illustration Annual 6

September 1998 - Communication Arts Interactive Design Annual 4

October 1998 - HOW Annual Self-Promotion Competition

"Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting." - Jackson Pollock
Giant Step
screensaver
design, motion, video editing

During my visit to Taiwan, I was constantly mistaken for a famous pop singer from a band called IPIS. Judge for yourself.
Thunderhill
me at the Hooked on Driving
Performance Driving Clinic
October 5, 2007

"I don't have to know the answer." - Richard Feynman
New York City Economic Development Corporation
cd-rom
design, interface, motion, lingo

My childhood dream was to become a Dungeons & Dragons illustrator.
Vicks
site
design, illustration, actionscript

"Come up with a sentence that has never been said before in the entire history of language...Give me back my fudge suitcase!" - Ray Romano
Gucci
e-card
motion, actionscript

I was a budding rapper in high school. For the first time available to the public, download the exclusive demo My Pumps right here. (recorded around age 15)
Hilton Hawaii
site
design, interface, motion, actionscript, asp, database

"It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without making sure I had a pencil in my pocket." - Paul Auster
Ratchet and Clank
site
design, interface

My favorite work of art is still Romare Bearden's The Block. It used to be on regular display at the Met, and I would spend hours moving from detail to detail.
E-card
cd business card
design, interface, motion, video editing, lingo

"You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site." - Frank Lloyd Wright
PM Options
kiosk & screensaver
design, interface, motion, actionscript

I learned more from the off-road spin at the bottom of magic mountain at Buttonwillow than the 100-odd clean laps I've done to date.
Yahoo Entertainment
banner
design

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams
PricewaterhouseCoopers
presentation
design, interface, motion, lingo

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work." - Richard Bach
Ambac
branding
calligraphy

Some of the weirdest things I've eaten. Rum-flavored potato chips, Germany, considering I was 12 and expecting sumthin salty. Chicken ball soup, Taipei. Yes, with real chicken nuts - bursty little sacs. Opihi, Hawaii. Not uncommon there, but it's the only thing I've eaten alive, still pulsating as it entered my mouth. Battery acid. I was 6. Very sharp to the tongue.
Vaiders
logo
design, illustration

"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense!" - Pablo Picasso
Flickr
my flickr photostream

I won the L.S.U. Student Art Competition while just a sophomore. Well, it was really cool at the time, considering I was competing against seniors and graduate students.
More Paintings
paintings
oil
1992 - 1995

I don't know how Parsons chose the buildings for student housing, but my next door neighbor was some greasy old white dude with porn literally covering every inch of his walls and two doors to the right we all figured was a pimp from the two crackwhores he was always with.
Random Stuff

Brain age: 20.
Skills
After Effects
BBEdit
Director
Final Cut
Flash
InDesign
Illustrator
Keynote
Omnigraffle
Painter
Photoshop
Premiere
Quark

Actionscript
ASP
CSS
HTML
Javascript
Lingo
Perl
PHP
SQL
VBScript
School
January 1993 - May 1996
Parsons School of Design
BFA

August 1991 - December 1992
Louisiana State University
Experience
July 2007 - present
OgilvyOne - User Experience Director

June 2006 - July 2007
Saatchi & Saatchi - Creative Lead

December 2003 - June 2006
Communications Pacific - Creative Director

January 2003 - December 2003
Hawaii Information Services - Interactive Designer

May 2000 - May 2002
NOVO/Giant Step - Senior Designer

March 2000 - May 2000
Dmind Corporation - Senior Designer

May 1995 - March 2000
Waters Design - Designer
Awards and Stuff
2006 - NYSee, SIMPLICITY - the art of complexity, Ars Electronica 2006

2004 - Lily's Jewelry site featured in Make Your Small Business Website Work

April 2003 - Macromedia Site of the Day - Lily's Jewelry

2000 - PRINT Digital Design & Illustration Annual 7 - David Olenick Promo

2000 - Geocities web site of the week - Blueland

July 1999 - PRINT Digital Design & Illustration Annual 6 - Red Landscape

September 1998 - Communication Arts Interactive Design Annual 4 - Red Landscape

October 1998 - HOW Annual Self-Promotion Competition - Red Landscape
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