Dynamo is an interactive design agency in Old Montreal. We are a small, dedicated team of designers, programmers and planners, and we are looking for someone special to join our team.

Here's what you'll be doing:

You'll be the guardian of all things frontend for your team. You'll work with a designer and programmer to deliver beautifully designed and expertly crafted sites and applications.

More specifically, you will be:

Discussing features and how best to implement them with your team with a particular emphasis on usability and re-usability
Developing the view layer with HAML + SASS (our apps are all developed on Rails)
Writing copious amounts of clean Javascript
Actively contributing to our shared knowledge and codebases
Working in an agile-driven environment

Here's what we are looking for:

We want to hire a friendly, organized, design-savvy geek.

More specifically, we want:

Someone who loves the web as much as they love a challenge,
A strong communicator: Someone who writes well and communicates clearly,
An organized worker: There are a number of different projects on the go - keeping track of everything is key,
A difference maker.
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Here's how to apply:

Send us an email and tell us why can't afford not to hire you. While you're at it, can you give us the long-hand syntax for the following CSS rule:

div { background: #FFF url("dynamo.jpg") top left no-repeat }

We love to look at code - so please don't be shy to share additional samples of your work.

You can send the above to our jobs@goDynamo.com email address. We are looking forward to hearing from you.

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For more about Dynamo, visit http://www.goDynamo.com, or visit us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/dynamomtl

Salary range: 40-60K/year (depending on experience)

Dynamo is an interactive design agency in Old Montreal. We are a small, dedicated team of designers, programmers and planners, and we are looking for someone special to join our team. This job is sometimes called different things - hence the slash in the title above. The important things are who we are looking for and what you'll be doing. So...

Here's what you'll be doing:

You will responsible, along with our Account Manager, for managing our projects: estimates, iterations, client approvals, internal resources, timelines and client communication.

More specifically, you will be:

• Running our projects using the Agile Methodology (if you are unfamiliar with Agile, visit http://agilemanifesto.org/)
• Managing a team of people: designers, programmers, copywriters, suppliers and more,
• Managing a number of different projects at the same time (they could be sites, Facebook applications, mobile apps, identity designs, etc.),
• Working with the Account Manager to form an amazingly responsive, trustworthy, strategic team both internally and externally.

Here's what we are looking for:

We want to hire a friendly, organized, design-savvy nerd.

More specifically, we want:

• Someone who loves the web - a background in web design or programming is a huge asset,
• A strong communicator: Someone who writes well and communicates clearly,
• An organized worker: There are a number of different projects on the go - keeping track of everything is key,
• A bilingual speaker, ideally, who is strong in both English and French.

Here's how to apply:

Please submit a cover letter explaining:

Why you want to help manage projects and clients specifically at Dynamo, How you will approach having a number of projects, deliverable and clients on the go at the same time.

Also, attach the following writing sample:

• Respond to a customer who has requested a feature addition (previously not discussed) one week before her site is scheduled to launch: specifically, she would like us to add a search box in the header of the site.

You can send the above, along with your CV, to our jobs@goDynamo.com email address. We are looking forward to hear from you.

Dynamo is expanding and seeking supertalent. We are actively searching for a passionate mid-level or senior designer who lives and breathes design in the digital sphere. With a core focus on Web, but with the chops to bust out on Print, Identity and Packaging - there is no barrier to your enthusiastic and multidisciplinary thirst for visual problem-solving...

Dynamo is currently seeking another über-talented design technologist to join our team. 

If you're looking to flex your HTML/CSS/JS/Rails muscles in a challenging and fun environment, please check out the full description and send your resume to careers[at]goDynamo.com.

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.

Check it out here.

Dynamo is participating in Design Montréal's Open House 2010. Montréal designers, architects and fashion creators will be opening their doors to the public on May 1 & 2, from noon to 5pm.

Dynamo will be exposing our digital work on several workstations for visitors to browse and explore, and branding and other print and packaging projects will...

Although we were notified a few months ago, today we received our lavish certificate of merit and a copy of the international design annual we're in. Stay tuned for more YBP updates, as we're designing for a new book project with Andy Miller, and the T-Shirt we designed for Sophie Tweed Simmons' L.A. band Whispertown 2000 is hot off the silkscreen presses and will be available at the ybp store soon!

Take an in-depth listen to our past, present and future as Bryan and Alex represent for Dynamo in this hour-long in-depth interview with our faithful founders on CJAD/FullerLandau's entrepreneurial business show "What keeps you up at night?". The full interview can be listened to here in m4a format (100MB) : http://bit.ly/8Z7odq or here in MP3 format (40MB) : http://bit.ly/9QiiSM

cheers, dynamo!

After a short and intense push just before the holidays, we flipped the switch to our online shop beta and are now happily processing orders for a variety of Dynamo-designed products. The shop has launched with 5 products to date, including our new self-published book on social media status messaging, Status, Vol. I hot off the press...

UPDATE: Pierre Boivin, president of the Montreal Canadiens, lends his support to Ryan's 12000km.org campaign. The video below, put together by Ryan's friends Jack Lee and Meghan Leaver, features a slideshow of images from Ryan's trip as well as a note from Mr. Boivin at the end. Congrats Ryan!

In a recent post on their blog, Webdesignerdepot.com has listed Yellow Bird among a group of 25 sites they feel exemplify traditional design rules coming together with "Web 2.0" standards. 

Here's what they said:

At first glance this site might appear a bit disheveled or scattered, but the more I look at it, and the more I browse through its pages, the more I’ve noticed the strength of its organization. Better yet, the Indie-inspired design really starts to appeal the longer the stay, and the scattered look of the site actually fits the theme....

12000km.org is about Ryan Stotland, a 22-year-old brave Canadian (and fellow Montrealer) who just left for a 4-month bicycle trip across South America, that will cover 7 countries and 12,000 km. To give a deeper meaning to that personal challenge, Ryan decided to use this opportunity to raise money for two causes close to his heart: skin cancer and climate change. Ryan has chosen the Jewish General Hospital and the David Suzuki Foundations as the beneficiaries for the event. All proceeds raised will be evenly divided between these two organizations.

Dynamo is honored by the award of a silver medal to our label design for Wayne Gretzky Estates 2005 No99 Vidal Ice Wine at the prestigious 2008 Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits competition, where judges noted "use of type and color to carry the design, clean, simple, striking" is much appreciated praise. More than 4,000 wines were submitted...

We’re extremely excited to welcome the newest member of Dynamo’s client roster: Yellow Bird Project. YBP collaborates with independent musicians and artists to produce t-shirts and other goods to benefit charities and socially-conscious organizations. The shirts are designed by the bands themselves, and the profits generated are turned over to the bands’ charity of choice...

Update: the ALDO microsite won an FWA!

We're excited to announce the latest brand-building, interactive experience brought to you by Dynamo and ALDO: Connect the Dots. As part of the brand’s “Connect the Dots” Summer campaign being broadcast throughout North American and the UK, Dynamo has launched a microsite enabling visitors to turn their photos into connect-the-dots puzzles and then send them to friends to solve online...