Another new site’s gone live today, this time for our friends at PDK Events. We’ve been working together for over 10 years, and it was about time we gave them an upgrade.
Somfy Cup
Somfy approached us to create an online trade competition. It would be driven by an extensive online portal and content management system. Sales reps would log in and register their sales to be in the running to win some—excuse my French—bloody good prizes…oh, oui oui!
Firefox 4 now available
Our favourite web browser has had a huge new update! It was released last week and already has over 35 million downloads – 35 million people can’t be wrong!
The Complete Package
Over the last few months we’ve been working to revitalize the Complete Electrical brand. Starting with a brand new logo – a playful combination of the C and E on a bright, aqua coloured background along with a more mature typeface. From there, we created business cards and letterheads along with specialist service books and email signatures.
How Orion helped the donations skyrocket!
Back in late 2010 we were approached by two lovely ladies from Hear the Children (after they saw what a great job we did for Wings Away) to work on the Tour de Hills website.
The Tour de Hills is a charity bike ride event held every year to raise funds for the Rotary Club of Castle Hill and they pass on the donations to their selected Charities. This year the major charity was Hear the Children, a not for profit organisation that helps hearing impaired children and babies to learn to talk.
Small businesses can use video on their website too
The internet… wow, you’ve got so much to offer, one of those things is pictures of cute cats with words written over the top of them using incorrect grammar, another thing is video (I know that there is more, but this blog can’t go on forever). You’ve seen videos of people doing ridiculous things on the Internet.
HTML5 and Internet Explorer
Just fair warning, this is a rant. If you are Microsoft, read it! If you’re easily offended by slagging out corporates that just don’t get it. Please do not continue.
Google Chrome 9… Another reason to stop using IE6
Google has updated the stable branch of its Chrome browser to version 9. The latest stable release brings in many features Chrome beta users have been enjoying for several months, including Chrome Instant, WebGL support and access to the Chrome Web Store.
Citrix Illustrated
Stock photography is bloody useful, cost-effective, quick and easy, but it can also come off a little lazy, too general, and far too easy to spot.
Here we lovingly call it B-roll—need a man holding a hammer to fill some empty space? We got that b-roll!
For a recent project, Citrix wanted to illustrate a PowerPoint presentation with many very specific photos. The main problem of course would be sourcing them all, but trying to tie them together would be a problem too, when they’re all from different photographers and shoots.
How about sprucing up your interior?
We were given the opportunity to help out Hardman Communications with their interior signage. With the key purpose of providing privacy for staff and clients.
Shaun’s rant: less bang for your buck
Minimalism seems to be a hot topic in the design world this month. Perhaps Starbucks’ newly redesigned logo is the catalyst? Personally I think the redesign is a big improvement, but I’m a fan of minimalism as a whole. Take a look at these refreshing minimalist redesigns. And in web design, number 3 on Mashable’s Predictions for Web Design in 2011.
Firefox takes top browser spot in Europe
Gotta love it when something as great as Firefox actually gets a win! Looks like you lot also know the benefits of using a superior browser, our stats say that Firefox is in the lead by about 8%.
