We were stoked to work with our new friends over at OK Rocket on the new Jason Mraz site. You may remember our post a little while back about creating the look & feel for the site…

Well, now we’re winning awards! Well, being showcased for the work on sites we respect a lot. Or rather, a site we worked on is, and OK Rocket is winning awards.. so, that’s an award for us too right? Sweet!

First one from WDS - websitedesignawards.com in the Flash category.

The second from Adobe as the Site Of The Day for 10/28.

Obviously OK Rocket deserves the credit here in creating a kick ass fluid flash site with insane CMS backend, but we’ll gladly stand up next to them and take the credit for the look/feel and conceptualization of course! Yay!

We had the pleasure of spending the last year or so developing Jason’s new photography book - A Thousand Things - under his direction. This was quite a project actually, sifting through literally thousands of Polaroids to come up with the collection showcased here, sourcing production, running sales projections, assisting in the marketing and distribution development, overseeing production, and much more..

I gotta say, developing a book like this is a LOT more work than we anticipated, and the timelines are insanely long, but we think it turned out great - a really clean, solid book that we’re all very proud of. Only 5000 copies were printed on this first pressing and it’s available now from Jason’s webstore, Amazon.com, on the current Mraz store, and ventually bookstores like Borders and Barnes & Nobles.

You can find out more information and see a preview of the contents on the book’s official page (which we also developed the look & feel for), athousandthingsbook.com.

Big thanks to Bill Silva, Jason, the entire BSM crew, the guys over at America’s Printers, and Graham Nash for trusting us with this project!

We almost forgot to post this it happened so quick. Our good friends over at NCompass asked us to create some graphics for the new Jason Mraz Website, based on the look & feel of his new album. It turned into quite a bit more than that, with The Uprising developing all of the look & feel for the site, myspace page, and the rest of his online presence. To be honest, the voiceover is a little bit annoying for our tastes, but it was J’s idea and we can’t knock it since his fans love it. and the site works and looks great. so there you go.

TASK: Create a Design Contest to engage the fan base, encourage creativity, develop new fan-generated merchandise pieces for the upcoming album cycle, and spark online interest in “new happenings” as part of the early album setup online marketing campaign.

SOLUTION: Created a custom “Design Contest ‘08″ Microsite and “Backstage” Content Management System [archived here] based around the existing Official Website design and aesthetic. The microsite supplied the fan base with the call to action and all details on the contest and submission process. Contestants used this microsite to submit their entries, which were placed into a database and immediately posted to the “Backstage” Content Management System. The “Backstage” was a password protected CMS which allowed Jason and his management to login and vote on each individual entry. Entries were sorted based on an average of all votes to easily determine the winning entries.

OUTCOME: Over 650 unique submissions were received, and because of the easy to use “Backstage” CMS system, winners were selected in a matter of days and instantly posted to the site. Winning submissions were instantly taken into production and under our watchful eye have been produced and are currently being rolled out on tour and the Jason Mraz Webstore.

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lot’s of new apparel stuff to go up on the site soon.. The entire new Foo Fighters merch line, new Jason Mraz merch, a new Artus design, Hooves packaging, Mae merch, Brandi Carlile merch, TSQ merch.. a bunch of various work for Decca Records, Jittery Dog Productions, Margaret Cho.. tons of merch / product development for Foo Fighters, Hooves, Jason Mraz, Jimmy Eat World, Liam Sullivan, Margaret Cho, and TSQ.. and we’ve been doing a bunch of web work these days (check the web section for the most recent updates).

a ton of new stuff in the cooker.. the Boyz II Men “Motown” mini flash site, Three Graces (Decca artist) full website, Sam Phillips album packaging / website / merch, People album packaging, Dave Melillo mini site, and tons more consulting..

needless to say, we’re busy. and, if you’re an art or marketing student in the LA area, we’re looking for an intern in each area to help us grow. so, click contact and send us your stuff already!

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