White Horse is a marketing business whose emphasis is where it belongs: on getting your product sold. Advertising, online campaigns, and the web are their specialties. When Bowflex and StairMaster want to increase their sales and overall customer care, they go to White Horse. When AT&T Wireless needs online account set-ups, telephone sales, troubleshooting boards, and general customer assistance, they go to White Horse. Although you won't find outstanding, forward-thinking design here, this woman-owned business is still ranked highly as an interactive marketing agency—they offer exactly what the sellers want, and exactly what the buyers need.... More
Coming at design from the technical side of development is certainly an invaluable segment of the design market. And while many firms profess to merge design and technology, Vectorform is a true interactive media and application development firm who actually build and promote the tools that define their client’s business. At Vectorform, their philosophy is simple: they define and maintain the harmony between technology and design... And the results speak for themseves in their impressive multimedia-style case studies.... More
Formerly known as Plumb Design, Thinkmap designs and markets visualization software for data that's too complex for the commoner to see, or that simply needs to be made more beautiful. Its star products are an ingenious 3D Visual Thesaurus and Thinkmap SDK, a set of imspired configurations for solving common visualization problems. Very specific. If that is what you're looking for, look no further. This be the place. Clients: Nasa, Sony, Motorola... More
A nice portfolio site for an industrial design student from Germany who also has a solid range of graphic design projects. Perhaps – because he's coming from the field of industrial design – this designer also seems to understand the beauty and need for big clunky buttons on the web, which makes his site fun and functional too.... More
From designing futuristic fuel-cell motorcycles to a range of... yes, vibrators, SeymourPowell are a ground-breaking group of innovators, product designers and product design consultants. Their portfolio exemplifies a pure, professional presentation – simply showcasing their excellent experience in product design, development and brand product analysis. Great site, built by Sennep.... More
We hereby forgive Mr. Chevrel for referring to himself as a “creative technologist”—his portfolio is a tightly orchestrated display of his programming skills and artistic ventures. His work focus is around information management and the design of data structures for cultural institutions and the entertainment industry. A lot of the time this leads to the creations of cool charts and maps – but is also expressed in his own brand of technology based alternative art, which is complex, yet thoroughly interactive.... More
If you want to see some great collages and mixed media art in a graphic style, look no further than the explorations and emissions of Italian-born artist Alexander Egger. This simple site is a collection of his thoughtful, beautiful, visual essays and explorations, which come in the form of several short 'zines and even his own monograph, published by Ginko Press. While Alex has several conduits for creating expressive mixed media pieces, much of his professional work is minimal and reserved in both color palette and composition – but his knack for breaking the rules with his own artistic style is what makes his work expressive and contemporary. Great identity work, print, posters, and graphic installations.... More
Through a very slick online presentation, we quickly discover that Rareview is a progressive interactive design and development company that fuses creativity and mechanics to produce design-heavy and technically-advanced web experiences. They specialize in creating interactive data-driven websites and complex rich media applications, primarily built with Flash.... More
A really good "English ad shop" in Scandanvia, Open brings their unique marketing and advertising perspective to their international projects and clients. The advantage is bringing great Scandanvian products to the world at large in English, and with an English flair. We quite liked their 'open' white site and easy to navigate information. Meanwhile, most of the portfolio shows print, branding and design work. Good stuff.... More
Get ready to have a wallpaper seizure! If are photo-light sensitive, then be warned, you may need to find a dark corner after checking out this fractal-inspired Flash site of Japanese artist and designer, Taro Kudo. Of course, this is more than a wallpaper site... it's about art, experimentation, and creating a mood. A bit difficult to navigate, sure... but certainly unique! Straight from Tokyo, Japan.... More
A nice 3D styled site for a exhibit design and fabrication firm, who build original exhibits for a variety of displays and museums. It's an interesting field of design, creating large-scale and exciting panels and experience-based design while incorporating scientific and historical content.... More
Somewhere in between pop-art and graffiti, Roy Lichtenstein and Henry Darger, lies the conflicted work of Lady Aiko. Expressing angst at instruments of war, contrasted with a multi-layered mash-ups of cute bunnies and stencils of semi-topless (liberated) go-go girls, her paintings and stencil work convey some of the insecurities, stresses and gritty realities of life in the urban condition.... More
