Sean Oakes Studios interactive branding experiences

Take one look and you'll know just how fun it was to design this website for Scholastic's rich, breakthrough Pre-K curriculum. The product has tons of resources and components and we wanted to communicate that variety through the design. Using photo collage and illustrations, we sought to capture the excitement of young children's natural curiosity and enthusiasm for discovery.
 
Visual Design, Flash Development
Launch Site

For years we have designed marketing websites for Tom Snyder Productions, an educational software publisher in the Boston Area. We were thrilled when they asked us to design and develop their corporate site. We focused on clear, simple communication about their products anchored with a focus on the joy of learning.

IA, Visual Design, HTML Development

Launch Site

SOS partnered with Weekly Reader to refresh their online product, Weekly Reader Connect. In helping rebuild the resource, we created games, powerful interactive reading systems and streamlined teaching instructions. Grades are now color-coded and matched with animated characters that are developmentally appropriate.
 
Strategy, IA, Visual Design, Flash Development, CMS Development
Launch Site

When America's most trusted resource for online health information, WebMD, decided to launch a fitness initiative targeting kids, they called us for our deep expertise reaching this audience. We helped them clarify their strategy and define the overall tone for the content. This translated into three unique websites, one for little kids, one for tweens and this one, Fit Teen, just for teenagers.
 
Strategy, Visual Design, Flash Development
Launch Site

A long-time client, the American museum of Natural History asked us to design a mini-site for their Event and Conference Services department. The site would need to function as an elegant online brochure for one of New York City’s premier venues. 
 
We built this XML-driven all-Flash site in a way that is at once visually immersive, yet is easy to update and maintain. Transitions are fluid and the interaction gives the site’s content an appropriately high-end appeal.
 
Visual Design, Flash Development
Launch Site

In 2007, China Care had an out-dated website targeting grassroots donors and college volunteers. But now, their organization had matured and they were ready to court corporate donors and deeper pockets for the funding they needed to provide emergency medical relief to Chinese orphans. We re-imagined the way users would perceive their brand and interact with their site. 

The site was rebuilt on a customized Drupal platform, allowing their modest staff to manage news, events, emergency calls-to-action and community areas with ease. We provided automation to assist with eNewsletter creation. We integrated and optimized an E-Commerce platform for donations, allowing users to select specific children or causes for their donations.

IA, Visual Design, CMS Development

Launch Site

The goal for the kiddk.com site redesign was to transform DK Publishing’s large catalogue of non-fiction books for kids into a online destination by leveraging their extensive content through an interactive medium.

The design was implemented by using practical photography and scanning real paper to give the site a striking look. It was important that the animation and transitions also moved like real paper to deliver an immersive site experience. Using paper for interface elements also offers an accessible and tactile navigation that encourages exploration.

This web site has received numerous industry accolades including Communication Arts “Site of the Week” and How Magazine’s “Top Ten of the Web” among others.

IA, Visual Design, Flash Development

Launch Site