Releasing an application into the wild is always a great feeling. The weeks, days and hours leading up to the launch can be pressure packed as the last design tweaks are made and final QA fixes are applied. Managed properly though, a launch should also bring you closer to your teammates and clients, at least it always has for me.
There's been a noticeable shift in the last couple of years about what constitutes a "successful" launch....
Here at Dynamo, we believe in nurturing and endorsing local relationships. While we have clients from all over the free world, our heart and soul is in Montreal. As a result, we're carving out a special little corner just for us and the people we love.... Doin' it Local so to say (see: Montreal Portes Ouvertes).
Doin' it Local is also how many of us like to handle our leisure and after hours fun as well. And yowza, do I have the greatest local fun bible for you! Whether it's for you alone, you and yer mate, or a company retreat, this is the only book you will ever need!
Read on for a full report!
We were super excited to be invited to contribute a poster to Yellow Bird Project's latest creative, charity-driven project headed up by the one and only Andy J. Miller. As a follow up to the Indie Rock Coloring Book, Andy and YBP have joined forces again to create The Indie Rock Poster Book which will include 30 different posters by 30 different artists, designers and illustrators. Each poster will be an interpretation of an indie rock song of the artist's choice...
Last weekend during the Portes Ouvertes Design Montréal, Dynamo presented a private collection of matchbook artwork from the 1930s through 1950s, titled "Avez-vous du feu?", or, "Got a light?". Our faithful intern-turned-junior-project-manager-from-Paris : Guillaume Bourousse participated in curating the exhibition, and was an invaluable help in organizing, scanning and installing the exhibition. On display were large-format blowups of around 200 of the microdesigns, selected from the more than 1500 originals, each on display in their original format as well. If you'd like to brush up on your French, please read Guillaume's post about the expo here.
Yellow Bird Project's latest release is a slick new Summer t-shirt designed by Dynamo for the band Whispertown 2000. All profits from the shirt benefit "Start in Streets", a charity created by Sophie Tweed Simmons and Tatiana Rogers that serves to prevent the litter of the streets from reaching nature’s underwater playground.
The treatment of the red fish against the sunshine base demonstrates (through color) the “disappearing” act that is happening to this fish due to the overfishing and pollution that’s affecting its waters. We learned that the Halibut is in fact on the endangered list and all but guaranteed to disappear by the end of this century. Also, the small technical callouts are using scientific terminology specific to genetic deformity, so those help accentuate the double message, and why the third eye is present on Mr Fish.
