Interactive:

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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Social Media Extroversion: Does your brand need to get out more often?

by Erik May 5, 2010 • 03:53 pm

Several months ago, we created our own Olive and Company Facebook Page. This fact probably won’t surprise anyone since A) we are in the creative services industry and more and more of our projects include social media elements, and B) most of us have been actively using Facebook as individuals for quite some time now. With that said, we thought we’d take some time to discuss our reasons for creating a Facebook Page, and invite you to follow us as our Page(1) grows and evolves.

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Expanding the Web’s visual vocabulary

by Erik January 14, 2010 • 12:21 pm

The following article was originally included in the October 2009 issue of our OliveNotes newsletter, but we feel like the content is worth sharing with non-subscribers as well, so we’re republishing it here in its entirety. We’ve also included a brief postscript to update a few aspects of the article. As always, please share your thoughts in the comments section below.

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Designing a Web app UI, part 2: The Concepts

by Tom January 4, 2010 • 04:16 pm



Quite a while back, I shared some insight into a project where we were designing the UI for a soon-to-be-released Web app. Now we’ll take a look at the concepts we presented the client and the feedback they provided. As before, the client and project are held in confidence. Here’s a look at our first round:

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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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