“Super immersive without being heavy-handed, achieved through excellent interaction design. This site makes me hungry. Well done.” —Mathew Ranauro (from Communication Arts 2010 Interactive Annual) It’s been really tough to keep this one a secret, because we were thrilled to learn that the site we designed and built for Oregon Bounty was going to be in Communication Arts 2010 Interactive Annual.…
our thinking about Projects & Recognition…
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1 March 2010
Oregon Bounty in Communication Arts Interactive Annual
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15 February 2010
IAMA at SXSW
We just found out that IAmATrailBlazersFan.com (what we affectionately call IAMA) is a finalist in the Community category at the South By Southwest Interactive Web Awards! While we don’t set out to win awards, it is truly an honor to be recognized by our peers for the work we do. We also would never have had the opportunity to create…
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11 February 2010
The Central Cascades
Over a year ago, we started on a journey with Travel Oregon, Washington State Tourism, and National Geographic to discover the best geotourism locations in the Central Cascades. We began by building a site that allowed people to submit geotourism locations to be considered for National Geographic’s Central Cascades MapGuide. With over 1,100 submissions, the Central Cascades team narrowed down…
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5 January 2010
The Great 2009 Substance Recap
Can you believe it? Another year in the record books, and what do we have to show for it? Well, plenty. — February 2009 — Recognizing the changing weather trends for Portland as just one effect of global climate change, we had the opportunity to help do something about it. Working with the visionaries at ClimatePath, we helped rebrand and…
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23 October 2009
Show and Tell: Changing the World/New Communicators line-up
We’re pleased and proud to announce the third iteration of Show and Tell. To coincide with the New Communicators series of events, this time around we’re focusing on the idea of “action as communication.” We asked you to submit presentations on how you’re changing the world through your actions, and we were blown away by the quality and number of…
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20 October 2009
The New Communicators – October 28 / 29 / 30
A little less than three months ago, a group of people sat down, had a cup of coffee, and came up with an idea. Two months ago, this idea had a name: the New Communicators. And now we’re about a week away from this idea being put into action as a “three-day series of events intended to inspire and educate on new…
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6 October 2009
Communication Arts picks Ride Oregon…
You can imagine our pleasant surprise when we received an email a few weeks ago from the folks at Communication Arts. They had seen the work we’d done on RideOregonRide.com and wanted to feature it as their Webpick of the Week. And who are we to say “no” to that? Ride Oregon Ride as Communication Arts Webpick of the Week A huge…
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31 August 2009
Hot Summer Nights: the Substance August recap
And you thought the heat wave in Portland was caused by weather variations and prevailing winds and global warming and what-have-you. Wrong. It’s because we’ve been busy on some hot stuff. Here’s a quick rundown of the things we can tell you about that went down in August, in no particular order… Ride Oregon Ride / RideOregonRide.com Sometimes opportunities arise that combine what you…
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7 August 2009
Substance Rolling Coffee – Thursday, August 13th
In honor of recently launching RideOregonRide.com (more on this in the next few days, but the quick summary is it’s an “everything about cycling in Oregon” website we concepted, designed and developed with Travel Oregon), we thought it would be a fitting reward to get away from our computers for a bit and take a short bike ride. And based…
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6 May 2009
USA Today and Client Courage
USA Today recently posted this story about the Portland Trail Blazers and how the team was one of the early adopters of Twitter. Dan Harbison, Director of Interactive Marketing and Media for the Portland Trail Blazers, is quoted extensively in the article. He was very generous in mentioning Substance and our involvement in the Oden or Durant microsite, and how…
Holy moly, "by bicycle" is live as an option on Google Maps, at least for Portland: http://maps.google.com/
13 hours, 42 minutes ago / twitter.com/substance