Back when I was in art school, (how long ago will remain a mystery) I worked in the wonderful world of customer service. Both as a front end manager at a grocery chain and at the front desk of a high end hotel.
I hated both jobs, at first.
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, […]
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 […]
If I had to pick the two most excruciating experiences I have had online, they would be hands down: poor use of music on websites and trying to do anything on IKEA’s site.
While they haven’t fixed the usability of their main site yet - they did do a interactive presentation that promotes their kitchen products […]
Here is a very well put together article on DVD cover design. I don’t often site articles on design, but this one hits home both as a my being a dad and a designer who takes pride in the impact factor of a design. Good read.