Greg Maletic: Work

An iPhone 4 for you. In picture form.

Greg Maletic — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:10:45 +0000

I needed a high-quality photo of an iPhone 4 for some work I was doing. Sadly, searching the web produced no high-res images. So I decided to draw one in Illustrator. I eyeballed the placement of msot of the features, so I can’t vouch for 100% accuracy. Overall, it seems pretty close.

Right-click and save the image below to download the Illustrator file; feel free to use as you please. (It’s made of those vector thing-ys, so you can scale it as big as you wish.)

NOTE: You may need to remove a “.ps” off the end of the file; the extension should be “.ai.”

Something new and exciting for Disney theme park fans…

Greg Maletic — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:25:31 +0000

Launched on August 24, 2009, Wishing Stars is a GPS-based game for Disney Park visitors. Guests search for hidden (virtual) treasure by following clues awarded by the game. I created the game concept, the iPhone app, and all related graphics.

For more details, visit the Wishing Stars web site.

Countdown Calendar

Greg Maletic — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:14:14 +0000

My first iPhone app. Click for details.

Tiki-Themed Birthday Invite

Greg Maletic — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:02:02 +0000

An invite I created for my 40th birthday party at a local tiki bar. Click to expand it to full-size.

Space Mountain Attraction Poster

Greg Maletic — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:19:25 +0000

For my personal portfolio, a Space Mountain attraction poster in the style of ’60s-era Disney posters.

Want a copy? Visit here and download.

“It’s A Small World” Illustrations

Greg Maletic — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:19:31 +0000

Disney hired me to create a series of illustrations to be used in the attraction poster for Hong Kong Disneyland’s upcoming “It’s A Small World” attraction, opening in 2008 (click to enlarge):

Bunchball web site

Greg Maletic — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:37:19 +0000

I joined Bunchball in January 2007. As the Vice President of Design, I was tasked with styling our products and communicating the corporate story.

BEFORE: Here is the corporate web site when I came on board, emphasizing the company’s then-message around online social gaming:

Link to archived site.

AFTER, Part 1: Here is my quick-and-dirty update to the web site, giving it a slicker look and emphasizing the improved appearance of the re-styled game lineup I spearheaded. The corporate positioning is the same: online social games.

Link to archived site.

AFTER, Part 2: Here is the latest iteration: a dramatic shift for the company to its new product, Nitro, and the company’s new “science & technology” positioning. Games are no longer the focus. Instead, the new product, Nitro, is a tool that drives online user behavior via gaming principles.

Link to actual site.

Video Game Designs

Greg Maletic — Sun, 06 May 2007 07:31:45 +0000

As Vice President of Design at Bunchball, I (and my team) restyled our game line-up to give the games a world-class appearance. Among the games I styled myself, a retro-themed pool game…

…a ’70s-inspired vector graphic shoot-’em-up:

…a game designed for people to socialize, themed like a nightclub:

Then, some games I art-directed. A football gamed themed literally as a chalkboard, where the players are X’s and O’s:

…an arcade trivia game themed like an ’80s-era handheld electronic game:

…a renaissance-inspired Chess game:

Bunchball Business Cards

Greg Maletic — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:08:23 +0000

As my first task at Bunchball, I was asked to create business cards for each employee that utilized the existing company colors and logo, with each featuring its own, unique character, selected by the employee. (Mine is the tiki.)

(As the company got larger we fortunately abandoned this strategy, as it would have taken a lot of time to create custom cards for everyone!)

Popcorn Cart

Greg Maletic — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:51:08 +0000

An Imagineer I met at Disney mentioned that his first assignment at the company was to design a popcorn cart. He shared this in an effort to make the work sound not-at-all-glamorous (it didn’t work), and it occurred to me that if I wanted to get into the theme park business, designing a popcorn cart was probably a more typical task than, say, designing an entire park or attraction.

With that in mind, here’s the popcorn cart I created, themed toward Tokyo DisneySea’s steampunk-inspired Mysterious Island. What you see here was not created for Disney, but instead done for my own portfolio.

I like how it turned out, though my one critique is a fundamental one: it looks a little too much like “a popcorn cart themed to Mysterious Island.” A stronger approach would have made it look like some other piece of hardware that’s been converted into a popcorn cart. My approach almost implies that Captain Nemo (Mysterious Island’s “creator”) spent his spare time designing popcorn carts…unlikely. Far more likely that someone else take one of his creations and turn it into something “trivial.”