Melissa Mesku

I built A Home of Your Own, an interactive and animated website for Wells Fargo Home Mortgage. This custom left-to-right scrolling experience takes the user through an animated journey for first time home buyers.

I built The Ultimate Guide to Planning a Walt Disney World Vacation, an interactive and animated website for Walt Disney World Resorts. This one-page scrolling site features multiple image carousels, expandable sections, and little surprises like animated pullquotes and sparkles. Yes, sparkles.

I built a promotional website for major retailer Target that appeared for the launch of The Spruce, a home and garden magazine. The design features three sections of home and garden content in Pinterest-style columns.

Antares Capital is a premier middle-market lender managing 60 billion in assets. The company reached out to me with some additional needs for their website, including a new investor portal.

I built two microsites, one in English and one in Spanish, for insurance company State Farm. Each campaign features a video, an infographic, and multiple articles on finance site The Balance.

I built an illustrated, animated promotional site for road safety brand OnStar.

I built an interactive holiday promotion for Clorox. The custom illustration is actually a Leaflet.js-powered map, pinned with key locations that correspond to article cards with more info.

Collective Decision Engines created a tool for market research that allows for quadratic voting. In the application, users are given a limited number of votes to assign, presenting an interesting visual design challenge. I provide some UI consulting and occasional updates.

I developed a suite of branded articles on The Balance for the financial services company Merrill Edge.

I created the first map and comprehensive listing of every coworking space and shared workspace in the greater NYC metro area as an open source project. Whether you're in Long Island or Staten Island, if you're looking for shared workspace, this is the resource.

I implemented a web-based interactive heat map demo based on seasonal CDC flu data from a similar ad unit for Walgreens.

The map utilizes jVectorMap, an open source vector-based library for interactive geography-related data visualization.

I built The Ultimate Upgrade, an interactive branded content experience for Chevron Techron which appears on ThoughtCo. This custom site features animations, quizzes and an interactive x-ray car that reveals what’s under the hood.

Ciné Co-op is a film production cooperative based in Montreal for whom I've provided web consulting over the years.

I created a custom interactive slide show that animates through a 3D visualization of asthmatic lungs under treatment.

For Ketel One, I built a showcase page of custom cocktail recipes for the 2018 holiday season.

With over 100 contributors in 15 countries, New Worker Magazine was the largest coworking industry publication in the US and the leading publication for the global coworking community. I started the publication in 2013 and built the initial site.

I built a filterable holiday gift guide sponsored by Google Store, which appeared on tech site Lifewire for the 2017 holiday season.

Face Dazzler is a web application I conceived and built that allows users to experiment with facial detection technology in real time. Included are tips to help thwart facial detection in real life, and stylized drag-and-drop overlays that "break" the algorithm’s ability to find a face online. Users can also use their webcam or upload a photo locally to experiment with becoming undetectable.

Chris Thayer is a stand-up comic who has appeared in the films The Civil Dead (2022) and Teenage Badass (2020), as well as on Comedy Central, VICELAND, and TBS. He’s written for Comedy Central, The Pete Holmes Show, JASH, Funny or Die, and TBS.

I designed and built him a website and implemented a new calendar system that integrates with his booking management tools.

I often grapple with the notion that despite all we do, there is no point. My way of dealing with this is through a gallows humor that sometimes surfaces in projects like these. The Void is a publication that will never publish your writing; though I built the site to have a functional submission portal, all work that writers submit to The Void will be ignored, perhaps profoundly so. Submit to The Void, or just check out its Twitter account which retweets writers' commiseration over the pointlessness of writing.

Sonya Hammons is a textile artist in Sausalito, CA. She's also a sustainability leader who has held management roles at the United Nations, the US State Department, and the Congressional Research Service. She needed a flexible website that could grow with her as her professional focus shifts over time.

Roddy O'Hehir is a comedic actor originally from Dublin.

Geneva Guerin is a filmmaker in Montreal who has directed and produced four feature documentaries: La Cantine Afghane (2012), a documentary on Afghan refugees in Paris; Van Horne & Waverly (2013), a portrait of Montreal’s Mile End; We Call Them Intruders (2015), on Canadian mining companies in Africa, and Ghost Particle (2021) on quantum physics at CERN.

Introducing ClinkedIn: the social network for white-collar criminals serving jailtime, a project I built at the Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon at NYU-ITP in Feb 2016. A send up of LinkedIn features profiles of Bernie Madoff, Martha Stewart, Enron CEOs and other inside traders and securities fraudsters, and comedic profiles thereof.

Launched on 1/9/19, ➰➰➰ (“many loops”) is a literary magazine somewhat preoccupied by recursion. The intelligible face of an AI backend, the publication is being taught via machine learning to recognize instances of recursion in literary works. The vision is that it will eventually publish whatever it sees fit.