Good Dog Design

The full launch of Paramount Citrus was completed today.

The final update included a whole lot of fun design challenges. The games were my favorite creative area, it was rewarding to create entertaining activities for children, as well being useful resources for teachers. Susie did a great job developing the core educational guidelines for the materials, as well as managing the project.

From a visual design perspective, it was nice to create these new features within the design framework of the current Paramount Citrus' design.

The Cranberry Marketing Committee's new uscranberries.com website is now live. The CMC represents cranberries across the United States and advocates the health benefits and versatility of cranberries. We have been working with the CMC on the site for almost a year updating the information architecture, creating a fresh look and feel and building a robust Content Management System.

Check out the site for delicious cranberry recipe ideas and to learn how cranberries can help you maintain good health!

There's a small movie that's finally beginning to build some recognition via word of mouth. Maybe you've already heard of Batman and "The Dark Knight" movie, hopefully enough people will get the word out, and people will go out and see this hard to find gem.

After you see the movie, you're going to want to buy some sort of product to let everyone know you're in on the secret. Well luckily there's a solution.

About 6 months ago, we completed a new UI project for Digital Blue. They've recently started marketing a new line of products based on this huge blockbuster. The project started as a simple skinning of an existing multimedia app. Unfortunately, the source art was a limited, so we had to rebuild almost all of the UI elements. It was a project with a quick turnaround, but we really enjoyed working the Digital Blue team, and hope you run right out and buy a cool new Batman Digital Camera.

We've recently launched the new Dole Spacechimps microsite. This was an enjoyable job because, quite apart from the fact that lets face it, anything with monkeys is going to be fun, we had access to a huge range of assets from early 3d renders to final polished artwork.  We also had relative freedom during the design phase, which allowed us to get a bit more creative in the navigation and animation.

Of course creativity during the design phase often results in more pain during the build stage, and this was no different.  From a coding point of view it was quite a complicated site, so to avoid confusion each section was seperated out into modular .as files.  This enabled us to more easily respond to update requests and slot in or remove elements as needed.

We are excited to announce the launch of the new House Properties North website! Since 1989, House Properties has specialized in the acquisition, development, and repositioning of real estate in California and other western states.

The old site was very dated so they came to us with the challenge of creating a beautiful site to showcase their properties. The new site includes more images and detailed information about each property as well as giving House Properties a more elegant and professional presence on the web.

It was a fun project to work on and we always love working with our neighbors! We are still hoping we get an invitation to their Hualalai House property in Hawaii :-)