Peak launches the new Prosch Consulting web site!
We count this relaunch as a big win for design and user experience, and give big props to the Prosch team - a model client!
Peak is proud to announce the launch of the Gill Foundation’s 2009 Annual Report.
Peak launches the new TommySpaulding.com!
Peak launches Romane Professional sites!
Add a dash of Peak, and stir for success!
At Peak, we take pride in our ability to work seamlessly with client in-house design and development teams. Need a new direction on a design? Some extra hands for production? Drop us a line.
Recently, we worked with Dave Ingraham on the GHX Anniversary brochure.
“I just wanted to let you know that we received the Anniversary brochure last night and it looks AWESOME! I am SO pleased with how it turned out. Everyone who’s seen it thinks it’s beautiful. You guys were a real pleasure to work with and I’m confident that we will be doing more work together in the future!” - Dave Ingraham
GHX provided photography and art direction on the Peak-produced brochure.
Dave discusses the GHX 10th Anniversary brochure here:
http://blog.pixelninja.net/338/
Bringing New Understanding to the Director’s Cut 
A really interesting read in today’s NY Times about “1 over frequency”
— a film director’s “pink noise” signal profile approach to shot segments. Evocative of the “Golden Ratio” — only hollywood style.
Campbell Soup Alters Labels After 'Neuromarketing' Research
From the article in today’s Wall Street Journal: ”For two years, Campbell researchers studied microscopic changes in skin moisture, heart rate and other biometrics to see how consumers react to everything from pictures of bowls of soup to logo design.”
Designing for Improvisation
Interesting read by Liz Danzico (@bobulate) on designing web frameworks that allow the audience to improvise.
“Instead of the control coming from the composer (read: the designer), modal jazz promotes a sense of discovery.”
http://bobulate.com/post/390952640/designing-for-improvisation
Logorama -
Wow.
A stunning animated short that re-imagines LA as a city made up of nothing but corporate logos and mascots. Warning: This should certainly have a NC-17 rating (anything that includes a profane Ronald McDonald on a bloody shoot-em-up rampage deserves at least an “R”).
If you love logos like we do, this one’s for you —
AAVE Summer 2010 Brochure online
Peak is happy to partner again with our friends at AAVE (All About Visiting Earth) for the third consecutive year to design and print their annual brochure/catalog. AAVE puts on some amazing adventure travel programs for kids and young adults — we want to go on these trips! The brochure is now online at aave.com.
IKEA says goodbye to Futura
Interesting study of the ever-growing influence of online v. print as Ikea, the world’s largest furniture retailer, abandons the established and (mostly) appreciated Futura font for the Microsoft-built, (and needless to say) boring Verdana for their 2010 catalog. The horror. The design world is a-twitter with passionate revulsion for the switch. There’s already a online petition to ask Ikea to go back …
