This is my temporary portfolio. I have this temp site because I’m a full time student, that still manages to do Freelance work. I started Hackney Media Solutions 5 years ago, the summer of my 8th grade year. Most small business owners will tell you that it takes about 2 years before their company really started to take off, well... I was multitasking in high school so it took me a few years longer. I graduated high school early before starting college to devote my full attention to HMS and it really took off. I got some of my larger clients and consultant projects during that time.
Now I’m in Orlando Florida, about to graduate in May from Full Sail University with a BS in Digital Arts and Design. I plan to take just a little time to make some money before moving to Chicago to attend NorthWestern and make an attempt at a JD/MBA. At that point I’ll be looking to join a International Design Firm and circle the globe. Well, at least that’s the plan so far!
Take a look down this list, click on the ones you can click and read about the one that interest you, then email me... it’s at the very bottom. I would really like to add the solutions I produce for you to this list.
Chao,
-Joel Hackney
Had to design a piece to mimic our favorite living graphic design, this is in the style of my favorite Peter Harrison (aeiko) of London UK.
A database driven Web 2.0 site that dynamically loads content without interrupting the viewers experience.
A local underground hiphop artist with a larger vision of building an community and a following centered not around the hiphop artists or the agency, but the ethics and codes they live by. HMS is responsible for Album Cover Design, Flash Website Design, and Print Advertising/Marketing Design.

Given several tasks with different timelines and different due dates, it was up to us to complete tasks ontime and to budget our time wisely.




FuchsiaMoon was a small Indiana company that was just getting started and needed an Identity, Website, Packing Design, Corporate and Legal Documents.


A church in Columbus Indiana contracted me to design a new website for them that they could remotely update from an admin section of the website. Site was designed in Flash and is managed by PHP and MySQL databases.
This was my first MySQL and PHP website, the blog, portfolio and links pages are all dynamically loaded from a database that can be managed via an admin section.
An artist approached me when she started designing and knitting one-of-a-kind purses, these pieces of art had 40-60 hours of work in each of them. The website was never completed, but can still be viewed.
Hackney Media Solutions offers very competitive web hosting pricing to FullSail students.
Hackney Power is my fathers company, because of the restrictions of being a distributor he wasn't allowed to have a website and showcase his inventory. Now he can, the website should be finished in a few months.
For our XHTML/CSS class we had to design a website for a restaurant or club, I learned about Javascript and added a lot of cool interactive elements to the website to make it more engaging.
A Flash and XHTML website for a small baseball training facility.
A logo design for a subsidiary of The Carlson Corporation in Indianapolis and three other major cities.

These were some graphic design projects for a typography and advertising class.

A non-for profit that developed curriculums for school systems that had their music budgets cut.