Weta Digital Ltd is an Academy Award® winning visual effects facility based in Wellington, New Zealand. The company is best known for its visual effects work on The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong. Well they also make lazer beeems! Take a look at some of the detail shots - pricey, […]
Google has just launched a new feature called “Street View” and the pic above is what it looks like. Yep, that’s Times Square. The little orange person in the center marks your position and point of view. You can pick it up to move it to a different location or you can click the arrows […]
Over the years there have been many reports of winged cats. These have been treated as cryptozoological phenomena. Many people would like to believe in flying cats, but the real explanation is medical, not mystical. The answers lie in poor grooming, a developmental defect or an uncommon hereditary skin condition.
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SARGENT Manufacturing is a long-time client of New City Media. For 2007, they have done a complete redesign, one that has intuitive navigation, detailed content, and stronger branding. In our user testing, we received feedback that “These products are great, but how do I know which one is best for my situation?” After […]
New City Media employees took a day off to work on a project house with Habitat for Humanity. We unshackled ourselves from our desk jobs and decided to do some heavy lifting for charity. We divided into teams to handle such tasks as shingling a roof, cleaning up a job site, installing windows, […]
New City Media will have its work cited in the forthcoming Graphis Design Journal: Americas, a focused sampling of the best design in America, organized regionally. National Geographic Magazine’s WildCam Africa continues to garner such accolades and has been very well received by the publisher’s readers. This project will mark New City Media’s first […]
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As North America observes the 400th anniversary of the 1607 Jamestown colony, National Geographic Magazine online and New City Media have created an engaging website that will show the user the perspectives of the English settlers as well as the local Indians. Split into two equal parts with detailed maps, intriguing video […]
The good folks at Barter Theatre, the state theatre of Virginia, have asked us to help redesign their web site. Barter’s story is part of the story of many of America’s favorite actors like Gregory Peck, Patricia Neal, Ernest Borgnine, Hume Cronyn and Ned Beatty.
They’re one of the few remaining resident repertory theatres in the […]
Intro: Flash is a great tool for websites, but sometimes it is a pain to make Flash behave the way you wish when maintaining content. We often “drive” Flash from a database, using PHP to read/write information and then communicate with Flash. Tweetsie, a customer who uses a lot of Flash in their site, needed […]
I just finished a remarkable book by Paul Rusesabagina, the man on whose life the movie Hotel Rwanda is based. In his autobiography An Ordinary Man he tells about growing up the son of a wise and respected banana farmer, almost becoming a preacher, and then finding his true calling as a hotel manager. If […]