The Deed

As they say, the deed is done.

The new site has gone live. I think it's fair to say that if we were our own client, we'd be hissing.

Love the site, every single thing, now, can we just...cue tweakage.

You can see for yourself. And, if you are of the keeping every thing up to date variety, you can go ahead and scrap this feed.

As our parting gift, an innocuous link that pokes fun at designers and their friends.





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Sing It

No sense gilding the lily.


Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum = Exquisite



Amy Stevens = Elegant



Sembrich + Stevens = Design Harmony






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JMZ Architects

It's up!



Not exactly a barn raising, but the creation of the JMZ site involved many capable hands and sharp minds.



It's a thrill to see it live. The next step is to stand back and watch JMZ continue their rise as one of the best firms in the region!



Thanks for letting us participate in a bit of JMZ architecture.


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An Educational Study in Design

We are proud to have graduated from in-development to successfully-launched. This week marks the debut of:



Ideate is an innovative software framework for research organizations to manage and optimize their operations. The work done to create an identity and launch the brand was intense; with the audience being a very specific segment of the academic world and the company presenting such an unprecedented research management tool.



After researching the industry and painstakingly distilling the message to create a brand identity that would convey progressive, reliable and human, the Ideate brand, complete with website, business cards and quirky illustrations, was born.



Congratulation on the brand graduation!

A New Face on 90 years

Established in 1918, relevant in 2008.

Quandt's Fish Market in Amsterdam, New York has spent the last ninety years moving with the times, culminating in a position now as a full line distributor carrying everything from food to paper products, to chemicals and equipment and supplies. They dove head first into positioning themselves on the web as not just a company, but as a genuine, family-run business intent on providing quality service and products.




Take a peek at their site, if not for our funky design, then for the priceless photos dating back to the company's earliest days.




A signature of the Quandt's approach is usefulness, which led to the introduction of a tool to assist their clients in their endeavors in the food service industry.

What more could you Quandt?





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Arriving on the Red Carpet

Next up for Tribune Media Services: A redesign of the website dedicated to their A-List suite of products. Named and designed by the team at Trampoline, the A-List materials cater to the Cable/Satellite/TelCo segment of the Tribune audience. A-Listers include companies like Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, DirecTV, and Comcast. Rest assured, they all have a shirt.

After the site goes live, we'll be developing materials for a Post-New Year's bash at Planet Hollywood in Vegas. Check back for some after-launch linkage.

The A-List landing page

The sales collateral

The booth

The email


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Work work work

Raeanne just finished the Praxis Technology website. Now, Titanium Advances online. Rae also art directed the photo shoot at Praxis headquarters, and did all the nifty photoshop work on the site. Trina wrote the copy, and learned way too much about osseointegration in the process.


Amy got in touch with her inner frenchman to design the event materials for the Hyde Collection's A Taste of Art: A Wine & Food Experience. I wanted to use a mime to sell the soiree, but Amy pointed out that the event takes place on the same weekend as the Adirondack Balloon Festival, and that the hot air balloon originated in France, and therefore perhaps we should use that.

I told her that I thought a mime was a terrible thing to waste [with apologies to the United Negro College Fund]. Tagline tomfoolery: Don't let it happen to you!


Derek took the Relax, you're on Finch tagline seriously and used an Adirondack Chair for the new Summer Stock Guide. Nice job D. 660 is one tough PMS. It makes me want to sit in that chair and spec Finch all day, so I think you've got something there.


Last but not least, the West Brook Conservation Initiative swung into high gear this week with the delivery of the campaign collateral pieces. Here's hoping that the Lake George Land Conservancy, The FUND for Lake George and the Lake George Association can continue to protect and preserve our favorite body of water.




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Rae gets inspired

Rae spent the week in Boston, at An Event Apart in Boston to gain a deeper understanding of web standards and emerging best practices. She went to be inspired by fresh ideas and new directions. And so she joined the greatest minds and hottest talents in web design today.*

Here's what happened to Rae at the Conference:

The final session on Tuesday was an opportunity to have your site critiqued by Jeffrey Zeldman, event co-founder, A List Apart founder, author, and pretty much "The Man" when it comes to Web design. They drew six names randomly out of the 450 or so attendees, and I was fortunate to be one of them! Very proud of the work I've done for Shop5, I had submitted the site, and had to go up on stage while the site was projected in front of some of the best and brightest minds in the industry. I was very excited, and happy to report that much of the feedback from Zeldman and the crowd was very positive.

There's the Shop5 website, getting a very public critique.


And there's Rae, soaking up some serious Zeldman.


*AUTHOR'S NOTE: If the first paragraph of this entry seems a little overly salesy, it's because I reworked it from the An Event Apart Website. Then I pretty much cribbed a paragraph from an email Raeanne sent.

**Amend the above title of AUTHOR'S NOTE to PLAGERIZER'S NOTE.


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Shop5: Now Live.

It's time to simplify your search.






Shop 5 is a free online service that gives you the top 5 sites for products and services in hundreds of categories. Instead of sifting through literally millions of search results, Shop5.com takes you straight to the best.

Their team of editors scours the web for the latest and greatest sites around, and then researches each to make your search easier, faster and far more informative.

With Shop5, the best sites are chosen by people, not robots. Shop 5 doesn't just tell you which sites are the best, they tell you why. And the best part? Users decide what stays in the top 5.The ratings and reviews from people just like you are what make the site so valuable.

Trampoline created a brand identity that was clean, simple and cool enough to support the concept. Raeanne and Trina led the team as stationery, presentations and on-screen layouts were designed leading up to the site's launch date. Australia-based Snepo finished the back-end development and put the site up earlier this week.

A Toast to Yost

As the film goes coast-to-coast. 

Mr. John Yost—director, filmmaker, photographer, philosopher and husband to our favorite web wonder Raeanne—has taken his recent work, Every Good Thing to Rust, a feature length film, to the masses. 

Indiepixfilms.com has picked up EGTtR for worldwide distribution. Audiences can purchase a DVD online, or download the film and burn a disk. It currently has top billing on the IndiePix home page, and the folks there are so excited about the work that they're already in talks with John about his next project. He's in New York City right now—good luck buddy.

IndiePix bills the film—and they're better at that sort of thing than this particular blogger— as "...a dark, eerie protrait of social meltdown (that) questions the loyalties of friendship and challenges any illusions of safety and order."

"Quiet, sincere, and beautifully shot, this debut feature from director John W. Yost is a stirring and meditative outlook on the degeneration of American Culture"

John premiered the film here at the Trampoline Design offices back in October of 2007. We're proud to have played just a small part in the launch of a truly independent effort.

It's nice to see good people work hard for something they care about, and be rewarded. Speaking of hard work (and rewards) Raeanne labored over the film's website: everygoodthingtorust.com and we're hoping she gets her due with a 2008 Nori Award in June.

 

Photos By Jon Katz

Nearly a year ago, New York Times best-selling author Jon Katz (A Dog Year, The Dogs of Bedlam Farm, A Good Dog) approached Trampoline Design with a request for a logo for his home, Bedlam Farm. The creation of the Bedlam Farm brand, which appears throughout Katz's personal Web site, bedlamfarm.com, was the beginning of a friendship that spanned several fun events and projects: in-house photo shoots, trips to the farm with families in tow, and a poster series for Art Harvest last October.

The newest project? A completely dynamic photography Web site to serve as an ever-changing gallery of Katz's photos. Having just sparked an interest in photography last year, and having a photo blog and journal on his personal site that were being overrun by photographs, Jon needed a place to manage and contain his growing collection of images.

PhotosbyJonKatz.com is just that. Clean and simple in design, the site has an extensive administrative back-end that allows Jon, himself, to add, modify, and rearrange galleries, photos, titles and captions. The entire contents of the site, therefore, is continually growing and changing — just like the photographer himself.

giga WHAT?

So, it's been three months now since I was fortunate to join the Trampoline Design team as in-house Web Designer. While the principals here, Sean and Derek, have openly provided a crash-course in print design, explaining CMYK, letting me tag along at press checks, and giving me ample Illustrator training, today I have finally surmounted my duties as a Web designer: I've been granted access to the Bounce Blog.

And it seems befitting to hack into the BOUNCE to announce the launching of Trampoline's latest digital venture: GigaBounce.

What is GigaBounce? It's the missing piece of Trampoline's web presence, our online playground, web-experiment springboard, and hosting hub. It's the nucleus of our cyber-services.

In English, please?

Now, in addition to offering complete Web design services, Flash design and development, PHP MySQL database programming, and custom content management tools, we ALSO can offer competitive Web site hosting. Which means, for clients, a more streamlined, organized, and hassle-free service. In other words, if you choose, we can do ALL of the leg-work for you. Which means I get to have more fun creating your Web site, so everyone wins!

And if that's not enough, the acquisition of hosting space means we have a new space on the world-wide-web for publishing content, and that place deserves a name...and a brand...

... and a purpose. Keep checking GigaBounce for our latest distractions, web experiments, and other design oddities. Come here for news, visit our business site for the facts, and for fun... GigaBounce.

- Raeanne

I Pity the Faux

Back in 2005, we won a NORI Award for outstanding packaging. The project was done for a friend of ours—an artist, craftsman and free spirit named Erin Lonergan. She works in plaster, and takes great pride in the medium, its history and stature. It might sound silly, but the entire process of recreating an interior with venetian plaster is quite romantic. And the results are stunning. These are not faux finishes, here, people. This is the real deal. Without the horse hair.

We designed materials for Erin's business, Lonergan Designs, LLC. A mark and message: Texture Your Life, were developed and used on materials and collateral that doubled as a label for the container Erin uses to send out samples to clients.



Most recently, the Lonergan Designs logo is found at the top of Erin's website, which will be launching (it's up on the Trampoline test-server: gigabounce.com) before September is through. A recent Lonergan Designs interior will be gracing the pages of Better Homes & Gardens, and quite possibly the cover of the same, in an upcoming edition.

Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire

Summer is hot and so is the Fireplace Company. Not to be outdone by summer, Paul Chambers’ fast paced business just got hotter- or it’s about to. Trampoline is underway with a website redesign in order to update inventory, presentation and functionality. When we’re done cookin’, the forthcoming site will be a huge benefit to not only clients, but to the FPC’s online presence and brand positioning. We’ll keep you posted on a launch date.

Website. Architecture.

JMZ Architects and Planners in Glens Falls, NY has tapped Trampoline to build a new website. They already have a design and a plan in mind (they ARE architects and planners, as mentioned earlier). We're going to bounce the site around on the ol' Tramp and see what jumps. We're excited to be working with a company like JMZ—their focus for the past five years has been Education, specifically at the university level, and in that short time they have become the standard in that niche of their industry.

The Launch of a Rafting Site

4soc.com goes live, just in time for summer.

The Sacandaga Outdoor Center, a rafting, tubing and kayaking outfit in Hadley, NY has a new Web site. Launched moments before Memorial Day Weekend, 4soc.com offers information on the excitement and adventure found where the Sacandaga River meets the Hudson.

SOC boasts the most experienced guides, the newest equipment and the best location—a spot so convenient that many of the other rafting companies have to use it to get their rafts off the river. SOC offers the perfect summer diversion with a rollicking trip down Class III rapids, a store full of merchandise, a picnic area, a full kayak shop and plenty of convenient parking.

Enjoy the ride.

The Ego Has Landed

Trampoline Design bounced away from the 2007 Nori Awards with 8 victories—proving that Glens Falls is a city to watch. Going head to head against mammoth Albany agencies, Trampoline Design's 14 finalists were exceeded only by Zone5, a 30-person outfit headquartered in the Capital District.

The award ceremony, put on by the Albany Ad Club, took place on Friday May 5th. The awards are part of a regional competition, judged by the leading talent and minds behind advertising in New York State.

Victories of note within the eight awards were: the 2006 Explore What's Next Campaign, featuring a rendition of the Falls on t-shirts and event signage, used by the merchants of Downtown Glens Falls and funded by the Glens Falls Business Improvement District; the integrated marketing campaign for DackerAuthentic Adirondack Ale, which included vehicle graphics, packaging, website, blog, radio spots, glasses, tshirts and caps; and several awards for exhibit and campaign work done on behalf of the Berkshire Museum.