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Our digital portfolio projects.

Board & Vellum Website: Your Advocate for Great Design, Large or Small
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Board & Vellum Website – Emerald Seven
Responsive Web Design & Development

Board & Vellum Website: Your Advocate for Great Design

A custom, award-winning website (dual Silver W3’s!) built from the ground up so this Seattle architecture and design firm can represent their work as beautifully in digital form as it exists in physical form.

Microsoft Bing Local Voice Search eBook – Emerald Seven
Microsoft Bing Local Voice Search eBook – Emerald Seven
Content Design & Production

Microsoft Bing Local Voice Search Survey eBook

This eBook is designed to be presented seamlessly in varied formats: from a wide-format screen, to a single-page eReader, to a printed booklet with facing pages.

Kalon Surf Website – Responsive Web Design & Development in Mockup – Emerald Seven
Kalon Surf Website – Responsive Web Design & Development – Emerald Seven
Progressive Web Application Design & Development

Kalon Surf Website: The Luxury Surf Coaching Resort in Costa Rica

This immersive, award-winning site (W3’s in Gold and Silver!) illustrates the Kalon experience in digital form, telling their story through pixels, before you get to experience it in surf, sand, and jungle.

Portent's Plug & Play Content Strategy Campaign – Emerald Seven
Portent's Plug & Play Content Strategy Campaign – Emerald Seven
Content Design, Illustration & Web Development

Portent’s Plug & Play Content Campaign

From custom illustrations in a graphic novel style, to an interactive single-page web application, this campaign pairs a hand-sketched look with the digital world.

A Color Adaptive Website for an Artist Version 2.0 – Emerald Seven
A Color Adaptive Website for an Artist Version 2.0 – Emerald Seven
Responsive Web Design & Development

A Color-Adaptive Portfolio Website for an Artist 2.0

This latest version of this artist’s portfolio includes a CMS, and transforms the formerly single-page site into an integrated platform suited for the modern web.

Microsoft Bing Ads Research: eBook Series – Emerald Seven
Microsoft Bing Ads Research: eBook Series – Emerald Seven
Content Design & Production

Microsoft Bing Ads Research eBook Series

This series of five eBooks in a commissioned custom template are designed for presentation format, with custom graphics to communicate detailed research visually.

Our digital posts.

Branding, Digital

Introducing Adaptive Reuse for Experience Design & Development

Does the word “redesign” terrify you? How about “adaptive reuse”? You don’t always need the all-in investment of a total redesign and rebuild. Blake Scott explains “adaptive reuse” in the context of digital experiences, and how we used an adaptive reuse strategy to reinvent our very own site, portent.com.

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Branding, Digital

It’s Party Time: Marley Natural Wins Some ADDYs!

Marley Natural won some ADDYs! This gal experienced the awards gala from the outside, but she’s super proud of Blake and the team for pulling it off award-winning style. Clock that as one Silver for design/dev, and another for the social campaign at the Seattle level, and then another Silver for design/dev at regionals! BOOM!

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Branding, Digital

Light It Up: Marley Natural International Brand Launch Website

Every journey has a story. This story takes you behind-the-scenes of our journey through integrative web design & development for the international brand launch of Marley Natural, the official cannabis brand of Bob Marley. From early concept ideation, to an early morning, high-profile launch, follow along the path that led to that moment of “lighting it up.”

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Architecture, Digital

What Does Architecture Have to Do with Web Design & Development?

There’s a good reason that information technology professionals have co-opted the terminology of traditional architects and engineers. The processes of creating physical spaces and information spaces require similar strategies for problem-solving, throughout design and development, and both are focused on handling complexity elegantly.

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Digital, Musings

Serendipitous Juxtaposition: Sleuth & Substance, A Digital Pinboard

In the world of Pinterest and Tumblr, digital pinboards are all the rage, and for good reason. Curation is king, and I love it, but, let me tell you, this girl can organize the rest of you under the table, and yet sometimes, it’s still serendipitous juxtaposition that wins it all and drops the mic.

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Our digital recognition stories.

Dual Silver W3 Awards 2018 for the Board & Vellum Website
Dual Silver Silver W3 Awards

Dual Silver W3 Awards for Board & Vellum’s New Website

We are thrilled to announce that the Board & Vellum Website is the winner of dual silver W3 Awards!

Gold & Silver W3 Awards 2017 for Kalon Surf Website – Emerald Seven
One Gold and One Silver W3 Award

Gold & Silver W3 Awards for the Kalon Surf Website

We are thrilled to announce that the Kalon Surf Website is the winner of two W3 Awards: one gold and one silver.

Marley Natural Website & Social Campaign Wins ADDYs: Two Silver ADDYs Won at Seattle's 2015 ADDYs, Glamour Shot 2 - Cropped for Featured Image - Design Blog
Two Seattle ADDYs, Plus One at Regionals!

Two Silver ADDYs for Marley Natural at the Local Level & One Advance to Regionals

Celebrating the ADDYs wins for the design & development of the Marley Natural website and social media campaign for the international brand launch.

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Team

After many years of working together, creative duo Blake Scott & Rachel Simrell Scott love delving deep into the work at Emerald Seven. We love what we do, and we hope that you’ll enjoy working with us!

Our Integrative Design Process

Rather than using a “waterfall” process, we use an integrative design process to consider your design challenge in terms of the whole. We iterate through cycles to reach thoughtful solutions, whether digital, physical, or a hybrid of both. Ask us how an integrative approach can help your project!

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