Oregon State Productions Blog

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 […]

Before you begin any new website project (or a major overhaul of an existing site), you should take a long, hard look at your content. One helpful planning step is to make an outline of everything you’d like to have on your site. Organize the outline hierarchically so that you know how to nest navigation. […]

With multiple departments providing web services and a host of different options for building and maintaining websites at OSU, it can be quite a daunting task to simply decide where to begin. So we created this quick start guide to help point you in the right direction. Your always also welcome to contact our office […]

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 are going to be exploring a whole new level of rich web content with the upcoming feature documentary, Relentless: The Global Formula Racing Pursuit of Perfection. Our team’s multimedia producer, Justin Smith, has been following the exploits and dedication of a group of OSU engineering and business students for more than a year, and […]

Working with Blake Vawter and Derek Whiteside in Admissions and Enrollment Management, we’ve rolled out a new look for the OSU Admissions Blog.  It integrates some multimedia features and videos that are companion pieces to articles in the printed viewbook. The Admission’s Office pioneered effective blogging on campus, and they’ve led the way in using […]

We’re sorry that we’re losing two of our amazing staff members this fall. Carol Andrews, after more than twenty years at OSU, a time that included building the university’s first websites from scratch, retired as of September 1st.  The great news is that she’s still sticking around part-time on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so we’ll continue […]

Our talented team worked with University Marketing to produce OSU’s two latest television spots: