Sony’s Rocket Project campaign trailer is featured on YouTube’s homepage today. With just 33 days left, the Rocket Project team shares their goals and inspirations in this video. To keep up with the team’s progress, check back on the Rocket Project web site we designed for daily updates.
We’re winners of the Communication Arts Interactive Annual for the Herman Miller web site! We designed the site as a living system with a modular grid. The site is visually-driven to create an intuitive experience for users to browse, search, find products, and plan or design a space. Communication Arts Interactive winners were selected based on designers who pushed further to produce fantastic work. We’re honored to be included.
This year Herman Miller was chosen as an All-star of Fast Company’s annual issue, “The World’s Most Innovative Companies.” All-stars are chosen based on those who continued innovating amazing design despite the grim economy. Congratulations guys!
We partnered with Sony to develop the online hub, The Rocket Project, in collaboration with 180 LA for this exciting, community-driven campaign that asks the question, “Can a VAIO launch a rocket into space?”
It turns out a Sony VAIO notebook has more processing power than the first rocket to land on the moon. Eight ambitious high school students led by Tom Atchison, founder of the Mavericks Civilian Space Foundation, will use their new VAIO CW and F series laptops to design and build a 25 feet tall, 500-pound rocket that will attempt to reach the stratosphere.
Follow the story with day-to-day coverage, photos, and videos on the rocket’s progress. 41 days until blastoff!
The Otis College of Art and Design web site we designed is featured on siteInspire’s showcase in education, where sites were selected from around the world. See it here.
The new 2010 Sony VAIO models are here, and we’re partnering with Sony to reveal just how powerful they are. Stay tuned for more on The Rocket Project, a one of a kind product demo that shows what these remarkable machines can do.
Look what we got in the mail.
A Hello Skateboard from Buddy Carr Skateboards. When one of our clients saw it, they just had to send it to us as a thank you gift. We thought it was awesome that a Hello Skateboard even existed, but then we found out it’s also a limited edition model with only 100 of them out there. The deck is maple with laser cut grip tape, urethane wheels, shield precision steel ball bearings – the whole package. The best part is the “hellos” printed in a bunch of different languages on the body of the deck and the wheels.
We keep it in our conference room, and once in awhile we take it out for a few laps around the block and try to ollie.
The Sony dash Personal Internet Viewer just launched at CES and is hitting stores in April, bringing favorite web apps to your bedroom, kitchen, or office through built-in Wi-Fi. We created the product startup video for the dash which greets owners with a short clip highlighting key features such as weather, traffic, sports, social networking, movies, music, games and more. Gmail, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, ESPN and Pandora, along with 1500+ other apps that can be downloaded are all available with the touch of a finger.
Our LA Phil Bravo Gustavo site and iPhone app are featured in Contagious Magazine from the UK. Digital meets classical when your iPhone turns into a conductor’s baton.
Read about how we brought the Bauhaus from Weimar to the web on MoMA’s recently launched blog, Inside/Out.
