Lounge Lizard
Top web design and development firm. Specializes in online marketing.
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High-end web design, SEO and e-commerce with award winning results.
Mutado is a renown, but small international firm whose work includes design, animation and interactive work – from brand-supporting print and advertising to online animations, motion design and illustrations. Strong at character work, online systems and games, Mutado's focus is to enable brands to interact with their clients. Which is why, in turn, it's not really a surprise when Mutado's own client list includes the likes of Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon—brands well known for their pioneering use of animation and interaction. Great little site... simple, detail-oriented, and easy to use.... More
Famous across Asia and the West for her analog music videos, art and creative direction, Nagi Noda recently passed away at age 35 from complications after a car accident. Her work brought her from Japan to NY, most recently being signed to Partizan as a music video and commercial director. Her avant garde explorations in the digital and analog mediums were as powerful and symbolically rich in metaphor, as in their impact. Here are some more links: A news article, A fashion video, Her fashion line, A short film.... More
This Navyblue is anything but traditional and staid. They work with the UK's leading businesses, using websites, extra- and intranets, CD-ROMS, and plasma screen technologies to strategize brand building campaigns. Somewhat retro, Navyblue is cool and confident with their hip, in-your-face visuals. Highly-charged images, colors that glow, and designs that inspire. If you are looking to drastically change from the drab to the dramatic, Navyblue will definitely get you there.... More
Opus's services have multiplied over the years since they've been listed here... sure, this full service design studio has some great creative graphics... but it doesn't end there. Started by three techno-savvy guys in Portland, Oregon, Opus:Creative has handled campaigns for the likes of Flowerbud, Nike, and Outrigger/OHANA Hotels. And now they offer everything from branding to hosting, application design to e-commerce. It's "work that works." And continues to grow.... More
In one of the most original illustrated and interactive portfolio interfaces we've seen in recent time, we happily introduce you to a bright and colorful landscape of the PARK studio website. Strong in both packaging and motion design, we were wowed by their fun Flash interface that requires you to 'awaken' the birds from the trees to view the projects. The site trancends language barriers, so you won't need to learn Russian to figure out this firm has a fabulous level of creativity as you view the design projects spanning multiple mediums.... More
From Madison, Wisconsin, this advertising, design, and active media company utilizes simple, dark toned visuals. This ensures that, as their name suggests, your message – the words, with their ambiguous meanings, manipulations, and management – gets the spotlight. On Planet Propaganda, the message shines through the medium—which can include anything from packaging to posters to video promotions.... More
To express an idea in a book is one thing, but to express three concepts in only three pages is always better, especially if you are running low on time... And as we see in these three conceptual renderings, personal time, and how we use it, is always at issue. These minimalist prototypes were created to either save time, or consume your time altogether; from an all-in-one credit card & phone to rosary beads-style TV remote control, we can see both the humor and the immediate potential to market such items in this day of hyper media and consummerism - stranger things are selling right now! Such is the foresight of industrial designer Dima Komissarov, a Russian born author of more than 400 design works, objects, visual identities, prints, web sites... and futuristic items that our children will soon find commonplace. Operative word: soon.... More
There are sharks and fishies swimming around this home page, because "by land or by sea, airship or spaceship", (and you can choose one of these as your backdrop) the crew of Power Design are "idea pioneers!" Yes, there is that certain fun quality about this company and its design style that indicates a proliferation of entertaintment industry clients. Even their Delaware County SPCA web site has that certain showbiz flavor, although they do (indeed, must) sober up for the American Anti-Vivisection Society. Overall, the out-dated site is a hinderance to viewing the full scope of their projects.... More
Trail-blazing through dense tumbleweeds of misinformation and a world or irrelevant marketing, Sapient is a trim, efficient machine. The company aims to “have great wisdom and discernment," and continue to nourish fine talent. Once the leader of the web design pack, this company would probably be the best source of classic corporate web sites today if the bubble hadn’t burst. They continue to aim high with large scale branding and business strategy design for high-end clients in energy & utilities, financial services, hospitality, and entertainment industries.... More
Schematic is a top agency who value their success in their ability to be cross-disciplinary, and by excelling equally at a network of interwoven fields. They specialize in everything from strategy to QA, copy writing to design, and technology to user experience. In other words, everything a great agency needs to keep expanding in today's advanced new media marketplace.... More
We hereby forgive Mr. Chevrel for referring to himself as a “creative technologist”—his portfolio is a tightly orchestrated display of his programming skills and artistic ventures. His work focus is around information management and the design of data structures for cultural institutions and the entertainment industry. A lot of the time this leads to the creations of cool charts and maps – but is also expressed in his own brand of technology based alternative art, which is complex, yet thoroughly interactive.... More
