Design:

Built (by us) to build their business

by Tom April 22, 2011 • 09:33 am

Star Tribune Media Kit

Congratulations to the team at the Star Tribune for the successful launch of the redesigned site. It looks great and loads in a jif. We were thrilled to have the opportunity to rethink and redesign the Star Tribune Media Kit that will support advertising sales efforts. Take a look around ... they’ve got a terrific set of publications.

We also gave the auto search page a bit of a makeover .... code implementation by the very busy team at the Strib.

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The new Inver Hills site goes live

by Erik September 24, 2010 • 02:09 pm



We were excited to hear that our friends at Inver Hills Community College launched the new Inverhills.edu earlier today. The marketing staff at IHCC did an outstanding job completing the build of the site based on our original design and template development. Throughout the integration process, their team demonstrated total commitment to maintaining the quality of the design through every page of the site, and the finished product definitely reflects that commitment. Great work, IHCC! We’ve attached a few screen grabs to this post, but make sure you go and visit their new site for yourself.

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Infectious Creativity: The Unusual Mind of Tim Kehoe

by Erik May 4, 2010 • 04:03 pm

As a design firm, the only thing we value as much as creativity is the relationship we form with our clients. We feed off the energy that they bring to their own projects, and, just as we relish the opportunity to help guide a brand as it grows and evolves, we also cherish the opportunity to get to know the people we work with along the way.

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Designing a Web app UI, part 1: The design challenge

by Tom August 18, 2009 • 03:07 pm

One of the exciting new projects we are working on is designing the user interface (UI) for a Web app due for launch later this year.

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The Olive mobile site is live

by Tom April 13, 2009 • 03:42 pm



We took some time recently to optimize our site for mobile viewing.

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Designing for your readers

by Tom February 24, 2009 • 12:18 pm



This past weekend I presented a session at the Best of the Midwest conference for the Associated Collegiate Press. The conference attracts advisers and student journalists from the top colleges and universities in the midwest.

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A shiny, new Olive!

by Tom January 28, 2009 • 05:23 pm

We’ll kick off our blog with an introduction to our revised branding! Last fall marked the five year anniversary of Olive and Company, and we started to feel a little constrained in our old “clothes” .... ready for a fresh outlook for 2009 … a renewed sense of optimism.

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