Progress Software came to us to create a new style for their online videos. After a fun and fast-paced creative session, this direction was chosen. It was a fresh new style and allowed them a compelling framework to highlight various vertical markets while giving them a consistent look and feel across the board. The first video spotlights their Responsive Customer Engagement.

Stormship has maintained a number of long-standing client relationships over the years. We’d like to think that it has something to do with the quality of our work, our desire to work as part of the client’s team, and our ability to meet challenging deadlines on occasion. Maybe all three.

Fred Love of Nimble Storage is one of those clients who keeps coming back to Stormship. When asked why, he cited similar reasons to those stated above—proof that we’re not making this stuff up. And while Fred noted that we have created “almost a dozen video projects in six years” with him, he also said “Stormship made us look like a more established player, and that has an immediate impact on our bottom line.” That kind of feedback is worth a million to us.

The result of our latest collaboration is the Nimble Storage 3-Minute Overview video.

Infographics are not a new marketing trend. Like 80′s clothes, they just came back in style. And coincidentally, so has the popularity of comic book heroes. It may seem like an odd combination, but they both provide an excellent opportunity for the left and right sides of our brain to meet in the middle. Accompanying factual information with visual aids helps the audience better understand the data.

So there you have it—the inspiration for the Cloudnerd Chronicles, a marketing piece used at EMCWorld—developed for EMC’s Cloud Storage group—that highlights the benefits of the Atmos Cloud Storage Solution.

Besides, who can pass up an opportunity for a little nerd humor?

You can spend months getting ready for a tradeshow, but the final stages are critical. Working with a team that’s got your back is key. With five years of experience providing graphic solutions for SunEdison, we were up for the challenge. Expand on the current brand for the booth graphics—check. Add a fresh spin to the interactive displays—check. Help make the client’s event a success—check.

If you have a large scale event or project coming up, contact us to learn how we can help your team make it a success.

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Joule Unlimited uses their photosynthetic microorganism to produce clean, renewable fuel using sunlight and waste CO2. With the need to succinctly explain its complex technology to a variety of audiences, Joule engaged our assistance in creating a visual to help answer the big question: How does it work?

Stormship’s extensive experience in taking complex or abstract concepts and making them understandable to a layperson was key to creating the visual Joule needed to explain their Helioculture™ platform.

In September, Joule was named 2012 Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum.

When Josh Hayes—original founder of Stormship—needed a new website to showcase his storyboard and illustration portfolio, he naturally turned to his good friends at Stormship. We’ve stayed close since 1992 when Josh moved out to LA to start a new career in the movie industry. Who would have guessed this alumni of Mass College of Art and Design from York, Maine would be rubbing shoulders with the elite of LA’s television and film industry. (We got to do an X-Files promo project with him once!)

From Josh’s bio:
As an art director and creative consultant Josh has worked with Warner Brothers, Walt Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Columbia/TriStar, IBM, Fidelity Investments, Charles Schwab and many others.

As an LA based storyboard artist, Josh shares a close working relationship with many of the top directors in the industry having worked with the likes of Gore Verbinski, Barry Levinson, Sydney Pollack, Rob Reiner, Michael Bay, and Kathryn Bigelow among others. Over the past fifteen years he’s also storyboarded more than 3,000 commercials including dozens for Super Bowl spots for clients such as Apple, McDonald’s, Intel, Budweiser, Audi, Coca Cola, Nike, Lexus, MasterCard, and American Express.

Josh is also active in network television, having boarded episodes of the series Heroes, Chuck, ER, The Bernie Mac Show, The West Wing, The X-Files, and Saving Grace to name a few. He has also worked on J.J Abrams and Jerry Bruckheimer pilots. His feature film credits include: Elavator Men, Rango, Feast, Alex and Emma, Slow Burn, Cats & Dogs, Kiss the Girls and Hush. He has also boarded several award winning independent short films and even an opening segment for the 2000 Academy Awards.

You can give your sales team an advantage in the field by building a customized app that allows them to deliver information to their customers where they want it, how they want it. With tools like Adobe Air, we can help you build applications that perform across different devices and platforms and increase your team’s productivity and efficiency. Got an idea? Lets talk.

The shoes on your feet, the chair you are sitting on, the bowl you ate your cereal out of, the park you walk your dog in—all of these things were originally visualized by a designer. Whether you are a creative professional, or simply appreciate good design, then you will want to learn about Design Museum Boston, who’s mission is to educate the public on the role of design in their lives.

There are 48,000 designers working throughout Massachusetts in the fields of: advertising, architecture, entertainment, fashion, landscape architecture, urban planning, video game design, web design, graphic design, industrial design, interaction design and interior design. Their work increases the beauty and utility of our built environment and significantly contributes to the public well-being and economy of our state.

Design museum Boston’s mission is to educate the public on the role of design in their lives and the contributions of design within the creative economy. We love this.

It’s rather frightening to think about how long we’ve been using Adobe Flash to deliver interactive content for our clients. Suffice to say that we have hazy memories of installing it on beige-colored Macs. Because of our fluency in the multimedia platform, we’re always looking for compelling ways to enhance the end-user experience for our clients.

One of those ways is to include real-time data to highlight a company’s capabilities and experience. Stormship recently partnered with two companies that wanted to use their real-time data in different and effective ways.

Stormship designed a new corporate website for SunEdison, a leading solar energy services company, that features live data pulled from their Solar Monitoring API. Visitors to SunEdison’s new site can see a live data stream of how many kW Hours of electricity that SunEdison’s solar grid has generated and learn what impact that has had on the environment. Additionally Stormship created an interactive map that displays all of SunEdison’s solar installations worldwide. The map application was built with Adobe Flash and pulls live data—including kW generated per site, and other site specific information—from an external API importing it on a realtime basis.

UTC Power installed a microturbine system for Clarkson University to provide combined cooling, heat and power for a new Technology Advancement Center. Given an opportunity to tell their story within a multimedia display at the center, UTC Power asked Stormship to design a demo to highlight the technology, processes, equipment and energy generated by this system.

Stormship’s solution used xml web services to pull the information directly from the microturbine system allowing the audience to experience a highly stylized and informational Flash presentation showing how much energy—electricity, heat and cooling—that the microturbine has produced up to the minute.

Next time you need inspiration choosing a color palette for a website or a livingroom—check out Kuler. We *love* this site. It has hundreds of fresh and inspiring palettes (and equally inspiring names like “lightly rusted” and “Rooster strut”). And its fun to play with too!