February 23, 2008

Just launched! Stylish Villas

This began as a compact idea, a small little side project during one of the busiest times of the year at Lateral Group. Yet, it turned into a full blown labour of passion and enthusiasm, driven by Nick Dixon.

Stylish Villas covers the upper range of holiday property rentals in one of the most beautiful parts of Mallorca – the Pollença area in the northern, more mountainous region of the island. While the villas are being built and styled, the website now takes care of all booking, marketing, online-advertisement and networking.

January 21, 2008

Just launched! Christos Rafalides' "Emarel Music"

As a new record label, music brand, production company, freshly founded by US vibist Christos Rafalides, Emarel Music [M R L = melody, rhythm, lyrics] has just been added to our portfolio. The complete branding, website and developement of all relevant collateral rests on our excited shoulders. There will be more soon, but so far a rapidly constructed holding page needs to promise what the project will do its best to keep in weeks and months to come.
Visit the first steps...

January 02, 2008

Recruiting: Junior (Web) Designer — London based

At Lateral Group we are currently recruiting for the position of "Junior (Web) Designer" and are looking for a passionate, talented and enthusiastic design graduate with a natural feel for consumer design and a solid web background.
Find out more here...

December 12, 2007

E-mail-able Jazz

We have been focusing on Siula Grande projects recently, but still found time to create a few online-teasers for the usual suspects. Here's some of the latest in-box glory:

July 30, 2007

live: new website for the Mason Brothers

This was an extremely exciting and satisfying project to work on for us. Brad and Elliot Mason, British born NY based allround Jazz musicians, approached us to come up with a unique style for their new website.

Having pimped their MySpace page last year, the next logical step was to bring their official site in tune with an elegant, yet dynamic design to showcase their music and provide them with an online platform for the media and their ever growing fan base.

The new Mason Brother's website launched yesterday on www.masonbrothersband.com.
 

July 15, 2007

AGROSOLAR project

Germany and UK based alternative energy experts AGROSOLAR have just commissioned an extensive website project to nadworks. We are over the moon (or rather "over the sun") to be able to get involved in this innovative and exciting new idea of providing clean power solutions to the agricultural sector. AGROSOLAR are developing and building bespoke renewable energy sources for individual farming communities.

We have so far equipped AGROSOLAR with a fresh corporate identity and are now in the process of creating their complex website - currently being built on www.agrosolar.net.
 

July 06, 2007

Creating an enjoyable experience

Survival in business depends on your ability to communicate effectively through the internet. What is new is the realisation that just having any old website isn’t enough. The quality of your site and the nature of its content are paramount and your ability to communicate with your audience is the key.

A good website is built on two basic truths—that the internet is an interactive medium and that the end user is in fact human. In other words, it is meant to be an experience. As with any adventure, a little strategic thought is needed to ensure that the experience is enjoyable...
(from Human-To-Human Design, by Sharon Lee)
 

June 12, 2007

Joe Locke on working with nadworks

"Having a website designed by Nadworks has been an incredible asset to my career as a musician. Nadja' s intelligent and intuitive design ideas, her understanding of cutting edge technology, and a beautiful aesthetic sense all come together to represent me and my work in the best way possible. Simply put, she's the best."

Joe Locke [vibraphonist/recording artist]
 

May 28, 2007

on Design

Design is largely an exercise in creating or suggesting contrasts in an effort to convey meaning.

"If you’re a designer, you work to communicate and convey meaning. So it’s important that you understand the mechanisms by which things and ideas acquire meaning; more than any other factor, your grasp of these fundamentals determines your ability to communicate effectively. Without fundamentals, you will flounder when faced with complex design challenges or constraints." [...]

Read the full article by Andy Rutledge
 

February 27, 2007

TSYJO website launched

The "Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra" is now represented online with a brand new website, available on www.tsyjo.com. This dynamic band, packed with enthusiastic, young talent will be going on tour in Scotland this March and urgently needed a "virtual home" to attract supporters and potential sponsors.

The TSYJO's "SHELL Jazz Exploration Tour in March 2007" was photo-documented by nadworks. [visit the gallery]
 

February 15, 2007

Siula Grande Design ...continued

nadworks' subdivision for offline design solutions has now officially been added to the portfolio and will be presenting itself with a brand new website soon, on www.siulagrande.com. Siula Grande first stepped onto the paper scene in 2005, when they developed the CD packaging for the Joe Locke / Christos Rafalides album "Van Gogh by Numbers" (Wire Walker). First regarded as a one-off creative challenge, Siula Grande has decided to line up new projects for 2007, including trade fair stall and brochure design for the mVibe (vanderPlas Percussion, NL) and concert tour advertisement for the 'Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra'.

What's with the name "Siula Grande"?
 

January 10, 2007

new official Tommy Smith website goes live

No.1 Scottish saxophonist, composer and educator -- Jazz musician Dr. Tommy Smith -- just launched his brand new official website and nadworks' latest music design project, www.tommysmith.co.uk. Building on our experience in presenting the Jazz genre on the web, by developing strong user-focused and cross-browser/-platform compatible concepts, Tommy Smith's site is now another exciting jewel in our portfolio. It is providing Tommy with the tool he needs to communicate his music and gives fans and promoters the chance to catch up with the artist's creative projects.
 

September 04, 2006

Pimping MySpace

It's not the most pleasurable of jobs, as it mainly consists of finding sinsible and often nitty-gritty workarounds for extremely bulky and out-of-date html. Nevertheless we have recently agreed to pimp a few mySpace pages on request - with the help of some oversized graphics and strategically placed CSS.
Here are a few desperately stylish pimpages for some of our musical friends.

By now, the MySpacers will not be able to easily upgrade to a more W3C compliant structure, as this would immediately crash thousands of re-designed and styled personal pages. Now that would be a laugh...

August 01, 2006

SlideShowPro for Flash MX and 8

Todd Dominey has developed this extremely neat and customisable tool, which is probably one of the best Flash components I have worked with so far. And he's improving it further. In addition with SlideShow Director it provides highly compatible display option for image heavy websites, portfolios and web galleries. Check out Todd's other work, too. The man knows his stuff!

July 31, 2006

Oh, Scottish Jazz

We're currently putting the first drafts together for a new web concept for Scottish Saxophonist and Composer Tommy Smith. Parallel to that his Youth Jazz Orchestra will get its own web presence.

June 06, 2006

MySpace.com: awful design v. sky-high page views

Mike Davidson has written an interesting article noting that MySpace has intentionally avoided improvements at usability under the rationale that poor usability often results in more clicks and hence more page views, which in turn generates more advertising revenue.
 

May 27, 2006

World Cup 2006 Charity Predict-A-Score

Support Toni with her World Cup 2006 Predicts-A-Score! Even Football novices should throw in their 5er and join.
Play here »   |   Donate here »

The competition has been setup to raise funds for the North London Hospice for which Toni has already organised various charity events in the past.
 

May 11, 2006

the Blog's been kicked off

The more "nad" than "works" related entries will be going into the blog from now on. It's been long coming as keeping things tidy and separate became the most pressing issue when Schoppenhauer started collecting Portuguese left-foot socks. So here's the blog (and again, this type of entry should not be here).

March 26, 2006

JoeLocke.com goes live

The latest project -jazz musician Joe Locke's new official website - finally goes live onwww.joelocke.com. Main aim of this extensive web representation was to built a clean and accessible html-based communication platform reflecting the artist's multi-faceted career, while keeping the site fresh and catering for promotional needs - members of the press, fans, record labels, musical projects...

March 03, 2006

A fabulous source for development solutions for initial design ideas. Lokesh Dhakar deserves a tripple hurray for his great work. >>