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Atomicdust took home three of the coveted Addy Awards from Ad Club St. Louis during last Thursday's show at Copia Restaurant & Winegarden.
Our monthly wallpapers won a Gold Addy for Self Promotion, Non-Traditional, and our work on the Yurbuds website landed us with two Silver Addys in the Interactive Media category - one for Websites, Consumer HTML, Products, and the other for its Mobile Website.
Mon, February 20 | By James Dixson | Posted in Culture, Our Work, Mobile, St. Louis, Web Design
It’s that time of year again, when the St. Louis Ad Club shares its love with local agencies and designers. No, not with Valentines, but with ADDY award nominations. Atomicdust earned three nominations for the coveted awards.
Our designers earned a nod for their wallpapers, which are posted each month to our blog. In addition, our web work for Yurbuds (which we made with our friends at Halski Studio) was nominated in two categories, once for the main website and again for the mobile, app-like version.
We’re thrilled to be recognized alongside so many talented companies, and look forward to toasting the winners at the awards show on Thursday, Feb. 16.
Wed, February 8 | By James Dixson | Posted in Culture, Our Work, Mobile, St. Louis, Web Design
A few months ago, we were thrilled to be asked by the St. Louis AIGA to help promote their annual design competition. This was a true honor for us, as we respect the AIGA and share their mission to celebrate great design. Of course, in agreeing to take on the project, it meant designing for an audience that lives and breathes design every day. No pressure.
Tue, February 7 | By Mike Spakowski | Posted in Culture, Our Work, Design, Mobile, St. Louis, Web Design
Here at Atomicdust, we're all about using artistic expression to inspire. That's why we're thrilled to open our doors to host an exhibit for our friend and fellow St. Louis designer, Carlos Zamora. Join us on Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 6 p.m. for this special glimpse into Havana's cultural scene. The exhibit, entitled CUBACARTEL: The Bridge Generation, will feature 50 posters from Carlos' own private collection, along with the debut of Miami artist Eduardo Sarmiento's latest poster, printed in St. Louis by All Along Press.
I'm an iPad junkie (I know, it's a huge shock to you all). Moreover, I often use it to take notes, access my calendar, sketch out ideas, and generally hash out ideas while I'm at work. It's become my digital sketchbook, a device with unlimited potential for assisting me in fleshing out ideas.
For the past few weeks, I've been using Studio Neat's Cosmonaut stylus instead of my old Wal-Mart brand capacitive stylus. It's been a great experience, though not without quirks.
Read more about Jason's experience with Studio Neat's Cosmonaut stylus.
Tue, January 31 | By Jason Stoff | Posted in Culture, Design, Mobile, Technology
We don’t typically work late into the night. It’s not the most productive use of time. The mind tends to wander. And sometimes silliness occurs.
One late night, while waiting for a designer (Katie) to hurry up and finish working on something, we found ourselves huddled around her desk, right next to the photocopier.
Jesse scanned his face, rolled it as the light passed, creating this weirdly creepy, artsy print, which (of course) we instantly had to post on Facebook.
So then we all took turns, laughing and being creeped out by the results, and sharing (and grossing people out) on Facebook.
We wanted to share the experience, but how do you lure people into your office to scan their faces on a copier? Donate to a charity each time they do!
Atomicdust presents ‘Face Off Against Hunger’.
For every person that comes by our office, scans their face on the copier, and lets us post it on Facebook, we’ll donate $5 to St. Louis Food Outreach. Up to $5,000.
And in a couple months, we’ll buy some beer and host a ‘gallery show’ of all the faces we scanned in our office.
So stop by, have fun and help a great St. Louis charity!
And here's a link to the photos on Facebook.
Fri, January 27 | By Mike Spakowski | Posted in Culture, St. Louis
The Riverfront Times published it's list of finalists for the 2012 St. Louis Web Awards, and Atomicdust made the cut. The winners will be announced on January 24th, during a special event at the Old Rock House.
We were nominated for two categories this year, Best Use of Facebook to Promote a Business/Org and Best Designed Website. We would also like to give Jason Stoff, designer and photographer at Atomicdust, kudos for having his personal site, Encor.es, make the list as a finalist for the Best Photostream/Flickr category.
To see the complete list of finalists, including some of our friends from Midtown Alley visit RFT's site.
See Danielle's post (Atomicdust wins ‘Best Designed Website’ at RFT’s Web Awards) for details.
Tue, January 17 | By James Dixson | Posted in Culture, Social Media, St. Louis, Web Design
We are flattered that the St. Louis Egotist decided to feature us in their Agency Insider series. The St. Louis Egotist seves up news on design, advertising and other creative resources to the Missouri advertising community with entertaining irreverence.
We opened the doors of our new Midtown Alley office for a tour as well as shared a few insights into what we do, and what we believe in.
Read the full story on the St. Louis Egotist.
Mon, January 16 | By James Dixson | Posted in Culture, St. Louis
We are officially settled into our new office at 3021 Locust. We've had an open house, a party for our clients and participated in the AdSaint Agency Crawl. Everyone at Atomicdust appriciates the sense of community and comradery Midtown Alley offers for creative agencies and other businesses in the corridor between Grand and Jefferson.
And it seems the Post-Dispatch realized the neighborhood had something special going on as well. Midtown Alley made the front page of the business section and was praised as becoming, "to marketing in St. Louis what Tin Pan Alley was to songwriting in New York a hundred years ago."
To read the Post-Dispatch article click through to StlToday.com.
Fri, January 13 | By James Dixson | Posted in Culture, St. Louis
We're taking a break over the holidays to spend some time with our families and friends. We will be out of the office from Monday, December 26 through January 1, but will be back at it on Monday, January 2.
We wish you and your family a joy-filled and safe holiday season and a Happy New Year!
Sat, December 24 | By Danielle Hohmeier | Posted in Culture
