Dot & Smudge LLC

Technology Search International – Tsearch.com

Thea — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:20:26 +0000

The Cooper Union – Cooper.edu

Thea — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:08:44 +0000

The Cooper Union hired D&S to develop a new website for the institution. The previous site had been created in the 1990s and was very dated, both technologically and visually. We developed the information architecture and visual design of the site, based around the school’s new 150th Anniversary logo, and implemented a back-end CMS so that the various departments of the school can easily manage their own content.

User Experience & Creative Direction : Thea Rossi
Back-end Technology : Jason Punzalan
Front-end Build : Kim Howe

Whim Quarterly

Thea — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:07:44 +0000

Dot & Smudge is the design director for Whim Quarterly, a new humor magazine. Whim was founded in late 2009 by Brock Mahan (of TruTV), Paul Underwood (of urbandaddy.com) and Rick Pecoraro. As they describe it:

Whim Quarterly is a magazine printed on actual, flammable paper. Its contributors are mainly underemployed writers, though some have chiseled their way into positions at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and other humor institutions. Taken as a single entity, Whim contributors would have 36 eyes, three Emmy Awards and a soul-crushing amount of personal debt.

Shari Maurer – Sharimaurer.com

Thea — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:46:57 +0000

D&S designed and built this easy-to-update site for Shari Maurer, a young adult author (and gerbera daisy aficionado). Shari wanted to have a simple site that would reach her target readers as well as appeal to a broader audience. It was important that the site be built in a way that would facilitate frequent updates as her books go through the various stages of publication.

Creative Direction : Thea Rossi
Back-end Technology & Front-end Build : Adam Shackelford

Manhattan Edit Workshop – Mewshop.com

Thea — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:39:59 +0000

Since 2005, D&S has designed most of Manhattan Edit Workshop’s promotional materials. In 2008, founder Josh Apter asked us to redesign and rebuild of MEW’s website. The old site was built entirely in Flash and had no content management system, making it impossible for Josh and his team to make updates without hiring Flash developers. D&S developed a new site content plan and site map, and built a CMS so MEW can update the site whenever they want.

User Experience & Creative Direction : Thea Rossi
Back-end Technology : Jesse Sanford
Front-end Build : Kim Howe

Mascots & Mugs

Thea — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:53:43 +0000

Thea designed Mascots & Mugs with Chris Capuozzo of Intergalactico. It was published by Testify Books, a small but very cool publishing company run by Dana Albarella.