Zender + Associates Inc. 2311 Park Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45206 513.961.1790 info@zender.com
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Z+ is a 28 year-old design and strategic communications firm located in Cincinnati Ohio, servicing clients locally, nationally, and internationally.
We're a group of print designers, web designers, communicators, programmers, marketers, and visionaries. Together we offer a wide rage of services, and work as a team to create customized results-orientated solutions to solve your problems, and create the greatest impact for your organization.
What makes us so great!
Clients
Awards are nice, and we've won quite a few, but loving whom we work for is more important to us. We're a picky bunch!
Quality
We deliver more than just pretty pictures. Our involvement within key industries has given us a level of understanding about who you are, and who you're trying to reach. With Z+ you get both the aesthetic, and the analytic.
Innovation
Most of our staff teach at the university level, and most are constantly involved in research projects. Pushing the boundry when it comes to communication, and the impact of new-media. Our research, and involvement in the educational communities help us better serve our clients, but also keep each of our designers on the front-edge of what's to come.
We work within a group of 7 key industries. Some of which slightly overlap, others of which intertangle quite often.
Our Industries:
- Arts + Entertainment
- Commercial + Corporate
- Education
- Museums
- Non-Profit
- Publishing
- Toys + Games
OCTOBER.3.2005
The first Section of our new site is up and running!
The site uses a rather complex set of variables to drive both the visuals and the content, while keeping a simple interface to our core content.
Look for updates in the coming weeks.
Zender + Associates
2311 Park Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45206
phone: 513.961.1790
fax: 513.961.1799
email:
info@zender.com
GEORGIA
O'KEEFFE
MUSEUM
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz: a Gift from The Georgia O'Keeffe FoundationThis interactive was designed as an online digital premium to increase the in-house email list for the O'Keeffe Museum, as well as drive people to become members.
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GEORGIA
O'KEEFFE
MUSEUM
O'Keeffe HTML eMail
The design of the HTML email for the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, was created in the brand image of their website. The email was integrated with a software package making the modification, and transmission of HTML email's an easy thing for the in-house staff to manage.
GEORGIA
O'KEEFFE
MUSEUM
Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz, Duchamp, and the New York Avant-GardeSimilar in nature to the
Stieglitz Piece. The two pieces yeilded roughly a 38% response rate, and resulted in the gathering of a little over 1200 new email registrants.
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MOBILE
MUSEUM
OF ART
Web Site Re-DesignThe Mobile Museum of Art asked Z+ to rethink their web site. They wanted a simple yet elegant look, with the focus of the site being the work's it contained, and not the shell surrounding it.
In Addition the site was to be easily modified by their in-house marketing team.
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MOBILE
MUSEUM
OF ART
Interactive Audio TourUsing 8 peices from the Museum's collection, a series of interactives were developed.
Each Contains: Animated Audio Tours, Teacher's Resources, Kid Friendly Vocabulary Guides, and Interactive Elements that highlight Ideas/Terms within each piece.
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ROWAN
OAK
The William Faulkner HouseZ+ and the University of Mississippi, worked together to create a micro-site dedicated to the historic home. The site features Virtual Reality tours of the house, as well as a literary timeline of Mr. Faulkner, and a short history of the House.
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SPEED
ART
MUSEUM
Millet to Matisse:Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Painting from Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
DIGITAL BROCHURE - The brochure provides general information about the museum and the exhibitionand includes a web active window that pulls current show announcements from an online database.
SPEED
ART
MUSEUM
Millet to Matisse:Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Painting from Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
POSTCARD - 34,000 postcards were mailed out to: Teachers, Donors, Members of the Museum, and to prior visitors of the Museum who had joined their mailing list.
SPEED
ART
MUSEUM
Millet to Matisse:Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Painting from Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
CD - 4,500 CD's with the Digital Brochure, educational materials, were mailed to Louisville regional school teachers, select donors, and museum patrons. Sponsors mailed CD's Branded with their logo's to their customers.
SPEED
ART
MUSEUM
The English RoomThis micro-site was created for the English Room, a room inside the Speed Museum. The site give's users a chance to exploree the time period, the intricate wood carvings, and helps answer questions about the room - like: What it's function? and How it came to be in the Museum.
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SPEED
ART
MUSEUM
HTML eMail
Z+ worked with Penny Peavler of the Speed Museum to develop an HTML email for their use in communicating with their in-house email lists.