Interview for NewWebPick Issue 22

every1knows.com

We’ve been interviewed once again by NewWebPick e-zine for Issue No.22.
Here are the answers to their questions:

Tell us a little bit about your background?
Everyone Knows is a brainchild of Basil, Sergey, Alex and Andrew – young and ambitious professionals from the Eastern Europe who’s goal is to make world better by making it at least prettier.
The area of expertise stretches from web and print design and illustration to programming and animation.

Who are your main inspirations?
What are your influences?

We’re easily inspired by simple things that surround us, the things we usually don’t notice. Every once in a while we are inspired by the mass conciousness of the world that drives the trends but that’s mostly an exception.

How do you keep motivated and interested?
It is many years since we started doing what we do now and it still doesn’t feel like any motivation is needed to continue.

Do you have any new projects coming up that you can tell us about?
Most of our upcoming projects are need-to-know information. The biggest is the one for the VIACOM corporation – again, under disclosure :)

What do you know about your country’s design/designers?
Recently the desigers from Russia and Ukraine entered the world’s design scene with non-standard projects, top-notch quality work and our-of-the-box thinking. We’re very glad this is happening and hope that it is only the beginning.

Any words you would like to pass it to new comer designers?
The design community is still full of opportunities for the all kind of talanted young people. Join and show the world your creativity and uniqueness!

What is your most favorite commercial design of your own?
Most certainly it was The Morph Thing (www.morphthing.com). Mostly because we absolutely enjoyed the services they provide – it is the endless recource of lolz.

Name 8 designers you like it most?
Scott Hansen is the guy number one most of the time, others are Alex Trochut, Peter Jaworowsky, Nik Ainley, Si Scott, Craig Ward, Leo Burnett and recently Yulia Brodskaya.

Any final comments?
Gratitude for featuring our studio goes to the wonderful people at the NewWebPick community!

Full interview with pictures you will find in NewWebPick No.22 (July 2009).
Take care ;)

0 commentsposted by Basil Gloo on 05/26/2009

It begun with the word

words_by_alexdram

Alex said that he won’t pretend to be original since he saw the concept several times. Just felt like doing this.

ps: looking at this not in the original size is not encouraged ^^

5 commentsposted by Basil Gloo on 05/19/2009

Invasion

The end is nigh, brothers! Run for your lives!

Invasion

Invasion. Second wave.

These digital art pieces have been shot and digitally mastered by our photo ninja Alex Dram :)

1 commentposted by Basil Gloo on 03/23/2009

Neweracaptalk 1st Year Anniversary

Neweracaptalk 1st Year Anniversary

Our friends from NewEraCapTalk are celebrating their first Anniversary. After amazing year from the first launch of this online community they present to all readers Anniversary Giveaway with nice gifts for winners.

Check for details here.

0 commentsposted by Basil Gloo on 03/19/2009

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year!

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year!

At the close of another year, we gratefully pause to wish you a warm and happy Holiday Season and a peaceful and prosperous New Year.

Also, we created new wallpaper for you, feel free to download it on our Freebies page.

2 commentsposted by Basil Gloo on 12/24/2008

New service for Squarespace users

e1k+squarespace

So, here is our first side project mentioned in previous post:
Graphic Design and Theme Creation for Squarespace by Everyone Knows

Squarespace is unique publishing system for website and blogs. It is an extremely powerful platform, presented in an understandable and intuitive fashion.

If you are looking to build your custom website on Squarespace platform, Everyone Knows is the right team to contact. Having great experience in design and development we will fulfill all your needs.

And what is more, Everyone Knows is trusted design partner and friend of Squarespace Inc.

0 commentsposted by Basil Gloo on 12/23/2008

The 2nd version is up!

Everyone Knows team is happy to announce the relaunch of their main site as well as portfolio update

and new side projects!

Share your love in comments! ;)

1 commentposted by Basil Gloo on 12/22/2008

Case study: sergeystanchev.com v2

Sergey Stanchev

Our graphic designer and illustrator, Sergey Stanchev, recently created new design for his personal portfolio page. It’s clean, modern and very professional. Just try this cool effect for images on “works” page :)

Visit sergeystanchev.com and enjoy!

0 commentsposted by Basil Gloo on 11/27/2008

Case study: Southern Weddings Daily Blog

Southern Weddings Magazine

Southern Weddings Magazine is the South’s hottest wedding magazine for the modern southern bride. The Daily SW BlogSite highlights the best in real Southern weddings and incredible event details from all over the USA.

We were contacted for custom Squarespace theme development by Lara Casey. Sure, no problem, Lara :) She created graphic design herself and we developed theme.

Basically she wanted a better looking blog with additional functionality and revised structure. The details are as follows:
1. We developed a custom blog theme for Squarespace publishing platform.
2. Created a flash animated banner at the top of the page.
2. Added revised menu items (lots of new items added).
3. Several new pages – “Real southern wedding”, “Inspiring details…”, “Photography” and sub-pages have been developed.
4. Thousand of new galleries.
5. Twitter bubbles talk-boxes for “About Us” page.

Also, we created detailed instructions for every page describing how to manage and edit them.

And now, after tons and tons of work, it’s ready!
You can visit Southern Weddings Daily Blog at swsmag.net for review.

Feedback from Lara:
“So far everyone is LOVING the site. Everything looks great. I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!”

p.s. feel free to contact us if you need custom blog design and development :)

0 commentsposted by Basil Gloo on 11/20/2008

Case study: sexscenes.info

“Sex Scenes” is a comic and erotic story about a young woman filmmaker who sets out to make a sophisticated, edgy, sexy but arty film in today’s corporate Hollywood — it’s about her, and about how her project effects the people she encounters along the way. A comic (but sexy) picaresque adventure story, in other words.


We were commissioned for the graphical concept of this project by Ray Sawhill, and we worked from scratch providing the direction, logo design, web design and custom Squarespace theme.

Before designing website, we started with the branding process. The idea is to have a visually appealing typography only logo based on the type treatment popular in late 60 – 70. Swirly lines and bold characters along with strong color did the trick, and here is result:

sexscenes.info logo design

When logo has been finished we proceed to website design. Our main point of reference was ’60s and ’70s art-erotica movies, and we needed a website to remind visitors of those movies.

Splash page needed to look like a movie poster or book jacket. We created a vector image of a nude girl holding a movie camera in one hand. General idea was that back in the ’70s she’d have been the girl onscreen. Now “the girl” is also the movie maker.

Ok, done:



On all other pages, we added both the horizontal, top-of-the-page navigation bar and the secondary (vertical) column:



And here is Ray’s feedback:
Gorgeous, love it, thanks to all for great work.

You can visit sexscenes.info and take a look of overall website design.

0 commentsposted by Basil Gloo on 11/13/2008