Gimmicklab. http://www.gimmicklab.com/archive/rss Ingenious Ideas Closing the year http://www.gimmicklab.com/archive/closing-the-year We were working quietly lasts months, closing different projects before the end of the year and starting with some new as you can read in the current works box. We will welcome the year releasing two new websites in 2009 and we want to take this opportunity to wish a happy new year to everybody involved in our activities: clients, agencies, freelances and to our team who works so hard all over the year. See you in 2009! Complete selection of work http://www.gimmicklab.com/archive/complete-selection-of-work Finally we got to upload all the selected portfolio, now available through the portfolio section in this site. It has been a hard job, since the Gimmicklab team has been super-productive from the start in September 03. We grew working hard and now we are glad to be able to share our complete work selection. We are not showing all our works as you can see in our Work Timeline, a page that reflects every little project in which we have taken part from the very first day. As you can see we have been working in more than 200 projects in 5 years. That is a huge volume of work that can only be achieved by passionate people who love their work. We are not including the works that are listed in '02 because they are the client contributions that Arturo and Cristian, founders of Gimmicklab, brought in to start our company. Our first project was Factorcity Site and since then we have learned and enjoyed both, designing and developing sites, brands, strategies and products for our clients. Taking a look at our Client List we are proud to show that most of our clients choose to work with us in more than once. This means a lot to us, because it shows that they were confident with our work and satisfied with the result. We tried to educate our clients into what our knowledge says thai it should be –or could be, and we always tried to find the best solution for their necessities. We are proud to say that most of our clients, small to big ones, have had an interest in establishing an on going relation with us. We would also like to invite you to take a look at our Complete Selection of Work. Dex Import http://www.gimmicklab.com/archive/dex-import We just released Dex Import Site, a build from scratch content management tool to publish an online catalogue for all kind of multi price stock. With a clean an flexible interface this site is builded in PHP, XHTML, CSS and Javascript and powered with the Cake Framework taking especial consideration in semantics to achieve a good SEO optimization. The company is based in Barcelona. Check the site at jovoto website released http://www.gimmicklab.com/archive/jovoto-website-released

Looks like we made it the re-design of the jovoto website. The main task Arturo went to work on in Berlin. Soon there will be a longer post commenting all the re-design and new features of the Jovoto website. To anyone whom already knows jovoto we invite you to have another look at the site and give us feedback, an to those of you whom don't know it just send us an email asking for an invitation or apply directly through the jovoto website.

At this moment there are some pretty interesting contests going on. Jovoto ads is open for ratings, Deutsche Bahn AG wants the community to develop a communicative guiding idea, a roof concept for all of Deutsche Bahn AG's measures and initiatives concerning sustainability. And very soon, there will be another interesting corporate design contest running.

September Sessions http://www.gimmicklab.com/archive/september-sessions Is not that we are still on Hollidays, pretty close to the opposite. We had been on the run since early September closing some projects. Next days we will announce the release of 3 commercial sites: Mates Shoes, Barbera Arquitectos and Dex Import plus the new Jovoto's redesign. As you know Arturo has been working lasts months on the new Jovoto interface, and it's going to be released during this weekend. More in the next days! Hollidays! http://www.gimmicklab.com/archive/hollidays Finally we are on hollidays until September, relaxing, recovering and taking some time away from the computers. On september we will be back with some new releases, Mates Site and Barberá Site. More news at the end of this month. Working hard before Hollidays http://www.gimmicklab.com/archive/working-hard-before-hollidays We are working hard lasts weeks to finnish all the open projects before Hollidays. Yesterday we released the final version of the new Actimel website, the site is now completed with and antivirus promotion. From now we will keep maintaining the site. You can go and get a Panda for free. While Arturo is working on the Jovoto project he is also developing a Corporate Identity for a Law firm. The team is also working in 3 internet projects: Mates (to be relesead on July), Barbera Arquitectos (also on July) and Dex Import We are specially excited about releasing the Mates site, because we are making a Internet version of this application to customize the nice hand made shoes that they sell that we are willing to show online to everyone. Barberà Arquitectos is a portfolio to show the works of this barcelona based architecture studio, while Dex Import is an online catalogue for chinese manufactured products. If everything goes smoothly we will show you this projects before to go on Hollidays on August, stay tuned! Hydroponic in Jovoto http://www.gimmicklab.com/archive/hydroponic-in-jovoto At Gimmicklab we have been designing the Hydroponic collection for about 8 years. Lots of designers, artists and illustrators have been collaborating in this process of lifting a Surf, Skate and Snowboarding brand in Barcelona. Our aim has always been to deliver highly creative stuff for their collections and communication. That's why we have always involved very good creatives in every process, such as Quito Leal and Mauricio Alarcón that together, developed an award winning campaign in San Sebastian Festival. Or Ibai Acebedo who's T-Shirts where some of the most sold ones in every collection, or Jesús Galiana whom we try to work with in any project at Gimmicklab, not only for his artistic skills, but also for his creative skills in every field. With Jesús and Ibai we developed the Hydroponic Casino Banner which was produced by Fali, Cristian and Sergio. But that was not enough. We where looking for news ways to take Hydroponic into a new level, and while designing on logos for the Creative Community Jovoto we decided that it was a good idea to convince they guys at Hydroponic to start a contest in a Crowdsourcing community. By doing this, involving many more creatives, but not two or three, hundreds of them; we wanted to turn Hydroponic into a walking art gallery. There is much more to say about this strategy, but we guess it would fit a pretty long case study. Let's hope we have the time to do it once the contest is finished. We won the Jovoto logo contest! http://www.gimmicklab.com/archive/we-won-the-jovoto-logo-contest Jovoto is an online creative platform for designers, illustrators and any one with an artistic or creative touch that wants to challenge his creativity. The system is pretty simple, they set up a contest and the users submit their own ideas, rate and comment other's ideas, and it's up to the community to decide who wins the prize. The first contest they had was to design their logo which gimmicklab won with the logo design made by Arturo. Gimmicklab wordpress theme http://www.gimmicklab.com/archive/gimmicklab-wordpress-theme At Gimmicklab we use wordpress as a blogging tool for our personal blogs. We just finished the theme that we are going to use. The design comes from Arturo and it's a simply and leightweight elastic interface built in XHTML and CSS. We tried to keep it as semantic as posible in every way, and the result is a clear marck up that gives correct meaning to each items. Dew to the use of web standards this theme is compatible with all the browsers, we only need just a little IE6 hack (height: 1%) to adjust the layout... it's the benefit about using web standars, at the end it makes your code simpler. This theme also includes the avatar function added in last worpdress version and it's also widget enabled. Soon we are going to add the prologue function, so stay tuned! In a future posts we will include a "how to" explaining how we are setting up a wordpress blog, building a theme from the scratch and taking care of security in your server. You can take a look at our personal blogs from our contact page, soon will made available this theme for everybody. Still updating http://www.gimmicklab.com/archive/still-updating As you can see we are still updating the site. It's a hard work filling the database with all the content but right now you can enjoy the whole website portfolio. Coming next is the rest of our work, soon you will be able to see in what our graphic department had been working on since we started 4 years ago. Our apologies if you find any mistakes, and we hope you like our work. Comments on our comments http://www.gimmicklab.com/archive/comments-on-our-comments As we have said before, we have been putting together all the work we have been doing in the past 5 years and that's a lot of work! Then we want to write a comment on each one of the projects and this is even taking us more time. So you might see that many comments are brief, not accurate or have some... spelling mistakes. We are terribly sorry about that and we will be correcting as fast as we can. Gimmick and the Lab http://www.gimmicklab.com/archive/gimmick-and-the-lab Experience has told us that creativity itself doesn’t work, it has to hit the consumer in a way he understands, likes and enjoys it. That has been our aim for the last 5 years in Gimmicklab. A small company born with the will to deliver simple, elegant, usable and creative products within the brief of our clients. Every item we deliver -logos, websites, packs, books, etc- has been filtered so that it has a solid concept, it has been elegantly designed, coded within the standards and the production has been satisfactory for our clients Almost finished http://www.gimmicklab.com/archive/almost-finished After five years of hard work, long trips and lots of experiences in Gimmicklab, we are finally getting our website ready. It's not an easy task, we have lots of work to gather, upload and comment. But we believe that very soon, most of it will be up. So if you see that a project has no text or no image just be patient, it will be there soon! We also have to fix lots of bugs in the front and the back-end, polish some texts and redo some jpgs. So the site will be finished as soon as possible.