Peapod Has Our Heads In The Cloud.

Posted on February 2, 2010 
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Back to Work!

matchmakers

Peapod Studios is pleased to announce that we have been selected to create a vibrant new web presence for Asigra Inc., a leading cloud backup and recovery software provider.

The Asigra project includes a new strategy, architecture, design and development of asigra.com.

Stay tuned for a Spring relaunch of asigra.com.

About Asigra:

Asigra brings Cloud Computing to backup and recovery. Traditional approaches to backup have not kept up with the exponential growth and value of data – and the complexity of the IT environment. This means IT organizations are wasting brainpower and precious resources on what should be a routine task in today’s Cloud Computing era.

For more than 20 years Asigra has stayed ahead of the market with an efficient, cost-effective and transformational cloud backup and recovery solution that aligns the value of data with its storage costs.

More about Asigra online via www.Asigra.com

Bumptop Releases Bumptop for Mac 1.0

Posted on January 22, 2010 
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We’re all about new tech gadgets and finding new ways to organize ourselves here at Peapod Studios. That’s why we’ve had our eyes on the development going on at Bumptop for sometime now.

Unfortunately until this week there was no option for Mac users to experience the innovative design and workflow Bumptop had created for PC desktops.

Well all that changed this week, when the fully realized Bumptop for Mac edition was released.

At first blush it’s immediately apparent Bumptop has put quite a bit of polish into its new release. It’s an absolutely gorgeous, well conceived user experience treatment of your standard desktop. It’s integration into workflow makes me believe that it was Apple itself that implemented this edition, or at least they’ll try to nab bits of it for later releases.

The basic version is free for download, and for a mere $29 you can upgrade for a more feature rich full version.

A Rare Medium, Well Done.

Posted on January 19, 2010 
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The last 18 months have been a very interesting ride, to say the least.

For those 18 months, Peapod was tasked and contracted to aid in the start up of an interactive division for one of Toronto’s premier software houses. In that time we were able to build the division from it’s two original employees to over ten people strong and still growing.

So with their new Interactive Division in place, on the right track and our initial obligations complete, we decided that 2010 would be a great time to get back to the business we know and love the most.

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We’re back!

Listen, we love what we do.

We know this, because we missed it so much. Developing and planning online marketing campaigns for clients. Forging new online territories with their identities and branding. Getting to know the inner workings of people’s business models and helping them achieve new and greater things.

To be honest, it’s really all we know and we’re very happy to get back to it.

So for all of you who have stuck with us in our 18 month absence, we simply cannot thank you enough. Your continued patronage of Peapod means more to us than you could ever imagine. You can bet we’re going to be making a special point of telling you all individually in this new year.

2010 is a very exciting time for us here at Peapod Studios. We’re back and we’re ready to rock.

A Very Serious Upgrade

Posted on January 19, 2010 
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iMac Quad Core

Peapod Studios has upgraded our toolset to include Apple’s new 27 inch Quad Core iMacs. At first blush this may seem a bit like overkill, but we wanted to be able to work without the interruption of the annoying spinning beach ball ( and work on our tans all at once.)

With the addition of the 27 inch Dell 2707 as our secondary monitors, we’re working with about 5.9 MegaPixels of desktop per machine.

NERD ALERT!

Negligence.

Posted on February 18, 2009 
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Well its been over 2 months since we’ve posted anything here, and there is really no excuse for our tardiness. We’ve been sidetracked by extensive hours and ongoing projects, and I have been negligent. My apologies.

So What’s New?

We had the opportunity to develop the website, branding and identity for ChangeCamp

change camp poster

You can read about The Impact of ChangeCamp over at Remarkk’s site.

ChangeCamp describes itself as, a free participatory web-enabled face-to-face event that brings together citizens, technologists, designers, academics, policy wonks, political players, change-makers and government employees to answer one question: How do we re-imagine government and citizenship in the age of participation?

I Tell Stories

We were lucky enough to be asked to work on Sameer Vasta’s full redesign for his infamous blog, I Tell Stories

I Tell Stories

Sameer had only a few thoughts, Simple, simple, simple and easily readable. To a designer, a creative brief like this is a gift, we hope he’s happy with the final result, personally we love it.

East End Nerds

Let’s face it, we’re all nerds, and lot’s of us here in Toronto live in the east end, so through the power of twitter we managed to finagle a nice little drink up in November, which we deemed “East End Nerds” There is a small flickr gallery here.

Nerds

BrundleCamp

Alistair ( Peapod Designer ) turned 40 on January 10th, 2009. Again through the power of the internet, his friends hosted a little bash for him at the Spice Route. It was deemed ( as so much in our little geek community ) as a camp… Brundlecamp. Many thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate with this quadro-generian. some photos

brundlecamp

Favourite Fonts

We created a list of our favourite fonts… just because.

Fave fonts

There is so much more, but due to client NDA’s and assorted conflicts, we can only present the more personal things. we hope 2009 is as good for you as it already has been for us.

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