When was the last time you bought a light fixture? Did you put a lot of time into the decision? Did you consult a lighting designer? Did your lighting designer then exhaust all standard possibilities, and eventually turn to a custom manufacturer? If so, you may already know about Crenshaw Lighting.
The reality is that custom […]
Studying design is a little like losing a few diopters of visual acuity. You no longer see the detail and minutia of things. You begin to see things elementally. Design, good or bad, is in every part of our lives. Good design smoothes the edges of our interactions, creates harmony and unity. Bad design […]
New City Media has been selected to develop new information architecture and redesign the web site for California State University East Bay, located just south of Oakland in Hayward, California. Our friend Indi Young recommended us to CSUEB after she had done some initial research and architectural work for them focusing on prospective students.
August 3, 2007 – 10:07 am
As I wrote in an earlier post, we’re currently working on the Barter Theatre web site. We’re trying to figure out how to convey the Barter experience in a way that is not clichéd or phony. Yesterday we had a rather hilarious conference call in which we presented our third round of concepts for the […]
Faculty and staff from Virginia Tech’s Computer Science Department joined us for a KJ Session to kick off the redesign of their web site. The Department of Computer Science is home to one of the largest groups of undergraduate majors in the university.
Students and faculty within the department pursue research individually, in groups, and […]
New City Media has been selected to redesign the web site for Trinity School’s Alumni and Alumnae Assocation. Trinity School is a fully coeducational independent school for Kindergarten through Grade Twelve on Manhattan’s Upper West side. Founded in 1709 as a charity school supported by Anglican missionaries, it is the oldest continuously operating educational […]
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 […]
April 20, 2007 – 10:26 am
New City Media has been selected to redesign the web site for Kiawah Island Real Estate. Kiawah Island is a luxury resort and residential community just 20 minutes outside of Charleston, SC. The island is home to six world-class golf courses (their Ocean Course is considered the most challenging golf course in the U.S.) […]
New City Media is happy to be working with Scott Carter of the The Cape Pakarang Boat Yard (www.tsunamiboatproject.com) on his next project, Sailing the Great Circle.
Aboard a 75’ all wood schooner-rigged sailboat, an international crew of 10 will depart Thailand for the 28,000 nautical mile trip, to be completed in 10 months. The […]