http://www.whenweland.com Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:08:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I want to thank everyone that came out last night - during the Lakers game no less. The traffic was horrible, fires were set, and arrests were made! Luckily, none of that happened at the event. It was great to meet so many new people! Thanks to all for the kind ... http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/aiga-print-to-web-part-2/ Nice Skateboard animation using magazine photos by Tilles Singer. http://vimeo.com/8461831 Also check his Cowboys video. http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/skateboardanimation/ Super simple mark for MNT/MakeNiceThings. Client: MakeNiceThings Role: Creative Direction, Branding http://www.whenweland.com/work/makenicethings-identity-2/ Agency: Internal Client: WhenWeLand Role: Everything http://www.whenweland.com/work/whnwlnd-08/ We're in the process of updating the site content... adding new, replacing old. There will be oddities until we're done, but we like the process of working online. Sure we could have done it all behind closed doors, but what fun would that be? This way, we get a chance ... http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/updating-some-site-content/ Sci-Arc MDC Partners Will post details later. http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/additional-work-fit-for-display/ Jason will once again be a judge for the Flash In The Can Awards. http://www.fitc.ca http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/fitc-2010/ We've been hard at work on our WordPress framework and the MakeNicethings site. Lots going on at the moment and things are feeling pretty good as far as momentum. We're truly excited about how MNT is coming along. The framework has so many possibilities now. It will really help a lot ... http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/makenicethings-update-2/ Flash Pitch Comps for new marketing campaign. Type was to be dynamic and localized for China market. Client: Amauta Lab, Toyota Role: Design http://www.whenweland.com/work/toyota-sienna/ Good riddance to 2009! Resolutions: Personally, I will... ...go to the Blind office at least three times a week. ...work out. ...drink more water. ...play more music. ...launch MakeNiceThings! ...stress less. http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/happy-belated-new-year/ HDT: Hayes Diversified Technologies mini-site produced in conjunction with Goutam Mitra and Wellbrand in a seriously short timeframe. New Logo + branding, photo shoots, video editing, collateral, and website were all turned around in basically a week. We were fortunate that we got to help with the design, build, and launch ... http://www.whenweland.com/work/hdt/ We are dropping our toll-free phone number until further notice--This is due to several wrong numbers. If you called this number and were hoping to reach someone other than WhenWeLand, you should double-check the number. We will no longer be returning calls to alert anyone. Once our number is updated, we will ... http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/dropping-our-toll-free-number/ We've slowly been moving some things over to a new office space in Santa Monica. October never lets us down. http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/new-surroundings-october/ Bright, fun, and organic... very nice baby products at Little Twig. We were fortunate enough to help re-design the site and integrate a Miva Merchant shopping cart for this boutique startup. Flash, HTML. Little Twig is one of the projects that was lost in the theft. We do have a few ... http://www.whenweland.com/work/little-twig/ You should check out http://weloveyouso.com/ http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/you-should-check-out-httpweloveyouso-com/ Why, hello August. http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/why-hello-august/ We recently updated the Blind site ( http://www.blind.com ) and you should take a look. They have tons of great work. New spots for the new SyFy re-brand by Richard Eng are there too! Our changes include a CSS cleaning, some XHTML strictness, an update from prototype to jquery, and we integrated ... http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/blind-site-updated/ Ramping up for Makenicethings: Writing documentation for the WordPress theme framework, working on several versions of design comps, and finishing up the site. Not too much longer ... we promise! Follow MNT on Twitter @makenicethings http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/mnt-update/ The newest iteration of Blind's site is all XHTML and CSS driven. While the previous site was all Flash, this design+build let us show more and do more with the amount of work and content Blind has to show off. The site isn't meant to be the star ... their ... http://www.whenweland.com/work/blnd-08/ We have several projects coming up toward the end of summer and are looking for designers! Send your folios and contact info! See our contact page for ways to get in touch or send info to: i n f o [@] w h e n w e l a n ... http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/looking-for-freelance-interactive-designers/ Before we became WhenWeLand, we were WonderBureau. A lot of the work for WonderBureau was backed up on CDs and DVDs as well as on a tricked out G5 with dual drives. Sadly, the G5 was stolen during a break-in shortly after our relocation to Los Angeles. A police report was ... http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/wonderbureau-to-whenweland-lost-found/ What a happy surprise: Whnwlnd linked at Konigi ( very nice design resource ). http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/konigi/ Interactive Creative Direction, Flash Build, and Ads. Created with BL:ND and EURO RSCG for Oppenheimer's new Ad Campaign. More on the "Numbers" campaign from Blind (they have full credits listed and more): Commercials / Spots Web Agency: EURO RSCG, Blind Client: Oppenheimer Funds Role: Design, Flash Build http://www.whenweland.com/work/oppenheimer-numbers/ We're in the process of re-designing our CMS to better accommodate new features and growing components. Usability, functionality, and aesthetics are all being addressed. This version will eventually be ported to the CodeIgniter base that we have developed. Contact us directly for a full list of features and updates. All Median ... http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/our-cms-median-update-is-on-the-way/ Added a few design images to the Mo/de Project site ( on our site, not theirs ;) ). http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/update-mode-project/ Scion Owners Curating The City: Wilshire Blvd. Median Hush Twiss Heavens Fall S3MX Suave: Can You Tell SageTV http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/work-screens-updated/ We thought it was time to refresh the site a bit for the summer. Ok, it isn't very summer like, but neither is LA right now: full on June gloom! It should last us a month or two before we get bored with it. We even added a few design ... http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/wwl-summer-refresh/ The initial concepts for this Scion owner community site were definitely more along the lines of Scion's non-traditional form of advertising to its base. The final concept is based on a city of garages where a garage represents an individual owner in the Scion community. Users may setup profiles and ... http://www.whenweland.com/work/scion-owners/ We're thinking seriously about getting some new furniture at Skate Study House. http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/skateboard-is-design-even-when-not-printed/ The sad fact is that MakeNiceThings (mn+) has setup a Twitter account. Not really too sad. Insider info before it goes live can't hurt. http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/twitter-the-sad-fact/ We've been working on a simple WordPress framework internally since last year (not the entire time, client work and quality of life come first). It first started out as a way to help us rapidly build data-driven sites for clients that had smaller budgets for their online initiatives. Now, we're pleased ... http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/makenicethings-update/ Median is our internal CMS (content management system). The first two versions were all Flash based and were more experience oriented. We switched to an Ajax version in 2006. Now we're at a no-nonsense version that simply works. Agency: Internal Client: Internal, Blind, M80 films, Toby Pederson, Radar Magazine, Hush, ++ Role: ... http://www.whenweland.com/work/median-08/ Chris Do has started something new. Everything reviewed is under $50! http://50under50.com/ http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/50under50/ Well, it appears that the redesign of radaronline.com (we had nothing to do with this version) no longer has a working version of the Fame-o-meter. Just to be absolutely clear, we had nothing to do with the latest reincarnation of Radar. When we get around to it, we'll post a ... http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/radar-is-not-the-same-anymore/ Blind has posted info on the Oppenheimer project that WWL was involved with last Fall/Winter. Check it. http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/oppenheimer-on-blinds-site/ domestika.org http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/hello-madrid-domestikaorg/ Just dropping a line for the visitors from Lisboa. Obrigado. http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/bom-dia-boa-tarde-boa-noite/ Hush continues to impress ... new reel and Nokia work posted. Nice! http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/hush-updates-with-new-work-and-09-reel/ Yes, late post ... was a good break. We have lots of cool internal projects planned this year and look forward to sharing as soon as they start to take shape. http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/happy-new-year/ Just a reminder that our office will be closed over the holidays from December 20th until January 5th. Snappy Holidays!! http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/snappy-holidays-reminder/ We have a new toll-free number for the main office ... See contact. http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/new-phone/ We decided that we would get the jump on updating the site before the holidays. So, while we sort through process images, comps, and archived goodies for the work section, have a good holiday and happy new year. New work and site updates coming soon! http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/almost-there/ Creative Direction, Design, Flash Build, CMS. Huge thanks to Nikolai Cornell madein.la, David Schwarz, Eric Karasyk, Jessica Pierik, Laura Alejo(and the rest of HUSH), and Jef Lear. Client: Hush NY Role: Creative Direction, Design + Flash Build/Development View Site http://www.whenweland.com/work/hush/ The Mo/de Project (mode) site design is actually based on a letterpress DVD kit for their reel. We scanned the board, matched the shadow, pulled some patterns and textures. Craft style visual design like this can take a wrong turn in a heartbeat. The end-result closely matches their promotional collateral ... http://www.whenweland.com/work/mode-project/ Identity, Print, Collateral, and web for Twiss Creative Recruiting. Evolved brand to grow with new initiative. Client: Twiss Creative Consulting Role: Creative Direction, Design + Custom Development View Site. http://www.whenweland.com/work/twissc/ Happy August! Let us start by saying that the new site is coming -- we've just been side-tracked by, you know ... client work. So, thanks to all that have asked regarding the new site, we'll let you know as soon as it goes live. Speaking of client work, we're currently working ... http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/august-08/ Our internal CMS/ FMS : "Median" is taking yet a new direction. We are looking into converting the core framework to CodeIgniter ... after playing around and looking through the source, it seems to be right up our alley. We will still continue to support older versions, but all internal development ... http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/codeigniter/ We just launched a new collaborative project with Nikolai Cornell (madein.la) for HUSH NY. Huge thanks to Nikolai Cornell, David Schwarz, Eric Karasyk, Jessica Pierik, Laura Alejo (and the rest of HUSH), Christina Aube, and Jef Lear. Check it! http://www.heyhush.com/ http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/hush-madeinla/ neublack http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/neublack/ HUSH featured at ventilate.ca . http://www.whenweland.com/frsh/