Posted: November 19th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: 2.0, design, experience, mootools, website | Tags: design, magazine, portfolio, web design, website | No Comments »
In recent news, my design work has been in another design magazine. This time its
Practical Webdesign magazine. In the December 2008 Issue183 in the .net/showcase/gallery section.
It features about 4 screen shots of some of my work and a written piece which states…
“Jon Montenegro
URL www.jonjon.tv
Company In house (Jon Montenegro)
URL In house
When we talk about navigation, we delve straight into the way we work with the web, yet for some people, a word processor or email client is actually a more familiar way of sharing content with users.
In essence, that’s exactly what ‘experience director’ Jon Montenegro has done with his engaging site.
It simply lists content like emails, with the details in columns. These columns can then be changed to be viewed by client name, format, work, industry or year, much like how emails can be ordered by subject, date or size. The concept is so simple and bare-bones that it’s almost ridiculous that a site could prove successful by using this method. Yet Montenegro knows the power of the familiar and has created something instantly accessible.”
Many, many thanks.
Jon
Posted: January 14th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: brand, design, flash, web | Tags: coloritstudio, design, graphic design, pirated, variousways, web design | No Comments »
So here the update on how coloritstudio.com stole our company’s website. We contacted coloritstudio with a “cease a desist” email. Stating that their flash file and html files were stolen from variousways.com and that they even left our designers name and email in the code.
Well, they responded back, (via email) saying they would look into the matter and get back to us.
Well, one month later, they sent an email with an attachment of their countries business certificate. The email stated…
“Please find attached copyright certificate for color it studio.We consider this matter closed, but should you which to pursue your claim, I suggest we let the courts decide.
Sincerely,
Color It Studio”
We thought that was cute…So we emailed them back stating that the copyright violation was not in the “name” but in the flash file and code.
(Keep in mind that at the time they left our designers name, and email in the code and even continued to pull our stylesheet from our server.
But, we soon found out that they took the time to correct the code and put in their name on the stolen files. They even left our title in the code “Award winning design and development”…which I thought was really ironic considering they stole their design.
So they emailed us back …stating….
“This is really annoying.
We will investigate further and come back to you in the beginning of next week.
Good weekend.”
“…annoying”… You have got to be kidding me. We even informed them that the design they stole was in created in 2004 and was even featured in TASCHEN’s book “WEB DESIGN: STUDIOS”. “This book, in its compact format, displays 90 of the most prominent interactive studios worldwide.” editor: Julius Wiedemann.
We will see what happens… more updates to come…
Posted: June 29th, 2006 | Author: admin | Filed under: actionscript, design, flash, new media art, web | Tags: book, Julius Wiedemann, studios, taschen, web design | No Comments »
Recently I have contacted by Julius Wiedemann. (editor). He informed me that I my design work has been selected to be featured in Taschen’s book called “Web Design: Studios“. Many thanks….
Taschen’s website states…”The web’s hottest design teams. Who are today’s most innovative and successful interactive agencies? Who are the teams creating cutting-edge websites for clients such as Coca Cola, Nike, Adidas, Chrysler, and BMW? For anyone who wants to know who’s who in the world of web design, this is the guide to get. Over 90 of the coolest design studios from over 30 countries are profiled herein, complete with examples of recent work, contact information, list of awards, and favorite tools (such as Flash, HTML, XML, etc.).”
It can be found over at Taschen or Amazon.
