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JD Graffam’s book “CSS For Print Designers” now at Amazon

admin — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:47:37 +0000

Friend of Design-O-Matic and development whiz JD Graffam’s CSS how-to book is now available through Amazon. Highly recommended for those of you looking to get a handle on front-end coding, particularly if you’re coming from a traditional media background.

Here’s a little more info:

If you’re a print designer, you know the day is coming when you’ll be asked to design a Web site. No matter whether you haven’t learned HTML and CSS yet because of a lack of time or technophobia, this book will get you started coding Web sites and making them look the way you want. You’ll be pleasantly surprised at how painless it is and how much you already know. And this book covers HTML5 and CSS3, so you’ll be working with the latest Web standards.

UPDATE: New clients & recent projects

admin — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:39:30 +0000

For the third year in a row, we’ll be working with the Robin Hood Foundation at their annual Javitz Center Gala. As usual, we’ll be building and performing live interactive Motion Graphics for the Donations & Auctions portion of the event.

This year promises to be as fun and worthwhile as ever, with Brian Williams hosting the evening that wraps up with a performance by Lady Gaga. Last year the evening provided a whopping $86 MILLION for fighting poverty in New York.

Stay tuned for more…

We also recently wrapped up some HTML5/CSS3 design consulting with Fancy Pants Interactive for their snappy new site, which should be live very soon. They’re an amazingly capable development team that has powerful technical know-how with an unheard-of creative sensibility– if you need your creative concepts translated into superb interactive, you should get in touch.

In other news, we’ve been working on Interactive and Online Advertising for some pharmaceutical and financial clients, new videos for the World Bank, logos for the set/environment guys at Seth Easter Design, helping out with Malevolent Creation‘s new music video, and working with Uffindell Group on some digital for Ameriprise….among other things!

Been a busy start to the year. More news soon…

We love us some Waterbobble!

admin — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:54:08 +0000

We’re madly in love with the Bobble these days, and not just because they’re a new client of ours. It’s a beautiful, simple, smart & environmentally-conscious line of products (with more coming!), and it turns out they’re also incredibly nice guys with an interesting back story.

If you don’t know, Bobble is a Karim Rashid-designed water bottle that filters ordinary tap water as you drink it, saving all those disposable plastic vessels filling up our landfills. (Each colorful filter represents about 300 bottles saved.)

We’ve been working with them recently and are looking forward to some great new online coming soon, in partnership with Safari Sundays, who, as luck would have it, are another bunch of really cool folks.

Please stay tuned!

Big update coming to MonsterABC iPhone app

admin — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:02:53 +0000

There’s a new version of MonsterABC which will be available very soon, and it includes 2 new challenges for the kiddies. Stay tuned…

MonsterABC in the App Store >>

(And, as always, you can download some great free printouts for your little ones to color, by going here.)

Robin Hood Gala event at Javitz Center raises $87m+ to fight NYC poverty

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:11:25 +0000

Apologies for the very grainy (iPhone) photos. We hope to have proper production shots soon. In the meantime…

The event was obviously a huge success: $87+ million dollars raised in one evening! It was a pleasure to see Sting play Message In A Bottle, as well as a full concert by Stevie Wonder. Brian Williams hosted (along with help from Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas, Uma Thurman and Rex Ryan), with comedy by Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon.

All in all, a wonderful experience. Robin Hood sure knows how to throw an amazing gala…and to contribute meaningfully to the fight against poverty in NYC.

(Our graphics can be seen on the large projection screens…more soon.)

Robin Hood Foundation 2010 Gala event: video/application redux!

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:52:47 +0000

We’re very excited to be working with Alex Coletti Productions and Brian Oakes on this year’s Robin Hood Foundation Gala. We fully expect it to be as fun and as much of a challenge as last year!

See last year’s interactive motion graphics application.

New iPhone App: Childrens’ Book “Pauline Investigates On The Farm”

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:57:12 +0000

Multi-language children’s book Pauline Investigates On The Farm (originally in French) debuts on the iPhone, as a free English download. Currently the original French is a $0.99 upgrade, with other languages to follow.

Highlights include a follow-along audio-to-text interface, as well as hidden animal sounds.

It’s fun for all ages! (Assuming those ages are under, say, 7…Or you happen to be the parent of one of those ages.)

From the Archive: Sirius Radio Web Layout

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:38:04 +0000

Old but notable: Layout for Sirius Radio’s Web home.

This was produced in partnership with Organic and was a lot of fun to work on. This layout eventually evolved into the Sirius web site, and it seemed fun enough to resurrect for a moment. (Anything featuring an Elvis is always fun enough.)

Client launches this week

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:51:26 +0000

Our clients Demetri Martin and David Zyla both have big things afoot on Friday.

Just launched a client site refresh : Photography

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:56:53 +0000

Just launched a site refresh for Pulitzer-prize winning photographer Kelly Guenther : NYCweddingPhotographer.com.