It has been an amazing month. So much has happened. Where do I begin? My head is still spinning!
The all new Pub U is happening in L.A. along with the BEA. The brand new IBPA logo and corporate identity will be unveiled at the Benjamin Franklin Awards at the Wilshire Grand Hotel.
The video for this years Awards presentation is completely new and features a very cool surf theme along with a special tribute to the Incomparable industry Icon, Jan Nathan. It’s gonna be great! I really enjoyed creating it.
We’ve also been doing all kinds of other stuff, but I am too tired to even think about it right now. So, let me just say… thank you to all the wonderful people who keep us so busy being creative. We are truly grateful to you all.
Okay, so March 2008 is history. It was such a busy month for us that I couldn’t take the time to post anything to this blog. April will be the same. We are very grateful for all the work.
We designed the materials for the 2008 PMA Graduate School including whipping up another mini web site for the event. A new logo and corporate identity design are in the works as PMA changes it’s name to IBPA. It is still top secret, and can’t be revealed yet. Work on the video presentation for the Benjamin Franklin Awards program on May 29th, 2008 is heating up.
Sikulu & Harambe by the Zambezi River, the Children’s Book we designed for Blue Brush Media is at the printers.
A new issue of the Cornerstone, the Newsletter for the Tri-City Hospital Foundation is almost ready for press. The freshly designed brochures for the North County Child Study Center are done (in both English and Spanish) and getting rave reviews.
The latest issue of the new Memoir publication is off to press. Abacus Graphics is the official Graphic Design consultants for this interesting new publication.
And that’s really just a few of the highlights for last month.
February 8, 2008 – 3:07 am
So much exciting stuff is in the works! It’s a good thing we love our work so much. Numerous projects our moving through our studio at light speed, and we are continuing to expand our knowledge of new technologies.
Work on a very interesting project for Kunle Oguneye, the design of a new children’s book titled “Sikulu & Harambe By the Zambezi River - An African version of the Good Samaritan story”, has progressed to an almost finished state.
Here’s a cool little Flash gallery version of the prototype book with a fun little controller and fun thumbnails that fits right inside this blogs iFrame (use main left side nav to get back to this blog).
Here’s a link to the companion website sikulu.com. Clicking on the book cover and then on start will load a larger version of the prototype book in a slide show.
January 29, 2008 – 7:28 am
On we go, blasting our way through projects… The all new Pub U, in addition to having it’s own home, thepublishinguniversity.com
is now also housed in an iFrame, like this one, on pma-online.org Pretty dang cool!
Here (in a new window) is what’s up with Belma Michael Johnson’s exciting new website project belmamichael.com . It’s loaded with some pretty hot stuff!
Next up it’s time to design multiple videos and to develop dynamic server side forms and shopping carts, oh my!
January 11, 2008 – 1:57 am
Happy new year! We have been busy, busy, busy. What else is new?
Our new site has been getting rave reviews. We’ve added a little more eye candy on the information and experience pages and a links tab to the information page.
We have completed The Publishing University mini-web site in record time. We will continue to make additions to it over time. It uses quite a bit of the latest web programming technology combined with our famous attention to detail and sweet styling. Check it out in a new browser window here thepublishinguniverstiy.com
The Gurze 48 page catalogue has gone to press, and Belma Johnson’s site is looking good and getting close to going live.
December 11, 2007 – 5:55 am
We have made some major progress. Our new site is live. The new video and photo galleries are looking good.
This blog is working right inside of our site and directly from our virtual private server.
We are busy designing a new site for the Independent Book Publishers Publishing University and Benjamin Franklin Awards along with coordinating print, web, video, slide, and signage graphic design for the event.
Also currently in the works is the Gurze Eating Disorders Catalogue and an exciting new familiy of web site, blogs, wikis, and other cool things for Belma Michael Johnson.
November 15, 2007 – 7:26 am
Slowly, but surely, the creative process unfolds through concentrated effort and comes into focus. A vision takes shape one detail at a time. Details, details, details.
The trick is to make it look simple. Clean. Elegant. But it is an illusion. Making it look simple is downright hard! That is the true paradox of the creative process.
After trying out numerous different style themes, I think I may have found one that I like. Now, a few tweaks here and there… a little tightening it up, and we should be good to go.
Yippee! We are blogging now!
November 8, 2007 – 10:54 pm
I am working hard on developing the style of the new Abacus Graphics blog and working out all the kinks. I have installed the blog on our virtual private server and am in the process of styling it with CSS and integrating it into the rest of the site.
As with most things to do with the internet, it is quite a tedious process. Especially since I am a very picky bugger! I want it to look great! I am also integrating some of the blog 2.0 technologies into it which makes it even more challenging. I think it will be very cool once I nail it.
November 7, 2007 – 2:24 am
Abacus Graphics is preparing to launch it’s newly designed web site. The new site will feature many of the latest web 2.0 technologies, including a blog.