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By Matt on April 30, 2012

A YEAR IN REVIEW:

Where we’ve been for the last 300 days
Studio shot

The last ten months here at Rubic Design + Interactive have been amazing. As a forward-thinking design and web development studio, we are passionate about things like creative design, web standards, user-experience and accessibility, and the Drupal web platform. We’ve spent countless hours (7,000 if you do the math) designing and building solutions around these. It’s no surprise we’ve seen a lot of change. After all, part of the fun of design and web development is the spirit of invention. So, what have we been up to since our last blog post in June 2011? Here goes.

By John on June 23, 2011

36-Hours in Newport

Two clients reviewed in New York Times artcle
NYT screenshot

We recently had the pleasure to redesign/develop websites for two Newport hot spots: the historic & vibrant Jane Pickens Theater as well as Newport's award-winning mexican restaurant, Perro Salado. It was great to read The New York Times article recommending JPT and the Salty Dog as Saturday evening picks.  RDI is happy to celebrate (with our clients) the launch of these Drupal sites just in time for well-deserved Summer press...

 

By John on May 06, 2011

Social Media Everywhere!

Social Media FlowChart

Social media is a huge part of the web. As a web firm we wouldn’t be doing our job unless we helped clients understand how easy it is to have a social media campaign.

By Kathy on April 15, 2011

Wine, Food & Drupal at the Nantucket Wine Festival this May!

Nantucket Wine Festival

Over the past few months we have had the pleasure to work with The Nantucket Wine Festival for its 15th season this May. The client engaged us to redesign and build the Festival's e-commerce website which we launched in February.

By Matt on October 15, 2010

Syndicate Your Blog Posts and Website Content for Email Marketing without Lifting a Finger

Want to do more online marketing in less time? Of course you do. It’s tough to keep-up – you have a lot of great ideas and messages to broadcast online, but there's not enough days in a week to unleash them all.

By Matt on September 15, 2010

The Next Great Thing for e-Commerce

How to Create an Online Community around Your Online Storefront

It’s one thing to develop an online storefront for your business or organization. You need to sell stuff, take donations or have regularly occurring online subscriptions. And you may want to even SEND payments and manage user accounts online for your partners and suppliers. Over the last few years here at the studio, we've been using Drupal's set of e-commerce modules called “Ubercart” - German for “cart which exhibits extreme awesomeness.”

By Matt on August 26, 2010

Can We Just Be Friends (.org)?

Design and Web Development for "Friends" New Non-Profit
Can We Just Be Friends (.org)?

Today we rolled-out a new branding system for Friends of the Jane Pickens Theater & Event Center. FRIENDS is the newly formed non-profit arm of the Theater itself – dedicated to supporting and promoting arts and culture in Newport, Rhode Island and beyond. The group will develop fundraising drives and events that help preserve the historic Jane Pickens Theater as physical structure and modern center for the Arts.

By Matt on August 26, 2010

American Design Award for Flash Website

Flash website designed/produced for Point Productions Company Wins Award
American Design Award for Flash Website

Thrilled today to discover Point Productions Website was awarded an American Design Award for excellence in interactive marketing. We worked closely with the big boss at Point Productions to redesign and develop a rich-media (flash) Website that would show-off their portfolio of work for clients like DHL, Prada, and Timberland.

By Matt on August 26, 2010

Interactive Branding + Motion Graphics

Everything that can be digital will be digital, especially fictitious lands

One of the most exciting assignments these days has to be motion graphics and interactive/digital branding. More and more, we see the need (and opportunity) for motion graphics, video and digital branding. Its no secret interactive is replacing traditional TV and print campaign for many industries. The short example above was a multimedia piece we completed for Emmy-Award® winner Sprague Theobald.

By Kathy on August 15, 2010

RDI Adds John Piccozzi as Senior Web Developer

RDI Adds John Piccozzi as Senior Web Developer

Rubic Design & Interactive announced the addition of John Piccozzi to its website development team. Piccozzi is a graduate of Johnson & Wales University Web Development program and has worked for several Providence, Rhode Island advertising and interactive agencies.

John was attracted to RDI after learning they build all of their web applications and interactive projects using the Drupal platform.