January 2010
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Cookhouse Branding and Website →
Cookhouse was conceived to enhance personal and professional communities, to encourage a culture of preparing meals in the interest of health, and to encourage personal decisions supporting local sustainability.
May 2009
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Font Size Calculator - iPhone
Free at the iTunes Store
People choose font sizes every day, yet seldom have a good reason for their choices. The Font Size Calculator provides a simple yet powerful tool for making statistically-informed font-size decisions.
Compatible Devices iPhone and iPod Touch
A Tool for Design
Enter viewing distance (in feet or meters) and the Font Size Calculator computes the minimum font size. Adjust...
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MidState Precast Branding and Website →
MidState Precast provides high value, low-cost structural and architectural precast/prestressed concrete components, preconstruction, design-build services and installation services to the construction industry.
February 2009
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Charles Pankow Foundation Branding
The Charles Pankow Foundation (CPF) was established in 2004 by Charles J. Pankow, founder of Pankow Builders and a pioneer in the construction industry. The foundation carries on his legacy to support and advance the professional ideals and beliefs championed by Mr. Pankow during his lifetime: to provide the public with improved quality, efficiency, and value of buildings by advancing innovation...
December 2008
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VW Holiday Card - Santa's iPhone
What would Santa’s iPhone look like on Christmas Eve? The answer may very well put Rudolph out of business…
The VW Electronics Research Lab asked us to create a fun and timely holiday card. As the basis for our design we asked, “What would Santa’s iPhone look like on Christmas Eve?” We came up with SantaNav 1.0 (sorry, only one was made so it’s not available at the App Store).
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Artist Frank Bowling's Website →
FRANK BOWLING, O.B.E., RA, the Guyana born British trained artist, was on May 26, 2005 elected a member of England’s Royal Academy of Art, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London. Mr. Bowling was among about a dozen artists proposed to fill one of two vacancies in the eighty-member academy, and is the first Black British artist elected a Royal Academician in the over two hundred year...
October 2008
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VW NavCompanion →
VW recently launched Nav Companion, a web application that allows drivers to find destinations online and then transfer the information to their car.
PCD is involved with the development of the prototype version of Nav Companion. In addition to the features available in the production version, the prototype supports categorization of destinations and 1-click syncing with the data transfer...
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VW ERL Branding and Website
We launched the Volkswagen ERL’s branding and public website. Check it out here.
The Volkswagen Electronics Research Laboratory accelerates automotive innovation by harvesting Silicon Valley energy! They work to expand and extend Volkswagen Group’s technical intelligence and maintain the North American Market as the epicenter of electronics expertise.
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Loomis Industries: The Facelift
Loomis Industries designs precision wafer dicing machines for the high-technology semiconductor industry. For more than 25 years, Loomis Industries has provided state-of-the-art products, and timely and meaningful customer support.
In 2001, Loomis began to closely examine their corporate branding and online presence. PCD worked with them to address a company-wide redesign including:
Logo...
September 2007
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VW's Stanley - champion robot car
The 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge was a winner-takes-all, 132-mile desert race for autonomous vehicles. Volkswagen’s Electronics Research Lab and Stanford University combined forces to build the most sophisticated robot car ever conceived, affectionately named Stanley, and took home the $2,000,000 grand prize.
Challenges
We researched Stanley’s story and presented it to a notoriously...
October 2006
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VW's Gypsy - Showcar Passat
Before the internet, computers were lonesome devices limited to local applications and information. Now, It’s hard to imagine computers without an internet connection. Connectivity has opened unlimited potential for communication and data sharing. The future of mobility is sure to follow a similar path. The Showcar Passat was a window into this future.
Challenges
We worked with the...
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The People's Magic Bus - Chameleon
When Volkswagen’s Electronic Research Lab decided to get groovy, they picked PCD to design the virtual interface for Chameleon, this radical 1964 Deluxe Microbus.
The circular digital instrument cluster mimics and updates the original analog speedometer, acting as a central information hub with a graphical user interface and speech recognition to control the bus’s various functions. It...