January 21, 2008
A Pair of Stock Photos Featured in New Ford Flex Campaign
Two Cosmonaut stock images—both U.S. Interstate 75 road signs—were used by designer Shane Morris of Jackson-Dawson Communications for a new Flex ad campaign proposed to the Ford Motor Company. |
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Morris's design, which can be seen here, helped the firm land the project with the world's third largest auto manufacturer. The proposed ad campaign theme was "On the Road" with Ford Flex, which is now "Let's Go Somewhere."
The interstate sign image on the bottom right was taken at the Burnside Street on-ramp to Interstate 5 in Portland, then altered to its present form. Similarly, the sign on the top right was originally an I-5 highway sign, photographed near the Tacoma Dome in Washington state.
The actual Interstate 75 connects Miami and Detroit, continuing up north to reach Michigan's border with Ontario. |
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January 15, 2008
New Film About the Helvetica Font |
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No, it's not a joke. It's a film about typography. Director Gary Hustwit has made a documentary about Helvetica (New York Times review), the 51-year-old font that might be both the most reviled and revered font of all time.
The film's official web site, unsurprisingly, makes liberal use of its eponymous typeface. |
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December 27, 2007
Standard-Setting Web Designs
Some of the best web site designs of 2007 have been collected at BestWebGallery.com, which is maintained by N. Design Studio. Designs are divided into categories like CSS and portfolio sites.
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December 7, 2007
Stock Photograph Used as Example in "100 Photography Tips in 100 Days" Series by the Adorama Imaging Resource Center
The photograph "Railroad Tracks" was cited by Mason Resnick as an example of single-point perspective, or the vanishing point, in the Adorama Imaging Resource Center (AIRC)'s "100 Photography Tips" series. The image was taken in Swannanoa, North Carolina in July 2007. |
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| Based in Manhattan, Adorama is one of the nation's largest retail and mail order camera equipment retailers. Resnick is a renowned street photographer and the Editor-in-Chief of the Adorama Academy. |
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October 18, 2007
RealAge Uses Cosmonaut Stock Photo in Internet Advertising |
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RealAge, a health and wellness-themed media channel owned by Hearst Magazines, selected a stock photo taken by Daniel Deitschel to use in their online advertising.
A photo of Sharon Knorr (click for original pictures) is featured in the ad on the left, which is used to drive click-throughs to the RealAge web site. |
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| RealAge sells a series of books on its website Its products have been promoted nationally on NBC's Today Show and the syndicated Oprah Winfrey Show. |
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September 7, 2007
Gentle Dental Uses Cosmonaut Stock Photos on Web Site, in Retail Signage
Several stock photos taken by Daniel Deitschel have been used by Gentle Dental at gentle1.com and part of the company's window signage.
The photos, including those of Tiffany Turner (right) and Shawnrey Notto (below, right), appeared in the windows of Gentle Dental locations in San Francisco, Vancouver (Washington) and several other clinics on the West Coast.
Several stock photos rotate on the current version of the Gentle Dental home page, including Melissa Lee (below).
Gentle Dental is a leading group of affiliated dental providers offering multiple-specialty dental services in the United States. Gentle Dental and its more than 130 sister dental offices provide comprehensive, convenient and high-quality dentistry. |
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August 13, 2007
Cosmonaut Stock Photo Used at Voices.com
A stock image taken by Daniel Deitschel was used at Vox Daily, a blog for professional voice actors. The image "Core Values" accompanied an article contemplating the need of a "code of ethics" for voice-over professionals. |
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| The sign is part of a 2005 best-selling series at iStockphoto. |
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June 1, 2007
Kettle Foods, Thomas Kemper Sodas Cross-Promotional Campaign Set to Begin |
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We are pleased to announce our participation in the development and design of a cross-promotional campaign between Thomas Kemper Sodas and Kettle Foods. The campaign is set to begin this month.
For this cross-promotional effort Cosmonaut produced two point-of-purchase designs, a Thomas Kemper 6-pack insert card (coupon offer on back) and a shelf talker. The goal is to raise brand awareness of Thomas Kemper Sodas in supermarkets on the West Coast and in selected retail locations in eastern U.S. cities.
The campaign theme is "Even Better Together," linking two premium brands familiar to Pacific Northwest consumers. |
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In early 2007, Thomas Kemper Sodas was acquired by Portland-based Adventure Funds from its previous owner, Pyramid Breweries Inc. The Thomas Kemper line includes root beer, ginger ale, orange cream, vanilla cream, black cherry and grape flavors.
Salem, Oregon-based Kettle Foods was founded in 1978. It leads the industry as the No. 1 salty snack brand in natural supermarkets, with distribution throughout North America, Japan, Guam and Western Europe. It produces more than 20 flavors and four varieties of potato chip offerings, seven flavors of organic tortilla chips and a variety of nut butters and trail mixes. |
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May 16, 2007
10,000th Image Sold at iStockphoto.com
Cosmonaut Creative Media LLC has sold its 10,000th image via iStockphoto, the popular Getty Images-owned micro-stock photography web site based in Calgary, Alberta. The 10,000th download was "Soda Can: High Angle View," a photograph taken by Daniel Deitschel. |
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| With the sale, Cosmonaut Creative Media has attained the "gold cannister," which represents the second-highest royalty level at iStockphoto. Cosmonaut sold its first image on iStockphoto—"Dusty Desert Road"—on August 4, 2005. |
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Update 11/11/07: The soda can image was recently used in the design of Fast Food Jobs UK, a United Kingdom restaurant web site developed by Wilson Design UK Ltd.
The design can be seen here. |
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April 16, 2007
Christophe Skye Web Site Launches
Today marks the launch of ChristopheSkye.com, a new web site built for the venerable watchmaking company.
Cosmonaut created the stylish and elegant design, complete with new logo, is the perfect compliment to a highly functional site. We also developed the site to include Flash navigation, interactive elements and rotating content on the home page and individual watch pages in the Collections area.
Christophe Skye was a Swiss 17th-century watchmaker who created quality, precision-crafted watches that rivaled the best timepieces of his age. The site will be maintained by e360, a company based in Wheeling, Illinois. |
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March 13, 2007
Stock Photos Used in Active.com E-Newsletter, Oregon Business Magazine
Stock images taken by Daniel Deitschel were used in a recent fitness industry e-newsletter and in the February 2007 print edition of Oregon Business. |
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An image of the Columbia River Gorge taken from the Angel's Rest peak was used in the table contents of the February 2007 issue of Oregon Business. The picture teased story about Oregon's efforts to expand its water rights over the Columbia River (an online version of the story, without the photo, can be found here). |
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| The magazine publishes an annual "100 best companies to work for in Oregon" list and claims 20,000 subscribers as of June 2006. |
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Another stock photo was used in an Active.com e-newsletter sent to personal trainers on January 26, 2007. A screen shot of the email can be seen here. As of April 2007 Active.com boasts one million unique visitors per month, 7.2 million registered users and a partnership with ESPN.
The model in the photograph is Larisa Manuel. |
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February 28, 2007
Stock Photo Featured on Popular French-Language Culinary Web Site |
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A stock photography image taken by Daniel Deitschel, "Spinach," was used at Arts-Culinaires.com. The photo accompanied a series of spinach recipes. As of March 1, 2007, Arts Culinaires has a Alexa rating of 2,028 amongst all French web sites. The site is also popular in Canada and Belgium. |
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February 22, 2007
Stock Image Selected for Night Club Poster |
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Designer and photographer Diego Molna of R&R Marketing used Daniel Deitschel's stock photo "Hot Jazz at Night" in his poster for the Elements Lounge in Sea Bright, New Jersey.
See the design here. |
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February 5, 2007
The Rex-O-Meter Receives Nearly One Million Page Views on Super Bowl Sunday, Appears in Print Editions of Los Angeles Times and St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Rex-O-Meter, the gauge that tracked the highs and lows of Chicago Bears quarterback Rex Grossman during Super Bowl XLI, gained nationwide attention Super Bowl Sunday. According to data from Google Analytics and server log files, the Rex-O-Meter was viewed over 912,000 times on February 4, with traffic peaking during the 3rd quarter of the NFL's annual championship game. |
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A story on the Rex-O-Meter appeared in the Sunday morning sports section of the Los Angeles Times. Mike Penner examined it in his Morning Briefing. On February 5, St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Jeff Gordon recapped Rex Grossman's final score on the meter in the wake of the Colts' triumph over the Bears. |
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| In addition to numerous fan forums from Gainesville to Chicago, the Rex-O-Meter appeared in AOL Sports' in-game Super Bowl blog, the blog of Portland's Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly newspaper, the Willamette Week, and a post-Super Bowl mention in the San Jose Mercury News' Morning Buzz blog. |
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January 17, 2007
Mentor Graphics Launches SalesConnect at Worldwide Sales Conference
We'd like to celebrate the launch of Mentor Graphics SalesConnect, a powerful support site built for Mentor sales staff. SalesConnect was unveiled today by Mentor Graphics, the industry leader in electronic design automation (EDA) technology, at its worldwide sales conference in San Diego, California.
Cosmonaut served as the development firm for this enterprise-class software initiative, coding site functionality in ColdFusion, including a custom-built content management system (CMS). SalesConnect's presentation layer and user interfaces were created by EDGE Design. |
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| Mentor Graphics is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award-winning support for the world's most successful electronics and semiconductor companies |
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| With offices in Portland and Corvallis, Oregon, EDGE Design has provided creative services and design solutions since 1984. Their client list includes Hewlett-Packard, Iovation, Unicel Wireless and Oregon State University. |
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October 29, 2006
Stock Photo Featured During Opening Video Montage at Microsoft Directions 2006 Conference |
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A stock photography image taken by Daniel Deitschel, "Execute," was used in the opening 7-minute video of the Directions 2006 conference in Atlanta, an event sponsored by Microsoft. The conference, themed "Riding the Wave," had over 500 attendees. |
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October 13, 2006
Kobbi.com Web Site Design Recognized at CoolHomePages.com |
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| The new Kobbi site was recognized for general excellence in design and specifically in the categories of Color Schemes, CSS & DHTML, E-Commerce, Flash, Products and Usability. |
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| Update: As of December 12, 2007, members of the CoolHomePages.com have rated the Kobbi home page design 9 out of 10 stars. |
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September 12, 2006
Print Advertisement for DM2 Software Receives Honor from iStockphoto.com |
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A magazine advertisement designed for DM2 was recognized by iStockphoto.com for design excellence, having been added to the site's Design Spotlight. |
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| Since 1989, DM2 has been developing software and working to help diversified petroleum marketers increase market share and improve profitability through automation. DM2 is based in Vancouver, Washington. |
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September 2, 2006
Stock Photo Used in Print Edition of Christianity Today Magazine
A stock photography image taken by Daniel Deitschel, "Church and State," was used in the September 2006 print edition of Christianity Today magazine. The photo accompanied a story about a megachurch suing Fairfax County (Virginia) for the opportunity to offer seminary-level religious ministry classes. |
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According to Wikipedia.org, the magazine was founded in 1956 to coalesce the evangelical Christian community. The magazine's first editor, Carl F.H. Henry, was an advocate for the labor movement. Christianity Today claims to have 150,000 subscriptions and 350,000 readers.
The web version of the story, without the photo, can be found here. |
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August 17, 2006
Kobbi Site Launches, Receives Design Honors from iStockphoto.com
After a thorough redesign process, the new site for Kobbi launched today. The new Kobbi.com includes eCommerce functionality and several interactive Flash elements for navigation and informational purposes. Upon launch, the site received immediate acceptance to iStockphoto's Design Spotlight. Update: As of January 3, 2007, the Kobbi web site design has earned a near-perfect 98.7% approval rating in peer-reviewed comments. |
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Kobbi, with a product line based upon the "The Art of Thankful Living," is based in Portland, where its products are sold in several retail locations in addition to its online store. |
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June 15, 2006
Illustration Appears as Cover Art for Semiconductor International Magazine
An illustration by Daniel Deitschel was featured on the cover of Semiconductor International magazine. It was originally created in 2004 as a series of ten abstract illustrations depicting design areas for Wilsonville, Oregon-based Mentor Graphics. The cover story, entitled "Litho Simulation Enables the Leading Edge." |
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| Semiconductor International is a publication of Reed Business Information, which is the largest business-to-business publisher in the United States. Mentor Graphics is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award-winning support for the world's most successful electronics and semiconductor companies. |
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