Sites of the week #7

I knew that this day would come, this week in our list of the best sites we have two sites we haven't been able to neither translate nor understand a word on them. So we would like to know if anybody would be interested in sending us a little about text of this 2 sites. Also, enjoy our picks of the week and suggestions are always welcome.

DESIGN / CSS

ijsfontein - www.ijsfontein.nl

IJsfontein is a specialist in interactive communication and media productions. Among the clients of the Amsterdam based company are broadcasting companies, museums, (consumer) brands and non-governmental organisations. A lot of IJsfontein's media have children as the main users, such as their BAFTA-winning game 'Master of the Elements', 'Hamsterwereld' (for Holland's biggest grocery chain Albert Heijn) and 'Blue World', which was created for Postbank. The games, interactive exhibits and innovative web-tools are used, played and enjoyed in Holland and abroad.

ijsfontein


FLASH SITE

Design and Design - www.designanddesign.com

It all starts with an inspired, spontaneous idea.

Design and Design


COMMUNITY

Community of Sweden - communityofsweden.com

Welcome to CommunityOfSweden.com – the official online community for Sweden! Here you can share and enjoy photos, travel stories tips and more from friends in Sweden and all over the world. Anyone can join CommunityOfSweden.

Design and Design


WEB APP

Posterous - posterous.com

Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. You email us at post@posterous.com and we reply instantly with your new posterous blog. If you can use email, you can have your own website to share thoughts and media with friends, family and the world.

Posterous


PORTFOLIO

Erwin Bauer - www.erwinbauer.com

Erwin Bauer KEG is a Austrian design agency, located in Vienna, Austria. In addition to local customers, such as the Vienna Museum, the Agency has also worked for major international operating company, as Schenker. We're interested in people with real demeanor. Most of the times this is the initial charge for a creative collaboration. The basis of our communications work is to explore, understand and formulate identity in all its facets. Only after this we'll convert it into self-contained and successful appearances of text, picture, sound and space."

Erwin Bauer


About author

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I'm from Brazil, co-founder of Zee with Fabio. Nowadays I like to play with Fireworks, Photoshop and improve my skills in CSS. If you wanna request some posts, please feel free to contact me.

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Thank you Hans,

we've updated with your text!

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fabiano 07/08/2008

Hi all,

IJsfontein is working on an english version of the website. Here's a bit about our company that we use on our channel www.youtube.com/ijsfontein :

IJsfontein is a specialist in interactive communication and media productions. Among the clients of the Amsterdam based company are broadcasting companies, museums, (consumer) brands and non-governmental organisations. A lot of IJsfontein's media have children as the main users, such as their BAFTA-winning game 'Master of the Elements', 'Hamsterwereld' (for Holland's biggest grocery chain Albert Heijn) and 'Blue World', which was created for Postbank. The games, interactive exhibits and innovative web-tools are used, played and enjoyed in Holland and abroad.

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Hans (not verified) 07/08/2008

Thanks for choosing posterous as a site of the week! I've been a huge fan of your tutorials and your artwork for quite some time now, so this means a lot.

-Garry, cofounder, posterous.com

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Garry Tan (not verified) 07/05/2008

Can't access to the communityofsweden.com ... can you guys ?
any way, thank you for the translation and the links ;)
keep it on !

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MGK (not verified) 07/04/2008

Thanks all you guys for the comments!
We've already updated the post with your texts.

@CornéM: We really appreciate your explanation!

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fabiano 07/04/2008

I love that ijsfontein a lot, very nice picks!

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liam (not verified) 07/04/2008

"Erwin Bauer KEG is a Austrian design agency, located in Vienna, Austria. In addition to local customers, such as the Vienna Museum, the Agency has also worked for major international operating company, as Schenker." (about Erwin Bauer - www.erwinbauer.com)

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tontechniker (not verified) 07/04/2008

OK, the Dutch text is a bit BS. Here is my humble translation.

Heading: "IJsfontein (= Ice fountain) applies the power of interaction by realizing the targets of customers."

Vision:
"Successful interaction is extremely valuable. If you go through something, you won’t forget this for the rest of your life. In a dialog you show more of yourself than you would in a monologue. If interaction is successful, it will enable our customers to enter into a personal relationship with their own target groups.
Interaction also assumes action. If you desire a certain action from your customers, some knowledge of those users / customers is essential. Setting up interactive concepts requires a certain degree of knowledge involvement with your customers. A characteristic of the interactional concepts of IJsfontein is the [ inhoudelijke verdieping (= increase of knowledge and involvement of users / customers. ]. To go through [ inhoud ], the [ inhoud ] will take root and we will achieve the targets of our customers."

Explanation:
So what they do is helping companies to set up strategies that will enable them simply to make their products accessible. Take a look at their examples.

Thanks for sharing these websites!

For example, if you have an art museum and you want children to come and see and really experience the art you can hire IJsfontein, they will then help you analyze and make a solution of how to let those children experience the art. Maybe they’ll advise you to make sort of games, video’s or whatever.

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CornéM 07/04/2008

oh sorry... my fault..

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BekkZ (not verified) 07/04/2008

its not dutch, its german :)

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BekkZ (not verified) 07/04/2008

"Can anyone please translate the "About" for us?!."
It's indeed Dutch, the text which tells about them:

"ijsfontein is specialist ... Doelstellingen te bereiken"

Nice series!

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Daan 07/04/2008

Regarding erwinbauer.com:

There is no "about" page on the site. There's only the "imprint" with contact details and how to visit their office. It's an ad and marketing agency.

But here's a quick (!) translation of the text on the start page:

"We're interested in people with real demeanor. Most of the times this is the initial charge for a creative collaboration. The basis of our communications work is to explore, understand and formulate identity in all its facets. Only after this we'll convert it into self-contained and successful appearances of text, picture, sound and space."

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Kersten (not verified) 07/04/2008

The "about" page is something like this in Dutch:

"Ijsfontein is specialist in interactive communication. With 'playing, learning, discovering' as starting-point and interaction as a way to reach content targets"

Great weblog guys!

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Jamez (not verified) 07/04/2008

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