Bluecadet Interactive

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Theresa Decker brings considerable design chops to the Bluecadet team. She's an award-winning web and print designer who's well versed in branding/identity, packaging, and illustration. Before joining Bluecadet, she was a design fellow at Chronicle Books in San Francisco. See some of her amazing work here.

We're teaming up with the Nation Constitution Center! We'll be building their new online presence in the upcoming months, so we all took a trip to their headquarters on Independence Mall to learn a bit more about our nation, its history, and the exhibitions themselves. Here are some of the things that inspired us.

Our new interactive timeline for the American Revolution Center is an immersive experience that lets users explore and engage with historical objects on their iPads.

As the holidays approach, our crew comes together to celebrate things we can all get behind: silly gifts, hideous sweaters, and new presents for the office.

The 2011 Bluecadet holiday card, in 3D!

Steve Hurwitz has an in-depth knowledge of Drupal and PHP, and joins the Bluecadet team as our senior web developer. He’s worked with Actionscript3, Drupal, PHP and more at Red Tettemer, TMX Interactive, and Paragraph Inc. He’s the head of our in-house Drupal development, so here’s a chance to see some of his great work on previous Drupal projects.

Steve's development work for Red Tettemer, designed by Jon Elison.

In the last six weeks we have completed a race to launch four large interactive and online projects. We are out of breath but proud, and warming up for the next round. The iconic image of the Afghan Girl by Steve McCurry

Bluecadet's newest designer comes to us fully trained in print and interactive design. Alex Bloom has a strong conceptual ability and a sharp graphical eye. He's a graduate of Tyler School of Art, and is well versed in UI/UX, branding & identity development, illustration, and advertising. See some of his earlier work, and stay tuned to see his upcoming efforts with Bluecadet.

Design  and illustration for Danversbank in New England. The illustration depicts instructions for a coin exchange machine and reflects the quirky humor of the full ad campaign.

Hiring a talented in-house designer who understands interactive can be a real challenge. The elusive designer/developer rockstars do exist, but unfortunately they’re scarce, often get snapped up quickly and can demand daunting salaries. So what’s a small, agile digital design studio to do? Should they look for someone with an amazing eye for typography, or someone that can code the latest HTML5 markup and write Javascript? After eight years of running an interactive studio, this article covers how to get the most out of hires.

Haven't been to our offices recently? Check out the changes and improvements. Haven't been to our offices at all? See where we work, and where we were sitting when we launched our latest new websites. Some of our surroundings and furnishings serve our professional work, and some are just for fun.