Shopify Unite 2018 was more than just an opportunity to see Justin Trudeau, eat poutine, and see Toronto. It was also a time to hear some big announcements for what is soon to come for brands powered by Shopify Plus over the coming year.
Here are a few things that really jumped out at us and that we’re super excited about for our clients and brands running on Shopify Plus.
We are very excited to announce that Inc. has included eHouse Studio in their 2015 list of the fastest-growing private U.S. companies.
What does Rosh Hashanah, a Synagogue, Mother's Day, an antique store, a sandwich shop, and a soccer team all have in common?
These are all things for which we created a set of email templates for our good friends at MailChimp.
A few months ago, MailChimp asked us to work with them on a series of email templates for their customers. We designed and coded a total of six templates with unique identities which they announced yesterday.
Thank you to the Charleston Regional Business Journal and Holly Fisher for interviewing me for their "At Work" profile. Read the full article online.
The launch of the Pantech Pocket presented our team with a new challenge to not only produce a digital campaign with web videos and a responsive landing page, but also our first national TV commercial.
We've been honored with two W3 Awards, given each year by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, for our work for Pantech. The W3 Awards honor creative excellence on the web and recognize the creative and marketing professionals behind award-‐winning sites, videos and marketing programs. For the Pantech Dew Tour mobile app, we won a National 2012 Silver W3 Award for Sport Mobile Apps, and also took home a National 2012 W3 Award for Sports for the microsite we created for Pantech’s sponsorship of the 2012 Dew Tour.
A special thanks to the team at Converge SE for including Bob and myself in the amazing lineup of speakers and everyone who attended our workshop for their kind words, great questions, comments and tweets. We have posted our slides and welcome everyone's feedback and questions.
The project has started and you sit down and break out the trusty moleskin. It's filled with random sketches, notes, and the logo ideas from the last branding meeting. You are ripe with ideas for the new logo, UI, or layout and it feels only natural that as a designer you go to what you know best- even though we are getting ahead of ourselves because we have left out a very important step, the creative brief.
Yes, the creative brief comes first. No, it's not the sexiest part of the project and no, you don't get to use photoshop or fireworks. But, by doing the creative brief, you will be able to better communicate with the client upfront in a language they understand before throwing out designer speak such as white space, typography, or color theory.