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(re)DC tee design ( updated )

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:02:14 +0000

UPDATE: woot, we won! if you missed the release party, stay tuned to readysetdc.com to get yours. or, you can get my alternate versions on our society6 store now!

society6 + natako

(re)DC is a new creative project series by ReadysetDC. We are looking at things that we see all the time in DC, and making a call to improve them. A simple concept to raise the bar.

We are starting simple, with DC’s “tourist t-shirt”. We’ve pulled together some talented artists and designers to rethink what this shirt could be. Below are the designs they’ve put their time and sweat into. YOU vote. Look through all of the entries and make your decision at the bottom. The winning design will be “gifted” to the public, under Creative Commons (Attribution, No Derivatives). Until their is a winner, artists maintain all rights to their works.

Vote @ ReadysetDC

BrandonBloch.com

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:31:54 +0000

brandon who, you ask? well if you don’t know him you will. brandon’s a film maker, photographer, and dcist to the core. and he’s one of the few people i’ve met recently who’s as fired up as i am. the concept for his site was simple: couture. i’ve since over-used the word, but the thought is to kill any semblance of the web 2.0 aesthetic. no 1 pixel off-sets, ridiculous gradients or drop shadows here. we wanted to skew on the side of art vs. design. so don’t look for the grid-system layover here. just did what we wanted, period. too often we slave ourselves to concepts like user-experience and usability- which have their place, no doubt- just not part of the process here.

technologies:
wordpress / jquery vgrid / late nights

brandonbloch.com

Website: AD2DC.org

admin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:01:33 +0000

ad2 is a national organization fostering young professionals in advertising. ad2dc is the district’s chapter. i joined last september as the interactive chair, mostly because my agency recently closed its doors and i needed to expand my network for freelance opportunities. since then i’ve partaken of the kool aid, and am excited to be part of the leadership of this organization.

technologies:
php / css3 / wordpress CMS / 1 case of mountain dew / 2 cartons of turkish silvers

ad2dc.org

ThanksUSA tennis Logo

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:42:08 +0000

logo design for the non-profit ThanksUSA’s charity pro am tennis tournament.

The ThanksUSA Charity PRO AM Tennis Tournament will be hosted by the Army Navy Country Club on June 7, 2010, in Arlington, Virginia.

Budget Online Banners

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:59:06 +0000

flash pieces for budget rental cars. 3 concepts. “brainy” supporting budgets “rent like a genius” campaign, “think fast” supporting-you guessed it-budgets “think fast” campaign and “washed away” a one-off promoting a florida specific special offer.

Brainy / 300×250

Think Fast / 300×250

Wash Away / 300×250

Social Take-overs

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:17:55 +0000

flash pieces for Facebook, YouTube, MySpace take-overs promoting the latest theatre spot from the National Guard. via LM&O Advertising. yielded almost 200k fans on the day of the takeover.

writer: jillian shaw

creative directors: mike caplanis, dave marinaccio

Launch the Demo

Website: LMO.com Beta

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:07:48 +0000

since i’ve been working with LM&O Advertising ( September of last year ), the website has been top of my “to do” list. to effect the delivery of the site asap i wanted to keep the team tight knit and focused. and it worked. the site was in alpha for a matter of weeks as opposed to months. LMO’s previous site had been around for some time and no longer reflected the relevance they truly exude as an agency. under the direction of chris laughlin as well as karen the interactive director and sherri, director of business development, natako was given carte blanche to design and build a proper web-presence. the site utilizes a number of technologies to tell LMO’s story. it’s now officially in public beta.

props to the entire LMO management team ( especially mike caplanis and dave marinaccio ) for allowing me the freedom to do my thing.

Visit the site

technologies:
xhtml / CSS2, CSS3 / jQuery / ajax / falkor / collaboration / heart ♥

VS: Procopio Photography

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:56:30 +0000

first collaboration in the DESTROY DC campaign. natako vs procopio photography. any artists interested in being part of DESTROY DC, let me know.

procopiophotography.com

Tap Drive / Logo Design

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:29:07 +0000

This is a collab with brandon bloch ( @bloch_party ) for Tap Innovations. website is forthcoming.

Falkor: Campaign Management Made Awesome

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:02:01 +0000

Falkor is the best new way for you to send and manage awesome looking email campaigns. But the real beauty happens after you send out your campaign. With Falkor, you get great looking reports that let you measure the effectiveness of every campaign. Go beyond opens and link clicks and measure your campaign related sales, conversions and ROI with Google Analytics integration. Falkor will even show you what email clients your subscribers are using.

How Does it Work?

Simply. Get Natako to design a great looking email. Login to Falkor and send, manage and track your campaign. No monthly fees. You pay only a flat rate for each campaign you setup + 5 cents a recipient.

Falkor LOGIN See Falkor Screenshots

Check Out Some of the Features

Campaign snapshot

See how your email campaign has performed at a glance. Find out how many recipients opened your email, clicked a link, unsubscribed, forwarded your email to a friend and loads more.

Opens Over Time

Our simple Opens Over Time Report shows exactly who is checking out your email, how many times they’re doing it, and when they did it. You can get an overview for the life of the campaign or drill down all the way to minute by minute detail.

Recipient Activity

Our recipient activity report lets you get down to some serious detail on your campaign. Easily see who opened, who clicked, who bounced and who unsubscribed. You can even search for a specific subscriber to see exactly what they did with your email.

Link activity

The Link Activity Report makes it very easy to see what your subscribers found most interesting, as well as who clicked and who did not.

Bounce Summary

As well as automatically processing any bounced emails for you, we also tell you exactly why that subscriber bounced out of your list. Maybe we got an out of office reply, or perhaps their mailbox was full – whatever the reason, they didn’t get your email and we’ll tell you why.

Compare campaigns

Easily compare any of your email campaign with each other. Is your open rate improving? Are you seeing less bounces over time?