Dtek News Flash

Now partnering with Bad Feather!

Andy — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:24:10 +0000

Dtek is excited to be working with a new partner! Brooklyn-based husband-and-wife team Heather Marold Thomason and Brad Thomason, AKA Bad Feather, provide graphic design and web development services focusing on brand identity, print work, and Adobe Flash.

Bad Feather’s services are the perfect compliment to our own, which are focused on non-Flash web development and coding, usability and user experience consultation, and web-specific graphic design. They’ll also help us keep pace on the web development front as The Media Spot continues its exciting work.

Bad Feather’s web site is on the way. If you’re curious in the meantime, check out Heather’s previous company, HM Projects.

Website update for White Mountain Films

Rhys — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:25:43 +0000

Remember Arnold Schwarzenegger the body builder? Photographer-turned-documentary film making legend and founder of White Mountain Films George Butler introduced Arnie to the world with his 1976 film, Pumping Iron.

Butler has produced a great body of film and photography work since, and the old WMF website was not doing it justice. We took their existing branding and created a minimal layout to showcase their portfolio, film stills and photos. Under the hood, we gave the code an audit and overhaul for accessibility, search engine optimization, and ease-of-maintenance.

Keep an eye on whitemountainfilms.com for films on subjects as diverse as the ancient and thought-to-be-extinct Ivory Billed Woodpecker, and the ancient and soon-to-be retired football coach Bobby Bowden.

New Web Site for Algard Ventures

Andy — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:35:26 +0000

We recently built a web site for Seattle-based investor Alex Algård. The site is an initial Internet presence for Algård Ventures, and a fat-free way to connect him with groups looking for funding.

For us, it’s a great showcase of what we can deliver in a minimal project: elegant and clean graphic design and user interface with the i’s dotted and t’s crossed for accessibility and search engine optimization.

Check out algardventures.com.

Play the News from ImpactGames

Andy — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:02:49 +0000

ImpactGames, creator of PeaceMaker, recently launched a new interactive news gaming platform at playthenewsgame.com. The concept is that short interactive games are published often to the site, based on the latest major news events. Anyone can register for the site and “play” any of these news items by suggesting appropriate actions to be taken and predicting outcomes. Players interact with each other via game rankings and statistics, and discussions of the games.

Games can also be syndicated and embedded on your own web site or blog. Here’s the game that’s currently featured:

So far, we’ve just consulted with ImpactGames on specific aspects of the web site and user interface, but we hope to be more involved in future improvements to the platform.

Play the News is another innovative and gutsy project from the ImpactGames folks… Try it out!

[EDIT: changed the syndicated game to the one that's currently featured...]

Moving to Brooklyn!

Andy — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:46:55 +0000

Last fall we mentioned that there were some geographic changes on the way, and here they are… As of this summer, I’ll be heading to the east coast and joining Rhys in Brooklyn!

For our Seattle-based coworkers, colleagues, and clients, I’m sorry we won’t be able to meet face to face too often anymore, but we don’t anticipate any other changes to our working relationship. If you have any concerns or questions about this move, please get in touch.

I’m excited to be joining physical forces with Rhys again after many years of living and working 2000 miles apart. It’ll be great to be geographically closer to some of our clients in New York, too.

This will mean some down time for me this summer — mostly during the month of June. We’ve already been discussing this with clients we’re actively working with. For anyone else who knows they’ll need work completed around that time, please let us know.

Wish me luck!