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Stressdesign is featured on Haystack, the new better way for clients to find design and creative service firms. View the stressdesign profile on Haystack

Stressdesign is featured on Haystack, the new better way for clients to find design and creative service firms. View the stressdesign profile on Haystack
San Antonio Texas based SSK HR retained stressdesign to develop an identity system and brand communication materials. SSK HR is an independent human resources consultancy that specializes in finding uniquely qualified techincal candidates for its clients. Stephanie Kelly, President of SSK Human Resources says “I came to stressdesign because I needed a solution that was unique, professional, and memorable. They delivered 110%, and have exceeded our own high standards.”

Stressdesign, a Syracuse-based design firm specializing in communications for business and education clients, has successfully completed a tradeshow display project for Verisma Systems, Inc., a trusted provider of software, service and expertise in the secure release of protected healthcare information. The scope of the project entailed the need for ready integration of pieces created by Stressdesign into an existing exhibition system.
For the 2009-2010 season, stressdesign launched a new web presence for one of the premier lecture series in the country, University Lectures.
“The University Lectures website,” says Nathan Eaton, design lead for the project, “extends the identity update stressdesign has created for the special event series to the web for the first time. It is a great opportunity for the organization to have realized a unified toolset for strategic communications.” Eaton continues, “We built considerable automation into the site to ensure our solution was as powerful as it looks. For instance, once the season is loaded into the content management system, the front page updates automatically.”
The new website also adds social features, calendar feeds and is integrated into our direct e-mail platform, AXNT™. These features allow visitors to share the site and to have event information on their own calendars, PDAs or smart-phones.
“The University Lectures identity was created originally by Stressdesign. From the start they had a very clear vision of what our new website should be and what we wanted—colorful, appealing, exciting, yet very fluid, straight-forward and user-friendly.” Says Esther Gray, Universty Lecture Coordinator. Ms. Gray continues, “They were able to clearly articulate their strategic and aesthetic ideas to my team and their rationale and expertise allowed me to share the development process with our director and board in a way that gave me immediate buy-in on the project and design. The results clearly speak for themselves. Our website is viewed not only by our own faculty, students and alumni but also perspective students and their parents both nationally and internationally and the numbers continue to grow. Clearly the new University Lectures website has given me a professional platform to promote and share our events with a much larger audience than ever before. The ‘subscribe’ aspect of the website has allowed us to begin building a constantly growing email data base which translates into reduced mailings and costs. Stressdesign intuitively knew what we wanted and needed in our website and they provided us with so very much more.”
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Recently, we helped Peculiar Pair Press of San Francisco, CA refine their on-line strategy as part of a website redesign that included site architecture, content management, and and eCommerce solution.
Stressdesign is proud to be a supporter of Syracuse First. The primary objective of Syracuse First is to encourage Syracuse area residents to “Think Local” when they are considering where to make purchases, to “Buy Local” whenever possible and to “Be Local” by supporting businesses that make the Syracuse area unique.
“We want to increase market share to independent, locally-owned businesses by increasing awareness about the personal and community benefits of choosing local,” says Syracuse First founder Chris Fowler.
Other goals of the initiative are to provide a platform for local businesses to network and share best practices; devise strategies to help underemployed individuals become more actively engaged in the economy; and advocate public policies that strengthen independent local businesses, promote economic equity, and protect the environment.
For more information contact info@syracusefirst.org
We love URL shorteners. These web utilities are so useful and make long or machine generated web addresses memorable and shareable. We love these web apps so much, we’ve launched our own. We’re calling it chartr.us. We’re pulling the wraps off a pre-alpha version and letting everyone else kick the tires. Go ahead and try it, then come back and tell us what you think.