Author Archives: overclocked

Zeitguys wins Prestigious Applied Arts Interactive Media Award

By overclocked | Published: April 14, 2010

Zeitguys, inc. a Toronto-based design and development company, was delighted to learn that they were selected to be a winner of the Annual Applied Arts Interactive Media Award. Their work on the uHear iPhone App won the attention of the judges and appears in the May, 2010 edition of Applied Arts in the magazine’s Awards [...]

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Humber College – View Book

By overclocked | Published: May 14, 2009

This project (or rather, series of related projects) snuck up on us: what started as the design and layout for the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning primary recruitment marketing tool became a complete style and branding program for the entire 2008-2009 recruitment marketing communications: bookmarks, posters, postcards, even a 30-second digital ad for [...]

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Zeitguys and Unitron Hearing launch iPhone app on iTunes

By overclocked | Published: May 6, 2009

Today, Apple has released uHear, a slick application in the Medical category conceived by Unitron Hearing. The application, for which we designed the user interface, is a scientifically-accurate hearing evaluation and testing tool, with three different tests based on standard tests used by audiologists. This was one of the coolest projects we’ve worked on recently [...]

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Creating a successful horizontal scrolling website

By overclocked | Published: April 17, 2009

Ever since stumbling across The Horizontal Way, we’ve always been really keen to try to create a horizontally-scrolling website. There’s something about the look of such a site that really turns web design on its head (well, on its side, I guess), and it can lend itself particularly well to a comfortable way to consume [...]

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Unitron Hearing myStyle

By overclocked | Published: April 10, 2009

The Unitron Hearing “myStyle” is an interactive style guide which allows you to select a hearing device model, its colour and see what it looks like on an ear. The program was developed with a mix of both flash and 3D design and developed with as much user interactivity as possible, which is a quality [...]

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Summerlee Office Solutions Website

By overclocked | Published: February 6, 2009

Unfortunately, Summerlee Office Solutions, Ltd. closed its doors near the end of 2010. You can still visit an archive of their website. Summerlee Office Solutions, Ltd. is somewhat of a deceiving name for this Canadian provider of office interior solutions. Far more than merely a distributor for some of the industry’s top brands, Summerlee stands [...]

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Localization and Configuration in Flash Sites using XML

By overclocked | Published: October 31, 2008

Wow. That’s a long-winded title, but hey – it’s one for the web crawlers. So yeah, welcome to the Zeitguys blog. I’ll be periodically posting (what I hope will be) helpful tips, war stories from the development trenches, and case studies whenever we have some technical achievement to boast about. In this post I’d like [...]