Why work with us? Because we’re good at what we do: Digital Strategy, Design and Technology. We have the success stories and awards to prove it. But we have learned that the reason people work with us is also because we are actually enjoyable to work with. 

Yes, we work on computers - everyone works on computers - but we’re people who like to talk as much as we type. We connect over the net, and we connect through ideas. We’ll explain things clearly, we’ll develop the scope together, and we’ll celebrate our milestones with good wine.

There are enough assholes who do great work. To us, good relationships are just as important as good business opportunities. And when both are present, everybody wins - and the end product exceeds expectations.

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I presented the Yellow Bird Project case study ("Le (re)naissance d'une marque sur le web") at last week's Grafika Day on Web Design. In it, I shed some light on what it's like to create a web-focused brand from the ground up, and what challenges we faced during the conception and development of the YBP website. You can download the presentation here (French-only, a 10mb PDF), and visit theYellow Bird Project website (in effect, the end result of the presentation!) here. There's some meat missing given the absence of audio/video, but it's still a good overview of the process.

In a meeting this week to kick off a new web project, our clients asked us when and how they should be using Facebook and Twitter to complement the news feed on their site. Though they are presently using a Facebook and Twitter account to get some information "out there", they aren't sure how to take advantage of these spaces. Though we discussed some things briefly in the meeting, I thought I'd post a few more thoughts since I'm sure other marketers, clients and otherwise, are wondering the same thing...

The new year at Dynamo has already gotten off to a great start. We’ve got some great projects in the pipeline (you’ll be finding out about those soon), we’re making strides on our work-in-progress, and we’re busy planning our annual team retreat in February. With this planning comes a chance to reflect on what we have accomplished in 2009 as well as what opportunities lie ahead. Since we had a number of significant milestones in 2009, I thought I’d share a few of my favourite with you...

For the last two weeks, we've been mastering our backwards typography skills, working toward the common goal of putting our twelve, street level windows on Rue St. Pierre to good use. Inspired by the Fifty People, One Question Project, we decided to pose a question via our windows, in hopes of collecting some interesting answers from passers-by. As people email us their answers, we draw them on the windows in real time.

So go ahead and ask yourself: Where would you wish to wake up tomorrow? ...

Most of our larger projects begin only after we spend time outlining the scope of work and the different deliverables. For smaller projects, though - the kind borne out of random "aha moments" or spontaneous brainstorming - we've learned to cut down the inefficiency inherent in proposals by sketching out our ideas and...

I’ve just wrapped up another productive session of my personal “genius time”. I was working on a particularly tricky task at the tail end of my day yesterday and I wasn’t making very good progress - I kept making a series of small mistakes that were setting me back. I decided to shut down my computer and re-visit the same chunks of code this morning, during my “genius time”. Turns out it was the right thing to do. I ended up figuring out a far more elegant solution to my problem, a solution I just couldn’t see the day before.

Here, you’ll find none of the glorified, perfect and stagnant portfolio trimmings you’d normally expect to see on a design studio website. Instead, here you are part of our journey – experiencing our challenges, successes, deep thinking and of course, the design output. This is what life at Dynamo is like. Work. Play. And everything in between. Take what you can from it and let us know what you think.

Dynamo is a creative communications design studio populated with visual storytellers and design thinkers.

We create and produce engaging design, communications, branding and content tools for business and culture, with a primary focus on customized interactive web solutions and robust, project-tailored content management systems (web apps) with great depth and functionality. Our ability and experience in supporting and complimenting online initiatives with offline deliverables such as full branding suites including identity, print collateral, packaging and other strategic vehicles allows us to service clientele in a full spectrum. We are an integrated agency...