Hito Site Complete

It was nearly two hundred hours in the making, but we are proud to have created a very nice website for Hito. Please view the site by clicking here.

LaVigne Site

Five Creative completed a website for Minneapolis designer William LaVigne. Please take a look at www.wmlavigne.com. His work is fantastic and it was a pleasure to collaborate with him!

Mobile Tinkering

We downloaded the iPhone SDK today and officially joined the app revolution. expect to see a new mobile version of the Five Creative site very soon as well as an iPhone app. Now it's time to get back to the Cocoa tutorial.

Site Improvement

Last night Five Creative published updates to the website. We have removed the components and made the galleries more custom. We also included a PHP email form for information inquiries. This evening we hope to have the design and print galleries complete. We hope you like the new look!

Red Eye Website...Check!

Another website complete and another happy customer. We went to the 25th Anniversary Show at Red Eye Theater where we had the chance to enjoy the show Amanda Tears, Teenage Detective. It was loads of fun, and we were lucky enough to join the cast and staff in celebration of their anniversary. We were happy to hear how many people loved the site and thrilled to hand off the content management keys to co-founder and performer, Miriam Must. We know she will enjoy giving the site her own touches of creativity (she definitely has an eye for type).

Working on the site tested all of Sam's abilities and gave him the chance to expand his actionscript vocabulary. Hiding behind those innocent buttons is over 180 lines of script...good grief. But the outcome was worth all those long nights.

Up next, as we've said, Sam is trying to finish up a site for Minneapolis designer, William LaVigne. His site is slick and has a very unique look. The test site is HERE. Take a look if you have time. The next step is to put his portfolio in the window. Bill....hurry up and get Sam that work damn it!

Tomorrow Sam is working with his friends at Hito Group. Brian Loehr and Sam are working to get his site up and to make some changes to the Buhr Consulting Site. We did the site very quickly before Kim's big seminar, and now it's time to fine-tune a few things. Anyway, the calendar is full, but Sam can still fit a couple more projects in the next few weeks.

Hard At Work

We haven't had an opportunity to add new posts lately because we have been busy building a site for one of Fallon's pro bono accounts. The site is for the Red Eye Theater near Loring Park. Sam's building them a flash site with a content management system. Follow this link to view the site in progress (www.workwithfive.com/version2.html). If you hit refresh you might even see it change. It's keeping Sam up into the morning, but he's learning so much, it's totally worth it. He's also very happy to be helping such a great theater company. Coming up soon will be a couple of sites for some hard-working designers.

Sustainable

We had the opportunity to attend a luncheon sponsored by AIGA Minnesota concerning design sustainability. Despite the fact that the topic is at the forefront, there are so many things we can do that we aren't. Designers have a greater responsibility for fueling a movement than the rest of society because we have chosen to create the visual messages that ignite action. We won't go too far into our feelings, but we will provide a few links for more info that we encourage you to visit.

www.designcanchange.org
www.sustainability.aiga.org
www.sustainablepackaging.org
www.themightyodo.com