Tag: Internet

  • Show Choir Canada’s Glee

    Show Choir Canada’s mission is to play a vital role in the development and support of show choirs in Canada by creating opportunities, including live competition-format presentations, that inspire youth participants to not only work together through song and dance to achieve a common goal of excellence but also grow and develop as individuals while…

  • Discover Card Contest

    Remember when you were a student at University? Now do you remember the kiosks within the front doors of your educational institution. Well for me this all came rushing back while designing this Discover Card microsite. But I have to admit I would have liked this type of interaction better than the hard sell method…

  • da Costa Talent Launches Website

    da Costa Talent recently decided that they needed an online presence. They have expanded over the years to the point where they have numerous agency clients (talent) that need to be quickly referenced by their industry clients. In a time where businesses are connected online, images of their talent on their own office walls was…

  • Pfizer Sales Force Automation Tool

    The task at hand was to build Pfizer’s internal sales force application tool for their US sales team of over 45,000. This was a project that grew out of a need for better efficiency in sales within Pfizer and kept Thirst very busy for the next three years.

  • EngageMe: A Fresh Approach

    EngageMe addresses a key infrastructure shortcoming of today’s Internet: the inability to find people across social networks and communications environments based on interests that users have in common.

  • A Photographer’s Gallery

    An artist’s site always captures interest. Their online galleries are often windows into other times or worlds, real or imaginary.

  • E-zine Explodes Online

    This e-zine made its move to being an online publication and performed spectacularly well. The viewership numbers after the redesign were up substantially.

  • Sakonnet takes its Energy Online

    Sakonnet needed a first strike into the energy market to compete against longer standing risk management software firms. They hired Thirst to help them out.

  • Cahners Evolves its Vortal

    Cahners wanted to be the ‘E-business Portal’. They enjoyed a mix of advanced technology and they had a tremendous amount of wholly owned content to make it an ultimate business vortal destination.

  • Microsoft Rethinks MSN

    MSN asked for sketches for a new launch of MSN. It wanted people to have instant access to their content and they wanted it to be bright and attractive.

  • Rogers Communications Launches

    Rogers is synonymous with Canadian communications. The uber-media company needed to showcase their portfolio of companies and products and take their first serious move online.

  • IBM’s w3 Intranet

    A portion of IBM’s intranet had to be accessible by a dial-up connection but in keeping with the rest of their intranet. (also design by IAB) This particular micro site was to have everything to entice a sales associate to return regularly for updated information.

  • Gateway as a Moving Target

    Gateway was a continually large project. IAB helped with just about anything that Gateway could think of, everything from their internal sales application to an interactive marketing web-based operating system interface that was way ahead of its time. Gateway was not just exciting for its work but for its people and learning curve that it…

  • The Guardian UK Online

    The Guardian Unlimited hired Neville Brody to make the Guardian Online infinitely flexible and readable. In turn he needed help and called the IAB studious where John Schmitz and I fleshed out ideas and finalized the design.

  • Univision moves Online

    Univision decided to make their move online. As a result, Univision’s new hispanic portal contains separate channels for content and an online shopping experience specifically designed for their culture. These designs enabled Univision to take new market share and solidify the hispanic market in the United States.

  • Newsweek moves Online

    Newsweek should be instantly recognizable for most people and because of this fact, the staff wanted an online extension that kept as faithful as possible to their print publication while establishing it’s own personality.

  • NetMarket gets Enhanced

    There were two basic tasks for this client: the identity was reworked – a simple colour reduction to help strengthen the brand’s image and the storefront was enhanced – quick previews and easy browsing for increased selling potential.

  • The New York Daily News Online

    This was a very involved online extension of a well respected and time honored print brand. The look and feel of the New York Daily News in its traditional printed medium is unmistakable to every New Yorker and so the task at hand was formidable. The starting point was the clean up of a trusted…