GNV & Partners | studio di Web Design, Rimini

Pestaola.gr 2009

Nicolò Volpato — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:08:13 +0000

Like in 2008, Pestaola.gr hired us to refresh its online presence. This year, we were tasked to redesign both Pestaola’s logo and blog theme, all with a strong Web 2.0 taste.

For the logo, we opted for a cleaner, stronger look, without the gloss and aqua effects of the previous one. At the same time, we kept the balloon shape and made it an icon. The balloon icon is obtained from the O in Pestaola and can be both used in the logo or as a standalone icon.

For the blog theme, we kept the same colour scheme and the footer illustration of the 2008 design, refreshing the whole design while keeping it recognizable and coherent with the previous identity.

Most of our design work went in optimizing layout, spacing and overall readability.

The theme also required quite a lot of development work, in order to integrate Facebook Connect, custom ShortURLs, Twitter and Google search, custom top post, custom thumbnails and custom comment formatting functionalitites.

jQuery was then used to spice up the UI and add some interactivity.

Tool., Inc.

Nicolò Volpato — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:08:22 +0000

Tool., Inc. is a US-based products design and development company, featuring names like Adidas, Reebok, Burton, Staples and APC in its clients list.

Based on their direction, we helped them design and develop their new website and blog, using WordPress. The design is built around a custom 8-unit grid, Tool’s colour palette, imagery and visual guidelines.

Scheduled holidays – 26.09.2009 – 04.10.2009

Nicolò Volpato — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:24:42 +0000

We will be taking a break from Sat., September 26th, 2009 until Sun., October 4th, 2009.
Our studio will be closed during these dates and we will be back to work on Mon., October 5th, 2009.

For last-minute updates and fresh news, you should follow us on Twitter.

The Design Process Behind DesignSVN

Nicolò Volpato — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:37:42 +0000

DesignSVN is an application meant to help designers keep track of their work and of their design process. As we at GNV&Partners have been doing most of the design work behind DesignSVN, we have decided to share the process behind it. By the way, this also contains several updated previews of DesignSVN.

Read the full post on DesignSVN’s Blog.

Other Works April-May 2009

Nicolò Volpato — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:52:26 +0000

Project: logo design for newly founded web development company RedArea.
Client: RedArea, S. Benedetto del Tronto (AP), Italy
Date: April-May 2009

Project: design tweaks and updates for Siloos.
Client: Siloos, Chioggia (VE), Italy
Date: April 2009

Davistudio

Nicolò Volpato — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:53:47 +0000

Davistudio is a small fine porcelain and pottery studio in Ney York, based on eco-friendy, sustainable principles, run by Mary Anne Davis.

Mary Anne used to have a static website to promote her work and a couple of Blogger powered blogs.
She wanted to switch to WordPress and to have a coherent web presence.

We redesigned Mary Anne’s website from the ground up, giving it a much more customized and organic look that matches her work.

We built Davistudio to be a central hub of Mary Anne’s online presence: we unified the presentation website, the 2 blogs and the Twitter timeline in one, coherent, WordPress-powered website.

Other Works December 2008-April 2009

Nicolò Volpato — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:33:32 +0000

Project: wedding site design and Xhtml/Css development for Liz Gannes, writer at Gigaom.com.
Client: Liz Gannes, San Francisco, USA
Date: April 2009

Project: design and development of WordPress-based website for The PR Team.
Client: The PR Team, Athens, Greece
Date: January 2009

Project: website design and development for photographer Edo Bertona.
Client: Edo Bertona Fotografo, Novara, Italy
Date: December 2008

Project: logo and website design pitches for ColorFever.
Client: ColorFever, Italy.
Date: August-December 2008

Office Closed – 04.05.2009 – 06.05.2009

Nicolò Volpato — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:35:56 +0000

We’ll be closed from Monday, May 4th 2009 until Wednesday, May 6th 2009.
Ongoing projects won’t suffer delays.

Introducing DesignSVN

Nicolò Volpato — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:32:05 +0000

“DesignSvn is an application created for designers and graphic artists to easily share their concepts and refer back to older revisions. Keep your projects organized in one central place and gather feedback from your clients as you progress.”

DesignSVN will be for designers what SVN is for developers. It will give designers a place to keep all their drafts organized, from the first concept to the final design. It will help designers track revisions of their concepts, track client’s approval and feedback and give them the option to fall back to a previous revision, just like SVN does for code.

We are excited to be part of this new project, which will be released in the next months.
In the meantime, follow DesignSVN on Twitter.

Tonight.eu

Nicolò Volpato — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:13:10 +0000

Tonight.eu is one of Europe’s largest nightlife networks. Launched by an italian start-up based in Milano, Tonight.eu now sports 15 europen cities in its network.

We’ve been called to revamp Tonight.eu’s own corporate/presentation website.

We’ve chosen a minimal, clean style, heavily based on typography. The main goal of this website is leading traffic to the 15 cities websites and to provide general information about the company for investors and advertisers.

We also added a WordPress-powered blog section for staff members to post news, updates and random thoughts.