Good Dog Design

Combining great design with educational content is one of our favorite types of projects! After the initial redesign of the Paramount Citrus site, they came to us with the challenge of creating engaging and informative content for kids.

We were up for the challenge. Starting with the national math, science and health standards we came up with 2 games about the health benefits of fresh citrus and how it is grown as well as supporting activities for the classroom, worksheets and a quiz. All of the games and activities were tested with real kids and teachers in the classroom.

Try some of the games, activities and lessons yourself:

• Vitamin C Boost game
• My Orchard game
• Lesson Plans

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.