I don’t think I’ve ever worked on a crazier holiday card than this one for Colle+McVoy. There’s a ton of stuff packed into it, including downloadable papercraft yetis and st. bernards which I had a ton of fun creating. There’s nothing like going to work and playing with scissors and glue sticks for a week to make you remember why you love your job. Tons of people worked on this one and we’re all happy to see it out in the world, so go visit Snowdin and download a yeti or two.
Also, much props to poplife who helped us out on a few of the games.
emoticons + caroling = emoticaroling
I love the holidays because with them comes fun (or crazy) holiday projects to work on (We’ll have another one to post later this week). Here’s one that my agency just finished for Yahoo! Messenger (designed by our friend barrett) Customize some holiday song lyrics and send them to your friends. Jessica and I had some fun playing with it this morning.
Some carols with a design-y twist:
Feeling creative? Create your own design-inspired emoticaroling song and post it here so we can shower you in praise for your cleverness.
Colle+McVoy just launched a micro-site to help spread the word about the 50 million dollar endowment LeMoyne College recently received. It’s not especially ambitious but we pulled it off in one week (including filming a video and creating PR materials – which if you work in an agency you recognize as a minor miracle ;). After hours rock star Braden Stadlman lent his coding skills to the project which is particularly cool since his typical role is that of Sr. Interactive Producer. If that combination surprises you, get a load of his client list!
When redblackbrown readers aren’t contemplating rebuilding their houses chances are they are in the thick of a website redesign. W3C Sites is a collection of sites that conform to W3C HTML standards. What’s cool is the sizable and searchable gallery. Not only can you search by discipline but also by country, client type and even by web standard (eg. valid html 4.01 vs. valid xhtml 1.1). It is really cool to see examples from other countries that you would not normally stumble upon. Got a compliant site of your own? You can submit it.
Check it out – I just learned the secret behind rain! This and many more hidden creative jems will be revealed to you if you visit design:related. You can look around all you want without joining or you can join for free and add some of your own work that you’re tired of keeping secret. I’m looking at you Cindy ;) You can network around the world, look for jobs and inspiration or post comments. Go nuts.
Entertainment for designers. The loader on this site is worth the visit alone. No clue what it is for, but hilarious none the less.
(thanks again andrew)
the message is simple (and serious): switch your lightbulbs to compact flourescents and save the world. the websiite is delightful and super fun. definitely worth checking out.
a joint project by boom design group and fluid.