Oregon State Productions Blog

We recently partnered with the Admissions Office at OSU to update some Web materials for state-by-state recruiting efforts. By building a custom experience for prospective students from individual states, we hope to personalize the digital admissions process, showing what it’s like to come to campus and give them state-specific information. The sites are simple, small […]

Every year as a part of our paid sponsorship with Athletics we get to create a short video to be played during football games. Yes, that is accurate we (the university) have to pay to get a 30 second message up on the Jumbo Tron at each of our home football games. I understand it, but […]

The Web Comm team has had a hand in a few successes recently. We helped with the launch of three new websites, including the colleges of Veterinary Medicine and Education, as well as a new site for our Veterinary Hospital, which includes a fancy new parallax slider and a nifty video piece. Of course, Central […]

Last week I got a chance to attend An Event Apart in Seattle, here are some of my notes from the event, a lot was covered, these are just a few things that jumped out at me: Jeffrey Zeldman – Content First! Content is a design problem. Our designs are often hostile to content. Design […]

We are looking for a designer who can make things move on the web. With a focus on After Effects for web and broadcast video and commercials, this designer will also design responsive interfaces for desktop, tablet and mobile sites, starting in Photoshop and winding up in HTML5, CSS and JQuery. Solid work ethic, curiosity […]

Here are a pair of handy tools for checking accessibility and effectiveness of your website designs: Spur – This tool analyzes your page and allows you to put yourself in the position of a user with visual impairments through desaturating your page (color blindness), blurring the content or increasing contrast.  These lenses also help you […]

We’ve recently assisted with the launch of two major college websites at OSU as part of our ongoing effort to bring a common content management platform, page architecture and brand identity to the university. With the help of amazing partners at the College of Engineering and the College of Agricultural Sciences, we were able to […]

We’d like to congratulate the communications teams at the College of Pharmacy and the College of Public Health and Human Sciences for launching new sites. These were two very large projects that included teams at the colleges as well as Web Communications and Central Web Services. The new sites model OSU’s brand guidelines and tie […]

OSU’s redesigned home page brought home a Grand Gold Award from the Council for the Support and Advancement of Education (CASE) at the annual conference where winners in a number of communications categories are selected from hundreds of entries from colleges and universities across the western U.S. and Canada. This is especially rewarding given the […]