The mobile revolution is upon us. We all walk around with these devices practically sewn into our hands, and smart marketers are beginning to realize implications of the tectonic shift happening in the digital world. According to Gartner Research, by 2013 mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide.

So when Full Sail University, one of the most prestigious entertainment-media schools in the country, picked us to design and produce the mobile site for their mobile development program, we ran around high-fiving. Then we sat down and got serious.

The site’s purpose is simple: generate prospective student interest. But in order to attract the minds that will architect the future of mobile, we needed to innovate rather than simply build.

The result is a mobile site that performs like a native application. Clean iconography, sophisticated navigation movement and sliding infographics deliver a fresh experience. However, the feature we’re most proud of is the “content shift.” We designed the site such that the content changes upon shifting from portrait to landscape mode. Why not create an alternate path of information that the visitor can discover? The landscape mode also allows us scale to flow in additional content, such as graduate profiles and videos, as the site grows.

Here’s a little overview of the project. Results have been great so far—we’ll share some stats soon.

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Information technology involves gobs and gobs of data—its organization, analysis and utilization.  So our guiding thought for rebranding CPSI, a national leader in healthcare IT, was simple: information is beautiful.

While the project was multi-faceted, including a new identity system and collateral, the focal point was the website. Our team worked diligently with the client to organize the user paths so CPSI’s multiple audiences can intuitively find the information they need. Then we placed a beautiful design on top of that framework. Maximizing aesthetics while minimizing the time it takes to find the the right information. Now that’s a thing of beauty. Click here to check out the site.

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I’ve always been a sucker for infographics, especially well crafted infographics. I get particularly excited this time of year when annual reports start pouring in. But this year, none excited me more than Nicholas Felton’s 2010 Annual Report.

Since 2005, Felton (aka Feltron) has been beautifully documenting his life in the form of charts and graphs and compiling them into a printed annual report. Data such as the number of books he’s read, the movies he’s seen and number of days he was happy are all illustrated and presented as a compelling and artfully told story.

This year’s chronicle, The Paternal Report, is dedicated to the life of Felton’s father who passed away in September 2010. Through photographs, school reports, passport stamps and thousands of other pieces of data, Felton tells the story of Günter Fajgenbaum, a German-born immigrant who eventually became a naturalized citizen of England and later, the United States. I am riveted as I read each and every stat about the life of a man I’ve never met, and it’s given me pause to consider what my stats would look like.

Lucky for me, Felton designed an app for that.

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I first wrote about Nicholas Feltron on March 10, 2008:

The guy keeps meticulous records of what he does during the course of the year: how many taxi rides, pounds of magazines received, how many iTunes tracks played, days spent on a plane, how many cups of coffee and so on. Then he issues an infographical representation of his year (he began issuing reports in 2005). And it’s amazingly interesting.

Today I read something from Feltron far more compelling. With the launch of CNN.com’s redesign, he was asked to examine stats from the site from the past thirteen years and develop an infographic illustrating the findings:

Ultimately, I think the most fascinating story here is the change in our news habits after September 11, 2001. After this day, a new and higher baseline for visits to the site is established, and the inference is that this event really established CNN.com and the greater Internet as a reliable, timely and indispensable source for news.

Beautiful work.

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