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Here we talk about design, development, games, the publishing industry, and any other web-related stuff that we find interesting. And, of course, we talk about what we are up to in the studio.


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Updating our work

We had a very busy 2010, and it seems 2011 is looking to be just as busy. We’re thrilled! We love what we do, so busy is good. Of course, because we are a small team and our clients come first, our own site has been largely forgotten. We will be updating our main portfolio [...]


A Busy Start to the Year

Well, it’s hard to believe it is February already. 2010 was off to a rather busy start and January was a whirlwind of work for us. We’ve finally taken a few moments to update our portfolio with some of our recent work.

Rebecca Skloot
With the recent release of her incredible book, The Immortal Life of [...]


I am JXIIH

The Golden City, the third and final book in the Fourth Realm trilogy by John Twelve Hawks, came out in the US this week. Many authors do readings when they launch a new book, but considering John Twelve Hawk’s “off the grid” living, it made sense for him to do something a little different.
Fans [...]


It’s On!

Over the weekend we found ourselves bored and in search of something to do around town.  This sparked an idea: what if the power of Twitter could be harnessed to find things to do?  What if everyone on Twitter could post about upcoming events in a way that would broadcast them to everyone?  Indie bands, [...]


Knopf Doubleday Site

Naturally, when Random House approached us to develop the new Knopf Doubleday site, we were giddy.  But what’s more:  we were intrigued.  They didn’t just need a website, they needed a suite of sites that all worked together.  They needed all of their imprints, and several of their main content categories, to have individual sites, [...]


Kevin Smokler, Ru Freeman and Double-Daring

A few quick updates from the studio with some of our recent work:

Kevin Smokler is an author, journalist and entrepreneur. He co-founded BookTour.com in 2006. Kevin needed to update his brand and redesign his TypePad blog to better reflect his standing as a forward thinker on contemporary cultural issues. We created a bold new logo [...]


Recently Launched!

It’s been a busy few months and as 2008 draws to a close we still have a few more projects to tie up. In the meantime though, we have recently launched these sites.


Authors: Make it easy for visitors to buy your book

We work with a lot of publishers and authors so we are pretty well versed in what goes into making a good, and successful, author or book website. One of the standard elements is a link to buy the book(s). Obviously, this is a rather important element too. One thing I’ve noticed on a large [...]


Communication – talk isn’t cheap, it’s worth every minute

It’s amazing how simple communication can make such a great difference. We like to keep in touch with all our clients on a regular basis. We may have multiple projects going on, but we strive to email our clients each week even if it’s just to touch base with them on their project. It really [...]