Business Communications: The Biggest Trap
Whether you write websites, direct videos, create print ads or produce PR, the biggest trap in business communications is this: You know what it’s supposed to mean.
Read moreOur Favorite WordPress Themes
As we predicted back in December, this has been The Year of WordPress Websites, fueled by the growth of low-cost premium themes. Here’s a list of favorites.
Read moreNeighborhood Site: Olive Chapel Park
Apex. NC – This is another website project from our friends at LiveOak Homes. Olive Chapel Park is a new neighborhood off Highway 55 just north of the center of town.
Read moreHomebuilder Site: Live Oak Homes
Cary, NC – We’ve just finished a new site for Live Oak Homes, a developer quickly becoming one of North Carolina’s largest builders.
Read moreThe Best Mall Website?
Malls, mixed-use developments, shopping centers – call them what you will, they dot the landscape of America. Many of the larger developments have websites. For the most part, they’re pretty awful. So, when we were asked to produce a new website for North Hills, a mixed-use development in Raleigh, NC, our goal was to help [...]
Read moreWorld’s Best-Designed Newspapers 2009
Some fresh and exciting ideas in newspaper design: SND30: Five papers named World’s Best-Designed™ View more presentations from SNDupdate. (tags: typography photography) Full story here: http://tinyurl.com/cu3rt7
Read moreNew Album Cover Series
We just finished a series of MySpace album covers for A Fifth of Blues – Photos by George Gumpert & Hal Goodtree. Design by Goodtree & Co.
Read moreNew Work: WP Theme Adaptations
We’ve just adapted a couple themes for WordPress. It’s so easy, even a dinosaur can do it.
Read moreWhat is Web 2.0 Design?
We all know when see a website that looks a wee bit “1999.” Lots of tables and no CSS; a relic of the bad-old dial-up days. Design firms are going to have a very good next couple of years updating all those static Web 1.0 silos. Here at OCDC, we were recently discussing just such [...]
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