For our most recent collaboration with Dermalogica, we launched the new International Dermal Institute (IDI) website today, providing skin care professionals a home for career guidance, further education, and indispensable tools.

As the root of Dermalogica and the foundation that started it all, IDI is an industry leader in skin care education, being the first to provide a curriculum designed to help professionals reach their career goals. In designing the site, we wanted to create a support-based community for skin therapists with features like Career Mapping and Test Your Knowledge, where classes are tailored to a user’s level of experience and education. An education path is provided along with success stories and relevant articles and videos. We built the site to be accessible across platforms including mobile and tablet devices.

IDI continues to raise the bar on the possibilities of a career in skin therapy and their new site serves as a go-to source for all professionals in the industry.

To kickoff our new relationship with Tillamook Cheese, we took a trip up to Oregon to learn how they make their great tasting cheese. After stopping by Stumptown Coffee in Portland, we headed towards the beautiful coast to visit Tillamook’s cheese factory. Since Tillamook is a farmer-owned company, we got to visit a dairy farm and meet some cows in person. We also had some tasty squeaky cheese and ice cream. Here are some highlights from our trip.

Our collaboration with Sony and 180 LA in documenting the story behind the Rocket Project reached its exciting last chapter with the rocket launch last week. The Rocket Project online hub we created for the campaign accounted the team’s progress leading up to the day of the launch.

We joined the rocket team in Black Rock Desert, Nevada to witness the rocket’s liftoff, which successfully proved that eight high school students with Sony VAIO laptops can launch a rocket into space. Here are photos we captured on launch day, as well as a video of the rocket’s successful launch.

Look for more photos, video, and post-launch updates on the Rocket Project website.

We were in Oregon for our collaboration with the cheese experts over at Tillamook, gold medal-winner for best Medium Cheddar in the world. Besides being producers of all natural, award-winning cheese and dairy products (their Udderly Chocolate ice cream would make any chocolate lover swoon) we’re anticipating an inventive partnership with the creative folks at Tillamook as their digital agency of record. We’re looking forward to shaping their digital strategy, design, and development as we move their brand online.

For their Loaf Love Tour, Tillamook recently sawed VW buses in half to imitate cheese loaves, then drove the buses across the country giving cheese and delicious recipes to the people. We can’t wait to start on the fresh, innovative projects we’ll be creating with them in the future.

Our TaylorMade Golf touch screens have hit golf stores across the nation. For this season’s new products, the latest tour player news, streaming videos, and access to contests and promotions, the touch screen delivers it all into the retail space. Watch our video on the TaylorMade touch screen in action.

HermanMiller.com was selected as one of the 126 winners out of over 2,300 entries submitted to the AIGA 365/31. The selected projects will be showcased at the AIGA National Design Center in New York this September, and travel across the country to AIGA Chapters and student groups next year.

We’re honored to have our work become part of the AIGA Design Archives and anticipate getting our copy of their Design Annual. Congratulations to all who worked on the project.

Working in the interactive design industry means we’re used to sitting in front of monitors all day. It also means we have firsthand experience with the pitfalls of poor ergonomics, which is why we were so happy to help Herman Miller launch their new Thrive portfolio of ergonomic solutions. The Thrive products are the result of over 35 years of ergonomic research designed to promote health and create a better work environment.

We were especially intrigued with Monitor Support products. Imagine how productive I’d be with eight screens. It’d be like “mega-desk” from The Office.

Graphis just announced the 2011 Design Annual winners, and Hello won two gold awards: one for Hit it Pure, an online game we created for Callaway Golf, and one for Sony Altus, the integrated campaign for the launch of Sony’s wireless music systems. Try to achieve the perfect swing with Hit It Pure, and experience music everywhere, with wires nowhere, on the Sony Altus site.

Stay tuned, we’ll share when Graphis’ 2011 Design Annual hits the shelves (some time near August) so you can pick up a copy.

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