We specialize in visual, user interface or UI design, focusing primarily on consumer web design and rich-internet applications (RIAs). We also flex our creative muscles in brand development and graphic design developing direct marketing materials in print, as well as packaging and brand standards for small to medium-sized businesses. With our background in industrial design, marketing, and user interface design, we bring a breadth of art direction experience and technical expertise to each project.

ESSENTIAL GRAPHIC DESIGN SERVICES

Just started your business? Or started off simple and ready to take your brand to the next level? We offer these comprehensive logo and identity design services:

• Logo design
• Business cards and stationery
• Brochures, flyers, and printed collateral
• Direct mailers and postcards
• Email blasts
• Newsletters
• Graphics for promotional items (such as giveaway bags)
• Graphics for wearables and company apparel (like tees, hats, aprons, polos, you name it)
• Point-of-sale signage and retail display graphic
• Packaging

WEB DESIGN SERVICES

We are passionate about creating compelling designs for website, web applications, and mobile experiences. We craft strong visual designs to tell the story while simplifying the user experience and truly delighting the user. From concept to production specifications, we help you bring your vision to life.

• Visual design direction & original concept development – mock-ups, visually treated comps
• User experience design – interaction flows, storyboards, page/screen schematics
• Interactive graphics design – behaviors and animation graphics, rollover states
• Information graphics design – charts, tables, graphs, & iconography
• Supplemental screen design – for existing applications or websites such as mock-ups of additional screens for an application that has an existing visual design language
• Visual Design Specification documentation – style guides for your website or print materials
• Graphical asset slicing & website optimization

USABILITY DESIGN SERVICES

Together with our usability partners, we offer expert insight on how you can improve the user experience.

• User centered analysis – profile & persona development, scenario & task analysis for information architecting
• Information architecture – conceptual diagrams, site mapping, wireframes, content inventorying
• Heuristic review – expert UI design reviews to identify usability design and functionality issues

ADDITIONAL DESIGN & MARKETING SERVICES

Sketching, illustration and presentation
Marketing project management and vendor management
Email marketing campaigns and electronic data management

As creative experts in the usability design realm, we can also help translate and implement your final design to a live site or your production artwork as the finished product, or develop a prototype for proof-of-concept start-up ventures. We can work with your front-end and back-end technology team to prepare production-ready visual graphic designs as you need them. Or, if you prefer, we can create detailed engineering schematics and specifications for your development team to implement internally. Though we constantly strive to push the boundaries of technology with innovative user centered designs, you can be assured that we will create designs with your technology preferences and limitations in mind.

PRODUCTION

• Presentation layer programming – HTML, basic Flash, basic scripting, and Adobe Flex (MXML)
• Stylesheet coding and production work for visual enhancement and augmentation (CSS standardization, custom skins, grid modifications, color & type styling)
• Graphics slicing and web optimization

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe InDesign
• QuarkXpress
• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Adobe Flex (MXML)
• Customs Flex skins
• Adobe Flash
• HMTL
• CSS
• Color management and prepress: Offset, Digital, Silkscreen
• Solidworks
• Marker rendering and sketching
• Model-making
• Mac and PC compatible