Domain Architecture & Design is a high-end architecture firm establishing themselves in their local community while gaining recognition with a national audience. Domain’s new site puts its work first, showing off the firms design sensibilities. Accompanied by an extensive project portfolio and dynamically updateable news and press section, this site has become their main marketing tool and a source of inspiration for the community.


With the blog scene growing rapidly, travel writer Jenny Shears is using this momentum to establish herself as an expert in kid friendly travel. With some development help from our friends at PUNY, we worked with Kiddieup Travel to plan and design a blog with specific travel categories, search functionality for planning the perfect trip and user feedback to ensure quality.


We love collaborating with creative people like photographer Chad Holder. This portfolio site uses intuitive navigation that allows visitors to easily observe the collection as a whole, up close and personal, and smoothly from one piece to the next.


Website

Founded by Ed Rivero, Cortez Brothers specializes in film, television, and commercials, all with a Latin bent. This site melds cutting-edge directors with moody, cinematic backgrounds to echo the beauty and allure of a Hispanic past and present.


Contest

Redesign Your School is a contest of scholarly proportions that asks students, “How would you create the ideal learning space?” Through this exploratory site, students gather details about the contest, get inspired by the Idea Generator, and use tools like the To-do List to stay on track. Created for Target and American Architectural Foundation.


Promotional Website

He’s just so darn cute. Yes, we love Shaun White, and so does Target. This spotlight site is devoted to Target sponsored snowboarder and skateboarder Shaun White. The site features weekly webisodes of Shaun’s life, as well as other biographical info, pics, and love.


Website + Photo Feature

This portfolio site for photographer Jonathan Chapman puts the focus on the work with clean design, playful transitions, and an updateable photo feature area. More of Jonathan’s work can be seen at Unfolding Forms , a collaborative exploratory piece created by Jonathan Chapman Photography, Pilotvibe , and us.


Concepts

Explorations into a Target, young-adult oriented, music featurin’, video lovin’, trend watchin’, cool kids spot on MySpace.


Website + Personal

“A sound designer, photographer, and graphic designer walk into a bar….” The outcome? A collective exploration of their surroundings. Version one of Unfolding Forms focuses on those crazy bastards known as ice fisherman. The site uses a cinematic style, as well as sound and motion to transport the viewer to northern Minnesota, where it’s always good fishin’, eh? Created in association with Jonathan Chapman and Pilotvibe.


Website

When science writer Emily Sohn came to us for a new online presence, the main question was, “How does a text heavy website maintain a unique personality?” Our answer? A graphic interface that emphasizes Emily’s sense of adventure and exploration. These elements then extend to an updateable clips section clips section, allowing Emily to add to her illustrious portfolio.


Promotional Website

In this second version of snow- and skateboarder Shaun White’s site, Target pulled a “backside 180 kickflip” and renamed the site Freestylelivin. Eighthourday followed Shaun at the 2005 X-Games in Aspen, Colorado, and updated the site daily during the event. Plus, if you look really close, that’s Nate riding that deer.


Website

This simple yet graphic portfolio site for photographer Shawn Michienzi integrates a changeable header with collection windows that allow for scrollable viewing of Shawn’s beautiful work, both commercial and personal.


Flashbelt

Three years in the making, the 2006 Flashbelt new media conference collateral establishes a modular identity to be used online, in print collateral, and on textiles. The design focuses on a general sense of technology and movement, while the site uses updateable Flash pods to keep content fresh.