Bluecadet Interactive

This was an exciting year at the American Association of Museums annual conference in Minneapolis. Bluecadet projects received four MUSE awards, hosted a session on creating interactive exhibits, and attended a party at the Minnesota History Center that included an elderly nun giving free massages.

Steve Hurwitz has an in-depth knowledge of Drupal and PHP, and joins the Bluecadet team as our senior web developer. He’s worked with Actionscript3, Drupal, PHP and more at Red Tettemer, TMX Interactive, and Paragraph Inc. He’s the head of our in-house Drupal development, so here’s a chance to see some of his great work on previous Drupal projects.

Steve's development work for Red Tettemer, designed by Jon Elison.

In the last six weeks we have completed a race to launch four large interactive and online projects. We are out of breath but proud, and warming up for the next round. The iconic image of the Afghan Girl by Steve McCurry

Bluecadet's newest designer comes to us fully trained in print and interactive design. Alex Bloom has a strong conceptual ability and a sharp graphical eye. He's a graduate of Tyler School of Art, and is well versed in UI/UX, branding & identity development, illustration, and advertising. See some of his earlier work, and stay tuned to see his upcoming efforts with Bluecadet.

Design  and illustration for Danversbank in New England. The illustration depicts instructions for a coin exchange machine and reflects the quirky humor of the full ad campaign.

Hiring a talented in-house designer who understands interactive can be a real challenge. The elusive designer/developer rockstars do exist, but unfortunately they’re scarce, often get snapped up quickly and can demand daunting salaries. So what’s a small, agile digital design studio to do? Should they look for someone with an amazing eye for typography, or someone that can code the latest HTML5 markup and write Javascript? After eight years of running an interactive studio, this article covers how to get the most out of hires.

We recently relaunched starvedforattention.org, with a fluid scrolling redesign and some fun HTML/jquery flairs. An initiative of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and VII Photo, “Starved for Attention,” is a multimedia campaign exposing the neglected and largely invisible crisis of childhood malnutrition.