New website launch. It was pure pleasure working with Carol Adams and the Hissho Sushi gang. And nobody loves sushi more than Modry folks.
Check it out http://hisshosushi.com/
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A friend of mine, Mark Cade posted this video and I had to repost it. I think it is incredibly done and great original work. See for yourself. You can follow Mark’s blog here.
Last Day Dream [HD] from Chris Milk on Vimeo.
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James Wilde is an outdoors enthusiast and a humanitarian. He has set out to climb the 7 summits, sharing his experiences online at www.jamesdewittwilde.com. He also raises funds through sponsorships and donations for Muscular Dystrophy. We have signed on as a sponsor for Everest 2010 and will redesign his website. We will keep you posted on the details. If you wish to donate or get more information about his journey, then join his group on facebook http://tinyurl.com/d9dlrs.
We just finished this sweet little logo for a new Charlotte based company. Jackaroo Moms is launching a line of super cute, organic feeding pillows, and nursing smocks. Stay tuned, we will keep you posted when the new website goes live.
Moms, get ready to leap into luxury!
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“We need to avoid behavior that indicates we look at life through loser-colored glasses.” ~Garrison Wynn
Brian Carter posted this quote on Twitter (click here to follow Brian). I think it’s such a great quote. Stay positive!
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OK, have to first put it out there that we do have a love of dogs. And to be honest, we did not plan on having a series of ads that included dogs. But the first dog ad was such a hit that we changed what we had planned to run and came up with dog ad #2. With advertising you need to be quick on your feet paws. (bad pun, we know!)
Below is our latest ad running:
And this is the first ad that ran; be careful he bites.
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I thought this was such a clever idea. It is called Contrail and it attaches to your bike and as you ride it leaves a faint chalk line behind your bike. You can use different colors of chalk to create intersting paths. By using this device, bicyclists will have a clearer path on which to ride safely and out of the way of vehicular traffic. At the same time, as more bicyclists using the Contrail go over a line created by a cyclist before them, the line gets brighter allowing drivers to clearly see a marked bike path where there might be none. It’s sort of similar to what happens when a dirt path appears in a grassy field after lots of people have taken the same shortcut over a period of time.
Developed by Brooklyn-based Studio Gelardi, Contrail was created as part of last year’s Design21 “Power to the Pedal” Design Competition, where it was a finalist.
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Girls on the Run International (GOTRI) picked Modry Design Studio to design and develop their new Charity Running Program website. We are very excited to work with such an incredible organization.
Girls on the Run will soon announce a new name and logo for their National Charity Running Program. Currently named Team Tiara, the Charity Running Program is a great way for anyone to make a difference at a Girls on the Run chapter. You can walk, run or bike in any event of your choice and raise funds for the organization. With the support of athletes, GOTRI is able to provide tools and resources that help thousands of girls develop self-respect and enjoy healthy lives. Keep an eye out for the introduction of the new program in April 2009!
You can get more information about GOTR here.
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A friend (Mark Cade) sent this site along and I had to share it with you. Craig Damrauer has created a site called New Math. It breaks down a multitude of things (pirates, diamonds, secret sauce) into equations that you probably didn’t learn in school. It’s funny, creative and addicting.
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Do you happen to be one of the millions complaining about the facebook redesign? Well the complaints MAY be paying off.
Today, Facebook is responding to criticism about its recent site redesign with some specific descriptions of tweaks intended to make its latest interface more usable. While the scale of dissatisfaction hasn’t been clear, more than 1 million of its 200 million or so users have expressed their opposition.
The announcements today don’t indicate a full roll-back to the previous design — a move we didn’t seriously expect, anyway — but rather a number of iterations that should make some new features more accessible to most users.
Perhaps most importantly, Facebook is refining what information appears in a user’s “news feeds” homepage, or what it now calls the “stream.” These streams, which have so far emphasized status updates, will begin showing tagged photos — photos have so far seemed to appear in the “Highlights” section on the right-hand side. Users will also be able to more carefully control information that appears in feeds from users and from third-party applications, which is something we’ve been looking forward to. And to make the stream constantly interesting (one hopes), real-time updates are coming soon.
Other forthcoming changes include more highlights in the “Highlights” section, a relocation of friend requests and event invites to the top of the right-hand column, and easier ways to create a Friend list filter.
However, the company is sticking by its longtime bottom navigation bar, which has received new emphasis in the redesign. According to the company blog post by Chris Cox, Facebook’s director of product:
Application bookmarks continue to live in the toolbar at the bottom left of the page. You can quickly access your groups, events and other favorite applications from the bottom bar on any page.
Guess we’ll get used to it. Generally, these problems address a significant portion of issues that many critics have brought up. If users are to figure out crucial components of the new interface, like how to customize their own streams, limiting them to the information they care about, Facebook needs to make that process as easy as possible.
The company also says that it regularly tests out changes with limited groups — suggesting that the changes are having the intended effect of increasing communication between people, despite the complaints.
Before we launch any new product, it first must pass a process of design, development and testing with a more limited user audience. If those results are satisfactory, we then release it for all of you to use. We know that no amount of testing is as valuable as what you have to say.
(via Venture Beat)
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