We are now in the thick of summer and as I currently type this it is currently 104 degrees here in Oklahoma. Yes, that’s correct 1-0-4. But we love it, warm weather is just too much fun to complain. While it’s been scorching outside it’s been equally as hot here at ECTOMACHINE. We have been busy as usual and would like to share a couple of projects we have been working on.

Last week we saw the launch of the custom website we created for Word Refuge. Word Refuge is a boutique advertising shop specializing in Creative SEO Copywriting Services. It was both a privilege and an honor to work on this site. We started from a blank slate on this project and saw it through from stage one. From the branding to the content management system, we built the complete package for Word Refuge and it payed off ten fold. We have already received tons of great feedback on the site along with features on CSSMania, The Best Designs, The CSS Awards, and many many more. So don’t waste any time and go check out Word Refuge!

Also with the completion of Word Refuge we have a new begun yet another blank slate project that has landed on our desks and this one has us excited beyond belief! The project is called Private Grave and is being created for illustrator / aspiring tattoo artist Albert Grave. We can’t show off any design or development work just quite yet but you can check the out the logo for the project now in our Identity section.

We have seen a huge surge in new project leads over the summer but that doesn’t mean we aren’t here to tackle your next project. So give us a shout, we would love to hear from you!

It’s officially summer, and for us that means three things. Beautiful weather, excellent parties, and slamming Will Smith songs to sum up EXACTLY how we feel right now. Ok that last one was a bold faced lie but we are very excited about this summer and we are even more excited about the work that has been coming our way. We have a some big projects that we will be releasing this summer but to start it off right let us introduce one of the personal favorites.

A couple of months back we were contacted by Sons of Nero, a design agency who we have kept up with and admired through the years and in their own right are one hundred percent on top of their game. They approached us to create a website for a band called Every Time I Die. Being listeners of this band made this opportunity even more sweet so we jumped right on it. From design, to development, to the CMS we carefully attacked the project with as much precision as possible and wanted to make it something to remember, so go check out the site HERE!

Yes this news post is short but we have been working like crazy and can’t wait to show off the new work this summer. From new album art, to new logos, and new websites. It’s all coming!

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Hello, Hello! Our last post was in January and it seriously feels like it was yesterday. Since January we have been working on a slew of great projects. If you haven’t seen them here is a little recap.

We recently wrapped up the identity for ‘The Abby Cooper Co.’ They are a web to print solution and they came to us for a logo and let us really sink our fangs into it. It has received many features since completed on sites such as, Logo From Dreams, LogoMoose, LogoGala, and Creattica to name few. You can check it out in our Identity section now. We also created logos for ‘Codesnake’ and ‘Alpine’ and both have received features on many showcase sites, you can scope those in our Identity section as well.

Since we have just pushing logos like crazy we saw an opportunity for a new blog post since we are already in the zone. This time we decided to showcase ‘Inspiring Modern Logo Design’. Go check it out, leave a comment, tell your momma.

These past three months have been fantastic and Spring and Summer are shaping up nicely here at ECTOMACHINE. Keep checking in with us, we are working on new projects everyday and things couldn’t be better. Thanks again everyone for stopping by and giving some love or just checking in with us. Keep your eyes out this May for our 1 year anniversary!

Where does the time go? We hope everyone had a fantastic holiday season and a great new years, I know we did! 2009 was the year we launched ECTOMACHINE so that year will always be a special year to us and now that we approach turning one years old this year we can’t wait to see what’s in store.

A recap of 2009:
2009 was a whirlwind. Not only was ECTOMACHINE launched this past year it exceeded all expectations for us out of the gate. In our first month we had 30,000 + visitors and we still receive great traffic and great new ventures daily that came from that initial spike of interest.

Over the year we had many of our logos featured on many sites, as well as the web sites we designed and developed, one in particular getting chosen as one of the best web sites of 2009 by CSS Creme.

Going in at first we had no idea what to expect but seeing 2009 through and still standing in 2010 feels great and we really want to make this year our year to shine and expand even more, so here is to 2010.

To start off this year we have been featured on LogoMoose in their latest blog entry: 10 Great Portfolios From Our Submitters and on CSS Elite in the Best of The Best area of their website for 2009. So major thanks to those guys!

In passing we would like to give a huge thank you to anyone ( big or small ) that gave us a feature on their blog, gave us a tweet mention, or just simply kept stopping by to see what’s up.

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Can you feel it?! It’s in the air, the Christmas season is on it’s way and we here at ECTOMACHINE couldn’t be more stoked. We are kind of Christmas buffs so we will go ahead and apologize now for our exaggerated child-like giddiness, on second thought, maybe not. Regardless if you like the holidays or not we have been working like crazy and to catch you up to speed we have a little early present for you. We just posted a new blog on 15 Amazingly Gorgeous Free Fonts and you can check that out HERE.

Over the past couple of months we have been working on a lot of new projects. Some are live now, and some our on their way. One of our personal favorites was the design for our friends at EgoRego in Italy for the site La Valletta and you can check that out HERE

We also have been working on many logo projects and during that time went ahead and created a logo for a fictitious company that humbly goes by the name ‘flopod’ and a logo for Swiss music composer ‘Katapulse’. You can view both of those now in our identity portfolio HERE.

We have many more projects on the way and are always ready to tackle more for this holiday season, so feel free to Contact Us for your own project! Oh, and one last thing, for those who like to get into the holiday spirit make sure and drop by later this month for a fun new little monster for our home page!

All the best.