Sunday, July 27, 2008


ISD Develops New Online Presence
for the Oldest Law Firm in the Western United States.

Price, Postel & Parma LLP
Law Firm.

A law firm that consistently exceeds its clients’ expectations for more than 150 years deserves a closer look. Founded in 1852, Price, Postel & Parma is recognized to be Santa Barbara’s oldest continuous business and California’s oldest law firm. ISD developed a educational and informative 150 year History Blog for Price, Postel & Parma. Its an entertaining, informative and a valuable historical record of Santa Barbara's colorful past. The site also features fast loading flash homepage overview, advanced document search and rich navigation.

Art direction, design, Santa Barbara location photography, copywriting, site development and flash programming were provided by ISD.

Sunday, June 15, 2008



Seattle Washington. When Fabtech Systems came up with a revolutionary new adhesive product for thr Orthotic & Prosthetic industry, they turned to ISD for assistance. ISD helped them come up with a trademarkable brand name: +PLUSeries® by Fabtech Systems. Developed the brand logo and a distinctive, easy to recognize packaging system. Advertising, web development and marketing services were also provided. Check out the results here: www.fabtechsystems.com

Sunday, August 12, 2007

August 2007 - New Work


Rev-A-New Collision Center Marketing & Consulting
Consulting.
Rev-A-New has provided consulting for larger independent collision centers and body shop owners since 1993 with great success. The objective is to help the independent facility gain exposure to insurance carriers looking for repair facilities that meet and exceed their criteria and expectations. Rev-A-New sets the standards for today’s collision repair facilities. The site features fast loading flash demos, rich navigation and ISD low cost dynamic weblog publishing.

Site design, logo design, branding and identity development were provided by ISD.








Green Sherpa Web 2.0 Startup
Logo Development

ISD developed a compelling new mark for Green Sherpa. The abstract Web 2.0 mark perfectly communicates the upward momentum and progress the Green Sherpa online educational community provides.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

May 2007 - New Work


Super Buddha Global Design Collective
Apparel.
Super Buddha's purpose is simple, to blend socially and environmentally sound business practices with unique designs and fabrics. They weave these together to create a line of clothes that subtly facilitate change, might get you a laugh and enhance your style. Located in Santa Barbara, Super Buddha® creates ethically produced apparel with everyone's karma in mind, including yours

Art direction, design, location photography, still photography, logo design, copywriting, site development and flash programming were provided by ISD.

Rev-A-New Collision Center Marketing, Inc.
Branding & Logo Development

ISD developed a compelling new mark for Rev-A-New that exceeded the expectations of founder Brett Beaudette. Rev-A-New is a personal, customer relations based business and the abstract, business man logo perfectly communicates the hands-on quality service Brett's clients receive from Rev-A-New. ISD created marketing collateral and website development are currently in progress and will build on and support this distinctive mark.

Friday, April 13, 2007


April 2007 - New Work

El Cazador / Franklin Mint
The shipwreck that changed the world.
The ship was named El Cazador, "The Hunter," a Spanish “Brig of War” loaded with a vast treasury of freshly-minted silver and bound for the New World. We may never know what mysterious force sank her. But it is certain that her lost treasure holds the key to the birth of the nation we know today.

Site concept development & design, copywriting and flash programming were provided by ISD.

Sunday, December 17, 2006

December 2006 Update - New Work:



ISD created branding and identity systems for Accsense, Inc. Fast and Easy Remote Physical Sensing.











Accsense, Inc.
Fast and easy remote physical sensing.
Accsense takes physical measurements creating powerful information and delivers this data anywhere on the planet in real time. The Accsense system can be installed and generating reports and alarms in five minutes. Customer reaction to the product has been simply "over the top." The company is focused on introducing more and more customers to the concept that they can now have information that before was simply too complex and expensive to have.

Site design, logo design, branding and identity development were provided by ISD.








Gulfstream Capital Corp.
Branding and Logo Development

Gulfstream Capital Corporation specializes in acquiring commercial real estate loans from banks, life insurance companies, conduits, and other financial institutions, while also providing new commercial real estate loans to real estate owners/developers and clients.







ISD Develops TShirt Concepts for Innova Electronics

To celebrate selling over 300,000 units of their CanOBD2 Automotive Code Reader, Innova engaged ISD to create compelling TShirts for the October Automotive Aftermarket Show in Las Vegas. ISD also developed advertising and other marketing materials for Innova that helped them establish the best selling OBD2 Tool in the USA.








Christopher Duma MD, FACS
Brain Surgeon Specialist.
Dr. Christopher Duma practices at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach, California (Orange County), South Coast Medical Center in Laguna Beach, CA, and UC Irvine Medical Center, in Orange, CA, and is one of the most experienced in his field. His general neurosurgery is performed using state-of-the art neuronavigational computers and he prides himself in being a master of minimally invasive neurosurgery....accomplishing better results, by being less invasive and using more powerful, modern tools.

The site features fast loading flash demos, rich navigation and ISD low cost dynamic weblog publishing.

Sunday, March 26, 2006

New And Improved ISDWorks.com
Its been a long time coming. We're always so busy making great websites for our clients, we never seem to be able to find the time finish our own upgrades. Check back soon for our new isdworks.com site upgrade. The new site features browser based php, xml, flash portfolios that are as easy to update as sending an email, improved navigation and new content.

Saturday, February 25, 2006

Lots of ISD News for 2006
Its been quite awhile since we added any news posts. That's because 2005 was our busiest year ever!
Here's a quick list of some of the new sites we recently launched:

First California Bank

New and improved site redesign with added features and functionality. First California Bank has experienced incredible growth since we did their original site back in 2002. The new site includes ISD low cost dynamic weblog publishing and advanced site search.

ISD provided original location photography of the Mailbu coastline for a unique Southern California feel that reflects the goals of the bank and their customers.

HoopStamps.com

NBA officially licensed collectible stamps.
Since 1957 Inter-Governmental Philatelic Corp.has done its part to revolutionize this remarkable hobby by changing the way people think about stamps. As the world's largest postal agency, IGPC has organized postal issues on a wide range of subjects.

ISD provided branding, identity services and complete site design and development. Homepage features a dynamic, easy to update Flash featured product slider.

Healing Grounds

Healing Grounds is an innovative program that combines an organic nursery and a therapeutic horticulture program. Healing Grounds connects people to nature through classes, workshops and lectures about sustainable landscaping and gardening. The new site includes ISD low cost dynamic weblog publishing. ISD also provided original location photography for an organic, fresh and unique look and feel.

ISD developed a comprehensive advertising campaign to support the new website as well as branding and identity services.

Comfort Grips

ComfortGrips are for anyone who need the benefits of a superior ergonomic grip.

ISD provided branding, identity services and original product photography. The site features fast loading flash demos and 'easy edit' xml driven flash navigation.

Tuesday, December 28, 2004



ISD develops recruiting campaign for Bargain Network.
Santa Barbara, CA

A comprehensive print, radio and TV campaign was creating for Bargain Network, Inc.
Bargain Network is revolutionizing the way ordinary consumers buy homes, vehicles and more than 4 million top-quality, brand-name consumer products. Live, hands-on customer service agents are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to help members find the best deals.

ISD worked with Bargain Network to create an honest and natural ad campaign featuring actual employee quotes and images. Telling the true story of the work experience at Bargain increased customer service hiring and retention.

Tom Widroe, Human Resources Director at Bargain Network says,"Working with Tom Mattson of ISD was not only a pleasure, it was a highly productive experience. Our company needed strong creative material produced on a tight dead line. Tom jumped into the fray and delivered a whole new look and feel for our marketing campaign. Importantly, he took the time to understand our business before beginning the process."

System Three and ISD complete branding and packaging project.
Seattle, WA

Using the latest composites technology System Three Resins has developed the next generation of epoxy products – The SilverTip Marine Epoxy Series. SilverTip Marine Epoxy Series Products make wooden boat building quicker, easier, and more enjoyable than ever before.

ISD worked with System Three Resins to launch the new product line, developing brand identity, packaging, print advertising, trade show exhibit design, online media applications and ecommerce functions.

Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Do you want to Blog? Let ISD show you how .
We've been blogging for years, have the knowledge and will get you blogging immediately.



If you can send an e-mail, you can update your website. Welcome to the world of Blogging.
With the current presidential election, many people are starting to become aware of 'blogs'. What they don't know is that a 'blog' which stands for 'weblog' is just a webpage - that you can easily control. Create pages like news or specials, that are easy to update with your web browser, from any computer, anywhere. Easily promote your company/idea, photos, essays and project/event updates. The page you are reading is a 'blog'. We can integrate weblog driven pages into your existing site or build a new website that stands out from the competition. There is no cost to use a weblog admin tool for your site. Fees for set-up vary depending upon your project specs. We give you instruction on how to 'post & publish' your weblogs (text, pics and links). This low cost solution gives you control over content in key areas of your site - no expensive database hosting costs. You can update your site pages as easy as sending an e-mail. ISD provides weblog set up and template creation for your website, including simple to follow instructions specific to your website. And, we're always there in case you need help or have a question.

Many ISD clients already use this low cost publishing tool to keep their websites fresh and compelling. ISD setup and template design makes sure the results match the design of any website.

Take a quick look at some of our Blog-driven websites:
fcbank.com
systemthree.com
wild-ideas.net

ISD will teach you exactly what Weblog Publishing can do and how to use this inexpensive and powerful web publishing solution. Please contact: Thomas for more information and pricing.

Or read more about our Weblog Publishing Services here.

Thursday, March 25, 2004


BB&H Benefit Designs
and ISD complete website.
Santa Barbara, CA

View the new website: bbandh.com

Founded in 1997, BB&H is a full-service benefits company specializing in flexible, innovative benefit solutions for small and mid-sized companies.

The site features a Flash interactive overview and a Flash navigation system.

ISD developed a comprehensive advertising campaign to support the new website as well as branding and identity services that included a new logo, identity materials, brochures and a custom die-cut presentation package.

Friday, October 31, 2003


System Three and ISD complete website.
Seattle, WA
ISD is pleased to announce the launch of the SystemThree Resins Inc. website.

View the new website: systemthree.com

System Three Resins, Inc. has been delivering the highest quality adhesives and coatings to woodworkers, boatbuilders and industry for over two decades.

The site features a robust database driven retail dealer locator, members only areas to collect marketing data, e-commerce functions, fast loading flash demos and 'easy edit' xml driven flash navigation. Client back-end administration features include: e-mail campaign marketing manager, the ability to add/edit/delete site content, e-commerce manager and members/retail dealers managers.

ISD also developed a comprehensive PR and advertising campaign to support the new website.

Dick Anderson V.P. of Marketing at System Three is pleased with the new site. “After only two weeks we are already getting inquiries from a much broader range of customers. In addition, the easy access to our literature and FAQs has reduced our technical support calls by 60%. The dealer locator is doing a great job directing customers to their nearest dealer. The site can be easily changed and updated to keep it continually fresh and interesting. A job well done by Tom Mattson and Industrial Strength Design.”

Sunday, July 27, 2003

ISD® Donates Services to Surfrider Foundation



The Surfrider Foundation is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s waves, oceans and beaches for all people, through conservation, activism, research and education.

"Surfrider Foundation Santa Barbara Chapter lives or dies, like most grass roots non-profit organizations by communication with its members. A good newsletter is crucial in that regard. Our chapter was really floundering until Tom Mattson showed up. He's a member of our chapter and an avid surfer and he agreed to start organizing and designing our newsletter, "The Shortboard". It's been spectacularly successful;  it looks great and has improved our effectiveness in communication with our member 100%".
Ken Palley
Chairman / Surfrider Foundation / Santa Barbara Chapter

Saturday, April 12, 2003

Japanese organic food products company and ISD® complete phase 1 of branding.





Tokyo, Japan
Imuraya Confectionary Co. a distributor of confectionery and food products, enlisted ISD to develop branding for their new line of organic food products. Ji means compassion and Ai means love in Japanese, the concept of the JiAi project is to influence the Japanese public to live their life being kind to their health and cruelty-free to all fellow earthlings. "As it is everybody's desire to achieve good health via diet.  We would like to provide consumers with not only delicacy but spiritual health with our plant-based products of JiAi." said project manager Marie Atake.

ISD® Launches Wild Ideas website.



View the new website:wild-ideas.net

Santa Barbara, CA
"Wild Ideas, LLC has entered its fifth year of providing ultra-lightweight backpacking equipment to dedicated wilderness travellers. We decided that it would be cost effective to upgrade our very basic website to allow visitors improved access to product information. Working with ISD to develop a fresh, informative and dynamic upgrade to our existing website was a very pleasant experience. The professional atmosphere and flexibility demonstrated during the process made clear the fact that ISD had travelled the design road before and the feeling that the final product would meet our expectations was never in doubt. Thanks for building our site and for giving us the tools to continue refreshing the material painlessly."

Allen DeForrest
Richard Peralta
Wild Ideas, LLC
Managing Members

Saturday, April 05, 2003

Industrial Strength Design® announces the launch of Morgan Mint e-commerce site.



View the new website: morganmint.com

The Morgan Mint, a privately held corporation, is one of the world's leading numismatic companies manufacturing fine collectible coins and commemoratives. The Morgan Mint is a major presence in all facets of the wholesale and retail coin industry-- on television, the Internet, print advertising, direct mail, and telemarketing

Done in partnership with La Jolla's StudioActiv8. ISD® & StudioActiv8 created the Flash intensive e-commerce site and also developed branding upgrades including the creation of a new logo for online, print and television applications.

Friday, November 01, 2002

Photography accepted for inclusion in the Atkinson Gallery's Small Images show.


Kiva, Adobe, Kachinas - 1/100 - Cibachrome prints by Thomas Mattson - 1998

Santa Barbara, CA.
Over 600 artworks were submitted for consideration in the show at SBCC, only 40 finalists were choosen. " I was suprised and very happy to have made the cut and get in the show. The small images show has always been one of my favorites. This was a nice boost to get me back into doing personal work." said Thomas. He later found out that he was the only artist that had all 3 submissions accepted.

Small Images reviewed in the Santa Barbara Independent 10.10.02
"...the annual Small Images exhibition at SBCC really is one of the bigger deals in the history of Santa Barbara's art scene. For decades it has arrived like clockwork, always bringing out a varied and generally strong assortment of art and artists, familiar and otherwise.
...Tom Mattson's raw cibachromes of a no-mans landscape evoke environmental fragility."

Small Images at SBCC ran 9.27.02 through 10.25.02. Kiva, Adobe, Kachinas were awarded Honorable Mention.

Kiva, Adobe, Kachinas are part of a series shot in the Winter of 1998 on the Navajo and Hopi Indian Nations, located in Northeastern Arizona and New Mexico. The series explores the contrast between the romanticized images typically produced in the Western art genre and the current environment. Please contact: Thomas for more information or pricing.

New personal artwork based on 'walks'.



"Riviera Walk 01" - 1/100 - Digital Collage by Thomas Mattson - 10.13.02

Based on various walks and hikes, this series will focus on combining digital images shot during the walk or trip. The collected images will then be combined and altered, creating a overall impression or feeling of that place and moment in time. The prints are available in a variety of sizes and are digitally printed with archival inks in limited series of 100 prints. Please contact: Thomas for more information or pricing.

Thursday, October 31, 2002

Studio Activ8's John Dennis speaks at the Esquina Norte design conference in Tijunana, Mexico



Tijuana, Mexico
After the stimulating conference,Tom Mattson eats breakfast with StudioActiv8's Flash master and collaborator, John Dennis at a restaraunt in the form of a giant sombrero. They discuss the exciting concepts and music of the Nortec Collective and return to the USA with a renewed passion for art, music and technology. They also discover the best breakfast in TJ.

It's easy to update your website with ISD® Web Blog Publishing. Have some fun with it ! To insert images into your posts, all you do is make sure your image file is in the .jpg or .gif format and is sized correctly, then upload, post and publish.ISD® will provide you with a customized, detailed instruction document to make sure you get it right.

Wild Ideas chooses ISD® Web Blog Publishing for their new website project.



Santa Barbara, CA.
Wild Ideas, a backcountry engineering firm decides to go with an affordable dynamic content solution. ISD® Blog driven pages give them control over key page content, allowing them to update news items on their site in real time, with only a web browser. " We love it. And its inexpensive." said Allen Deforrest, "We can even upload pictures of our hikes!". Tom Mattson has figured out a low cost alternative to developing, hosting and programming expensive database driven websites.

View the new website:wild-ideas.net