Good Dog Design

We recently launched a redesign site for Peter Belanger. Peter is one of the top studio photographers in the US; he's done amazing work for clients like Apple, Sony, Johnson & Johnson, Dwell Magazine and Macworld.

I met Peter on the first day at RISD (we were in the same dorm). Even though he should have known better, we became great friends, and it's been an honor to watch his business develop and grow. I really enjoyed working on his site, and we tried a number of interesting techniques to develop a strong platform to present his stunning work.

Right off the bat, we knew we had to create a full screen, scalable site that could show the work as a large as possible. Mark Martin, our talented developer worked to create a canvas-based system that seamlessly scales images to virtually any window size. This was all done without a single bit of Flash, a rarity for photographers' websites. The custom back-end was built in Ruby on Rails.

Beyond the portfolio, we also created a Blog and refreshed the stock site to work within the new design. So head on over and check out peterbelanger.com

St.Mark's has been South Australia's premier residential college since its founding in 1925. Good Dog Design was very pleased to be selected to revitalise the College's website.  We developed a custom built CMS to handle the vibrant new design we created. The new site is bundled full of exciting new features including full integration with twitter, a customised photo gallery system run via email and MMS uploads, flash driven statistics and more!

Tickle Monster is Good Dog's latest iPhone application.  This is our first iPhone application that we have developed just for ourselves rather than a client. It is designed to bring a smile to your face and a song in your heart.  It is a fun and simple little app that lets you tickle and shake the Tickle Monster to your heart's content.  In these times of Global Economic Crisis the world is crying out for cuteness! So we have delivered an application that delivers a whopping 50g of Cute-ateratin* with every dose.

 Tickle Monster can be purchased for US 99cents via the iTunes app store by Click Here

 * note that cute-ateratin is likely to not exist and is something we just made up.

Twofish recently relaunched their website. We created the new site design as well as illustrations to convey the range of solutions. Twofish provides Digital Resource Planning (DRP) solutions for companies requiring virtual banking, commerce, and inventory solutions. Twofish is an active leader in the virtual economy landscape , and the new site clearly presents its services to developers.

The project had a very quick turnaround, and it was a blast to work with their great team.

Earlier this month, we launched a new site for Kenall Manufacturing. Since 1963, Kenall has been designing and manufacturing high quality lighting fixtures for a wide range of commercial, institutional and industrial applications. Kenall is regarded as one of the industry’s most respected independent lighting manufacturers. Their name is synonymous with high abuse and vandal-resistant lighting, but they wanted to highlight their expanded range of products in other sectors: Education, Public Access, Commercial, Civic and Healthcare.

Under the direction of long-time industry expert, Guy Esberg, the site was restructured to make specifying lighting for distinct projects much easier. In addition to searching for fixtures by product type, users can now locate fixtures based upon specific project types, as well as individual applications within those project types. The new visual design is also a departure from their old site; the new look and feel is modern and conveys Kenall's innovative, up-to-date approach to product design, specification and manufacturing.

The team at Kenall was a pleasure to work with. Peg, Sabrina and Jennifer put in lots of long hours, and we truly appreciated all their help migrating impressive amounts of site data, images and product information.

We all have big plans for the future, but we're happy to see this fresh new site up and running!