There has been a boat load of new design that we have created over the last year. Man, how time flies! These are trying times, and everyone is working overtime just to stay afloat. We’ve been working extra hard for our great clients to squeeze as much value as we can out of every dollar they invest with us in their marketing projects.
The economy may be stalled for the moment, but technology is raging forward at incredible speed. Everyone is scrambling to do their best to keep up with and adapt to all the new developments, us included. We’re constantly researching the latest technological advancements and continue to study and learn as much as possible. We want to be able to offer our clients the very best possible solutions and service.
There are many exciting new things that we have integrated into our arsenal of services and we’re not stopping either. Because we are so busy keeping up with meeting the numerous deadlines for our esteemed clients, it will take us awhile to present all the new things we’ve been up to in the way we would like. But as time allows, we will do our best to develop new ways to show off some of the latest solutions and services that we offer.
Very challenging and exciting times indeed. Back to work!
January 30, 2009 – 6:59 pm
It’s been quite awhile since I posted anything here… so I thought it was about time I take a moment and make this post.
The main purpose of this blog, so far, has been to demonstrate how the power of a blog can be integrated into a web site. We wanted our web site to act as a working example of the wonderful things that we can do with web sites these days.
It has been business as usual for us. We’ve been very bust keeping up with our ongoing design projects and life in general. As everyone knows by now, the world is going crazy these days (unless they are living in a cave in some remote place).
Here’s a few new things we’ve been up to:
• A major logo design project for IBPA, formally PMA. Take a behind the scenes look at the mini web site we built just for this project here. A great example of how thorough we are with major projects.
• View the 25th Annual Publishing University 2009 mini web site here, featuring Podcasts embedded into the site.
We got a slew of other cool projects in the works for IBPA that are all designed with a new look and feel to establish a strong branding image that we are very excited about.
• We’ve been the design consultants for a wonderful new journal called Memoir And. See what’s new with them here.
• We recently completed the brand new highly designed Eating Disorders catalogue for Gurze Books which you can see here.
And much more, including: a specially designed poster for the new Comfort Room at Tri-City Medical Center; a new brochure for Hidden Valley Ranch Rehabilitation; a series of wall display graphics for Symbient; and numerous other things.
But that’s enough for now…
August 27, 2008 – 3:54 am
… and well… and still kicking!
It’s all good. Truly, all very, very, good. Amazingly good!
It has been an amazing month. So much has happened. Where do I begin? My head is still spinning!
The all new Pub U is happening in L.A. along with the BEA. The brand new IBPA logo and corporate identity will be unveiled at the Benjamin Franklin Awards at the Wilshire Grand Hotel.
The video for this years Awards presentation is completely new and features a very cool surf theme along with a special tribute to the Incomparable industry Icon, Jan Nathan. It’s gonna be great! I really enjoyed creating it.
We’ve also been doing all kinds of other stuff, but I am too tired to even think about it right now. So, let me just say… thank you to all the wonderful people who keep us so busy being creative. We are truly grateful to you all.
Okay, so March 2008 is history. It was such a busy month for us that I couldn’t take the time to post anything to this blog. April will be the same. We are very grateful for all the work.
We designed the materials for the 2008 PMA Graduate School including whipping up another mini web site for the event. A new logo and corporate identity design are in the works as PMA changes it’s name to IBPA. It is still top secret, and can’t be revealed yet. Work on the video presentation for the Benjamin Franklin Awards program on May 29th, 2008 is heating up.
Sikulu & Harambe by the Zambezi River, the Children’s Book we designed for Blue Brush Media is at the printers.
A new issue of the Cornerstone, the Newsletter for the Tri-City Hospital Foundation is almost ready for press. The freshly designed brochures for the North County Child Study Center are done (in both English and Spanish) and getting rave reviews.
The latest issue of the new Memoir publication is off to press. Abacus Graphics is the official Graphic Design consultants for this interesting new publication.
And that’s really just a few of the highlights for last month.
February 8, 2008 – 3:07 am
So much exciting stuff is in the works! It’s a good thing we love our work so much. Numerous projects our moving through our studio at light speed, and we are continuing to expand our knowledge of new technologies.
Work on a very interesting project for Kunle Oguneye, the design of a new children’s book titled “Sikulu & Harambe By the Zambezi River - An African version of the Good Samaritan story”, has progressed to an almost finished state.
Here’s a cool little Flash gallery version of the prototype book with a fun little controller and fun thumbnails that fits right inside this blogs iFrame (use main left side nav to get back to this blog).
Here’s a link to the companion website sikulu.com. Clicking on the book cover and then on start will load a larger version of the prototype book in a slide show.
January 29, 2008 – 7:28 am
On we go, blasting our way through projects… The all new Pub U, in addition to having it’s own home, thepublishinguniversity.com
is now also housed in an iFrame, like this one, on pma-online.org Pretty dang cool!
Here (in a new window) is what’s up with Belma Michael Johnson’s exciting new website project belmamichael.com . It’s loaded with some pretty hot stuff!
Next up it’s time to design multiple videos and to develop dynamic server side forms and shopping carts, oh my!
January 11, 2008 – 1:57 am
Happy new year! We have been busy, busy, busy. What else is new?
Our new site has been getting rave reviews. We’ve added a little more eye candy on the information and experience pages and a links tab to the information page.
We have completed The Publishing University mini-web site in record time. We will continue to make additions to it over time. It uses quite a bit of the latest web programming technology combined with our famous attention to detail and sweet styling. Check it out in a new browser window here thepublishinguniverstiy.com
The Gurze 48 page catalogue has gone to press, and Belma Johnson’s site is looking good and getting close to going live.
December 11, 2007 – 5:55 am
We have made some major progress. Our new site is live. The new video and photo galleries are looking good.
This blog is working right inside of our site and directly from our virtual private server.
We are busy designing a new site for the Independent Book Publishers Publishing University and Benjamin Franklin Awards along with coordinating print, web, video, slide, and signage graphic design for the event.
Also currently in the works is the Gurze Eating Disorders Catalogue and an exciting new familiy of web site, blogs, wikis, and other cool things for Belma Michael Johnson.
November 15, 2007 – 7:26 am
Slowly, but surely, the creative process unfolds through concentrated effort and comes into focus. A vision takes shape one detail at a time. Details, details, details.
The trick is to make it look simple. Clean. Elegant. But it is an illusion. Making it look simple is downright hard! That is the true paradox of the creative process.
After trying out numerous different style themes, I think I may have found one that I like. Now, a few tweaks here and there… a little tightening it up, and we should be good to go.
Yippee! We are blogging now!