We’ve wrapped up another great year at Going Interactive and selected a variety of work to share in our 2009 Showreel.

Going Interactive, a digital creative agency, collected a variety of our 2009 projects in one reel. It highlights projects for both B2B and B2C clients including interactive apps, websites, videos, motion graphics, social media campaigns, games, RIA’s and more. See more at goinginteractive.com. Music clip used was “1901″ by Phoenix. Check it out!

Going Interactive 2009 Showreel from Going Interactive on Vimeo.

Are you ready to go interactive or get social?

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Phone: 770-643-3014

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My friend Mike Dyson posted a link to this on Atomsplit.com this week.

It’s a really cool little site called Codeorgan that turns the html web code of your site into a synth music piece.

What it does is analyze the “body” content of any web page using a complex algorithm to define the key, synth style and drum pattern most appropriate to page content.

Here’s what GoingInteractive.com sounds like.

Here’s what this Blog sounds like – slightly Seinfeld intro like.

Here’s what Google.com sounds like.

Here’s what usatoday.com sounds like.

Does the “music” of the code of the site match the identity of the site?

It sure does seem so!

They also have a nice little player you can embed to play on a particular page.
Like this:

We at Going Interactive are pleased to announce that we received another great award for best Web & Interactive Marketing – Web campaign/microsite and our work on the Printies Website and Design Studio!

The AMYs are the annual marketing award of the American Marketing Association Atlanta chapter. The AMYs celebrate more than just great creative — they reward companies that craft innovative strategies, unforgettable creative and produce outstanding results.

It was a pleasure to celebrate all the work everyone created and to see all the marketing campaigns, ideas and talent under one roof.

Going Interactive - Agency Conference Room turned to Printies War Room

We’d especially like to thank all of the Going Interactive teammates who gave blood, sweat, and tears for what seemed like 24 hours for 7 days a week. We could not have done any of this without such a dedicated and hardworking group who worked together on finding creative solutions to very difficult obstacles.

Special thanks goes out to Lead Developer Randall for his all of his hard work and for breaking new ground on the Adobe AIR front for GI.

Jason for design, usability, and direction – and – Doug for overall project management, testing and strategy.

Brad for all his efforts in the Flex world.

Zach for all his Flash support and work on the front-end.

Phil, Matt & Sherry for video work and tons of testing.

Thank you to our families and friends for all their support, as it kept us all going knowing they were cheering for us every step of the way.

Going Interactive Team enjoys a pizza lunch from our client Printies

More About the Award Winning Project:

Printies Design Studio is a new Hi-Tech Arts & Crafts toy that allows your child to turn their designs into stuffed toys using your home computer, inket printer, and patent pending Printies fabric sheets. Each child becomes their very own toy artist by using the amazing online design tools and created their own custom plush stuffed friend.

Going Interactive used a unique combination of Adobe Flash, Flex, and AIR to develop one of the first RIA style kids toys of it’s kind. After only being live for only a months, there are thousands upon thousands of users and has been growing steadily throughout 2010. Click to find out where you can buy the Printies Design Studio.

To learn more, contact us at Going Interactive.

Web: www.goinginteractive.com.

Phone: 770-643-3014

Email: info(at)goinginteractive(dot)com

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Going Interactive created a unique Flash based microsite for the new Atlanta condo called 935m. GI worked with Real Estate Marketing firm Resource and utilized their layouts to create a new marketing piece to be used in on-going promotions for the property. The site has a photo gallery, downloadable plans, and more.

Check it out at www.935m.com

Going Interactive wins 2 Addy Awards for Public Service Websites. The big event was at the beautiful Georgia Aquarium Ballroom

Atlanta-based creative agency Going Interactive was awarded two Addy Awards for their work on 2 distinct public service/nonprofit websites.

A Gold Addy was awarded for Going Interactive’s design of Home Safety Council’s website, www.homesafetycouncil.org.  The Home Safety Council is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing home-related injuries that result in nearly 20,000 deaths and almost 21 million medical visits each year.  The website was re-designed and re-launched to include hundreds of pages of home safety informational content, an online video library, online quizzes and polls, an interactive forum, an official Blog and social marketing tools like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

Here’s a quick overview of the Home Safety Council website.

A Silver Addy was garnered for www.RealTalkATL.org, a web site sponsored by the Future Foundation of Atlanta. The Future Foundation is a leader in effective education and prevention services for at-risk youth in Fulton County. Each year, over 800 male and female youths, ages 12-18, participate in Future Foundation’s Real Talk ATL program, promoting abstinence until marriage and healthy relationships. RealTalkATL.org is a Flash-based website that features animated interactive content, quizzes, photo and video galleries, blogs and more, designed to support the Future Foundation’s cause in a fun and engaging manner to teens.

Here’s a quick overview of the Real Talk ATL website.

Going Interactive steered both these non-profit projects in concept, strategy, architecture, design, development and production.

Principal and Creative Director Jason Davenport said, “We’re thrilled to be recognized for our work by industry peers, but it’s extra meaningful when that work is for organizations that are trying to positively impact people’s lives.”

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About Going Interactive

Going Interactive is a new kind of creative agency. Going Interactive works hand-in-hand with agencies, corporations and fortune 500’s to produce rich interactive media, reaching both B2B and B2C market segments. Going Interactive has a team of award winning designers, developers, and strategists that are skilled in the latest software and trends to keep things fresh and cutting edge.

Going Interactive has worked with a large variety of brands and products both on and off screen including Cartoon Network, CNN Radio, Dixie Food Service, Georgia-Pacific, Neustar, Peachtree TV, Printies, Ron Clark Academy, Rubiks Revolution, TechnoSource, UPS, Wegener.

Going Interactive delivers creative strategy and execution to each client and clearly understand the business and design objectives in making things user-friendly, engaging and adaptable for the future. Going Interactive has a strong hold on creative online marketing approaches and how to utilize all types of online social tools including DWOM (digital word of mouth) tools like blogs, rss, emails, video, games, contests, bookmarking, rich media, banner ads, as well as on-going interactive marketing campaigns.

Going Interactive has added experience in developing product-based sales and marketing tools that are designed to demonstrate features, attributes and benefits in an engaging way. These interactive tools help drive top-of-mind awareness, push customers to place orders, and create leads for sales forces.

Going Interactive is located outside Atlanta, in historic Roswell, Georgia.

Web: www.goinginteractive.com.

Phone: 770-643-3014

Email: info(at)goinginteractive(dot)com

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Well, we at Going Interactive are pleased with the beginning of a new year. The cool thing is that in 2010, we turn eleven! So we’re moving into the second decade of our Going Interactive lives.

Sure, a lot of things have changed, but overall, we’re still the same crew we were years ago – eager, interested, and excited about every project. We still want to produce great interactive work that stands the test of time. That being said, it was nice to see one of our videos still up on a clients home page the other day (www.internap.com). that we actually made in late 2006. That goes for some other clients and websites too! But we’ll stop dropping names now. ; )

Last year brought us a lot of big adventures…

It’s true, we were up to our ears with the Printies Design Studio software development. That year long project ended up being a bit more than everyone expected. It had it all really… technical challenges, visual challenges, strategy challenges, usability challenges, and especially timing challenges! We’re happy to say it ended with a success, and one of the great things about the RIA (Rich Internet Application) we created is that we were able to break some new ground in Adobe AIR, Flex and Flash. We even got some props on the official Adobe AIR Blog! Adobe is letting us get a sneak peek at AIR 2 in Beta (that’s technical for COOL).

Working with Ron Clark and Kim Bearden and the Ron Clark Academy was also a big honor. They do amazing work with education and we were pleased to help Ron and Kim create The Great American Teachers Club website. The website was full of great features for teachers like forums, lesson plans, custom videos, live webcasts, and a great interactive game that teachers could use on their own classes.

There were so many great things that we worked on in 2009 including motion graphics, videos, websites, back-end features, email campaigns, rich media ads, social media networking, SEO, strategy, design, presentations, Flash, etc.) that this list would get entirely too long to type out. So thanks to everyone we worked with!

(Including but not limited too… Future Foundation, Cisco, Edelman, BRG, K-C, WeedPro, HSC, Digital Blue, Boxercraft, Panasonic, Rubik’s TouchCube, Printies, RCA, MSL, Best Buy, ResourceATL, AFC, OAC, Willow Glynn, GP, Oden, TechnoSource, and anyone else who we crossed paths with.)

We at Going Interactive hope that 2010 brings everyone great success.

Sure we’re another year older, but we’re also another year more experienced and wiser.

As always, we are truly excited about all the opportunities that are ahead of us (and you). We look forward to creating great customer experiences, making unique strategic projects, and creating new and innovative content.

If you’re reading this and feeling even a little optimistic and maybe slightly enthused… then give us a shout, and let’s see what we can get going!

Sincerely,

The Going Interactive Team

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]]> http://www.goinginteractive.com/blog/2010/01/830/feed/ 0 http://www.goinginteractive.com/blog/2009/12/adobe-air-team-blog/ http://www.goinginteractive.com/blog/2009/12/adobe-air-team-blog/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:38:17 +0000 Jason http://www.goinginteractive.com/blog/?p=818 Going Interactive has been recognized by the Adobe AIR Team because of their work on the Printies Design Studio.

Going Interactive is very excited to be included on the Adobe AIR Team Blog. It’s an honor for Adobe to recognize our work on the RIA (Rich Interactive Application) on the Printies Design Studio. Check out the full post from the Adobe AIR Team Blog.

Going Interactive used a unique combination of Adobe Flash, Flex, and AIR to develop one of the first RIA style kids toys of it’s kind. After only being live for 2 months, there are thousands upon thousands of users and has been growing steadily throughout the 2009 holiday season. Click to find out where you can buy the Printies Design Studio.

Learn more about Printies here.

Printies Design Studio is a new Hi-Tech Arts & Crafts toy that allows your child to turn their designs into stuffed toys using your home computer, inket printer, and patent pending Printies fabric sheets. Each child becomes their very own toy artist by using the amazing online design tools and created their own custom plush stuffed friend.

Going Interactive is pleased to announce that the Printies Design Studio has recently been named one of Dr. Toy’s “Best Picks New Products 2009,” and it also has been selected as one of FunFare magazines’s “Hot Dozen,” Time to Play’s “Most Wanted”, and The Toy Insider’s “Hot 20” holiday toys of 2009.

You can also help make Printies an even bigger success, vote for the Printies Design Studio on the People’s Play Awards website now!

Going Interactive, a creative agency, worked from ground up with Techno Source in the concept, strategy, creative, and full execution of the new RIA (rich internet application) using the latest in interactive technologies like Flash, Flex, and Adobe AIR.

It was great to work on a project that is targeting the exact ages of my own kids. They really enjoyed being guinea pigs in our early initial usability testing!”

- Going Interactive – Creative Director & Designer,  Jason Davenport

More About the Printies Application:

Printies Cat Design Stage - RIA (Rich Internet Application) created by Going Interactive

The Printies Design Studio offers kids an online experience that is simple, intuitive and entertaining.  MyPrinties.com has thousands of professional art assets and design tools like coloring, painting, and resizing effects.  There, children can start with a blank canvas or select from quick start templates that allow them to modify professional designs.  Kids can customize everything and can even add photos and other scanned images for truly limitless customization.

The Printies line makes its debut with three themed activity kits: Printies™ Pet Design Studio, Printies™ Ocean Design Studio, and Printies™ Jungle Design Studio.  Each Printies Design Studio kit retails for just $19.99 and includes everything needed to make six complete Printies using a home computer and inkjet printer.  Refill packs, which offer more of the original templates for the child, retail for $9.99 and are available for each of the themed Printies Design Studio kits.  Refill packs require the corresponding Printies Design Studio kit, which is sold separately.

Printies Design Studio kits and refill packs are appropriate for children ages 6 and up and are available for purchase now at BJ’s Wholesale Club, Target, Toys “R” Us, and Walgreens stores nationwide and online at Amazon.com, Target.com, and Toysrus.com. For additional information, videos and more visit www.myprinties.com.

Design using the Printies Design Studio, print out, and stuff

The new Rubik’s TouchCube website showcases the new all digital cube with tons of video clips and video elements filmed at GI. This is the world’s first completely electronic, solvable Rubik’s Cube. Swipe your finger across the vibrantly lit squares (iphone style) to effortlessly slide the lights, mimicking every move of the original puzzle. If you’re ever stuck, the TouchCube can give you a hint or solve it step by step right before your eyes.

Launch the Rubik’s TouchCube website

Going Interactive designed and developed the Flash site with the tween audience in mind, keeping it hip, fresh and cool (we’d like to think so at least). The site promotes a healthy lifestyle for young urban teens through the Future Foundations teen abstinence before marriage lesson plan. Going Interactive tried to bring the concept to life with animation, sounds, quizes, real stories, and visuals.

Check out the site at www.realtalkatl.org

More About Future Foundation:
Future Foundation is committed to shaping today’s youth into productive and responsible citizens. We believe that children are the key to our future and to sustainable change. Future Foundation of Atlanta exists because of visionary and founder, Shareef Abdur-Rahim. A Sacramento Kings Forward, Cal basketball star and Trumpet Award recipient, Abdur-Rahim envisioned an agency dedicated to supporting the youth and neighborhood, in which he grew up. The impact of Future Foundation runs deep with eight dynamic programs and three annual events designed to positively influence over 4,000 underserved youth, grades 5 – 12. Nestled in the heart of East Point, Georgia, students have an opportunity to work, play, and relax while building the character necessary to succeed in school and life.

Atlanta / Roswell based Going Interactive works hand-in-hand with each client to develop a unique and creative approach the their project. To find out how you can stand apart from the crowd, contact us today.