Creative Services
We offer broad-spectrum creative services, in traditional and new media, to create high-value user experiences and interactions that satisfy your objectives.
Business-class design and development
web sites
Custom web site designers and developers. Also: updates and makeovers to existing web sites, web applications and user interfaces.
identity packages
Business identity packages may include business cards, stationery, forms, labels, folders, packaging… solid designs to support your professional image.
graphics & multimedia
Effective visual design for your print materials and web sites, including interactive media, Flash animations, streaming video and audio.
editorial & publishing
Document design, writing and technical editing for electronic and printed periodicals, books, manuals and business literature.
We design solutions that work for you
Our design and development work is shaped by your goals and your audience. This helps to ensure that the custom web site designs, web applications and business identity packages we create will serve you well. While you are our client, we think of ourselves as your advocate.
A supporting cast of thousands!
“I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming — or buying software — on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.”
“Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness. Much typography is far removed from literature, for language has many uses, including packaging and propaganda. Like music, it can be used to manipulate behavior and emotions. But this is not where typographers, musicians or other human beings show us their finest side. Typography at its best is a slow performing art, worthy of the same informed appreciation that we sometimes give to musical performances, and capable of giving similar nourishment and pleasure in return.”
“As we learn to understand this century and play its complex game, we can chart extraordinary futures. Today's young people must be given the confidence to transform their lifestyles, the environment and Homo sapiens itself. We can create civilizations more magnificent than anything yet conceived. We need the political will to transform our world rather than wreck it.
“Young people everywhere need charts of the worldscape ahead. They, collectively, will be responsible for the greatest transition in human history.”
“By the 1950s, the growth of recorded information was referred to as an information explosion. The term may not have been apt, because an explosion quickly ends its violent growth…
“…The information-handling process typically costs from 5 to 30 percent of an organization's total expenses. Given such a large expenditure, it is desirable to ask how corporate communications can be made as effective and inexpensive as possible.”
“…In a cedar-shake shack on a cliff — but we all live like this — is a man in his thirties who lives alone with a stone he is trying to teach to talk.
“…Reports differ on precisely what he expects or wants the stone to say. I do not think he expects the stone to speak as we do, and describe for us its long life and many, or few, sensations. I think instead that he is trying to teach it to say a single word, such as "cup," or "uncle."
On the technical side of things, we have been Open Source advocates for nearly 30 years. Not all good software is open source, but count on the fact that good open source software can be supported by a large pool of talented experts. And both licensing and support for open-source software may be less costly than that for proprietary systems. We can develop for proprietary platforms, including interfaces for custom electronics and devices, but for web-deployed projects we prefer to work with, for example, Linux hosting services and Apache, or similar dedicated servers.
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