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04.25.2012|Identity
Rarely does a client make us feel so highfalutin, but here they are: The New York Youth Symphony. With their uptown address and violas and tuxedos, we did our best to hide our hayseed accents and iron our tee-shirts before each video conference.
NYYS recently celebrated its 50th birthday, which prompted the development of a new identi… more »
04.20.2012|Print
When you think of Elmhurst College, a storied athletic program may not be the first thing to come to mind, but that’s about to change! Sandbox recently designed and produced a batch of brand new sports recruitment brochures for the College, which will clearly have such a huge effect on the athletic department’s recruitm… more »
04.18.2012|Identity, Print
IHDA, a self-supporting authority created in 1967 to finance quality affordable housing across Illinois, partnered with Sandbox early this year to develop an identity and branding applications for the upcoming Illinois Governor’s Conference on Affordable Housing and for future events and outreach.
Sandbox went over th… more »
04.03.2012|Print
With energy technologies, environmental technologies, and national security implications evolving and changing at a seemingly day-to-day rate, understanding and communicating the science behind these technologies is a difficult and constant job.
To bridge this communication gap, The Office of Science at the Department of E… more »
03.23.2012|Web
MRSEC stands for Materials Research Science & Engineering Center. We would’ve spelled that out in the title, but it takes up too much space.
For a little background, MRSEC fosters research to produce design principles for the next generation of materials. They have outreach that brings science inquiry to locations far… more »
03.02.2012|Studio, Web
Since 2004, Sandbox has collaborated with Fermilab and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to design and produce the particle physics magazine, symmetry. At the time, symmetry was a 10-times-a-year publication that, with the help of Xeno Media, was also made available online.
Now, after 51 print issues, symmetry is transformi… more »
03.01.2012|Other, Studio
Internet publishing is nothing new, (we haven’t been locked in the basement for a decade) but designing for the web is vastly different from designing for print. By using one of a variety of web publishing software plug-ins, clients, like Elmhurst College, can have the best of both worlds. These pieces are searchable via Googl… more »
02.27.2012|Print, Web
In research, a moment of discovery can be a challenge to express visually, but visuals abound in the 2011 annual report for Children’s Memorial Research Center! Aiming to bring CMRC’s new discoveries and novel therapies to light, Sandbox found an opportunity to engage the public and elevate the understanding of the im… more »
02.24.2012|Print
For symmetry‘s 51st issue, the first of 2012, the cover story continues to evolve and generate interest and buzz across the globe. Back in September, a report from CERN threw the physics community a knuckleball of massive proportions: Members of the OPERA neutrino experiment announced that after months of checking, recheck… more »
01.24.2012|Web
From the dawn of Sandbox, our persistent goal has been to reach the desired audience. But, on occasion, when copy and visual content combine to evoke a positive emotional response or make people think or inspire action, that’s a wonderful thing. Inclusion is inherently personal after all, and responses we have received from t… more »