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read Issue 06: Lucy Porter / studio threefiftyseven / Mr Geh / Smartsoft (Australia) Ltd / Tri-Spark / Albion Hotel
read Issue 05: Arthaus / designerID / SoReal / Macrovision / Montimedia / Nelson Wheeler Nexia / Stellar Homes
read Issue 04: Karidis Corporation / National Alcohol Awareness / Trés Agaves / Taylor Collison Online /
. Petra’s Projects / Light Tech / Austral Bricks product development / Motiv boardroom cabinetry
read Issue 03: Urban Transporter / Christopher Green / Mitsubishi / Petra / Deco Restaurant / TCL launch
read Issue 02: Taylor Collison / Australian Olive Oil / iPSatCom / Austral Bricks / Ned table
read Issue 01: Petra’s arrival / Bliss / Caroline de Mooy / Pantechnicon Gallery  

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Wednesday 26 July 2007

We have a good deal of new work to add to the portfolio, but will probably wait until our site’s been overhauled now. This is something we’re currently working on, but in the meanwhile you can find some of it in the wild:
Carbon People (Online, but a work in progress): Business and information resource for those involved in designing and/or building environmentally sustainable dwellings.
Blackets Wines: Boutique wine sales featuring very sleek custom built shopping cart.
Bondi Mining (Online, but a work in progress): Site for startup company involved in mineral exploration.

 

Monday 04 June 2007

New site is now online for KeyInvest. This is the new name for IOOFSA, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows that has been offering financial services and retirement living to it’s members since 1878.



Thursday 26 April 2007

One of our latest projects has been the implementation of a sophisticated web-based application for building and distributing opt-in email based marketing campaigns. (When we think up a sexy name for this system we’ll get a little more serious about marketing it to our client base.) We recently took it for a trial run with one of our clients, Artemide Australia (exclusive Australian distributor for Artemide and Danese Milano products in Australia), who need to keep their customer base informed of new products on a regular basis. We’re pleased to say that it performed beautifully and are now in the throes of implementing this for three other clients as I write this. The beauty of this system is its ability to monitor and track what happens after your campaign has been sent.
If you’d like to know more about this application please feel free to contact us.

We’ve also recently completed a web site for IntelliGen International, designers and manufacturers of environmentally-friendly power generation systems for those looking to power rural ‘off-grid’ properties, or even luxury houseboats equipped with all the latest mod cons.

And long time clients Taylor Collison have added a new discipline to their business with the recent launch of TCGI (Taylor Collison Global Investors).

We also have new sites in the pipeline for Blackets Wines, Bondi Mining and IOOFSA.

 

Monday 19 March 2007

An updated version of the video mentioned below is now online:
‘The Machine is Us/ing Us’ (Final Version) ; a video by an associate professor in cultural ethnology at Kansas State University (Michael Wesch) explaining the Web (specifically Web 2.0) in under 5 minutes!

 

Monday 05 Febuary 2007

I just had to link to this, it’s simply brilliant!
‘The Machine is Us/ing Us’; a video by an associate professor in cultural ethnology at Kansas State University (Michael Wesch) explaining the Web (specifically Web 2.0) in under 5 minutes!

 

Tuesday 23 January 2007

A new studio threefiftyseven newsletter (Issue 06) has just been uploaded. Get it while it’s hot.

 

Thursday 21 December 2006

We’re slowly winding down for Christmas now — off for our official Christmas lunch this very day in fact. Unfortunately we were a little too busy to even organise any Christmas cards this year (so you weren’t just left off our list, honest!) and would like to take this opportunity to wish all our clients and friends a safe and prosperous holiday season — we've really appreciated your support over the past year. We already have some sweet projects lined up for the new year too, so 2007 is looking pretty interesting already!

One final piece of business before you go ... you may want to check out the new Smartsoft (Australia) Limited web site which is finally up and running as of yesterday!

 

Thursday 30 November 2006

First up (in case you haven’t noticed or this is your first visit, we’ve revamped the site. We’re all about the CSS and XHTML around here these days, yessiree.)
Unfortunately paid work has had to take a back seat in recent weeks (see posts below). We have however, managed to squeeze out a new site for photographer Robert Geh. It utilises the same sexy-as-can-be AJAX powered image viewing stylie we’ve used on our very own site ... fancy that.

We’ve also completed a new design for the Smartsoft (Australia) Limited web site. It’s not live yet as the client is still plugging a back end into it, but you can see a screen shot (image 02 in the ‘design for web’ gallery) on our portfolio page. And we have new sites in the pipeline right now for Peartree Marketing and TCGI (Taylor Collison Global Investors, a Taylor Collison offshoot).

 

clothes_lineWednesday 29 November 2006

I know I promised a picture of Lucy over a month ago but I’ve been trying to get this new version of the site complete and online. There are still a few bits and pieces I need to sort out, but for the most part this baby is ready to go. And speaking of babies ... get a load of this cutie on the right!
(I promise there’ll be no more baby talk after this.)

 

clothes_lineFriday 06 October 2006

OK, the big news is the long awaited birth (10 days overdue) of Jason and Petra’s daughter 'Lucinda' this afternoon at 2.12 pm! Many thanks to those who phoned or sent messages of congratulations. Hopefully you’ll all get to see her soon.
As you can see in this photo, Petra’s been preparing for this moment for quite some time now ...