Create Matter Blog

Creating a Mobile Experience for a Brand Already on the Go.

If there’s anything that we at Atomicdust love more than technology and music, it’s exercising (not true).

Actually, it’s challenges that we love. And recently, we ran up against one heck of a design challenge.

Regular readers of our blog may recall a recent collaboration with our friends from Halski Design for the St. Louis based consumer electronics company, Yurbuds. Yurbuds.com received many accolades, and when we were asked to take that experience and translate it to the touch screen of the iPad (largely for Apple Store employees to demo for their customers) and mobile devices, we were happy to oblige.

Read about Yurbuds mobile and iPad development.

A Roadmap for Successful Healthcare Marketing

Everyone in healthcare is talking about changes and the uncertainty that lies ahead. Unfortunately, as companies try to connect their products with those pain points, many are saying exactly the same things. Clients in this industry come to us to polish and promote their brands through bold statements – and that’s exactly what we did for Elsevier’s Revenue Cycle eLearning (RCE).

RCE asked us to promote their revenue cycle management training tools that support the ICD-10 changeover, due in 2013. Their educational products are numerous and complicated to describe, in an industry already buzzing with marketers, experts and lawmakers all fighting for attention in the space. Read A 'Roadmap for Successful Healthcare Marketing'

You Asked For It! November Wallpapers from Atomicdust

So... We didn’t plan on posting a new set of wallpapers this month. We’ve been busier than usual with the move to the new office and we honestly thought, ‘Hey, they won’t mind if we skip this month.’

Boy, were we wrong.

You guys emailed us, instant messaged us, tweeted us and posted on our Facebook page. You begged to know when you’d be able to download the new designs. You told us that (though you loved them originally) you were sick of looking at your October background.

So, these wallpapers are for you - Our loyal (and yet, somewhat demanding) fans. You know who you are.

Thanks for keeping us on the ball.
 

Join Us on Thursday for the AIGA Annual Meeting

This Thursday, creative minds from all over St. Louis will meet at the Centene Center for the Arts for AIGA St. Louis' Annual Meeting. The event celebrates the best in St. Louis design and honors local creatives that have contributed to our culture. It will include print demos by Work/Play and a presentation on design strategy from Rochelle Seltzer. Best of all, the event is free for members and students, and just $10.80 for non-members. 

October Wallpapers from Atomicdust

Can you believe it's been a full year since we brought you our first set of monthly wallpaper designs? It all started as a way to showcase our stellar design team, and this month is no exception. 

Atomicdust Designs New Branding and Website for Nonprofit, St. Louis BWorks.

We’re proud to call the city of St. Louis home. It’s fueled by passionate people who are committed to making St. Louis a better place to live. That’s why we were thrilled to work with St. Louis BWorks to make creative matter in the community.

After 15 years in the Shaw neighborhood of St. Louis City, St. Louis BWorks was preparing to move to a new, larger location on Menard in Soulard. It was the perfect opportunity for a rebrand, including new identity, tagline, website and social media strategy.

Read more about our branding and design work for St. Louis Bworks.

Atomicdust wins 23 Targeted Advertising and Marketing (TAM) Awards

Looks like we’ve set a new record for ourselves! Last night, we won 23 awards at the annual Business Marketing Association show, including six Best-in-Class and the People’s Choice award.

From the Starlight Room atop the Chase Park Plaza, the future of marketing and advertising in St. Louis looks bright – as evidenced by the record number of entries in the 2011 Targeted Advertising and Marketing (TAM) Awards. They received more than 250 entries for 32 categories, celebrating advertising in all forms - printed pieces, websites, three-dimensional displays and more.

The 23 awards we took home included honors for websites, print campaigns, social media, logo design, trade show graphics and email campaigns. We were also recognized with the People’s Choice Award, for a multifaceted superhero-themed campaign created for Mosby’s Nursing Suite, and earned a sweep of the blog category.

The annual awards show is the only one dedicated exclusively to honoring business-to-business marketing excellence. It is sponsored by the St. Louis chapter of the Business Marketing Association.

A big congratulations are in order for the whole Atomicdust team. Thank you to all the designers, developers, copywriters and account managers that work hard to produce award-winning work from year to year!
 

See photos of the event on our Facebook page

Click here to see the complete list of Atomicdust’s 2011 TAM awards

September Wallpapers from Atomicdust

Labor Day has come and gone, the air is crisp and chilly, and college football season has started. It's officially fall and you know what that means...

Starbuck's Pumpkin Spice Latte's are back!?

Well, yes, but we're more excited about our new wallpaper designs! Each month, the creative team makes a new set of wallpapers perfect for desktops, smartphones and iPads. Go ahead and click through, find your favorite and download. And then, go treat yourself to a latte. You deserve it. 

Stay Cool with New Wallpapers from Atomicdust

Right now, there's an excessive heat warning in our hometown that is expected to last probably until mid-October. So while we're sweating it out ('It's not the heat, it's the humidity!'), at least our desktops, iPhones and iPads will be cool with these new August-inspired backgrounds. Check out each design and then click on your favorite to download. 

Atomicdust Designer Matt Roeser Featured in St. Louis Post-Dispatch

As we’ve mentioned a few times before, Senior Designer Matt Roeser spends some of his free time moonlighting as.... well, a designer.

Matt’s been redesigning book cover art over on his New Cover blog since September 2010 and has seen his fair share of recognition from design websites and blogs, but now he’s hit the big time. Not only will his design be featured on Max Barry’s novel, Machine Man, but he got a write-up in a little newspaper named the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (ever heard of it?).

We’re really proud of Matt’s work and happy to call this ‘massive geek’ one of our own. Check out the full article at STLToday.com.  

Photo Credit: David Carson  •  dcarson@post-dispatch.com