2005 went by so fast! The final days of 2005 saw the launch of Intelisearch, a leadership search firm, and Teigland-Hunt LLP, a Manhattan law firm. Both of these websites use Flash as an enticing medium for animated content that pulls viewers in for a closer look. We also completed a new Flash microsite for Infinity Broadcasting, a new brand for EBS Capstone and an online application we helped Circus Media develop for Dekal.

The Portsmouth Herald today published an article on Raka and the current web design industry compared to the market 5 years ago. Read the article here.

In the past couple of months, we’ve been hard at work on quite a few large projects (which explains our long absence from this page). Friday, we launched a redesigned website for Environmental Power Corporation. Also, Raka has just completed a new undergraduate admissions site for Rivier College in Nashua. Read the feature in the Nashua Telegraph or view the site directly http://www.rivier.edu/admissions. Be sure to check out the interactive campus map!

Raka is pleased to announce the addition of Zang Garside as Partner and Director of Technology for the studio. The former Director of Technology for Wunderkind Studios in Portsmouth and Alchemy Creative Studios in Boston, Zang brings over ten years of experience in interactive technology to Raka. Read more about Zang.

Raka received word this week that Duncan’s work on the Fertility Neighborhood Demo CD-ROM for Priority Healthcare has won a 2005 APEX Award for Publication Excellence in the “Multimedia and Interactive Publications” category. We’ll have new work to show in upcoming weeks, including a college website, an animated DVD loop and more. Check back soon…

Raka won the “Best of Multimedia” award at the 17th Annual NH Creative Club Exhibition! Our work on the Fertility Centers of New England website (www.fertilitycenter.com) grabbed the top prize for multimedia pieces at the award ceremony on June 14th. Among all the work submitted by New Hampshire creative agencies, this was the only website that won an award. We’re very proud of our work on this website, and will continue to produce quality work that inspires users to delve deeper.

Many new business engagements, as well as continuing relationships with existing clients are almost ready to launch! We’ll be updating our portfolio soon.

Separately, a big announcement for Raka will take place on July 5th. Check back here then to learn about how we’re changing for the better.

Until then…

Spring is in the air and some positive changes are afoot at Raka. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more on this…

In the meantime, we launched a Flash microsite for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA). The microsite is a celebration of ISDA’s 20th anniversary and all of their accomplishments over the past two decades. There is an interactive timeline that provides information and facts for every year of ISDA’s existence, newsletters, leadership information and event information for the 20th anniversary celebration. Visit www.isda.org/anniversary to view the microsite and learn all about ISDA.

We have continued our successful partnership with Priority Healthcare, creating a tradeshow loop and 2 CD-ROMs for them over the last two months. The tradeshow loop was designed specifically for flatpanel monitors that are incorporated into their tradeshow booth. While the piece is built to be eye-catching and fast-paced, the key was to present information in an easy-to-understand format that could be comprehended with a quick glance. Large text and fluid animation incorporated with tasteful imagery and graphics made the piece an integral part of the tradeshow.

We’re currently working on a new admissions website for Rivier College. We’ll let you know as soon as that launches. It will be a cool piece and one we’ll be excited to show off!

Talk to you soon…

Happy New Year!

December of 2004 was a busy month for Raka. Most notably, we designed and built out a full standards based website for the Fertility Centers of New England and launched it to www.fertilitycenter.com, and also animated video introductions for Flybar using advanced special effects software. You can read all about these two projects, as well as view the final products in our work section.

We also sent out a fun holiday gift of chocolate bars to some of our friends and colleagues (if you didn’t get one, contact us and we’ll be happy to send you one!). The chocolate had our logo embedded into it, was wrapped in silver foil and then covered in a custom designed wrapper with a winter scene and exaggerated nutritional facts. The bars turned out to be a lot of fun to give out as well as eat (our New Year’s resolutions include staying away from the Raka chocolate!).

We are currently working with several new clients, as well as on plans to rollout new products and services throughout 2005, so please check back to rakacreative.com soon for more exciting news, features and new solutions that will make your company’s marketing more creative!