Designing Digitally, Inc. is pleased to announce the grand opening of it’s newly re-designed Second Life Island on March 31, 2008. Designing Digitally, Inc. is a full-service design firm specializing in Second Life development, graphic design and printing, Web site design and programming, and e-learning and interactive media design. The Second Life island will showcase past, as well as current projects and will offer free video tutorials on using Second Life.

The new island will also provide space to rent for meetings and presentations with streaming video and slideshow capabilities. To learn more about what Designing Digitally, Inc. can offer you or your company, please visit us in world at:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Designing%20Digitally/129/123/58/?title=Designing%20Digitally or

on our Web site at

http://www.designingdigitally.com.

We have the Pub / Dance Club finished for all you virtual party people that are interested in visiting our island. For all of you that cannot wait until our Second Life island opens here is an updated screen shot:

ONLY a few more days before we open to the public!

We are finishing up our scripting on our Second Life island. I wanted to share how you can brand each and every item on your Second Life island to promote your organization. As you can see Andrew is wearing our company shirt, and the pool table has a custom design with our logo! Yes the pool table allows for people to play pool against each other! We know how important it is to make sure that the organization is properly branded within SL. And that you must have interaction within your island to keep people interested in the digital space. Design is critical when developing your SL island! See image below:

For all of you that read this blog. I wanted to let you in on a little secret. We are planning on opening our Second Life island on April 1st for everyone to view! We will be posting the SURL to teleport to the islanda few days before for everyone!

We finished a 4×6 Trade Ad for Hercules Tire Today. They will be using this in the trade magazines such as Car and Driver Magazine. We created the design to reflect the 2007 organizational identity we produced for them. This design scheme reflects the organizations professionalism and quality.

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We created a T-shirt design for a client who gladly sent us pictures of people wearing the shirts. We are proud to know that the design was embraced and is being used by the Ohio Learning Network. Thanks again for the opportunity OLN!

Today we took one step forward in opening our second life island for 2008. We have been diligently trying to get this project wrapped up. We implemented the pod racing game today. We also have the audio recording throughout the island. We have scripted to give the user an audio and text chat prompt in what sector they are in. This island will be used by multiple organizations so it is best that we split the parcels so that multiple meetings can take place at one time.

Check out the pod racer track.. yes you will be hovering over water!

Here is a sneak peak at our meeting room. You can see the design style from the pictures provided. We are currently working diligently to get the interactions and the scripts needed to provide a fully interactive experience. With our island being closed off for the re-design we have been provided with feedback on when it will open. We want to stress that we are working as fast as we can to make this design open to the public. We are planning on opening on March 30th. That is a tentative schedule at this time. More to come soon!

We have finished the 2008 brochure design for Yellow Tuesdays Hair Club. It is being used at the 2008 Lima Ohio Bridal Show. These were created to provide a creative and energetic feeling to the design. The client provided the pictures for us to implement. They also provided the copy for us to implement.

We step closer to being able to better assist state and federal bodies looking for our creative services. We have applied for the Ohio Department of Administrative Services State Term Schedule to be an official vendor for Ohio. As we mentioned in the previous post we have obtained our GSA Schedule 70 that allows us to work at the federal level. We look forward to assisting government funded organizations with creative solutions.

FINALLY!

Designing Digitally, Inc. has been awarded a U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule 70 Contract, number GS-35F-0248U. GSA IT Schedule 70 was established to provide U.S. government agencies the ability to procure the products and services they need as solutions to their information technology requirements. To view the contract please click here.

After months of hard work and dedication we have almost finished our 2008 SecondLife island. I am excited to say we are around 80% finished with the second life island!

What I see with most all Second Life islands is that users always take into consideration gravity and laws that take place within the real world/out world. If one can think past the fact that what happens out of Second Life does not need to apply to the virtual environment then users will be able to design complex interesting architecture for design purposes.

We hope to have the island finished by March 30th for the grand opening to the public. On that date we plan on having guest speakers talk about their experiences in Second Life and how designing the space can assist in the effectiveness of Second Life.