TEAK Leeds The Interactive Revolution
As part of an ongoing drive to enhance their interactive offerings, SF-based TEAK has hired Jeremy Leeds as their new senior interactive producer. Leeds specializes in managing large-scale, complex-interactive, and web development projects, and he works closely with clients to define their requirements, and meet their specifications. These custom designed interactive websites, microsites and landing pages have included email messaging platforms, robust content management systems, and interactive interfaces, among other features.
"As we look to expand our interactive services, Jeremy is pretty much the prototype," stated TEAK EP Greg Martinez. "He's creative, capable, and completely professional, with a history of working with clients across a diverse range of industries. He will fit in well with TEAK's well-rounded and growing crew."
Leeds was recently at Mekanism where he produced a pair of marquee projects including a comprehensive Flash Video Microsite and Drupal-based Social Network for Harmonix /EA's popular Rock Band videogame, which included a full-screen flash video microsite, leaderboards, and user accounts with profile pages (http://www.rockband.com/). While at Mekanism, he also had a hand in the hilarious interactive site for Tostitos, in which users can watch a fictional organization (the National Organization for Legislation Against Fun - NOLAF) rail against the detrimental ills of the company's Tostitos chips (http://nolaf.mekanism.com/).
A few other projects highlighting Leeds' recent portfolio include the Ferrari Challenge website for Ferrari North America (http://www.ferrarichallenge.com), a microsite promoting McAfee's Enterprise security products (http://mcafee.com/us/enterprise/optimize/), microsites and email campaigns for VeriSign (http://www.verisign.com/welcomecenter/, http://www.verisign.com/eKit/), and a marketing communications website and CMS for venture capital firm RockPort Capital (http://www.rockportcapital.com). Other clients include SoBe, Toshiba, TheTourOperator.com, Sony, Oracle, Ask Jeeves, Selectica, Emindhealth.com, Kodak, AirTreks and Charles Schwab.
"I'm really excited about the opportunity to join the pros at TEAK," noted Leeds. "They can do anything in the digital production and post-production realms. They have a great staff and an awesome studio. I can't wait to see what we can create together."
Prior to Mekanism, Leeds was a senior interactive producer at Loomis Group, interactive producer at Attik, and project manager at Landor & Associates and Fluid, Inc.
About TEAK:
TEAK is a San Francisco-based collective of film, editorial, animation and interactive content creators whose medium is everything digital. The dynamic full-service production, post-production, motion graphics, and interactive media studio features a roster of directors, editors, VFX artists, designers, animators web developers who form a creative think tank of talent that crafts unique viral campaigns, commercials, and branded entertainment. TEAK strives to deliver a complete online brand experience with a custom-built integrated digital development center, where they do digital planning and front and back-end site building, and create branded content, including video shooting, editing, and animating. TEAK's clients include major ad agencies and direct-to-client relationships with brands such as Google and Sony.
