Our Services
We provide a wide array of services in a variety of digital and print mediums spanning the fields of graphic design, web development, marketing, branding and product development, and digital media strategy consulting.
Our mission is to be an extension of our clients' creativity, and to provide them with the artistic and technological means of fulfilling their goals by facilitating the success of their campaigns.
Web Development
Our web development team brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, and technical skill to every project, with an attention to user experience, standards compliance, clean functionality, and accessibility.
Online Media Strategy
We help clients create their entire digital experience, from the information architecture of their websites to the social media tie-ins to the logos and videos and the branding. It's more than just a skill, more than just design. Real success is more than the sum of its parts. It's the whole. Whether you're a business or an artist or both, there is a purpose and around that purpose we provide the plan.
Print and Identity
Our ability to create meaningful and impactful identity and print campaigns stems from our backgrounds as artists and our grounding as business people. We have a keen eye for the right line and a clear understanding of your bottom line. Whether a la carte or as part of a larger effort, we offer innovation, artistry and expertise.
Web Development
Our state of the art design and development speaks for itself.
Our web development team specializes in creating streamlined, high functioning, standards compliant sites and interactive environments that are fast-loading and feature rich, by utilizing the latest standards in development and optimization technologies. We do everything from comprehensive site design, to templating, to custom CMS installation and configuration.
WEB DESIGN IS AN ART FORM. The web is a rich and unique design medium that unites the visual and the interactive. We approach design for the web with the aim of creating visual experiences that are fully functional works of art in and of themselves, while simultaneously being highly effective in communicating their content and directing and facilitating interaction.
MULTI-PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT. Our development services include complete site design, design-to-code template development, blog design, development, and integration, communications design, software and database installation and integration, and fully custom ecommerce development, css/html and search engine optimization.
COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTIONS. Both independently and as part of comprehensive site development, we offer database, blog, CMS, and software installation and integration services. Please contact us for more information about how our services can be tailored to serve your specific set of data and functionality requirements.
Online Media Strategy
Planning is not half the battle, it's the whole battle.
Understanding the various tools that the digital means of information distribution has to offer is critical. Even more important, though, is understanding how they fit together to form a coherent strategy. By offering artistry and expertise in design, user experience, information architecture, search marketing and more, we provide our clients with strategies and means for the planning and execution of their online media objectives to achieve the most effective results.
Digital Strategy
According to Wikipedia, "digital strategy is the process of specifying an organization's vision, initiatives and processes in order to deploy their online assets in a manner which maximizes the business benefits they provide to the organization." We are committed to facilitating the process of distilling, structuring, and actualizing our clients' vision in order to maximize the impact and success of their initiatives.
Goals Assessment
It is critical to understand your next seven moves, even if you are only able to make the first one. By understanding the goals you have as an organization, and identifying your target audience personas, we will help you create a scalable plan for success. You may not be able to do everything at once, because of budget or timing, but that doesn't mean that you don't take everything into account. We help you prioritize, based on your near, mid and long-term goals and come up with a solution that lets you build in a sustainable and leveraged manner.
Site Analysis and Optimization
A fresh look makes all the difference.
RE-DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION CONSULTING
Our re-design and optimization services approach a site from the standpoint of enhancing both its visual appeal and functionality in conjunction with optimizing its accessibility. Our analysis covers search enging optimization, css/html optimization, and content and functionality design.
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION (SEO) SERVICES
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a tenet of achieving and maintaining visibility on the web. We provide SEO services and analysis as part of all websites we develop in addition to offering more in-depth and comprehensive SEO programs for websites and blogs targeted towards specific marketing, demographic, and traffic goals.
Our basic SEO services include:
- W3C Compliance
- Comprehensive Website Analysis
- Content Visibility Assessment
- Image and Title Tagging
- SE Friendly & Keyword Rich URL Structure
For comprehensive SEO packages, we employ the latest technologies and leading SEO specialists in the field for analysis and program implimentation.
Programming Services
Its the behind-the-scenes work and processes that bring your enterprise to the next level.
The publicly unseen frameworks behind the technology we utilize every day are every bit as vital and operative as the elements of a system that we interface with. These back-end elements directly structure the conditions, apperance, and products of that interaction.
Our programming and data services cover numerious regions of data and application development for a multitude of uses. These services include:
- CMS Development and Installation
- Custom Intranet Applications
- Database Development
- eCommerce Development, Interfaces, Integration and Set-Up
- Gallery Design and Presentation
- Mp3 and Various Digital Media Purchasing
- eMarketing Software Design and Installation
- Security Systems Analysis and Installation
Virtually all of the data services we provide are custom design to be tailored to the client's requirements and purposes they serve. To learn more about what we can contribute to your endeavor, or to obtain a quote, please contact us.
Ecommerce Services
In today's competitive, fast-paced online marketplace, a rich streamlined user experience is essential to the success of an eCommerce site.
OUR eCOMMERCE SOLUTIONS TAKE EVERY ASPECT OF THIS EXPERIENCE INTO CONSIDERATION. We offer a full range of eCommerce services, from the design and development of fully custom CMS emarketing and commerce solutions to customization, installation, and integration with existing merchant service programs and applications. Responding to a multitude of online commerce needs, our eCommerce and support services include:
- Custom eCommerce Application Design and Development
- Merchant and Fulfillment Service Integration
- Content Management and Data Solutions
- Application Installation, Customization, and Optimization
- Custom Interface and Shopping Cart Design
- Product Catalog Design and Presentation
- eCommerce Consulting
Every eCommerce interface and systems integration we design is created to fulfill the individual requirements of the client's product and services offerings. To learn more about how we can optimize the success of your eCommerce endeavor, or to obtain a quote, please contact us.
Content Management Systems
Content Management Systems allow for infinite possibilities.
Content management systems offer both the opportunity to put website content management directly back into the hands of the client and the flexibility of an almost limitless set of data management and presentation mediation tools and plug-ins.
A variety of platforms for a variety of needs. We assess the data management and specific content set in determining which content management engine to utilize. We primarily work with Wordpress which is a light-weight, highly flexible platform and one of the world's leading content management engines. Wordpress boasts an easy to learn user interface and one of the simplest CMS adminstration panels to operate.
Applications. Content managment systems make the expansion and modification of website content and functionality a breeze. The engines we use include email notifications, RSS and Atom XML feeds, versioning, archiving, comments, and much more built in. CMS plugins cover everything from complete ecommerce frameworks, to mp3 and HD video players.
Economics. Building a website on a content management system is the most cost effective way to maintain a site that is regularly updated or requires dynamic content population. By utilizing a CMS, you eliminate the need for a development team to regularly participate in the maintenance of a site and the modification of its content.
Blog Development
A blog is one of the most effective tools for increasing and maintaining a website's visitor traffic and visibility and provides the site owner with the unique opportunity to manage and independently update content.
The dynamic content and information exchange a blog facilitates affords to a website a user-friendly means of enabling and encouraging visitor interaction and contribution. The attention span and demands of the information age make blogging a cornerstone of cyber communication and web presence.
We provide design, customization and installation of both CMS-based and popular blog applications, integrated seemlessly within and as part of the website. A custom designed blog includes the following services:
- Graphic Design / Theme Creation
- Configuration and Installation
- Custom Architecture and Page Design
- Search Engine Optimization
- Search Functionality
- Forms with Captcha Human Verification
- Events Calendar
- Security Plugins Installation and Hardening
An extensive number of additional, optional services and plugins are also available as blog ad-ons.
Hosting, Email and Domains
Essential building blocks for interactive communication.
We provide purchase, set-up, and configuration services for domain acquisition, hosting, server migration, email, and communcations software.
HOSTING
Our hosting services offer comprehensive, scalable, hosting solutions for personal, business, or even Fortune 500 needs. Every hosting plan comes with a 99.9% uptime guarantee, cPanel - the world's leading hosting administation control panel, and a variety of additional features and services.
Our hosting packages include squirrel, horde, and round cube email services free of charge for domain email. Our email services include account set-up, identity and presentation customization, and a number of additional configuration services.
DOMAINS
We provide domain name registration, set-up, transfer, forwarding, and renewal services.
Marketing Services
An effective marketing campaign is most often highly reliant upon a dynamic web presence communicated via a variety of web-based mediums.
COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES
We provide email communication and newsletter design, preparation, software installation, and site integration as part of our available services as well as completely custom and identity-consistent graphic design, html newsletter templating in tabular design, tracking reports, and contacts management. These services can be provided via a range of email marketing programs.
COMMUNICATIONS DESIGN
Careful consideration of each facet of a communication's reception is taken into account in every phase of our design and development. From template creation to impact and demographic assessment, we approach each marketing endeavor with a fervent attention to detail.
NEWSLETTER TEMPLATING
We offer template design services and design-to-code template development for use within your existing newsletter software or service.
ADVERTISING
We also create web banner advertisements, digital mailers, and strategize marketing campaigns in addition to standard print advertisement design and production.
Management Services
We can take care of all things digital.
COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTIONS FOR ALL YOUR WEB NEEDS
Many clients who do not have in-house site administration and moderation personnel, or are unsure about web services set-up and conventions are looking for a one-stop shop to take care of all their web needs. We provide exactly that.
Our comprehensive management services cover a wide range of online media outlets including website maintenance, domain acquisition and DNS set-up, hosting server and account set-up and management, domain email configuration and management, newsletter and communications design, set-up, site integration, and management, social media presence set-up and maintenance, and web advertisement design.
Add-ons and additional services include content population, copyediting, image and content design, online and multi-media strategy, information architecture, business and online media consulting, and campaign development and management.
Graphic Design Services
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and in the stroke of an artist.
Great design is the key to making an impact
We approach design from a perspective that encompasses the fusion of classical fine art with the advancements and context of modern technology. The design of what we observe and inhabit constitutes and shapes the contours of our experience. We consider every design capable of having an impact that reverberates beyond the immediate instance of our encounter with it. What we design is oriented towards capturing and making the most of its potentiality.
The design services we offer include:
- Graphic Design
- Branding & Identities
- Logo Design
- Key Art Design & Production
- Advertising
- Product & Packaging Design
Our designers and artists are trained in the techniques and principles of fine art and in their application within modern technologies.
Design is the key to leaving the most powerful impact upon the observer. You dream it, we create it.
Branding Services
A book is most certainly judged by its cover.
SUCCESSFUL BRANDING REQUIRES AN ATTUNEMENT TO THE STYLE, IDENTITY, AND DEMANDS OF BOTH YOUR PRODUCT AND TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC.
The codification of an identity for a concept or entity is an essential part of representing that brand or identity across all forms of media.
EXISTING BRANDS
Working with an existing brand requires an exacting attention to both preserving and de-emphasizing key aspects of its representational attributes to effectively achieve the desired goal. It is a challenging and rewarding process that is an integral part of propelling a brand to a new tier of recognition.
NEW BRAND DEVELOPMENT
The creation of a new brand begins with an in-depth analysis of the company or product it will represent. Our research process includes industry analog comparison, target demographic assessment, publication venues examination, and optimal aesthetic characteristics, in which the client is involved every step of the way.
Logo Design
A logo distills identity into a single expression.
Logos are a symbolic representation of the identity of a company, service, or product. In designing a logo, one must carefully consider how this visual representation will be read and interpreted.
PREPARATION. To create a unique logo that conveys all the aspects you wish to represent, we will ask you about your business or product, whether you intend to use the logo primarily in advertisements or for identity material, what aesthetic preferences you may have with respect to color, font, typography style, and if there is a particular character you want the logo to reflect in terms of categories such as classical or modern.
PROCESS. We synthesize the information you provide to us about your product or service into a cohesive representation that takes into account intended uses, audiences, and roles, to maximize its impact, effectiveness, and recognizability. Depending upon the product or entity the logo is designed to represent, we will often incorporate elements of the existing material, e.g. in the case of designing a corporate logo for a company that already has letterhead, we will create a logo with an appearance of continuity with products already in circulation.
MATERIAL. We will provide you with several digital versions of your final logo design, with size and resolution adjusted to conform to specific uses, such as within email and for printed products.
Identities
Identity material should be as individual as the people, companies, and products it represents.
In many ways, the appearance, style, and feel of identity material communicates as much as the information it contains and transmits.
BUSINESS CARDS
In person to person communication, business cards are customarily the first item people see and associate with your product or service. Business cards have several important functions; to provide service, product, and contact information, as well as conveying the first impression.
Our printing options include many different types of ink, paper and orientation, including foil embossing, raised-ink printing, and foil or full-color printing on clear, frosted, and opaque plastic, and die-cut or custom shapes.
STATIONERY AND LETTERHEAD
A letterhead distinguishes correspondence documents and their sender. We have created many letterheads for individuals and companies and are experienced and familiar with the varying requirements of specific industries and uses.
The letterheads we design can be used for correspondence, invoices, reports, and facsimile. We offer a diverse range of design, ink, and paper options to best suit your style and purpose.
Printed Art and Packaging Design
The manner in which a product is presented has an enormous influence on how its content is received.
The visual and visceral ascepts of printed material play a fundamental role in codifying the identity of the product it presents, and in situating it in relation to others in the field. We provide printed material design for a multiude of uses and publication contexts. We both create original art and integrate existing materials to be re-deployed for specific campaigns.
KEY ART, POSTERS, AND PRESS MATERIALS DESIGN
The cover of an album or DVD and the artwork that goes into it becomes part of the album or film itself as a complete work of art. Posters and other press materials are an extension of that work of art and its images themselves refer to the work and conjure it up.
If we are creating the key art or layout for an entire album or DVD, we work directly with the publishing company or record label to ensure that every phase of the design process conforms to the requirements and parameters of your publishing contract. We are familiar with such guidelines and have worked with companies such as Discmakers with beautiful results.
PRODUCTION AND VENDOR SERVICES
We work with in conjunction with printing companies who offer a wide selection of printing options and mediums. As part of the design process, we will discuss a selection set that best meets your expectations and budget.
