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Mozilla Prism Website Launched!

There aren’t many things that do what Mozilla Prism does. Prism is an application created by Mozilla Labs that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop, instantly, with no work/coding on the part of the user. A combination of the product’s uniqueness and Mozilla’s ideals of openness made telling the story of Prism a really enjoyable challenge for the Flickerbox team. As users first look at the new platform, it’s important that the Prism Website communicate the product’s unique user experience-enhancing features in both content and design. Led by Producer Hunter Hubby, Flickerbox spent a great deal of time collaborating with Mozilla from design through to implementation. There’s something about working with a team that brands itself as a ‘Lab’ that truly encourages the inventive spirit of trying a combination of different things to see what works. Lead designer, Todd Collins, was allowed to run with a couple of dramatically different layouts and design elements, and I know we all had a lot of fun playing around with the Prism rainbow branding. Co-partners in programming, Roger Anderson and BB Said, both had a hand in the building out and implementation of the site. The Prism site was launched in May. Check it out.

Mozilla, whenever you’d like to build another site, please give us a call. It was a lot of fun.

-Elizabeth Belg

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Brought to you by Symbian and Flickerbox

Earlier this month, Flickerbox designed posters, postcards, and stickers for Laura Merling of Symbian.org to promote Symbian’s Hack-a-thon event at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2009, June 8-12, in San Francisco.

With 3 days to complete the project, it was a great team effort and quick coordination with Laura on the content development. Tom Risse, one of our rockstar Designers, worked on the concept and design, and Lily Lam, calm and collected stand-in Producer, worked alongside Laura on the hectic one-day content development and print coordination.  Laura was committed to the project, easy to collaborate with, just ran with what was thrown at her, and still delivered a smile at the end of a long day.

A job well done by Tom on the visual side of things, quick handle on client revisions, and having to work through a power outage due to a heavy storm system passing through our Portland Office (literally).  Back in SF, the print vendors were on standby with the presses all ready to go. Without a moment to spare, we delivered the final designs to the printers for next day turnaround. A fun-filled Flickerbox production day, to be sure.

The final posters, postcards, and stickers were a big hit; they reinforced the fun, vibrant Symbian energy and messaging.  One of the posters even made it on CNET – “Symbian tries to crash Apple’s WWDC party.”

The print vendors we used on this project were Rocket Postcards and Dynamite Digital, both based in San Francisco’s SOMA district.  After dropping the “Can you complete this job by tomorrow?” bomb on them, both were incredibly patient, easy to work with, and delivered a quality product in our crazy timeframe. You guys rock!

Final high-fives to Todd and Elizabeth, who kept everyone in the office calm by providing back massages and constant coffee refills (does that even make sense?).

Quote to share – “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” –Henry Ford

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Boomi.com

News from the ever-expanding SaaS/PaaS universe that seems to be our client list – our newest client, Boomi relaunched their corporate website (http://www.boomi.com/) last nite. Boomi’s product, Boomi AtomSphere^SM is the industry’s first integration platform-as-a-service. The idea is that Boomi lets you connect any combination of cloud and on-premise applications that you run, together, without any software or appliances. It’s a pretty cool service, actually, and the apps that they connect with are growing by the minute. Most of the time, you don’t even have to build your own connector – they have a mess of pre-built connectors that are ready to go (right, pre-made). Check out their supported applications for a list of the apps they currently connect with. I know Salesforce is a particularly popular one.

Lots of work went into the redesign and development of this site. Todd Collins, one of our senior designers, was the mastermind behind the visual design. I particularly like the strong use of color and the, what i think is, unique reverse tab header. The site is built in a CMS, specifically, Drupal, and was wholly managed and developed by our man BB Said.

Nuff said for the launch. More from the combined world of Boomi and Flickerbox soon, I’m sure.

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That’s cause it’s good sh%$ man!

So, here it is at long last – the Flickerblog (sorry, Paul). So why does Flickerbox want to blog? Will anyone even care to read the missives of 9 media-obsessed, technology-driven, pop culture-addicted, BG-watching, fun-loving (trite, but true) individuals who have found a shared love of bringing smart, useful online marketing solutions to companies who need them? Sounds like a modern-day Robin Hood tale, but really, it’s just about finding ideas that interest us and work that we’re good at, and sharing with others (for a small fee, of course).

Blogging, says Wikipedia – a blog is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs.

So what’s our goal, Flickerbloggers? Flickerbox news? Social commentary? A shallow marketing device? Diary of some madmen? Me, I like to share. I’ve always been a sharer, a giver. Most of the time, I’m sharing my time, my energy, my love, and the constant radio running through my head. But maybe this time I’m being selfish – maybe I think if I share some of the teensy pearls of wisdom I’ve picked up over the years (as it relates specifically to multimedia production, of course), and maybe if somebody reads it, and maybe if that somebody is a client or client-to-be, then maybe it will make my job just a little bit easier. Or maybe I think that clients-to-be will be impressed by our vast knowledge and assured by our many relevant experiences, made obvious by the content we put out here, and will seek us out. Or maybe blogging before bed quiets the voices and helps me sleep better at night. Whatever it is, i’m willing to give it a shot.

What about you guys?

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