In the September 2008 issue the guys from .net magazine UK continued their series Showcase / Gallery, which features “14 of the best, most inspirational designs from around the web”. We had the pleasure to be one of the 14 designs showcased, with our main site www.x3studios.com. Thanks a lot! We also added some pics of the magazine on our flickr page.
…and came home with the 1st prize in the category Company & Brand Blogs!!! I have to admit, it was quite a nice surprise for us to receive this award, we weren’t expecting it, especially considering the competition in this category. We were actually on our way out (as you can see here) when the award was announced ;).
The event was really cool, lots of interesting conversations, many old friends to see. I think Radu had a much better time than I did, considering that he’s more of a blogger than all the rest of us together here at X3 :). Either way, we’re looking forward to the next edition, we’ll definitely be there.
A few months ago we were asked to be official partners of the first Hardcore Marketing conference held in Timisoara - and of course, we said yes! And here is the result: www.hardcoremarketing.ro. I hope you’ll enjoy the site’s visuals - since it’s in Romanian, it’ll be difficult to understand much of it, I know ;).
Our work is not done on this project, stay tuned… (yep, this is one of those teasers :))
The Bellevue Residence project meant for us the first step into to a new direction: architectural visualizations. Today we launch the second step in this direction: the microsite www.x3archviz.com.The purpose of this microsite is to showcase some of the possibilities when it comes to architectural visualizations, and it was conceived as a small gallery. Right now we have 3 different scenes included (with 2 different angles for each), with another 3 being in the works and should be published shortly. The case studies section will also be updated. But until then, check out www.x3archviz.com. Any feedback is more than welcome.
This microsite is the first in a series of such sites that will follow this fall. We believe it is less cluttered and more efficient to create such microsites for each individual service we offer, rather than trying to include everything in our main website.
UPDATE 12 SEPT 2008: We just added a new scene with two angles for it - NeoBaroque Bedroom. We also modified the way the ‘Making Of’ section displays. Have fun!
Today is the big day we finally launch our new site - version 5, for those who keep track of such things ;). We received a lot of relevant feedback to our previous site, which definitely helped us with the creation of this one. The entire site structure was reorganized and content completely redone. But most of all, we invite you to explore your creative side with a certain site feature that should become obvious within second from entering the site (at least we hope so).
Given the site’s complexity, there could be some minor bugs that escaped our testing process. If there is anything at all you notice as being off, please let us know. Other than that, we hope you’ll enjoy it!
I know I speak for the entire team when I say that we’re very happy to see our projects have such a resonance for others. It is well known that the highest form of appreciation is copying somebody - so we can only be flattered in this situation. As designers, we always wanted to become role models for others to follow - and as it turns out, our wish came true ;).
PS: Fellow creators, we would be happy to give you our source codes for other projects we’ve created, so you don’t have to bother with printscreens, or those messy SWFdecompilers…
Timişoara, July 14th 2008 - The design studio X3 Studios launches press.x3studios.com – an online pressroom specifically created to facilitate communication between the company and media representatives.
