25 MAY 10

Metarisk.info and taglinebykc.com are both live! We managed to slam out the tagline site in just over a week, thanks to Prestashop's quick startup. Oh yea... and Ray's numerous sleepless nights. I'm certain we'll be revisiting the tagline site to nail down lingering usability issues, but the fact that we were able to put up a presentable site in a week is really nothing short of miraculous.

15 MAY 10

Just when I thought we didn't have any more room on our plates, we've been recruited to help Ray's friend Krista launch her new jewelry line, Tagline by K*Claudene. We're getting to try out an open source shopping cart called PrestaShop, liking it a lot so far. Oh yea, and the site launches in a week.

13 MAY 10

Shannon dodged a bullet a few days ago... well, more accurately a tornado dodged her house. Norman, OK was hit by a tornado which crossed over the corner of her property, causing severe damage to property in the area. She lucked out that her place is fully intact, but power is out, and the area is restricted access. Our thoughts are with the folks in Norman.

21 APR 10

When it rains, it pours. After a relatively quiet first quarter, projects are coming in fast and furiously. We're working with Guy Carpenter on a new product mini-site, cranking on the Park Studio site (a little rebrand preview is up there now, no functionality yet though), just finished work with Flyleaf on the mini-site for the new Naked Angels production, This Wide Night, did some video conversion for Spoleto, and we're updating the Arts & Ideas site with some new functionality for this season.

The biggest news, though, is that we're finally working on updating this site, which was supposed to be a temporary placeholder 5 years ago when we launched. Stay tuned for some significant changes.

14 JAN 10

Happy New Year! 2010 is shaping up to be an exciting year already. We're starting work with our second Canadian client, our friend Derek Morton of Park Studios, a Vancouver furniture designer. His work is great, and we're excited to be helping him re-establish his site and brand!

The new Flyleaf site launched as well, and we're thrilled to have developed it with them. Flyleaf is one of our longest standing partnerships, and we're glad to have helped put together a web presence that reflects the excellent work they do.

24 NOV 09

So many updates, so little time! We've been keeping plenty busy since our move to Vancouver. We've finally gotten with it and started our own twitter account. After selling so many of our clients on these things, we figured it was about time the shoemaker's kid had shoes.

We've spun Sarah off into her own new studio, Custom Made. We still do tons of work together, but Medium Rare has evolved to be much more centered around web development, so it was time to let our little Sarah shine on her own!

We did our first work with a Canadian company in October, launching a mini site for GE Canada's Fitness Challenge with Karyo-Edelman. They've got a great team over there, and we're really excited to do more work with them.

Also done a bunch of work this fall for Guy Carpenter, most notably re-doing their iaXs promo mini-site. It was originally depolyed as a CD (seriously, you ask? Yep, people still do CDs!), so it was distributed that way first, then ported over to website format.

A lot of the last year's work has been maintaining existing clients, but we're especially proud of a few notable items: Arts & Ideas happened in June, and they reported more than 20% year-over year increase to web traffic!

21 FEB 09

Been a while since our last update, and boy is there a lot to update! The biggest news, of course, is that we've relocated the NYC office to Vancouver! We move into our new digs March 1, and have had a temporary setup at Sarah's mum's place out on Salt Spring Island. The move was kind of insane, but we got through it and we're out the other side.

In project news, we got Spoleto's 2009 season launched with some cool new video features, and we're nearly through with their CMS upgrade; got Arts & Ideas 2009 season teasers going, their Archive section is done, and Daisy 2.0 is in the works; we've started doing Eyeblaster ads for St. Ann's Warehouse, and we're getting pretty excited to be doing stuff on that platform; and we're getting started on the new Flyleaf website, which should be launching in early April.

In other news, Ed Kashi and George Steinmetz were both recently featured in Smithsonian magazine! Good job fellas! It's really inspiring to be working with two amazing photographers.

28 OCT 08

Today we launched a new sub-site for Christie's Gold Auctions. We were approached by them at the beginning of the month to create a flexible, XML driven flash application to showcase their big art auctions, those multi-million dollar paintings by the people whose names even your dumb neighbor knows. The big chunk in the middle of the home page is the part we built, based on design specs from their in house team.

We're about to launch a new site for the Tow Foundation, and we're also going to be starting work for Spoleto Festival USA's 2009 season, as well as a loooong overdue remake of Flyleaf's site. Seeing as how we do about half our work with them these days, it's about time we make them look like they work with us!

07 OCT 08

Medium Rare's web division is expanding the services we offer. In addition to our award winning website design services, we're now proud to incorporate an additional level of web 2.0 marketing into our bag of tricks. Drop us a line to learn more about how we can manage your online presence through social networking, bookmarking and sharing sites such as Faceboook, Digg, and Flikr, as well as blog management, podcasting, RSS feeds and Google Analytics. We're leveraging the best the web has to offer to bring you to the top of the internet food chain.

06 OCT 08

All kinds of good stuff happening these days! We launched pratt-comd.com with my buddy Michael Gerbino, and put up a portfolio website for artist Carmen Cicero. I just helped my old friend Eric DeRose put up his site (not designed by us - just did some editing) at fallenbrass.com. They're selling keychains made from brass rifle cartridges to benefit soldiers who have been injured in Iraq an Afghanistan and their families.

We've also just been tapped by Christie's to work on a new project for them. Hush hush at the moment. More soon.