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Creative Communication

Digital Active has developed branding, print and web strategies for a wide variety of businesses and industries. Strong communication relies on connecting to the intended audience. Success in design, whether within an interactive web site, printed brochure or large format advertising, is still based on creative communication.

Website Design and Development.
Digital Active has been a premier web site design company since 1997. We specialize in web site design, flash animation, online software integration, and database driven web sites. Our staff will work with you to create the best web site development strategy for your business and then implement that strategy. Our experience in design, our technological knowledge and our methods of project management allow us to work rapidly. Our practice of fully understanding our clients' goals enables us to avoid creative spirals. We focus on results.

Web Development Portfolio
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Branding and Print Communication.
Before any design can begin, it is imperative that we understand the target audience. We are experts in brand development and communication design for organizations in numerous industries. We work with companies to help craft their brand and introduce it to the public. Our team of designers and writers work to establish a consistent message, attitude, and point of view and then position them in the minds of the audience. Businesses are judged by their image in print and web, our expertise can dramatically enhance your organization's image with creative and clever design.

Our approach to creative communication is consistent: Research, ask questions, establish an appropriate plan of action, and, above all, always determine what something should do before thinking about what it should look like. We then produce a solution that is direct, appropriate, and memorable.

Creative Communication Portfolio
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Digital Active Advantages:
Online D.A. Office:
Client access to secure, up-to-the-minute information on project progress, billing, past projects and pending project estimates.
Online Client Preview: A secure web site display of projects-in-progress.
Project Archives: Digital storage of all project related digital files.
Off Site Backup: Redundant backup of all project related digital files located off-site.
Design Documentation: Post-production project documentation including Style Sheets which note the exact values for colors, fonts and images used for projects.
Software Tools: We stay up to date with our versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, Freehand, DreamWeaver, Flash, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ProTools, and others!
Data Center Lease: Our host servers are leased in a Class A data facility with a redundant OC3 and an OC12 connectivity.




Digital Active can also integrate third party applications into your site!
Digital Active is experienced in integrating third party software such as; Message Boards, Shopping Carts, Site Analytics, Member Subscriptions, Live Web-Cams, Streaming Video and more.

410 S. Cedar Street, Suite H
Lansing, Michigan 48912
Phone: 517.913.1360
700 N. Green Street, Suite 501
Chicago, Illinois 60622