Jaki Levy

Healing

Jaki Levy — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:02:56 +0000

This past October, I was hit by a car while on my bike. 5 months later, my sister and I completed our first ever triathlon together.

I did a full write up here. If you’d rather skip the story, you can just view the pretty pictures below.

Inspiring Agency Web Sites

Jaki Levy — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:53:36 +0000

These days, I’ve been spending time teaching classes, helping run ArtsTech in NYC, and running my own agency. I take a good amount of time doing competitor analysis, and I’m always curious how other agencies operate.

In this post, you’ll see a collection of design agency websites which show you how larger agencies and firms are presenting themselves to potential clients. When choosing a firm to do a project, it’s important that you feel confident in the type of work they do. These agencies definitely inspire me to do better work. I’m just glad that there’s this kind of solid work out there!

Here’s to more great sites in 2011!

(original post found on Web Design Ledger)

Cuban Council

DKNG Studios

Starflower Design Collective

emtwo web studios

cappen

fudge

80/20 Studio

Helms Workshop

Fixel

August Interactive

Tokyo Digital

Ally Creative

Inservio Web Solutions

The Sum

Shape

Pound & Grain

They Creative

Design Royale

InfinVision

Night Owl Interactive

the loft

Teixidó

Image Mechanics

Wearesignals

Combine Studio

BKW&Co

Built by the Factory

Truly Design

Lifetree Creative

Grandpeople

Source:

The Best Designs
The CSS Awards
Site Inspire

Classes at 3rd Ward

Jaki Levy — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:42:07 +0000

For the past year, I’ve been teaching several digital media classes at 3rd Ward (including a wordpress class). As a teacher, I get member benefits (including discounts on classes.

Right now, I’m taking a physical computing class at 3rdWard (with a focus on using Arduino), taught by Michael @ neufuture.com. During this class, I’m intending on picking up a past project.

For those who have no clue what Arduino or Physical Computing is, watch this cool video by James Houston.

Go take a hike (or a walk)

Jaki Levy — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:14:55 +0000

This Summer, Elastic City (one of our recently launched projects), is giving walks throughout New York City. But these are not your typical tourist walks. These walks are led by artists. Todd Shalom, the founder of Elastic City, realized the idea while suffering from altitude sickness in Cusco, Peru.

The walks intend to make its audience active participants in an ongoing poetic exchange with the places we live in and visit. Artists are commissioned by Elastic City to create their own walks. These walks tend to focus less on providing factual information and more on heightening our awareness, exploring our senses and making new group rituals in dialogue with public space in the city.

The walks have been featured in TimeoutNY, WNYC, Wallstreet Journal, Gothamist, and other publications.

To listen Todd talk about the walks on WNYC, click here, or hit play on the player below

Browse the walks listing and rediscover New York.

Teaching at 3rd Ward | Digital Media Workshops

Jaki Levy — Sun, 09 May 2010 00:22:40 +0000

This Spring and Summer, I’ll be leading a series of workshops and classes at 3rd Ward. Topics will focus on ecommerce, online marketing, social media, online communications, building an online audience, and finally – a 3-part wordpress workshop.

The classes were initially designed to be taken together, but are now flexible enough to be taken as individual components. Below is a description of all the courses.

Curious about past courses and workshops I’ve led? Want to peruse lots resources or just kill a Saturday nigt? Great. Check out my new archive of workshop resources.

Create Using Social Media

Facebook is now among the top 3 most visited sites in the world. This course will focus on how to leverage platforms like twitter, facebook, and flickr to create dialogue around your work, support your research, and build community. Many artists, non profits, and businesses are successfully using these online publishing platforms to share their mission, values, and process.
Section 1: Tuesday 7:00-10:00p, May 11

More info…

Use Email Marketing Effectively

Email marketing is the most effective way to reach your customers, audiences, donors, and constituents. During the workshop, we’ll cover best practices for generating effective email campaigns. We’ll take time to actually consider what you can do to grab your reader, and move them to action.

Section 1: Monday 7-10p, May 24

More info…

Set Up An Ecommerce Site

Learn the basic mechanisms of e-commerce: who’s involved in transacting online? What are the roles of different parties? What happened when users click the “Submit Order” button? We’ll cover the necessary steps to set up and run your own online store: Get an Internet merchant bank account. Find a reliable host. Learn how to utilize your ecommerce technology.
Section 1: Tuesday 7-10p, May 25

More info…

Recent Client Work

Jaki Levy — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:51:47 +0000

Here’s a quick look back at some work I did in 2009. Here’s hoping 2010 will be just as interesting

Burning Man 2009

Jaki Levy — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:48:03 +0000

Ok, ok – I know Burning Man happened back in September, but I just had to publish this post. I was tinkering around with Body Project NYC, a site I did some time ago. The site uses PictoBrowser to power the homepage slideshow. After I fixed the site and upgraded to the latest version of wordpress I got to creating a slideshow of my own.

Hope you enjoy the photos below!

Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer

view the slideshow in full screen

I’m in a top 10 list

Jaki Levy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:27:17 +0000

SlideshowPro.net recently placed one of my sites on their top 10 list.

Here’s the backstory:
This past summer, I worked with Mitch Said on a new project : a canary torsi

As part of this project, we did a custom setup of Jelly, a custom Content Management System (CMS), to integrate with Flash so all updates to the flash site can be managed by online software.

We also used Slideshow Pro to manage the online media gallery. Slideshow Pro was a great addition to our project as it allowed for the client to manage their rich media library online.

A little more about the project:
The flash file uses netstream to serve the video files. We tried to stream multiple movies at once, but had severe performance issues. In addition to the web development, I also worked with Yanira on developing an online publicity campaign for Dark Horse/Black Forest.

As part of this campaign, we produced a live webcast, commissioned Overheredarkhorse.com, and setup accounts on mutiple social networks to share all these exciting updates with her existing fans.

All the video that you see for Dark Horse/Black Forest was also shot by Mitch and myself.

All in all, we were really happy with the project and we’re really stoked Slideshow Pro featured our site!

Under Contruction…

Jaki Levy — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:55:46 +0000

I thought it’d be nice to give everyone a preview of what’s in the works while I’m redeveloping my site. So instead of waiting to launch, I’ll keep developing and making updates here.

While I’m rebuilding everything, visit my blog for a peek into what’s happening and what I’m thinking.

You can also take a look at my professional work at Arrow Root Media.com

Setting up a CMS with WordPress

Jaki Levy — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:53:42 +0000

I have setup countless websites for all kinds of folk! Depending on the requirements of the project, I’ll usually use wordpress or drupal to help clients run their websites. Both platforms are very powerful and have a great set of built in features.

To get a better idea of some of the sites I’ve done, take a peek at the links below. Or visit my portfolio.

RECENT WORK :
The Body Project
Elite Wealth Management

Misnomer Dance
Wander World, Wander Lust: A Photo Blog

I also teach folks how to run their drupal or wordpress blog.
You can find some of the courses I lead here :: http://www.jakilevy.com/teaching

If you’re looking to put together a site, blog, or online magazine, don’t hesitate to contact me.

If you’re more of a DIY kinda person, take a look at this awesome work sheet.

It’ll help you specify what you’re looking for: WEBSITE SURVEY