Featured Work

Here are some of the projects we've completed in the last few years.

Amistad Digital Resource

[ XHTML + CSS development ]

Amistad Digital Resource

Working from an exhaustive collection of video files, audio files, photographs and essays, Russ built the phase I version of this exciting online initiative.More

Artists' Resource Center

[ Drupal CMS development, XHTML + CSS development ]

Artists Resource Center

Columbia University's School of the Arts online Artists' Resource Center (ARC) presents an exhaustive list of funding opportunities, along with select professional development and career resources, for students and alumni in Film, Theatre, Visual Arts, and Writing. Russ built the site using the open source CMS Drupal, integrating some custom search code to sort through the large database of scholarship opportunities.More

Best Practices in Online Fundraising

[ Web consulting, writing & editing ]

Columbia lion

Columbia University asked Russ to research best practices for fundraising websites and to study how certain online tools (e.g., Flash- and HTML-enabled email) affected solicitation success.More

Chinese Paper Gods

[ XHTML + CSS Development ]

Chinese Paper Gods

This site for the Columbia University Starr East Asian Library presents a unique collection of Chinese woodcut prints.More

Ed Kopel Architects

[ Site Design, XHTML + CSS development ]

Ed Kopel Architects

Ed Kopel, an New York-based architect, had a stunning collection of photos of his completed work but it was over-shadowed by a cluttered site with an awkward navigational scheme.More

Global Health Research Center of Central Asia

[ Drupal CMS, XHTML + CSS development ]

Institute for Study of Europe

The Columbia University Global Health Research Center of Central Asia addresses a range of global health challenges: HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), tuberculosis, hepatitis C, substance abuse, malnutrition, mental health and other threats to health. The center needed an easy-to-maintain website and the open source content management system Drupal was the answer. More

Hanes Wine Review

[ Site Design, XHTML + CSS development ]

Hanes Wine Review

Marc Hanes is a slightly off-beat wine critic who needed a website to display his very popular wine newsletter, The Hanes Wine Review. Each monthly newsletter contains a lead article and a long series of wine reviews -- in short, lots of text.More

Immigrant Heritage Trail

[ Drupal CMS development, XHTML + CSS development ]

Immigrant Heritage Trail

This site for the Lower East Side Tenement Museum examines immigrant life in New York City through an evocative collage of Google maps, photographs and online essays.More

Institute for the Study of Europe

[ Drupal CMS development, XHTML + CSS development ]

Institute for Study of Europe

This institute at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs needed a new website that was easy to maintain by non-techies. The answer: the open source content management system Drupal.More

LEGO Mindstorms

[ Information architecture, writing & editing ]

LEGO robot

When LEGO started work on the second version of their hit product, the LEGO Mindstorms Robotics Invention Set, they contacted Russ to write the help system for its programming interface.More

LEGO.com Games

[ Management, creative direction ]

Junkbot screenshot

Russ spent seven years working at the LEGO Company, makers of the famous building bricks. He recruited and managed a team of eight producers that went on to develop some of LEGO.com's best games for kids.More

Malick Contractors

[ Art direction, Flash (w/Actionscript), XHTML, Javascript ]

Malick Contractors

Malick Contractors, Inc. runs a very successful home remodeling business in the New York metropolitan area. What they didn't have was a website that matched the craftsmenship of their work.More

Manhattanville Expansion

[ XHTML & CSS coding ]

Proposed Manhattanville building

Columbia University has proposed building a new campus over 17 acres of West Harlem in an area called Manhattanville. The university had a pre-existing information website describing the project but it was sorely in need of an overhaul.More

Medallion Retail

[ Flash/Actionscript ]

Medallion illustration

Medallion Retail is a leading agency specializing in the design and production of retail in-store promotions. Medallion's creative team wanted to freshen up its website by adding some Flash animation and doing a general site tune-up.More

Office of the Provost

[ Drupal CMS development, XHTML + CSS development ]

Office of the Provost

Columbia University's Office of the Provost needed an elegant website that was easy to update. The open source content management system Drupal coupled with a spiffy design was just the ticket, eliciting raves from the client.More

Science and Technology Ventures

[ Joomla CMS configuration, XHTML + CSS development ]

Science and Technology Ventures

This is a Joomla CMS site for Columbia University's Science and Technology Ventures group that handles all of the university's technology patent work. More

Seeing the City: Sloan's New York

[ XHTML + CSS development ]

John Sloan

Working from a design by Sasha Mysakova at Columbia University's Digital Knowledge Ventures, Russ built the companion website for the exhibit.More

St. Ignatius Loyola

[ Design, XHTML & CSS coding, Expression Engine CMS ]

Screenshot of Stignatiusloyola.org

A complete redesign and Expression Engine CMS installation for an active Catholic parishMore

Synthetica LLC

[ XHTML, CSS, Flash (w/Actionscript) ]

Synthetica LLC thumbnail

Synthetica LLC. is new venture fund that needed to get a site up in a hurry. The problem: their previous developer had bolted and left them with a mess.More

 

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