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We’d like to get a conversation started about ideas & possibilities. It’s our goal to make the intangible come to the surface, whether it’s web design or graphic design.
We see visual communication as an essential cornerstone for all businesses. The strength of beautiful & thought provoking design, whether you’re a nonprofit, small business or corporation, ensures personal and effective communication with your client.
We can build the blueprint for your visual strategy. Not just graphic design. Not just web design. We expand your ideas, capture your energy, so your business can grow and your clients can share in your passion, your dedication and first-hand experience with your ideas.
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company branding
Having a strong visual brand to match your company is essential in the world of the internet today. We carve your look out of the building blocks you hand to us. We call it visual sculpting – so at the end of the day, you’re left with a look that is organic, tangible and a monument to who you are. In an ocean of competitors only those who look unique and leave a strong impression stand out and are remembered.
website design
Your look and feel, everything from site architecture to interface design to site feature design. We do it all and make it all fit perfectly. Give us a chance and we’ll make your users proud of you.
interface design
We build your sites road and transportation systems and build it well. User friendliness is essential on the web. A user needs to be able to get around on your site comfortably and easily without any hitches or confusing turns leading to dead end with no way back. Frustrate your user’s art your own peril. This is where we come in, building you sites pathways logically and with common sense. We provide your users with the equivalent of a satellite guided Lexus with all the fixings. Every user that visits your site will leave feeling well taken care of and without the need to take Dramamine.
website consultation
We can give you a comprehensive break down of your existing website. We will tell you what it needs and what it is good at. We will break down your code and tell you how clean or dirty it is and how this effects the user experience. Lastly we will tell you what extra features or sections your site can use to maintain or increase your user base.
website redesign
We can take what you have and make it better. Strengthen your existing user’s loyalty while attracting a whole new audience to your new look and features. Whether you are looking to expand or just try a new look we’ll take your vision and make it live.
database development
Want the ability to manage and control all the in a outs of your website without the need for any expertise in programming? We can build a database to do practically anything, one that fits any need or occasion. Automation is the buzz word of the silicon age and we are happy to bring you the next step. It’s an automated practically self expanding website that saves your company immeasurable time and money. If the machines are declaring war soon at least they will make it easy for us until then.
e-commerce
We can build you an e-store with shopping cart, updatable inventory and product pages as well as inventory tracking. Whether you want to be Wal-Mart or Louis Vutton or anywhere in between we will make your shop fit your market.
chat rooms / bulletin boards
These are perfect for any online community. Use them for anything from discoing articles on your site to just hanging around with community members and shooting the you know what. We customize our chartrooms and bulletin boards so it perfectly matches you company image and your website. Chat, discuss, argue or make up cruising on the board or hanging in a room is quite the experience and well make it look right.
marketing
From general marketing ideas to user friendly feature ideas to marketing copy, we do it all. Target audience psychology is our strong point, just tell us who you want to get in contact with and we will make all the necessary introductions.
copyediting
We can spruce up nearly any copy you have. What you say so often isn’t enough if how you say it doesn’t impress people. We specialize in copy with a strong impact that is never the less very human and friendly. If you want people to listen to you, you should come across as a person.
email newsletters
We can design gorgeous graphical news letters or invitations for your company that will really impact the recipients. Again standing out from the pack is the key when people are getting twenty emails a day from different people trying to sell them something.
Search Engine Optimization
SEO is the most effective marketing method available for driving targetted traffic to your site. Don’t believe the scams that guarantee top placement in search engines like Google. These are false advertising to make a quick buck. Gaining high rankings takes time but our used, tried and true methods will get your site listed where your audience can find you. We use a diverse set of methods from the coding of your site to directory and search engine submissions to affiliate linking programs, and content building. We can do keyword research to find out what your audience searches for and code it into your site so they are sure to find you. Just tell us who you want to find your site and we will make all the proper introductions.
DHTML
Dynamic HTML. Through the use of cutting edge web standards technology such as CSS and JavaScript, we can create a stronger user experience and greater interactivity for your audience. Forms can be made easier to understand, and content can be more interesting and dynamic. If you want to go for a fully immersive, deeper experience, maybe Flash is for you.
Flash
From animated logos to powerful remote applications, Flash allows us to create sophisticated interactive content and opens up a world of strong branding possibilities. Flash is every creative designers dream come true. We can finally turn your website from a static picture of what you represent into a fully interactive, even cinematic experience that will blow your users away. Interactive flash driven sites are the future of the internet. In the online world it’s the equivalent of moving from still photography to moving pictures and as in the real world movies are doing pretty well so far. It basically allows us e-designers to evolve from print design to cinematography. Adding the dimension of movement to our template of design tools almost infinitely expands the possibilities and the potential of what we can produce for you. We’re ready to build your users an experience they’ll love you for.
PHP
PHP can now be found on close to 7 million domains, and is growing at a rate of up to 15% each month, the fastest on the web, stealing developers away from ASP and JSP. Quick development time, a vast library of capabilities and very high performance make it an ideal development environment. And the open source development environment keeps it affordable. It can interface with many other powerful technologies: Java Objects, Microsoft COM objects, XML,… the possibilities are limitless.
MySQL
The world's most popular RDBMS (Retational Database Management System). LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) has proven to be one of the fastest, most scalable, stable and secure web server configurations available. Since MySQL is an open source software application, its use within the terms of GPL is free. Many of the world's largest organizations, including Yahoo!, Google, Cisco, Lufthansa, Dunn & Bradstreet, Hyperion, Sabre Holdings, Cox Communications, The Associated Press and NASA are realizing significant cost savings by using MySQL to power Web sites.
logos
Just need a logo? We can do one for you that exalts the look and feel of what your organization is about. We have a knack for getting straight to the heart of what gets you excited about your work, and goals for your company. But don’t stop just at the logo, we hope that you’ll also consider developing an identity package.
letterhead
Customized letterhead reinforces and strengthens your company image every times you send a piece of mail. Let the world know who you are and that you are serious about what you do in every communication you send out. Let us design you something that shows you off to the world.
corporate & noprofit identity
Usually considered the whole package it consists of : logos, letterhead, and business cards. It’s the essential cornerstone of any organizations’ identity. We are talented at and experienced in creating looks for both business entities: corporate and nonprofit. There’s a world of difference between the two and we want to make sure whether you’re just starting out, or looking for a makeover, it gets done right. We carve your look out of the building blocks you hand to us. We call it visual sculpting – so at the end of the day, you’re left with a look that is organic, tangible and a monument to who you are.
direct mail
We all are victim to it – don’t let your direct mail piece get thrown away! We’ll take your message and customize it to a 5-piece package (reply envelope, outer envelope, reply device, letter & insert) that’s irresistible, and not marked for a junk-mail goner.
newsletters
We take the ordinary out of newsletters, and spice up your quarterly, monthly or even weekly printed newsletter and/or email version. Your newsletter is often one of the most common ways to communicate with your audience on a frequent basis. We want the reception of your newsletter to be like a welcomed ritual – so people look forward to hear about what you have to say about your organization, and your goings on.
annual reports
A specific type of brochure for public companies – a review of last years successes, and a look to what’s ahead for next year. Clearly one of the most leveraged materials that your members, shareholders and board will read, but we want to make sure that reading through your financial statements, liabilities, earnings and profits won’t be akin to visiting the dentist.
special event invitations
Having the dinner of the century? Before your socialite gets to the appetizers, the music, and the party bags, the have to be invited. We want to make sure that your invitation, like your direct mail piece doesn’t get tossed, after it’s made its way right into the front door of your addressee and if they decide to attend, they can easily fill out and send back their RSVP. Sounds too basic? Think of the last time that you filled out a form, and ran out of room to write your name, credit card number or email address? We strongly believe in function and form have to go hand in hand.
press kits
First impressions are always lasting one’s. We make sure that your press-kit will knock the socks off of any media mogul that’s been there and done that. We want to make sure your PR kit will have the look and flavor of your identity so that others will find cause to indulge in your organization with the same zest you bring to the table every day.
art direction
As we all get more technologically savvy – and marketing campaigns become more expensive – we all become more sophisticated and demand more from our print and online materials. We will nurture your project with a holistic viewpoint – creating materials that are both effective and artistic. We don’t compromise on quality, nor do we neglect that quantity (investment, audience, etc.) is often a compass by which we are all driven.
self-promotional materials
Postcards, special announcements, thank you cards, free online wall papers…what’s the next item on the menu of self-promotional delicacies? We work with you to indulge in something as small as a website launch announcement, special thank you to your shareholders, or a sand box of online desktops, customized with your branding so that customer loyalty never wavers, but stays strong.
posters
Posters have always been great collateral for providing something that your members will want to display and save. They are affordable and portable mini-murals and are a great way to show off your stuff, it allows people to proudly exhibit what they love about your company!
stickers
Your company brand on one side sticky glue on the other, what more could anyone want. Stickers are cheap to make and good for all occasions. Bumpers, windows, binders, and notebooks, all candidates for your stickers if it looks good enough for people to want to put it there. Let us make you a beautifully branded piece of art and let those who like it spread the word of your company by sticking it to something.
fliers
They can be quick, dirty, visual, photocopied on your office room Xerox, printed on your ink-jet, or even taken to Kinko’s. Fliers have been a basic modicum of marketing, since the “Wanted Dead or Alive” poster. We can tailor a flier for you, that’s good-lookin’ effective and affordable. Want to go all out? Maybe a brochure is what you need.
brochures
The upgrade of the bread & butter flier – the brochure is the Prada of all publications. There are a myriad of possibilities size, format, fold, color, texture, content. Where does one even begin? Brochures are like miniature construction projects to us. We like to figure out how can we build a brochure that’s superb, unique and visually distinct so people will want to grab it and take it home with them.
clothing labels & hangtags
Yes, we even go to the needle & thread. Our art mistress worked for almost a year developing the hangtag and clothing label for a fast growing fashion label McGinn. We learn very fast – so quickly so, we are always ready to find new ways to approach what we’ve just learned.
promotional items
We all love things we get for free. We love them even more if they’re well made look good in our cupboards, on our desk, or our shoulders. There’s the t-shirt we get that goes right into the pajama drawer, or the one we wear to the office on casual Fridays, the one that we never throw away. The mug that we obsessively protect from prying coworkers, and the stress ball that gets us through that 3 o’clock meeting. Yes, we’ve all gotten over a dozen in our life time- but which are the one’s you’ve kept throughout the years? We can research and develop a bevy of promotional materials that work together, work for you and work to get kept.
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